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Mike Wilkinson
Mike has been a reporter for Bridge Michigan since 2013 and focuses on data-assisted reporting, often finding stories by analyzing maps and data sets and has created Bridge's dashboards on COVID-19, the state's economy and Michigan's elections. He held similar positions at The Detroit News and The Blade of Toledo. A native of Michigan, Mike grew up in Macomb County, graduated from the University of Michigan and started his reporting career in New Baltimore before his career took him to Illinois, Tennessee and Ohio. You can reach him at mwilkinson@bridgemi.com
Posted inTalent & Education
Bridge Magazine's 2017 Academic State Champs
Bridge is rating Michigan high schools by how well they prepare students for college or career training after they graduate.
Posted inTalent & Education
Academic State Champs 2017: Find your school
See how your school performed in the 2017 Academic State Champs analysis.
Posted inTalent & Education
6 reasons why students at some high schools are better prepared for college or career
The first reason, family income, is something schools can’t control. But other factors, like having counselors to help students navigate the maze of higher education, can produce real dividends.
Posted inMichigan Government
Adding population until the cows come home
Gov. Rick Snyder wants to goose the state’s population over the next four years. But getting to 10 million may be impossible
Posted inBusiness Watch
Michigan’s economic axis tilts away from Detroit
Looking for opportunity? Go west.
Posted inMichigan Government
Voting without an ID? Not a big problem in most of Michigan
The legislature wants to make it harder to vote without state-approved photo ID. But based on data from the most recent election, few voters did so.
Posted inChildren & Families
How Michigan ‘games’ the welfare-to-work system
Michigan is among states that spend the lowest percentage of welfare dollars on services intended to help struggling people rejoin the workforce. Its strategy: Finding creative ways to relabel other budget items as welfare spending.
Posted inUrban Affairs
Segregation then and now: Metro Detroit
Following the fire and violence of 1967, Detroit established itself as the most segregated metro area in the country, with African Americans confined to narrow sections of the city and much of the suburbs a no-go zone. (See a Bridge report on the changes.) Today, hundreds of thousands of African Americans live in communities across […]
Posted inUrban Affairs
Black flight to suburbs masks lingering segregation in metro Detroit
Residential racism may be less overt than in the 1960s, but whites still live among whites, and blacks among blacks, 50 years after the violence of 1967.