Detroit was not eliminated due to population, everything on the first map qualified for the population criteria. It failed the job growth test. (There's an arg

Detroit was not eliminated due to population, everything on the first map qualified for the population criteria. It failed the job growth test. (There's an argument about whether “stable business climate for growth" really can be boiled down to just "job growth". But is Detroit really going to do well on any kind of proxy for stable growth?)