Detroit’s Corrupt Former Mayor Doomed The City: Forbes

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Detroit’s decline from Motown to the largest municipal bankruptcy in US history is long, extending back to the 1960s, but former mayor Kwame Malik Kilpatrick was the straw that broke the camel’s back, depriving the city of hope and ending what could have been Detroit’s millennial resurgence, reports Kelly Phillips Erb at Forbes. Detroit’s tax revenue plummeted There’s no question that Detroit’s problems run deep. Residents and businesses have been leaving for years, debt has risen while tax revenues have plummeted, and crime is rampant. Part of the story is that the manufacturing jobs that made Detroit an economic powerhouse…

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