The big three could not afford to keep up production in the United States at levels previously seen and still make enough of a profit to lead them out of financial disaster. GM alone reduced its workforce to fewer than 45,000 workers (Feeley, 2011). Most of these jobs went overseas, where labor was cheap. As such, "the state of Detroit is not really surprising given the reorganization of the

"The Detroit, Michigan drop-out rate among black males is 50%, the Detroit unemployment rate among black males is 50%" (Kill 145). This demonstrates that education is very important when considering unemployment rates and that the auto industry is, to a certain degree, not the only institution responsible for the critical conditions currently faced by individuals in Michigan. Although it is difficult to determine what other factors are responsible for the

For example, one Pontiac Assembly plant in Pontiac, Michigan, "was running three consecutive eight-hour shifts, employing 3,000 people and making 1,300 trucks a day," in 2003, but in the summer of 2009, the plant had only 600 workers and "was running just one shift" (Mahler 2009, p.1). As a result of the failure of GM, the housing bubble, and the explosion of easy credit and 'creative' financing, many Michigan

With the clear decline of crime-related activities in New York City, it can be easily inferred that unemployment rate started to decline also. This is based in the regression analysis from a different study that shows that as the trend in property crime rates goes down (from 1979 to 1997), the unemployment rate goes down with it. Trends in Adjusted Property Crimes Standardized Wages and Unemployment Rate Source: Gould, Weinberg, and Mustard, 2002 Analysis With

It showed that financial hardship which is as a result of plant closing was the main factor in negative effect on family life, Broman, Hamilton, & Hoffman, (1990). Individuals who experienced loss of jobs were more likely to face financial hardship. It argued that financial hardship was the strongest intervening variable within the relationship between unemployment and family stress and conflict. As financial hardship level rise, so does tension and

What money was available went to the downtown area. The neighborhoods were left to rot. By the 1980s many of them looked like war zones. In 1975 my grandmother moved up north to escape the racial tension which had grown quite ugly. My grandmother had four children by that time and one of them was my mother Anna. My mother never liked it up north. She thought it was boring.