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.
I’ve lived in the Rust Belt all of my life. And my jobs have always been in jeopardy. Never looked to Uncle Sugar to save them, ever. I suppose that I don’t have the mindset for it.