Setting unrealistic goals avoids a basic level of accountability we should demand of policymakers and distracts the government from dealing with issues that it can actually do something about.
A report by a Whitmer-appointed group on how to increase the state’s population is too vague to be much use for policymakers, lacks specific goals and doesn’t say how much any changes would cost.
Gretchen Whitmer’s Sixty by 30 plan emulates failed efforts by predecessors to raise the number of post-high-school degrees. But the plan only helps a few thousand. Holding colleges accountable to graduate more students would go farther.
