Conservative Refocus Notes: For the US to stay statistically even, when acounting for population growth, it needs to add at least 130,000 jobs per month. However, the problem becomes trickier when you account for those who are severely under-employed,… more »

The Wall Street Journal. By Phil Izzo 49.1%: Percent of the population that lives in a household where at least one member received some type of government benefit in the first quarter of 2011. Cutting government spending is no easy task, and it’s… more »

Half of Detroit’s Streetlights May Go Out as City Shrinks Bloomberg By Chris Christoff Detroit Residents Stay In at Night as Lights Go Out Detroit, whose 139 square miles contain 60 percent fewer residents than in 1950, will try to nudge t… more »

USA Today By Kathy Chu, More than half of Americans mistakenly see China rather than the U.S. as the world's leading economic power, according to a Gallup Poll out today. In Gallup's phone poll, conducted in early February, 52% of Americans said Chin… more »

    Class sizes also would swell under proposal filed with the state Jennifer Chambers / The Detroit News Detroit — Detroit Public Schools would close nearly half of its schools in the next two years, and increase high school class sizes to 62 by… more »