MI Corporate Subsidies

State agencies focused on Michigan’s workforce will try to accomplish three main goals aimed at more jobs, more training and ultimately better pay.

What is middle class in Michigan or enough to live comfortably? Definitions vary, but are key to the state’s growth goals. Let Bridge know what you think.

The state awarded $335 million in job-growth subsidies in 2023. Use this map find out where, pay for jobs and investment details.

Debate about corporate subsidies comes as business leaders, others sound alarms that wages in Michigan incomes aren’t keeping pace with the nation. They are calling for investments in education, high-tech jobs.

The push is on in Lansing to use incentives to lure tech jobs, as average incomes in Michigan fall behind and criticisms increase about using tax money to create low-wage work.

Gov. Whitmer says tax money funds ‘good-paying jobs.’ But details on wages from subsidies are often difficult to find, and a Bridge Michigan investigation reveals $228 million in subsidies in 2023 are for jobs that pay less than average.

Sponsors say a plan to let growing businesses capture payroll taxes would increase prosperity at a time when Michigan incomes are falling and some economists sound dire warning about the state’s future.

As it shifts to electric vehicles, the state’s auto industry faces threats from global competition, shifting political winds and changing subsidies, experts said Wednesday.