by d3wpadmin | Feb 15, 2010 | Kurt Metzger, Uncategorized
London is for swingers—especially those over the age of 65. One London neighborhood is actually designing an outdoor playground for Baby Boomers. The park will offer low-impact exercise equipment to help older people improve their balance, flexibility and muscle...
by d3wpadmin | Feb 5, 2010 | Kurt Metzger, Uncategorized
The moving industry’s numbers have been corroborated by the Census Bureau, which estimates that Michigan lost 278,000 persons to domestic out-migration[1] between 2006 and 2009. And our own Data Driven Detroit (D3) analysis of IRS migration data revealed that every...
by d3wpadmin | Feb 2, 2010 | Kurt Metzger, Uncategorized
With the 2010 census upon us, we at Data Driven Detroit have been working to educate “hard-to-count” populations about the importance of being counted. The NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund estimates that Wayne County suffered an undercount of about 30,000...
by d3wpadmin | Jan 27, 2010 | Kurt Metzger, Uncategorized
When asked to speak at a diversity conference, I began to conduct background research to supplement my demographic data. My research turned up an advertisement that I felt truly made the business case for diversity in all its categories. Here it is: When you left...
by d3wpadmin | Jan 27, 2010 | Kurt Metzger, Uncategorized
In the fall of 2009, I received a call from a group of reporters from the French publication, Le Monde diplomatique. I’d like to say that they found their way to me because of my Belgian heritage, or because Detroit was known in the early 1900s as the...
