Make it count! Detroit By The Numbers latest monthly segment where we highlight significant data and numbers from the past month for Detroiters!

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New DDOT bus bump-outs along Jefferson Avenue (APTA).

23%

Detroit lawmaker attends less than a third of all sessions, but is now running for City Council District 7 (Detroit News)

$80M

Riverfront park opened, funded by Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation. (Detroit Free Press)

51%

Children living in poverty. This is a reversal from past improvement. Overall Detroit has a poverty rate around 34%, but it is much higher for children. In the recent State of Michigan budget $270 million was allocated for the RxKids program that has seen success in Flint. The State funding could allow the program to expand into Wayne County and specifically Detroit. (Local 4)