Michigan Ranks 28th in 2025 National Road Funding Assessment
An analysis of federal funding data from 2013 to 2022 ranks Michigan and 28th nationally in road funding.| Citizens Research Council of Michigan
An analysis of federal funding data from 2013 to 2022 ranks Michigan and 28th nationally in road funding.| Citizens Research Council of Michigan
CRC's updated 2025 Road System Condition Index finds that Michigan ranks 40th nationally in system condition--unchanged from 2024.| Citizens Research Council of Michigan
In a Nutshell: Vaccination rates have declined in Michigan and around the country in the wake of the pandemic, but recent and proposed federal policy changes have the potential to drive rates down even further as the changes will likely reduce the number of people whose health insurance coverage provides no-cost vaccines. In recent months, […]| Citizens Research Council of Michigan
State revenue is up $3.5 billion after Friday's Consensus Revenue Estimating Conference. What's behind the numbers?| Citizens Research Council of Michigan
After the legislature rejected her proposed motor fuel tax increase, Governor Whitmer turned to bonding to provide a short-term revenue injection for road projects, but new ongoing revenues are still critical. Large state revenue surpluses would allow the state to eliminate the sales tax on motor fuel and replace it will a revenue-neutral increase in the motor fuel tax rate while drawing on the surpluses to mitigate budget holes inherent in the tax shift. We estimate such a shift could genera...| Citizens Research Council of Michigan
CRC has created a multifactorial state road funding index to compare road funding levels in each state. Using data from 2012-2021, Michigan ranks 30th nationally.| Citizens Research Council of Michigan
Michigan distributes state revenue sharing to local road agencies based on an obsolete formula not matched to needs.| Citizens Research Council of Michigan
In a Nutshell As Michigan slips into summer, public schools across the Mitten State are putting a bow on their 2024-25 school years. For many, this is a time to celebrate the educational and developmental accomplishments of their students and to wish them well in their future academic and life pursuits. This summer also marks […]| Citizens Research Council of Michigan
In a nutshell: During the past decade, there has been a flurry of local property tax rate increases, especially in those communities with historically high tax burdens. The Citizens Research Council has documented how Michigan’s local governments’ heavy reliance on property taxes has challenged their ability to sustain revenues given Michigan’s constitutional and statutory property […]| Citizens Research Council of Michigan
State economists downgraded projections for state GF/GP revenue – a critical source of discretionary funding within the state budget - at last Friday’s Consensus Revenue Estimating Conference. This comes while a number of critical budget issues are still being debated, including competing road funding proposals and federal reforms within Medicaid and safety net programs that will impact future state budgets. These factors mean the Governor’s February budget proposal will need to be scal...| Citizens Research Council of Michigan
Michigan road agencies prioritize costly fixes over low-cost maintenance. The post Is Michigan Getting the Most Out of Its Road Funding? A Closer Look at the Data appeared first on Citizens Research Council of Michigan.| Citizens Research Council of Michigan
In a Nutshell: Over the last few months, the Trump Administration has taken a number of actions aimed at cutting federal spending on medical and scientific research. These actions include attempts to reduce the maximum amount federal grantees may spend on “indirect costs,” termination of swaths of existing grants, and broader reduction in grants received […]| Citizens Research Council of Michigan
In a Nutshell Amidst the near-daily chaos and disruption swirling around the U.S. Department of Education (massive departmental layoffs, research funding cuts, attempts to eliminate DEI in schools), a long-simmering funding proposal to block grant federal education dollars to states is garnering renewed attention. If enacted, Michigan could use the expanded flexibility over federal funding […] The post Block Granting Federal Education Funding Presents Michigan Policymakers with Opportunity ...| Citizens Research Council of Michigan
In a Nutshell: Michigan’s state and local governments are wary of proposed federal income tax changes that could increase their borrowing costs. Today, state and local governments can borrow for public infrastructure projects at lower interest rates because investment income from municipal bonds can be excluded from investors’ federal income tax bases. Bonds issued by […] The post Uncertainty in Borrowing Costs May Be Ahead for Michigan’s Local Governments appeared first on Citizens R...| Citizens Research Council of Michigan
Subsequent to the publication of our original analysis on March 19, the Center for Educational Performance and Information provided detailed data related to economically disadvantaged student identification methods for the fall 2023 and fall 2024 student counts. Our analysis now better reflects the reasons behind the student count changes reported in fall 2023 and fall […]| Citizens Research Council of Michigan
States generally limit growth of property tax burdens in one of three ways – rate limit, assessment limit, or levy limit. Michigan uses all three, making it among the strictest property tax limitations of the states. Statutory tax rate limits, the Headlee Amendment’s assessment limit, and the taxable value system created by Proposal A all […]| Citizens Research Council of Michigan
In a Nutshell: Paying for Local Community Services The nearly $19 billion in property taxes collected each year funds Michigan’s essential local government services and public schools. And these taxes continue to rise. Since 2013, statewide property taxes have risen an average of four percent year over year. From 2021 to 2022, statewide property tax […]| Citizens Research Council of Michigan
In a Nutshell Michigan House Minority Leader and Speaker-Elect Matt Hall put a jolt into Michigan’s typically quiet November legislative recess with a major new proposal to reallocate revenue to address the state’s crumbling road infrastructure. The proposal seeks to dedicate over $2.7 billion in annual revenue for road repairs without a tax increase by […]| Citizens Research Council of Michigan
In a Nutshell: Michigan’s counties, cities, villages, and townships are breathing a sigh of relief with the passage of next year’s state budget. In Fiscal Year 2025 (FY2025 runs October 2024-September 2025), revenue sharing payments – the sum of those obliged by the state constitution and those approved in the state budget – will increase […]| Citizens Research Council of Michigan
In a Nutshell: During the 2023-24 legislative session, Michigan’s local government representatives have been advocating to secure annual state discretionary funding for payments to counties, cities, townships, and villages in a new Revenue Sharing Trust Fund. Cities, villages, and townships are guaranteed a portion of the state’s annual sales tax revenue. And while not consistently, […]| Citizens Research Council of Michigan
A novel approach to evaluating statewide pavement conditions ranks Michigan 40th.| Citizens Research Council of Michigan
Evaluation infrastructure management can involve identifying peers. This exercise uses available data to identify Michigan's infrastructure peer states.| Citizens Research Council of Michigan
Schools face enrollment declines and the exhaustion of one-time federal COVID relief aid. They will face the prospect of whether to close buildings with lower enrollments to ensure their long-term fiscal stability.| Citizens Research Council of Michigan
