Minimum Wage Wars- The Motor City of Ruins

Welcome to Michigan.  The Great Lake State.  The Mitten State.  The State of the first American Ruins.  Yes, you heard correctly.  Within the state of Michigan, there is a very famous city known as Detroit.  The Motor City.  Once the third largest populated city in the US during the 1950's at about 1.8 million, the population decreased by more than 60% at around 680,000.  A decaying automotive industry that the city was founded on quickly caught up to it when the employment rates quickly plummeted, resulting in a large flight from the city to surrounding suburbs and other states.

Now what does this have to do with the minimum wage?  The better question is what does the minimum wage have to do with this?  The answer is this: the families that live off of the minimum wage the state is set at- a mere $7.40- is appalling.  The minimum wage hardly covers a household of one child and one adult, or two adults.  Adding on one child means the household is living below the poverty line.  The minimum wage even for someone living alone falls over a dollar short of a living wage.  In short, many of Detroit's residents live close to or below the poverty line.  And at an unemployment rate of 5.9%, Michigan is leaning toward the bottom of the list.

It would come as no surprise that over 1 million of the people living in Detroit during the ongoing decay period chose to leave in hopes of better standards of living.  Detroit in fact leads the country in population living in poverty, with 44% reporting such living conditions, half of which are under the age of 18.  In addition, African Americans make up more of the impoverished population in Detroit than all other ethnic groups combined.

 Hasn't Detroit suffered enough?  For now, this is D. Politopolous out.