Broke : Hardship and Resilience in a City of Broken Promises (Hardcover)

from rivkat

The United States has turned into a machine extracting wealth from all those who are already not very wealthy. Detroit's bankruptcy and the methods it (and the state of Michigan) chose to try to recover had real and often very bad impacts on the people who lived there, on whose ill-resourced back...

from nancyadair

My family moved to Metro Detroit in 1963 for a better life. My folks did achieve their dreams--a blue-collar job, a home of their own, medical insurance, a decent income, and a pension to retire on. Dad loved his job at Chrysler. Just a few years later my friends and I watched as planes with Nati...

from nancyadair

My family moved to Metro Detroit in 1963 for a better life. My folks did achieve their dreams--a blue-collar job, a home of their own, medical insurance, a decent income, and a pension to retire on. Dad loved his job at Chrysler. Just a few years later my friends and I watched as planes with Nati...