Why losing industrial jobs hit differently in Detroit, Milwaukee and Chicago
The decline of industrial jobs in Detroit, Milwaukee, and Chicago significantly impacted local communities and economies over several decades. Residents experienced widespread layoffs and urban instability as manufacturing sectors contracted.
Chris Gerben grew up in the metro Detroit area in the 1980s and ’90s, and even as a child, he noticed a lot of major shifts in the city.“We were a steel mill town, and in the mid ’80s is when a lot of this kind of emptying-out of the city was happening,” Gerben said.He remembers going to at least three different elementary schools because teachers kept getting laid off.From the peak of Detroit’s auto industry until Gerben was born, roughly three decades, the city lost over 200,000 jobs — more…
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