“Citywide, a third of Detroit’s remaining residents say they still plan to leave in the next five years. And why not? In a city with the second-highest violent-crime rate in the country and an average of 14 arsons a day, the police and firefighters often don’t arrive when called. Just two years ago, one in three households lived in poverty, a jump of 40 percent in just the last decade. There was only one private-sector job for every four Detroiters, and only half the working-age population was employed. Of the employed, three-fifths commuted to jobs outside the city. A mere 70,700 people both lived and worked inside Detroit.”
