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Hey, Baby, what’s happening?
When I was in Eastern Market over the Memorial Day weekend, it seemed like there were babies everywhere. But statistics show that fewer Michiganders are having children. The State of Michigan has just released 2008 data and the trend of decreasing births that began...
Was the 2008 presidential election a voting boom or bust?
The 2008 Presidential election generated more excitement and youth involvement than any in recent memory. The Census Bureau has just released the demographic characteristics of the voters in the 2008 general election and we can now see what the real[1] turnout numbers...
D.C. Data Conference: A Meeting of the Minds
From May 12 -14, our staff attended the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership (NNIP) bi-annual meeting in Washington, D.C. NNIP is a project of the Urban Institute that helps integrate neighborhood-level information systems with local policymakers and community...
Embracing diversity requires even-handedness
Only seven to ten percent of the adult population is left handed, but I grew up in a family where being right-handed (like me) stood out – my father, mother and sister were left-handed. I married a right-hander and, sure enough, our first child was left-handed. I had...
Don’t let unfounded privacy concerns keep you away from the census
Soon, census takers will be spreading out across Detroit neighborhoods, knocking on doors to get the answers to the questions that people were either too reticent or too apathetic to provide on the mail-in questionnaire. While people have always had a host of reasons...
2009 MEAP: Public school reading scores outshine the charters
It has been said that a child learns to read up until third grade, after which he/she reads to learn. The ability to read at an early age is critical for academic success across all subjects in the years to come. The State of Michigan recently released results from...
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