Last weekend, Northwestern College – a for-profit college that specializes in allied health education – closed rather unceremoniously, leaving several hundred students in a bind.…
Posts published in “Gainful employment rules”
I was looking at the State of Michigan’s high-wage, high-demand jobs list today. The website is meant to offer some career guidance to people who…
Yesterday, I wrote about housing in Washtenaw County and what it takes income-wise to live in various communities here. There is no doubt that Washtenaw…
A new report by the National Low Income Housing Coalition uses US Census Bureau data to calculate the wages required to rent a “modest” two-bedroom…
Washtenaw County has always prided itself on its connections to higher education. At one time, Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti hosted five institutions of higher learning,…
Last week, the Michigan Legislature approved a budget that includes a plan for free community college tuition for all high school graduates. The plan will…
I think the WCC Board of Trustees needs to create a clear, measurable definition of WCC’s purpose. The lowest median income in the County belongs…
Earlier today, the Washington Post printed an analysis of how people have spent their money over the last 50 years. Using data from the Bureau…
Yesterday, I wrote about the median and mean incomes in Ypsilanti, and how those figures both exceed the average earning potential for a WCC graduate.…
Recently, I was looking at Washtenaw County data from the US Census Bureau’s 2022 American Community Survey. One of the data points that the survey…