The Brookings Institution released a report this morning that reveals that almost eight in ten jobs in metro Detroit are more than ten miles from the city's urban core.

Read the report for yourself here: http://www.brookings.edu/reports/200..._kneebone.aspx

We clearly need a regional economic and land use master plan alongside an effective and widespread network of public transportation. Otherwise, we will propagate our old habit of cutting off our working poor from the opportunities they need to build better lives. Our historic rut of disintegration / segregation will continue, resulting in further erosion of our economic strength.