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Solutions posed for Kalamazoo's affordable housing shortage: Q & A

April 23, 2025

Research Highlights

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Michigan’s Great Start Readiness Program yields positive economic return

Timothy J. Bartik

February 20, 2025

A girl with a cat sits at a window looking at the gray San Francisco sky and wondering what she'll do once her family is evicted

What happens to tenants when landlords quit the rent-controlled market? ASSA research focus

December 19, 2024

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Birth rates fall but good planning can help counties handle population declines

October 16, 2024

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Assessing Community Needs: City of Toledo and Lucas County, Ohio

Jim Robey, Stephen Biddle, Don Edgerly, Marie Holler, Brian Pittelko, Claudette Robey, Kathleen Bolter, and Tom Schorgl

July 20, 2020

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Employers' negotiating separately with each worker fuels gender pay gap

June 13, 2025

An Assessment of the Economic Conditions in the City of Battle Creek

Kathleen Bolter, Jim Robey, and Gerrit Anderson

April 27, 2021

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Tim Bartik discusses paper on location-based hiring subsidies

July 18, 2023