Why losing industrial jobs hit differently in Detroit, Milwaukee and Chicago
The decline of the industrial sector in cities like Detroit, Milwaukee, and Chicago caused significant economic and social shifts, leading to widespread job losses and community instability.
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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