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Community Colleges are Essential for Workforce and Economic Development
CNBC issued the 2023 America’s Top States for Business report. All 50 states were scored among ten categories of competitiveness. Michigan ranked 10th overall, earning high ranks in cost of doing business and cost of living, at 6th and 7th… Continue Reading
College Enrollment Decline
Declining student enrollment along with economic uncertainty and inflation has put many colleges and universities in financial jeopardy. Nationwide, the percentage of high school graduates that went straight to college has dropped from a high of 70% in 2016 to… Continue Reading
Big 3 Profit Sharing by the Numbers
Detroit’s Big Three recently announced the average gross profit-sharing checks their UAW-represented employees will be receiving. We explore the biggest winners as well as Ford’s $2 billion profit loss in 2022. #BeOnTheForefront #automotiveindustry #profitsharing
Forefront Friday – Twitter v Musk
Elon Musk made headlines when he announced that he wanted to acquire Twitter and take it private. He entered into an agreement with Twitter to do so in April of this year for $54.20 per share, equating into a $44… Continue Reading
Forefront Friday – Employee Recruitment
If your company’s greatest assets for revenue generation and profitability are your employees, then you are already aware of how the great resignation and great reshuffle have financially impacted employers with labor shortages and difficulties with filling job vacancies, especially… Continue Reading
THE FUTURE OF SHOPPING MALLS: PART II
The recent sale of Oakland Mall in Troy for an undisclosed price continues the trend in sales of shopping malls in the metropolitan Detroit area. Declining market values and outstanding debt far exceeding the current values for many shopping malls… Continue Reading
Alternative Meat Opportunity?
In our November 2019 issue of Forefront, I wrote an article on how alternative meat was building momentum to disrupt the $1.4 trillion meat industry. In particular, I wrote that the continued rise in global demand for meat also raised… Continue Reading