Where are you from? I’d rather that you not speak for the State of Michigan. Manufacturing worker, here.
I am in PA, but routinely travel throughout the rust belt, small town after small town have been left in blight with social services overwhelmed and collapsing... I see it time and time again, yes, in MICHIGAN as well.
I have watched town after town decay similar to what this article reports about Reading PA... MI has a lot of these towns too, and if you think otherwise you aren’t paying attention.