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The Opportunity Dividend Summit

The Opportunity Dividend

National Gains

Opportunity

The Hypothesis

• Households living in poverty are key driver ofpublic service costs

• Reducing poverty can reduce public sector costsfor health care, income support and social services

Estimating the Gain

• Each additional person in poverty is associatedwith $8,200 in spending on social service andincome maintenance programs

• Only includes Medicaid, food stamps andassistance to families—including the TANFprogram and other state administered generalassistance

Detroit’s OpportunityDividend

If we decrease Detroit’s poverty rate from 12.9percent to 11.9 percent…

The Detroit Opportunity Dividend =

$396 million annually

City Dividends

Total City Dividends for Detroit…$4.6 Billion Annually

$3.4 billion $396 million$820 million

City Dividends

Total City Dividends for the nation…$166 Billion Annually

$124 billion $13 billion$29 billion

What can urban leaders do to achieve theOpportunity Dividend now?