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‘Clean Up To Green Up’: Building a Clean Energy Workforce and a Brighter Future in Detroit Video

‘Clean Up To Green Up’: Building a Clean Energy Workforce and a Brighter Future in Detroit

The Green Door Initiative is using federal investments from President Joe Biden's Justice40 Initiative and the Inflation Reduction Act to ensure that all people—regardless of race, income, or ZIP code—have access to good jobs and live in safe and healthy communities.

Michigan Technological University Battery Recycling Plant Pilot Project Article

Michigan Technological University Battery Recycling Plant Pilot Project

Michigan Technological University is receiving funding to develop a better battery recycling and metal refining technology in partnership with the only nickel mine in the United States.

Detroit Mobility and Innovation Corridor Article
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Detroit Mobility and Innovation Corridor

This grant provides funding for a project to modernize and update safety features on Michigan Avenue, one of the most important downtown transportation corridors in Detroit, Michigan.

Michigan Hemlock Semiconductor Expansion Project Article

Michigan Hemlock Semiconductor Expansion Project

This investment by Hemlock Semiconductor Operations will expand the company’s polysilicon manufacturing operations and likely create more than 170 jobs.

Indie Michigan Semiconductor Expansion Article

Indie Michigan Semiconductor Expansion

Indie Semiconductor is building an engineering design center at its existing facilities in Auburn Hills, Michigan.

LG Energy Battery Plant Expansion Project Article
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LG Energy Battery Plant Expansion Project

LG Energy is expanding its Holland, Michigan, facility that manufactures lithium-ion polymer battery cells and packs for electric vehicles.

Ultium Cells EV Battery Plant Article
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Ultium Cells EV Battery Plant

This investment allows for a joint venture between General Motors and LG Energy Solution to build a plant that will produce electric vehicle batteries to keep the United States at the center of electric vehicle production.

Lear Corp. EV Components Facilities Article
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Lear Corp. EV Components Facilities

This grant will help the Lear Corp. expand its electric vehicle producing capabilities by building up its facilities in Michigan.

GM EV and Battery Investment in Michigan Article
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GM EV and Battery Investment in Michigan

General Motors and LG Energy Solution have invested $7 billion in battery manufacturing for electric pickup trucks in Lansing and Orion Township, Michigan.

Reconnecting Communities Pilot Project for Kalamazoo and Michigan Avenues Article
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Reconnecting Communities Pilot Project for Kalamazoo and Michigan Avenues

This $12 million investment from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act will help reconnect a predominantly Black neighborhood with the Central Business District in Kalamazoo, Michigan, by replacing a high-speed four-lane street with a safer, two-way street with bus and bike infrastructure, yielding a $22.5 million regional benefit.

Michigan Lake Erie Renewable Energy Resilience Project Article

Michigan Lake Erie Renewable Energy Resilience Project

This grant helps fund a project to modernize and expand Port Monroe’s infrastructure to connect Michigan to Lake Erie and the rest of the Great Lakes.

Development of a New Soo Lock Article

Development of a New Soo Lock

This grant will support the rebuilding of Michigan’s Soo Locks, which will help bring cargo ships from Lake Superior to the lower Great Lakes more efficiently, quickly, and safely.

I-375 Reconnecting Communities Project Article

I-375 Reconnecting Communities Project

This grant will help dismantle a highway that was built 60 years ago through a predominantly Black neighborhood in Detroit, Michigan, and turn it into a safer and more traversable boulevard with a bike lane and wider sidewalk.

Public and Private Investments Are Poised To Transform Michigan Report
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Public and Private Investments Are Poised To Transform Michigan

The historic home of the automotive industry, Michigan, stands to benefit from major infrastructure improvements and new plants for manufacturing electric vehicle batteries, especially if it incorporates public input and builds worker power to grow the middle class.

How Michigan Became a Blueprint for Strengthening Democracy Report
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How Michigan Became a Blueprint for Strengthening Democracy

Despite an increasingly partisan national landscape, Michigan has implemented key voting and representation reforms and set a trailblazing example for transformative change, largely due to citizen-initiated constitutional amendments.

Greta Bedekovics, Ashleigh Maciolek

How Policymakers Can Reduce Gun Violence in Michigan Report
Students hug each other after placing flowers honoring the lives of those killed during the Michigan State shooting.

How Policymakers Can Reduce Gun Violence in Michigan

This report highlights additional opportunities for Michigan policymakers to improve public safety through the enactment of popular and proven policies that many other states have successfully adopted to save lives.

Allison Jordan

Tolls on state highways would ease gas tax shortfall In the News

Tolls on state highways would ease gas tax shortfall

Kevin DeGood explains why a well-designed, sophisticated tolling system in Michigan would not only ease revenue shortfalls but also allow the state’s highways to run more efficiently.

The Detroit News

Kevin DeGood

Preventing the Next Jackson-Like Water Crisis In the News

Preventing the Next Jackson-Like Water Crisis

Marquisha Johns and Nicole Rapfogel explain why the water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, was the result of long-standing disinvestment, environmental injustice, and health inequities—and they urge state lawmakers to direct funds from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act toward the communities that need them most.

Route Fifty

Marquisha Johns, Nicole Rapfogel

Some States Are Ready To Punish Abortion in a Post-Roe World Report
Reproductive health advocates rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court.

Some States Are Ready To Punish Abortion in a Post-Roe World

For generations, Americans have known abortion to be a fundamental right; if Roe v. Wade is overturned, some states will quickly make it a crime.

Elyssa Spitzer

The Impact of Gun Violence in Michigan Report
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The Impact of Gun Violence in Michigan

Michigan has taken important steps to reduce gun violence, but state leaders should engage in additional actions to further address this public health crisis.

Eugenio Weigend Vargas, Lynna Kaucheck, Allison Jordan

Early Learning in the United States: 2021 Fact Sheet

Early Learning in the United States: 2021

These state fact sheets provide data on access to affordable child care for families, compensation for child care providers, and economic benefits of increased public investment in early learning.

MK Falgout

State Abortion Legislation in 2021 Report

State Abortion Legislation in 2021

In 2021, the United States has seen the highest number of abortion restrictions made law in a single year, and the legal context in which this newly enacted legislation will operate is particularly tenuous.

Elyssa Spitzer, Nora Ellmann

Closing Advanced Coursework Equity Gaps for All Students Report
Tenth-grade students make programming adjustments to a robot that they are testing in a Computer Science Principles course at a Maryland high school, December 2017. (Getty/Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post)

Closing Advanced Coursework Equity Gaps for All Students

Even in high schools with similar levels of access to advanced coursework, Black, Latinx, and Indigenous students are less likely to be enrolled in advanced courses—and even when they are enrolled, they experience less success in these courses than their peers.

Roby Chatterji, Neil Campbell, Abby Quirk

The Funnel To Passing AP Exams Interactive

The Funnel To Passing AP Exams

This interactive uses data from the U.S. Department of Education to estimate how many students, overall and disaggregated, enroll in AP courses, take AP tests, and pass AP tests.

Roby Chatterji, Neil Campbell, Abby Quirk

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