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<a href=”#”><img decoding=”async” onerror=”if (typeof newspackHandleImageError === ‘function’) newspackHandleImageError(this);” alt=”Dashboard 1 ” src=”http://public.tableausoftware.com/static/images/Re/RegJobsMap/Dashboard1/1_rss.png” style=”border: none”></a>  Michigan’s economic axis is tilting west, which will likely create thousands of good-to-high-paying jobs in the Grand Rapids and Traverse City regions, as well as Ann Arbor, over the next decade. While metro Detroit is expected to add the largest […]

Many of the fastest-growing jobs in Michigan in the coming decade will be jobs most people won’t want – with pay so low that many workers will qualify for food stamps. A Bridge Magazine analysis of job projections found that four of the six occupational categories adding the most jobs through 2023 pay workers, on […]

What’s on our Christmas list? Six things experts say would help turn around Michigan’s dismal jobs forecast. Improve early reading Reading proficiency in early grades has a huge impact on academic success. Invest in intensive intervention as needed in schools, and encourage parents to read to their children. Decrease college dropouts Michigan is above average […]

Continued shrinking of the state’s famed middle-class factory jobs. Fast-growing occupations that pay so little, workers may qualify for food stamps. Job growth that ranks 49th in the nation. (Illustration by AJ Jones) This is not a holiday story Gov. Rick Snyder wants to read to his children. Continued shrinking of the state’s famed middle-class […]

These Michigan jobs are expected to be most in demand over the next decade at each education level, from high school to graduate school. (click image below to advance through slides.) High School or less Description 2023 Jobs Projected openings over next decade % Change total jobs from 2013 Avg. Hourly Earnings Retail salespersons 139,708 […]

The charts don’t lie: If you want to have a decent shot at a decent living in Michigan, you must be prepared to sit in a classroom – virtual or otherwise – the rest of your life. Standing still means falling behind – or just plain falling. “All of my kids realize they have to […]

To see the difference between yesterday’s skilled-trade career and today’s, Michael Hansen offers what’s happening at BOSS Products, a snowplow manufacturer in Iron Mountain. The president of the Michigan Community College Association describes entering a welding shop, expecting to see “guys in hoods and greasy overalls.” Hardly. The work was done by robots, with the […]