I agree with a couple of other posters with regards to their suspicion of these numbers. Only those with an agenda would take it at face value, and there could be only one of two agendas in place. Either this will allow the overtly-optimistic pro-Detroit folks to continue wearing their rose-colored glasses without remorse or this will confirm other people's [[namely suburbanite's) claim that Detroiters are nothing but low-class animals that need to be treated as such [[a la STRESS).

I mean really, these numbers are probably about as accurate as the weekly jobless claims [[not at all), especially when you factor in that in 2010 we were measuring from a population with 200,000 more people versus this year.

So it's no surprise that only Fox 2 reported this story.