  Deteamster Member Username: Deteamster Post Number: 180 Registered: 07-2007 |
http://www.forbes.com/2008/12/ 08/towns-ten-economy-forbeslif e-cx_mw_1209dying_slide_5.html ?thisSpeed=30000 They couldn't use Detroit in this one, since they're talking about "towns", so they used Hamtramck, despite the fact that Hamtramck is, in fact, a city. 1- Hamtramck isn't "outside" Detroit. 2- Where did they get their unemployment rate? 7.0% of Hamtramckans in the labor force are estimated to be unemployed. 3- They make no mention of immigration, and their little turd of a snippet leads one to believe they'd never heard of Hamtramck before this article. It would be much more compelling to look at Hamtramck's immigration rates in the past 10 years or so, but Forbes is anything but compelling. What the fuck is "dying" in this context supposed to mean, anyway? | ||
Izzyindetroit Member Username: Izzyindetroit Post Number: 155 Registered: 07-2008 |
It seems to me they mistook it for Highland Park. | ||
Thecarl Member Username: Thecarl Post Number: 1496 Registered: 04-2005 |
agreed, the description better fits highland park; ergo, no need to define the term "dying." | ||
Bragaboutme Member Username: Bragaboutme Post Number: 580 Registered: 02-2008 |
I think the theme of these list should be the effect the free trade agreement has had on small town America. Instead of "dying", they should say "Outsourcing". | ||
Fishtoes2000 Member Username: Fishtoes2000 Post Number: 755 Registered: 06-2005 |
Forbes made a mistake. 36.1% is the percentage of Hamtramck individuals living below the poverty line. According to the Census Bureau's American Community Survey from 2007 to 2007, Hamtramck's unemployment rate was 14.5% +/- 4%. This census survey data is not available for Highland Park. http://factfinder.census.gov/h ome/saff/main.html?_lang=en&_t s= | ||
Lmichigan Member Username: Lmichigan Post Number: 6518 Registered: 10-2003 |
If you believe SEMCOG's estimates for profile (and, they refuse to add the people back to the city that the city found for the Census), Hamtramck is one of the only in inner-ring burbs/enclaves to be growing substantially in population (though, the Census estimates the complete opposite). I think they have Hamtramck at a double-digit growth rate in terms of population. Weather the poverty is increasing or not, you can't call a growing city a dying one. These papers and magazines use these lists to sell papers, get ads. How they pick Hamtramck and leave out Highland Park just shows how much "research" goes into this shit. | ||
Ocean2026 Member Username: Ocean2026 Post Number: 58 Registered: 11-2008 |
To make the story readable to a wide variety of national readers they couldn't add Highland Park or the other Detroit suburbs into their 10 worst street. Sorry one town per metro- lets' not get greedy. | ||
Gumby Member Username: Gumby Post Number: 1887 Registered: 11-2003 |
Well at least the Flint area has its own representative in Burton. Can't leave us off these lists either |
