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Report: Focus on Local High-growth Fields to Boost Metro Detroit’s Middle Class

February 16, 2023

In this article, Black News: For Us by Us dives into Detroit Future City’s new report, Growth Occupations: Opportunities for more equitable participation in Detroit’s Growing Economy, and shares how Growth occupations are jobs that are growing at the same or higher rate than the region as a whole, have increased wages between 2014-2019, pay at least a middle-class wage — $25 per hour/$52,000 per year — and employ at least 300 people in the region.

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