Data from the 2022 American Communities Survey show the dollar value of educational attainment. In addition to putting a dollar value on various levels of…
Posts published in “Washtenaw County”
If you want another example of the high-wage, high-demand jobs that Washtenaw County needs, consider this. Earlier this summer, Grand Rapids Community College received a…
A few days ago, I wrote about the impact of losing The Children’s Center on campus in 2021. During the pandemic, WCC administrators decided it…
Anyone who lives in Michigan knows that the economy here is highly sensitive to change. Michigan often leads the nation into a recession and holds…
Washtenaw County is becoming increasingly divided with pockets of extreme wealth offset by pockets of extreme poverty. I attended today’s Ypsilanti Township Board of Trustees…
What accounts for the poverty rates among adults with some college or an associate degree in eastern Washtenaw County, and in our cities? There’s no…
According to the most recent US Census data (2023), 9.4% of Washtenaw County residents whose educational attainment level is some college/associate degree live below the…
I’ve written about the loss of taxable value in the City of Ypsilanti and Ypsilanti Township. Combined, these two areas provide 10% of the tax…
For the last week or so, I have been writing about the housing situation in Washtenaw County, and how factors like the Ann Arbor Greenbelt…
The czb Report, which I wrote about yesterday, made some interesting points in 2014 about where the authors thought the Washtenaw County housing market was…