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The End of Detroit’s Reprieve from Pension Payments Brings New Budget Pressures

...situation facing significant debt burdens estimated as high as $18 billion. The city could not pay for many basic city services and was at risk of seeing

Council Briefs

January 19, 2023
Tags bankruptcy, bankruptcy agreement, budget surplus, CAFR, City of Detroit, detroit budget process, detroit city budget, Detroit finances, expenditures, fy2024, general retirement system, grand bargain, pension cliff, pensions, plan of adjustment, poa, police and fire retirement system, retirement benefits, retirement protection fund, unfunded pension liabilities

Research Council report implores policymakers to pay attention to the state’s cash position while working to craft a balanced budget

...creating short-term risks to the cash position. The approach state policymakers take to crafting FY2021 and FY2022 budgets will determine the long-term outlook for the state’s cash

Press Release

August 20, 2020

Trees are Critical Infrastructure

...powerlines, and structures. Forestry services may have unplanned service needs when wind storms damage or topple trees, imposing risks to people, property, and powerlines. Trees’ roots can

Council Briefs

June 23, 2022
Tags Climate, infrastructure, Michigan, transportation
The rooftops of houses peek out from an expansive tree canopy photographed rom an overhead view.

2018 Media Citations

[accordian_item accordion_active=”yes” accordion_title=”December” icon=”Choose Icon”] Hostility for the holidays: The lame history of Michigan’s lame duck Bridge Magazine, December 10, 2018 “That’s when it really morphed in

Citation

December 12, 2018

Much Ado About Vaping?

An e-cigarette by any other name is still a public health risk Although e-cigarettes were initially marketed as a way to help smokers quit, they pose numerous

Council Briefs

April 30, 2019
Tags e-cigarette, Epidemic, Public Health, smoking, teen, tobacco

Michigan May Want to Reconsider Requiring Foreign-Trained Doctors to Repeat Residency Training 

...risks of removing the retraining requirement, they have no data to point to that demonstrates the risks given how recent the new laws are. No concrete evidence

Council Briefs

March 19, 2025
Tags health care, health professional, health professional shortage area, Healthcare, medical training, Michigan, Physicians, Public Health, residency

Even if marijuana legalization is no pot of gold, it's high time for Michigan to start investing in public health

...compounded beyond the direct risks posed by marijuana. Moreover, while marijuana impairment increases a driver’s risk of a fatal automobile collision, the interaction of marijuana together with

Council Briefs

October 18, 2018
Tags Cannabis, excise tax, funding, legalization, marihuana, marijuana, Public Health

Revise and Repair: Fixing Health Care Nationally will Help Michigan

...mandate to purchase insurance, everyone enjoys the benefits of lower insurance costs that result from spreading risk. Drawing younger and generally healthier individuals into insurance plans would

Council Briefs

June 30, 2017
Tags Affordable Care Act, Health Insurance, Healthcare, Healthy Michigan Plan, medicaid, Michigan

The Unintended Consequences of Safety Messaging on Digital Highway Signs

...Material) Another study using data from Virginia finds evidence that any message displayed on a DMS increases crash risk, and that the lowest imposed risk is simply

Council Briefs

May 20, 2022
Tags health, infrastructure, Michigan, public safety, transportation
Digital message signs along Michigan highways. Source: Savolainen et al. (2021)

Congress has Failed to Address the Inequities of Title I, So Michigan Lawmakers Should Step In

...in state “at-risk” funding to at least partially equalize the per-student allocations dictated by federal law. Federal Title I Drives Wide Per-pupil Funding Variations Nearly six decades

Council Briefs

October 24, 2024
Tags federal aid, Title I
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