Business Watch

(See maps) Moving vans are more likely to take folks between counties and regions, an internal migration that’s a positive sign for Michigan.

As service and office jobs are lost to automation, will Michigan workers have the skills that will be valued in the future?

Jobs will undoubtedly be lost to artificial intelligence, and others gained. The trick will be to craft policy to help as many people who lost jobs to find new ones.

Spoiler alert: Use your head. It’s still better than a robot’s.

Michigan companies can’t fill jobs because too many people have opioids or pot in their systems. Is the answer more testing? Or none?

Lawmakers want a tax cut. The governor wants billions more for schools, roads and water safety. Are we taxed too little or too much? We explain what it all means to you – in 11 bite-sized reports.

A group of powerful Utah business leaders is pushing for more money for that state’s schools. Utah lawmakers are having none of it.

A Q-and-A with John Nixon, Gov. Rick Snyder’s lauded budget guru before he left in 2014.