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Poverty
level in
Detroit
drops
for
third
straight
year
45,000
Detroiters
move out
of
poverty
since
2015
•
Detroit
median
household
income
up more
than 20%
since
2015
•
Sustained
poverty
reduction
coincides
with
city’s
Detroiter
employment
efforts
• Mayor
says
progress
is
encouraging,
but much
more
work to
be done
DETROIT
- New
U.S.
Census
Bureau
estimates
released
today
show
that
poverty
in
Detroit
dropped
for the
third
straight
year in
2018 as
45,000
Detroiters
moved
out of
poverty
during
that
time.
Just as
encouraging,
Detroit
household
income
grew 20%
in three
years –
almost
doubling
statewide
household
income
growth
during
this
period.
“In
January
2015,
the
Mayor
retooled
the
city’s
employment
strategies
to focus
on
in-demand
job
sectors,
and
since
then,
we’ve
seen
sustained
employment
growth,”
said
Nicole
Sherard-Freeman,
Executive
Director
of
Workforce
Development.
“We’ll
continue
to focus
on
creating
good
opportunities
for
Detroiters
to keep
reducing
poverty
and
building
our
city’s
middle
class.”
The U.S
Census
Bureau
report
on
poverty
level in
Detroit:
•
2015 -
39.8%
• 2016 -
35.7%
• 2017 -
34.5%
• 2018 -
33.4%
The
report
released
today
also
showed
that the
total
number
of
Detroiters
living
below
the
poverty
level
decreased
from
265,000
in 2015
to
220,000
in 2018,
reflecting
45,000
residents
moving
out of
poverty
in that
time.
Poverty
reduction
tracks
with
city’s
job
placement
efforts
From
2015 to
2018,
median
household
income
across
the
state of
Michigan
grew by
11
percent.
During
this
same
period,
Detroit
median
household
income
grew by
20.4
percent:
•
2015 -
$25,980
• 2016 -
$28,666
• 2017 -
$30,344
• 2018 -
$31,283
“Three
straight
years of
progress
is a
good
start,”
said
Mayor
Mike
Duggan.
“But if
we can
continue
our
success
in
bringing
new jobs
to
Detroit
and to
train
Detroiters
to fill
those
jobs,
our
future
is
bright.”
Earlier
this
month,
the U.S.
Bureau
of Labor
Statistics
released
statistics
showing
more
Detroiters
were
employed
in July
than any
month
over the
last
decade,
with the
number
of
employed
Detroiters
exceeding
230,000
for the
first
time
since
December
2009.
The
estimates
come
from the
U.S.
Census
Bureau’s
2018
American
Community
Survey
(ACS),
which
randomly
targets
addresses
each
year to
ensure a
geographically
representative
sample.
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