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**MCBA Members Are Having Their Voice Heard!**

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**As a Community, We Need to Help Those Around Us Who Need Help**

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**Union Divisiveness Only Pits Employees Versus Employers**

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**As a Community, We Need to Help Those Around Us Who Need Help**

In 2021 the city's office of homeless solutions launched an initiative
to house 6,000 individuals, and despite the aggressive plan and $72
million, the office's director said she doesn't expect a significant
change in the city's homeless count.

Currently, there are 4,244 homeless individuals in Dallas and Collin
counties, according to this year's homelessness point-in-time (PIT)
count. By 2025, Dallas wants to house 6,000 individuals - 1,600 more
than currently exist - through its R.E.A.L Time Rehousing initiative.
That's no accident, according to Christine Crossley, director of the
city's homeless solutions office.

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**Union Divisiveness Only Pits Employees Versus Employers**

A 46% pay raise. A 32-hour week with 40 hours of pay. A restoration of
traditional pensions.

The demands that a more combative United Auto Workers union has pressed
on General Motors, Stellantis and Ford - demands that even the UAW's
own president calls "audacious" - are edging it closer to a strike
when its contract ends Sept. 14.

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**Metroplex Civic & Business Association Resumes Reporting on DFW
Metroplex KPIs**

Downtown Dallas has a crime rate ~9 times that of Downtown Ft. Worth in
August as Dallas Reporting Resumes!

Crime trends are a leading indicator of whether cities are growing or
shrinking. Comparing the Dallas and Ft. Worth downtown areas, crime
statistics provide a clear picture of how the two largest cities in DFW
are doing.

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continued success and prosperity of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.
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