Michigan League for Public Policy

Publications

• Partnering for paid family and medical leave in Michigan

  • December 5, 2024
  • Michigan League for Public Policy
  • Dr. Shayla Young, Jayme Vosovic
  Paid Sick, Family, and Medical Leave

• New Census data points to the need for stronger, sustained investments in Michiganders

  • October 7, 2024
  • Michigan League for Public Policy
  • Patrick Schaefer
  Budges and Taxes

• California’s Undocumented Residents Make Significant Tax Contributions

  • October 1, 2024
  • Michigan League for Public Policy
  • Kayla Kitson
  Budges and Taxes Immigration

• Fighting for one fair wage

  • September 26, 2024
  • Michigan League for Public Policy
  • Christopher White, Monique Stanton
  Minimum Wage Wages, Labor Standards, and Job Quality

• Paid leave is affordable, sustainable

  • August 29, 2024
  • Michigan League for Public Policy
  • Monique Stanton
  Paid Sick, Family, and Medical Leave

• Let’s treat Michigan workers as whole people with paid leave

  • July 29, 2024
  • Michigan League for Public Policy
  • Lisa Sauvé
  Paid Sick, Family, and Medical Leave

• Unemployment insurance benefits could soon be extended

  • July 18, 2024
  • Michigan League for Public Policy
  • Monique Stanton
  Budges and Taxes Unemployment Insurance

• Impacts of child care funding cliff show need for state investment

  • May 29, 2024
  • Michigan League for Public Policy
  • Anne Kuhnen
  Child care Family Economic Security

• Centering people in state budget is vital to a stronger Michigan

  • May 23, 2024
  • Michigan League for Public Policy
  • Rachel Richards
  EARN in the Midwest Public Services, Budgets, and Economic Development

• Bold action is needed to address poverty in Michigan

  • January 22, 2024
  • Michigan League for Public Policy
  • Monique Stanton
  EARN in the Midwest Public Services, Budgets, and Economic Development

• Expanding the power of the EITC to all generations

  • November 27, 2023
  • Michigan League for Public Policy
  • Monique Stanton
  EARN in the Midwest Public Services, Budgets, and Economic Development

• Transformation in the Name of Justice

  • May 5, 2021
  • Michigan League for Public Policy

  2020 annual report from the Michigan League for Public Policy.

  COVID19 EARN in the Midwest Worker, Racial, and Gender Justice

• Making ends meet in Michigan: A basic income level for family well-being 2017

  • May 2, 2017
  • Michigan League for Public Policy
  • Staff Report

  Making Ends Meet in Michigan 2017 is the seventh edition of the report formerly known as Economic Self-Sufficiency in Michigan. This report provides a Basic Needs Income Level: the amount of household […]

• Willing to work and ready to learn: More adult education would strengthen Michigan’s economy

  • February 16, 2017
  • Michigan League for Public Policy
  • Peter Ruark

  Michigan depends on its skilled workers, and much has been written and said about the need to build up our state’s workforce. Yet year after year in the state budget, […]

  Education

• Race, place & policy matter in education

  • October 1, 2016
  • Michigan League for Public Policy
  • Pat Sorenson

  Despite strong rhetoric from policymakers and candidates about the importance of a high-quality education for all children, deep disparities persist in educational opportunities for Michigan children based on income, race and geography. […]

  Education

• It is time for earned sick leave in Michigan

  • June 7, 2016
  • Michigan League for Public Policy
  • Peter Ruark

  Michigan should enact an earned sick leave law. This would help low-paid workers keep their jobs, increase productivity and reduce employee turnover, and protect the health of other employees and […]

  Paid Sick, Family, and Medical Leave

• Review tax expenditures to help fix Michigan’s broken revenue stream

  • May 17, 2016
  • Michigan League for Public Policy
  • Rachel Richards

  Michigan has a budget problem, and simply put, there just isn’t enough money to go around. Michigan has experienced crisis after crisis—the Great Recession, nearly record-high unemployment, municipal financial emergencies, […]

  Budges and Taxes