by d3wpadmin | Feb 1, 2012 | Uncategorized
The D3 Annual Report has gone to the printer! It is a twelve-month 2012 calendar full of state, regional and citywide maps and visuals. If your organization would like one to display in your office, contact us at askD3@datadrivendetroit.org. In the meantime, a digital...
by d3wpadmin | Jan 11, 2012 | Louis Bach, Uncategorized
Our own Kurt Metzger was featured on today’s episode of the Craig Fahle Show on WDET, contributing to the ongoing series questioning what it would take for someone to move to Detroit. The series is an outgrowth of a dialogue that began back in December, when Toby...
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....
by d3wpadmin | Jun 3, 2011 | Kurt Metzger, Uncategorized
No blog about marriage can feature a more charismatic illustration that the newly married royals – unless it was that image of two young hippy-looking folks named Jody and Kurt, standing in front of the Cincinnati Zoo gorillas some 33 years ago. [that image is...
