The right to criticize government is also an obligation to know what you are talking about.
-Lent Upson, 1st Executive Director of CRC
While the Citizens Research Council of Michigan makes the results of its analyses freely available through this website, in printed versions, and in forums, the media frequently bring CRC research to a wider audience.
Jeff Guilfoyle, president of the nonpartisan Citizens Research Council of Michigan, said the state's budget would have been balanced for a while in the wake of the 2007 tax increases "had we not hit the national recession of 2009." General-fund revenue that in 2008 had risen 12.5 percent, in 2009 dropped 22 percent, he said.