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    Who are the NERD fund donors Mr Snyder?

    Raise the curtain.

    Saving lives through rotten economic policy


    By Nick, Section News
    Posted on Mon Apr 06, 2009 at 07:36:34 AM EST
    Tags: Cherry, Granholm, Granholm - Cherry, outbound moves, snow, economy, tax hikes, pride (all tags)

    No surprise that folks are leaving Detroit.  As we've discussed recently, they're leaving Michigan, period.  Still, every time I read an expert carve the numbers up in new and creative ways I'm staggered a bit.  

    The Detroit News details the latest report this morning, this one from the Brookings Institution, that shows most big cities are home to about 55% of the total jobs in the metro area, the remaining 45% more than ten miles from the "city center."  

    Detroit is home to only 23% of the jobs in her metro area, with 77% more than 10 miles away, and the effect that has on native Detroiters is pretty heavy.

    "Job sprawl is detrimental to employment and raises a lot of challenges," said author Elizabeth Kneebone, whose study of employment trends mapped 98 metropolitan areas, from 1998-2006.

    It means many low-income and minority residents are often isolated from job opportunities, she said, and it adds to commute times and expenses.

    On a morning like this, that's an especially frustrating reality.  We're talking, what, five inches of snow in the D?  Love these Michigan springs.  But... and this is a big but... John Cherry may actually have a silver lining in all of this.

    The Democrats presumptive 2010 Gubernatorial candidate has been running around the state telling voters and newspaper editorial boards (those still in operation) both that the record of his administration these last six-plus years is a strong one and that he'll be proud to run on that record next fall.

    The Associated Press offers a headline this morning that provides the man with the perfect "I told you so!"

    Bad economy holds highway deaths to 1960s levels

    That, my friends, is the way you find a silver lining.

    Read on...

    Yeah, the economy is in a shambles, and sure, our biggest city is currently generating national pity and sob story after sob story thanks to the Final Four at Ford Field, but when people have no where to go on an average Monday morning, fewer of them are crashing the cars they can't afford!

    Less money in the pockets of Americans means fewer highway deaths. As the economy slid deeper into recession and gas prices reached $4 a gallon last year, the number of people killed in auto accidents hit its lowest level in five decades.

    While fatalities are down 9.1 percent nationally, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration found that the Midwest saw the most precipitous drop, with highway deaths plummeting a full 11 percent.

    So fire up, John, your massive bungling of the economy may just have saved a few lives!

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    Taxpayer subsidized light rail... (none / 0) (#1)
    by RushLake on Tue Apr 07, 2009 at 06:17:58 AM EST
    ...that'll solve the problem. Run that baby right down the corridor from AA to Deroit and all them enlightened UM graduates will ride the cheap light rail to Detroit. After they get there they can go thru the Moronica Conyers employment agency, ex-con status a plus for high paying do nothing jobs. If you make it they will come.

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