There are MANY children in Detroit who will never get a job, their parents have never worked and their grandparents have never worked.
My company has a plant on Detroit's east side which is doing really poor right now. A few years ago for a period of several years we were dealing with a manpower agency which was supplying the plant with weekend workers. Their job was to recruit, test and interview people which we would ultimately hire. I can't tell you the number of complete losers which would file thru our main gate only to be rejected during the testing or drug testing.
For those who were ultimately hired, I would say only about 5% worked long enough to be asked to work full time. Granted being required to call the HR office Friday afternoon to find out what shift you were going to be assigned to for the weekend is kinda tough to arrange your life around but when you don't have a job anyway, some people would jump at the chance to earn some money.
Heck, there were many weekends that even I volunteered to work production even if it meant coming back in Friday night to work the midnight shift at 11:00 p.m.
The turnover in people during that time was absolutely awful.
You mention "Many Kids" but I will go out on a limb to say "Most of the kids" in Detroit will never have a family sustaining job let alone any job that could last their lifetime.
I had to laugh at perky Granholm's recent trip to Japan to try to entice Japanese manufacturers to set up shop in Michigan. Until Michigan becomes a "Right to Work" state that ain't ever going to happen........