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Posted on 03/02/2015 7:28:34 AM PST by Olog-hai
When Alison Norris couldn’t find work in Detroit, she searched past the city limits, ending up with a part-time restaurant job that’s 20 miles away but takes at least two hours to get to via separate city and suburban bus systems.
For many city residents with limited skills and education, Detroit is an employment desert, having lost tens of thousands of blue-collar jobs in manufacturing cutbacks and service jobs as the population dwindled. What’s available to those without cars—about 40 percent of Detroit’s population, according to federal figures—often are low-paying retail or sales positions far outside the city. […]
The city’s unemployment rate, which hit 25 percent in 2009, stood at 14.9 percent last year, state figures show, compared to a regional rate below 7 percent. And the number of Detroit residents who work outside the city is nearly double the number with jobs inside the city, according to statistics from a regional planning organization, the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments. …
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> For many city residents with limited skills and education,
And who’s fault is that?
There are jobs in Detroit and actual growth but the jobs are primarily tech jobs downtown. The people this article is talking about aren’t going to get those jobs.
The article sounds as if the loss of services has harmed jobs but that’s just BS. Between the loss of factory jobs outside the city and the extreme taxation within, barren ground has been created that makes it nearly impossible for the small neighborhood businesses to operate.
When's the last time you heard from the self-appointed leaders of the black community like Sharpton, Jackson, Farakkan, and the Congressional Black Causcus, or any other racist civil rights leaders talking the truth? They perpetuate the black victimhood while Conservative blacks promote personal values and are productive. I so admire young and older blacks who just say NO. "I will not be a victim and I will build something with my life." Good Anmericans, all.
The three of them together couldn't build a doghouse in the back yard if you gave the nails, the tools, and the wood.
They are professional parasites, halfwits who can only take, not make.
And that's the problem with Detroit. If the people there had any clue about how to start with almost nothing and make something, we wouldn't have this conversation.
Can chat about whose fault it is, how it's related to trade policy, blah blah, but in the end...industrial economies are self creating. They don't fall out of the sky.
The last thing Detroit needs is “help” from the Democrats. The fact that Rick Snyder has repeatedly given Obama the stiffarm in regards to Detroit is one of the things I actually like.
Federal money comes with federal strings and I’m glad that Michigan is pulling the strings these days. I don’t like paying for it but it beats the alternatives. There have been vast improvements in Detroit but it takes time. They started at the center and are slowly working toward the edges where its worst.
Within the city limits, the closer you live to downtown the better it is. As you move outward toward the city limits the people become much more institutionalized almost like lifelong prison inmates. Total reliance is all they know.
I think you're painting with too broad a brush. Around here (easy access to Cleveland's east side) a lot of the workers are from the east side. They're working in banks and offices, in the limited retail there is, and in restaurants where there's some hope to become managers. These very basic middle class jobs businesses are close to being nonexistent in the areas where they live.
The only thing that's going to turn that around is community policing in the neighborhoods where they live. I'm wondering if Detroit doesn't have a similar situation as the downtown shows some life and public safety everywhere else is ignored.
“> For many city residents with limited skills and education,
And who’s fault is that?”
Well said. I often wonder what the authors of these articles know about the American system of government. We, the working taxpayers, provide free education to every child. Free education brought right to their neighborhood and delivered by teachers with college degrees and in facilities paid for by the working taxpayers. Even transportation and food is provided, free or subsidized, by the American working taxpayers.
Limited skills and education—not very limited in terms of opportunity to get all the skills and education a person could want.
From July 2014. Very graphic visuals and language…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-dV-9Zde3c
Typical (I’ve been down worse streets in many areas of the city in the last year)
“Dearth of jobs a barrier to post-bankruptcy Detroit’s growth (but “recovery”?)”
This should all be fixed when Jebbie Bush repopulates Detroit with illegal aliens. Or not.
Thing you're being kind. They couldn't build a doghouse if simplistic plans were layed out on the ground.
"They are professional parasites, halfwits who can only take, not make."
Agree they are parasites. Disagree they are "halfwits". They have a totalitarian plan that is coming to fruition on a daily basis. That is intellect no matter how destructive it is.
"And that's the problem with Detroit. If the people there had any clue about how to start with almost nothing and make something, we wouldn't have this conversation."
They don't even need to start from "nothing". They only need to wise up and quit warring against each other and destroying their hoods. Capitalists would buy up all those properties and build for the benefit of the community. But the race-baiters won't let it happen. Nor will the fatherless "welfare queen gimmes".
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