Population

Wolf and moose populations are stabilizing on the only national park in Michigan.

A new state report predicts Michigan’s population will decline by 2050.

Michigan State University and Wayne State University economists say the state needs more tax revenue to invest in education proposals.

Michigan’s lagging population growth is due in part to the state’s failure to attract high-wage, younger workers. That’s according to a report prepared by the University of Michigan and the think tank Michigan Future.

A report by the Citizens Research Council of Michigan finds the state's likely to lose 100,000 school-age youths in the next few decades.

One of the key challenges identified is that Michigan's population has only grown a little under 9% since 1980, while the country as a whole has grown by more than 45%.

Among the takeaways of a Friday meeting: Michigan could be in for a reality check if it doesn’t take steps to reverse decades of sluggish growth.

Young adults who are unmarried and left-leaning were more likely to want to leave Michigan in the next ten years, the survey found.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed an executive order today that creates a bipartisan commission to look for ways to attract more people to Michigan.

Economists forecast that Michigan's population will increase by about a half-million people over the next three decades, with growth concentrated in certain areas.Gabriel Ehrlich heads up the group of economists at the University of Michigan. He says growth is expected in a band of counties from the suburban Detroit area, west through Lansing and on to the Grand Rapids region. Ehrlich and other economists say there also will be population growth in the Traverse City to Petoskey region.