Both he and Creswell referred to the Mackinac Center when asked for specific ideas on practical economic reforms.

The Mackinac Center conducts policy research on a broad range of public policy issues.

Fundraising activity was active from 1984 to 1991, with peak activity in 1987 when Cornerstone established the Mackinac Center.

In that year, the Mackinac Center earned only $2,630 ("program sales"); the rest of its revenues came from tax-deductible contributions.

Determining the extent to which the changes that have occurred would have happened in the absence of the Mackinac Center is not possible.

It posts most of these in a "Mackinac Center in the News" feature on its Web site.

Engler and many of his administration's officials frequently cited the work of the Mackinac Center as influential in shaping administration policies.

When the Mackinac Center was founded in 1987, there were just three other conservative state-level policy institutes.

The Mackinac Center has often battled the Michigan Education Association, a teachers' union.

"Exactly what does the Mackinac Center for Public Policy do for the citizenship of the world?"