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USA Today does an in depth piece on Detroit and how the negatives of the city are being used as positives for change.
Excerpt:
"It's never going to be the same city that it
was, but maybe it will be a better city," says Mary McDougall, a
Detroit native and executive director of Operation Able, a group that
trains older displaced workers.
The city's believers say Detroit has resilient
residents who will work hard and make changes to help it rebound.
"Detroit isn't dying," says Harold Schwartz, 60, who was laid off by an
auto-parts supplier. "Too many people love the city to let that happen."
Officials and activists see the collapse as an
opportunity to remake the city and shift its manufacturing workforce
from cars to emerging industries. "We've always dealt with adversity,"
says Olga Stella, vice president for business development at Detroit Economic Growth.
Read the entire article
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