A Detroit Interstate Sign

The 2012 Chevy Silverado Super Bowl commercial takes place in what looks like a post-apocalyptic Detroit, Michigan. As the commercial plays out, the message within becomes clearer. Something noticeable would be the blue-collar, mid-thirties

Majority of the people that started working in the plants came from the south. These people were looking for work and the state of Michigan provided that for them, with no education needed to start working. This provided the men to take care his whole family. The job provided benefits, great pay, day care, and offer to pay for the schooling if interested while working for the car industry. More and more people started to move and settle in Michigan. When the country was going through its toughest time dealing with the recession people were laid off. People weren’t buying cars at that time because no one could afford it. When people have low income and the air that they breathe is polluted you might have some issues with the economy. With pollution and poverty running so high nothing will get solved but the problem could get worst if it is not prevented and halted. As the economy has gotten worse, the pollution got worse as

Detroit, Michigan grew up around the automobile industry. At its peak, Detroit was the fifth-largest city in the United States, becoming the home to over 1.8 million people by 1950 (Davey, Monica 2013). The prolific population was due greatly to the success of the auto industry in the city. At that time, Detroit was flying high, its name coined “The Motor City” (americaslibrary.gov), and automobiles greatly impacted commercialization. From transporting goods to hastening production, to selling parts, to manufacturing and selling new automobiles, the auto industry completely transformed Detroit. Things seemed

The exhibits of the cabin and the wilderness indicates the desire of the settlers building homes out of pure wilderness, using their imagination beyond the stars to achieve and continue to strive and progress. The fresh crisp air invading the Americans to feel free to do the impossible, to dream and believe that the sky is the limit. The Chevy Silverado ad is a representation of what the American spirit is all about and how it has been a huge part in our history. Also, the captivating scenario of the open, empty land background manifests a different timeframe with no technology. The display of the red pickup truck in front persuades the audience to swallow and give into the Silverado, indulging them to believe in the capacity of doing more such as traveling, being able to relocate and explore. It also embarks it by having smarter components which makes it easy to navigate the land, and is strong to hold the impossible. The security blanket that twisted over the audience is into making them feel secured because somehow the trucks components can be related to the logic, and sympathy of a mankind. The components that were assembled into the ad were not vividly specific, but they were definitely tied into American values, which is a representation of the American spirit. The Chevrolet Silverado embodies the mindset of exploring new frontiers with great optimist and

People were afraid to come into the city after the riots. That is when the downfall of Detroit started.” Gray noticed a lot of bad side effects from the rioting. Most of the after affects affected the city financially because the rioting destroyed homes and business as well as scared people

This was just two years after the automobile industry government bailout and automobile manufacturing accounts for more than 20 percent of the state 's economy (Bury, 2012). According to Comerica Bank 's Michigan Economic Activity Index, Michigan 's economy reached a 10-year high in 2011 and 67,000 jobs were created (Henderson, 2012).

The conditions were hardly better in the large cities. In Detroit, were the entire economy centered on the auto manufacturing facilities of the Ford Motor Company, conditions were especially bad. Mayor Murphy tried to give as many people welfare as he could, but soon the number of people needing help forced the program, and the city with it, into desperate financial straights, but because of Hoovers policies, there was no federal money to help them. The members of the communist party, never numbering more than 2000, led thousands of workers in protests on Detroit streets. One of these protest led the workers to the outskirts of Detroit, and the grounds of the Ford plant.

In his essay Is Detroit Dead?, Peter Eisinger investigates the slow decay and degradation of the city of Detriot, and argue that it is no longer a living city. He uses the analogy of a patient who is diagnosed with a terminal disease to help prove his point. Eisinger looks at the lack of self-governance, inefficient and eroding public services, and the shallow indigenous labour pool in Detroit, to sustain his argument that Detroit is on the cusp of death. As well, he uses other literature that points out the mass migration of Detroiters that started in the 1950s, and the rapid decline of the auto industry. Eisinger also discusses limitations in finding numerical data for the exact amount of debt Detroit has and with the proportion of Detroiters

In 1910 Detroit was the ninth largest city in the United States, housing the auto industry and producing metal crafts, railcars, stove works, paints, iron, brass, and copper. After World War 2 the population increased to 1,849,568 forcing a city expansion of 77.9 square miles, the city’s economy account for nearly 1/6th of the nation’s income, with the industrial sector employing an estimated 310,000 workers alone.

Now, Detroit has lost more than a million people and this created a downward spiral with a “vacancy rate of 27.8%”. the people who stayed in Detroit were the ones in most poverty, and couldn’t pay higher taxes that were needed to keep of public services such as police, fire, and water departments. That’s one of the reasons why Detroit police have terrible respond times; and water issues are never resolved.

It is interesting to know that workers from Canada are one of the largest resources for the automobile industry in Detroit. When the city as tremendous as Detroit, it takes numerous manpower to support the development. There is also elaborate support system as housing, schools, and restaurants to support the growth of the community. On the other hand, if the companies in the city are expanding or downsizing and moving out from the city. It does not only affect the economy of the city itself; the cities around would b suffered as well. Tax reduction for the businesses and the people who used to lived in the city will because such a major issues. These issues make the city of Detroit because vulnerable and traumatized.

New technological advancements allowed cars to be built with fewer workers and because of that, tens of thousands of people lost their jobs. This caused a majority of the population to leave Detroit in hopes of finding employment. Since a majority of the population relocated so did businesses because they did not have enough employees, which hurt the economy and raised unemployment. Today, Detroit has the highest concentrated poverty rate among the top 25 metro areas and the highest percentage of unemployment, the HDI map shows that 16.6% of the population are living in poverty and 17% of the Detroit metro area are unemployed. This could be because

With all of these factors in place, the Depression was difficult for Detroit, but once the 1940s came about, military contracts with the auto companies helped spark the economy once again. What Detroit failed to realize was that reliance on this industry was not going to help with economic growth over a long period of time. By 1970, one in three dollars in the industry were going overseas, and commerce in the region shrunk. Riots and prejudice in the city also had begun to take hold, and a slow separation of the city and its residents began with thousands emigrating out of Detroit (Lepeska). The collapse of the city had begun, and has spiraled into today, with the city having less than $40 million in the bank, and on the verge of bankruptcy, with a long-term debt of over $12 billion (Detroit City Government). Reform in Detroit is necessary, and there are countless ways to reverse this unfortunate economy. Now the question of the matter is, what is the best way/s to do it?

In 2009 the American auto industry was in a dire economic state. Chrysler was in Chapter 11, GM was on the brink of bankruptcy, and Ford’s future was at best uncertain. The demise of the U.S. auto industry would have a devastating impact on our national economy and specifically the economies of Michigan and Ohio.

Such an economic shift is identified as being a result of Awhite flight@, where the urban whites fled to the suburbs after WWII, with the immigrants, blacks, and rural dwellers moving in. The economy switched from an industrial economy to a post-industrial or service economy, with the older factories being replaced by smaller factories (computers, airplanes, appliances), requiring higher skilled workers. In effect these new factories were located outside the city in the suburbs. The central city would be left with nothing, and virtually no opportunities of any magnitude. Detroit is a city that I believe can be identified as the city which went through the greatest amount of change, being heavily relied on one industry. During the first half of the twentieth century, Detroit was probably the most economically booming city in the United States. Since about 1950, Detroit has gone from Aarsenal of democracy@, having one of the fastest growing populations and was home to the highest paid working-class workers as well, to losing nearly 1 million people. Many jobs were also lost with many business leaving the city of today empty and sometimes complete city blocks left completely empty. Detroit has also been home to a host of infrastructure woes, as can be reflected in many other cities in the Industrial Belt of the northeast with decaying roads, sewers, and other physical features.