Study Warns Michigan on Track to Join Mississippi, Alabama as Poorest States in Per Capita Income

The study also reported another development with ’very scary implications’—not only for Michigan, but for the entire country.

United Auto Workers members strike at the Ford Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Mich., on Sept. 16, 2023. Bill Pugliano/Getty Images

If present trends continue and no changes are made, Michigan is two decades away from becoming the 48th poorest state in the Union in per capita income, ranked just ahead of Mississippi and Alabama.

That is the warning from researchers Lou Glazer, of the think tank Michigan Future Inc., and Donald Grimes, a University of Michigan economist.