How to Make Michigan Grow

If you seek a pleasant peninsula, U-Haul will take you to Florida

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer created the Growing Michigan Together Council last summer. It was charged with recommending reforms to grow Michigan’s population.

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Michigan population council says out with the old and…in with the old

The new report from Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s Growing Michigan Together Council offers up old ideas and asserts that they will be effective at reversing Michigan’s population decline.

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Dear population council: There’s a labor elephant in the room

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s Growing Michigan Together Council released its final report last week with recommendations purportedly designed to help grow Michigan’s population.

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Taxes matter to Michigan’s population growth

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s Growing Michigan Together Council released a final report on ways the state could increase the state’s population Thursday.

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Michigan keeps creating incentives to leave the state

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s “Growing Michigan Together Council” report should have contained new ideas for attracting residents, but it only repeats our state’s history.

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Whitmer’s population council shoots blanks

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s council on population growth just published its official report. I don’t recommend it for reading. It was stitched together by a 27-member committee representing interest groups, bureaucrats and politicians who were informed by other interest groups, bureaucrats and consultants. The resulting groupthink seems to have squeezed out all creative or useful ideas.

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Michigan population council wants licensing reform, Whitmer doesn’t

Among the reforms recommended by the Growing Michigan Together Council in its 86-page final report: “Create a process to ensure licensed/credentialed professionals from outside the United States can have their relevant documentation translated and applied to Michigan’s standards.”

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School spending plan doesn’t make the grade

Student achievement continues to decline despite record spending on K-12 education. Yet the Growing Michigan Together Council believes Michigan officials can improve results — and increase the state’s population — by spending even more on public schools.

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History lessons for policymakers pondering our population problem

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is concerned about the size of Michigan’s population and has created a council to study the issue and generate policy recommendations.

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Note to Michigan’s population council: Research favors freedom

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer created her “Growing Michigan Together Council” June 1 with a goal of creating a blueprint to grow Michigan’s population and encourage economic growth.

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Michigan growth officer wrong on taxes and growth

Michigan’s chief growth officer said taxes don’t have much to do with state population growth during a MIRS Monday Podcast episode yesterday.

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Nobody Is buying what Gretchen Whitmer is selling

Like President Joe Biden, Governor Gretchen Whitmer thinks she has a messaging problem. Just as Biden believes that Americans who are struggling financially need to better understand his achievements, Whitmer wants to reverse Michigan’s decline with slick advertising in other states.

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Michigan population council looks for growth in all the wrong places

A draft of the state population growth council’s recommendations report contains little that has a demonstrated effect of increasing state population.

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