Founded 76 years ago by the man considered Kalamazoo's First Citizen, the W. E. Upjohn Unemployment Trustee Corporation has established itself internationally as an important think tank. Locally, it's increasingly looking like a Do Tank, thanks to Dr. Randy Eberts, who has had the reins for the past 15 years. Eberts, a Ph.D. economist who came to Kalamazoo by way of Northwestern and the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, arrived with a resume dedicated to labor markets, regional economic development, productivity, public finance, job training, income distribution, infrastructure and, significantly, education.
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