Q&A with Dan Wyant, Director of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality
Dan Wyant On June 2, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a new proposed rule under the Clean Air Act that will regulate carbon emissions from new and existing power plants. The rules require states to reduce their overall carbon emissions to 30 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. Targets for carbon reduction vary […]
PSC resumes public opinion polling
Public Sector Consultants is launching this month a new polling partnership to assess the views of likely voters on key topics in Michigan. The quarterly poll restores a PSC tradition. The firm once regularly published the Public Opinion Monitor, which tracked public views on pressing state issues – issues that remain with us today. […]
In The Gears: How PSC’s Amanda Menzies builds consensus for better policy
In the June edition of Bright Ideas we started In The Gears, a series on how PSC turns the gears on public policy innovation: research and analysis, program implementation, evaluation, and defining problems and solutions through facilitation, strategic counsel, and strategic planning. This is the next installment of the series featuring PSC’s take on facilitation […]
PSC Expands Data Site on Nonprofits’ Economic Impact
PSC has updated and expanded a website that details data on the economic impact of Michigan’s nonprofit sector. By visiting nonprofit.pscinc.com, you can find interactive maps and tables that present nonprofit data by county, metropolitan region, micropolitan region, and the regions of the governor’s Regional Prosperity Initiative.
Public Sector Consultants’ ‘special sauce’: deep policy knowledge and the ability to get it done
For more than 30 years, Public Sector Consultants has provided services that help advance Michigan. While the nature of those services have evolved over time, two things remain constant: a commitment to objective research and a tireless pursuit of innovative solutions to policy questions. Today, PSC employs a full suite of tools that, when […]
Charitable giving and doing: part of Public Sector Consultants’ culture
PSC President Peter Pratt enjoys the 2014 Greater Lansing Food Bank fundraiser in East Lansing along with Colleen McNamara (left) and Leslie Brogan. Pratt is a longtime member of the food bank’s Board of Directors (PSC photo/Donna Van Natter) As a firm with decades of experience in researching, designing, and implementing best practices, it should […]
PRESS RELEASE: Michigan’s Nonprofit Sector Responsible for 1 in 10 Jobs in State; Billions in Wages
For Immediate Release Contact: Selma Tucker, Director of Marketing and Communications Public Sector Consultants (517) 484-4954 LANSING, Mich.—A detailed analysis by Public Sector Consultants (PSC), a Lansing-based public policy research firm, has found that nonprofits in Michigan employ more than 10 percent of the state’s workforce, pay about $5 billion every three months in wages to […]
Public Sector Consultants recognized for workplace wellness
Public Sector Consultants’ long experience with health data and research has propelled the firm into an aggressive employee wellness program – a program that just drew state acclaim and responds to larger trends in health and the U.S. workplace. On April 24, PSC was officially honored for its wellness efforts with a Diamond […]
PRESS RELEASE: PSC Lands Diamond Award for Healthy Workplace Activities from Governor Rick Snyder
For Immediate Release Contact: Selma Tucker, Director of Marketing and Communications Public Sector Consultants (517) 484-4954 LANSING, Mich.— Public Sector Consultants Inc., Michigan’s premier public policy research firm, was honored April 24 as a recipient of a Diamond Award in the Governor’s Fitness Awards at the 2014 Gala Celebration at Ford Field in Detroit. PSC, a […]
Michigan gets serious about keeping money and jobs out of the landfill through recycling
Recycling in Michigan Michigan gets serious about keeping money and jobs out of the landfill through recycling Along with trash, Michigan has buried dollars and jobs in landfills for years. That’s despite a target set in 2007 in the State’s solid waste policy to achieve a 50 percent recycling rate in Michigan and 24 […]