> For many city residents with limited skills and education,
And who’s fault is that?
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.