by d3wpadmin | Jul 19, 2011 | Kurt Metzger
Data Driven Detroit (D3) opened shop in the Barden Building on Madison in Detroit in 2009 with philanthropic funding supporting a plan that identified 5 staff positions. The summer of 2011 finds us in same location, but with expanded office space and a current staff...
by d3wpadmin | Jul 11, 2011 | Kurt Metzger
The Michigan League for Human Services released their latest report on Maternal and Infant Well-Being in Michigan – The Right Start in Michigan and Its Counties 2011 – and the results are mixed at both the statewide and local level. While Data Driven...
by d3wpadmin | Jul 5, 2011 | Kurt Metzger
Anyone who has read my resume could do the age calculations, based on educational background and work history. Hopefully, anyone who has seen me might see it a little differently. What is that you ask? Well, it is the fact that I can easily be called an “older...
by d3wpadmin | Jun 29, 2011 | Kurt Metzger, Uncategorized
I came to Detroit in 1975 to take on my first full-time job in the Census Bureau’s Detroit Regional Office. While I had worked a variety of jobs throughout an extended college and graduate school “career,” I realized that once I had burned out (by...
by d3wpadmin | Jun 14, 2011 | Kurt Metzger, Uncategorized
An analysis of newly-released Census Bureau data by the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) shows teen unemployment averaging above 25 percent in 25 states as of April 2011. When the analysis is broadened to include discouraged teens that have given up looking for...
by d3wpadmin | Jun 13, 2011 | Kurt Metzger, Uncategorized
Allow me to quote from the June 12, 2011 column by Stephen Henderson, Editorial Page Editor for the Free Press: “Who will represent you in Congress, and in the state House and Senate, over the next decade? That’s none of your business. For now, at least....
