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Three Steps Forward, Two Steps Back
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 Detroit (D3)...
We Older Workers Have Much to Give
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...
It’s Why I Came to Detroit ….. and Now It’s Leaving!
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 choice) on my...
Teen Employment is Critical for Future Success!
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...
We Must Make Redistricting More Transparent! Join the Conversation
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. Committees...
Married Households No Longer Rule the Roost!
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 only...
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