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Podcast 83 Special: Growing Michigan Council
A sweeping, yet vague, set of recommendations by a state
panel is the subject of the newest episode of MAC’s Podcast 83 this week.
Host Stephan Currie and MAC Governmental Affairs Team of
Deena Bosworth, Samantha Gibson and Madeline Fata give some quick takes on the report of the Growing Michigan Together Council, which was formed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer earlier in the year to address Michigan’s demographic challenges.
Responding to a question by Currie about the role and
history of state task forces in Michigan, Bosworth noted, “(Task forces highlight) the need for focusing on policy in specific areas.” She added, however, that in the “vast majority of them, we don’t get a whole lot of action items.”
As always, the question of money is central to the discussion,
team members noted.
“It’s billions of dollars … to implement all of these
recommendations in there,” Bosworth said, adding that the report “really doesn’t say ‘raise revenue here to put it there.’”
“I don’t know how hard it hits on what we do about (attracting
and keeping young people), beyond throwing money at the problem,” argued Gibson.
“It was great to put all this information together,” Bosworth
said. “The major theme is that we have stopped investing in our state.
“We are 25 percent below the revenue we were collecting in
our state General Fund from 2000. How are we going to fund all of our infrastructure if we are not collecting that much revenue?”
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By DerekA sweeping, yet vague, set of recommendations by a state
panel is the subject of the newest episode of MAC’s Podcast 83 this week.
Host Stephan Currie and MAC Governmental Affairs Team of
Deena Bosworth, Samantha Gibson and Madeline Fata give some quick takes on the report of the Growing Michigan Together Council, which was formed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer earlier in the year to address Michigan’s demographic challenges.
Responding to a question by Currie about the role and
history of state task forces in Michigan, Bosworth noted, “(Task forces highlight) the need for focusing on policy in specific areas.” She added, however, that in the “vast majority of them, we don’t get a whole lot of action items.”
As always, the question of money is central to the discussion,
team members noted.
“It’s billions of dollars … to implement all of these
recommendations in there,” Bosworth said, adding that the report “really doesn’t say ‘raise revenue here to put it there.’”
“I don’t know how hard it hits on what we do about (attracting
and keeping young people), beyond throwing money at the problem,” argued Gibson.
“It was great to put all this information together,” Bosworth
said. “The major theme is that we have stopped investing in our state.
“We are 25 percent below the revenue we were collecting in
our state General Fund from 2000. How are we going to fund all of our infrastructure if we are not collecting that much revenue?”