When we think of Detroit, we think of a dirty, broken city that a lot of rappers have come out of. We never really think that about how much the city of Detroit prospered and how important it was to the growing economy. In 1930, it was the fastest growing city in all of America. Now it holds a new title, “fastest shrinking city” in all of America. The town has become a wasteland with many struggling families and workers to barely make minimum wage and those that are lucky enough to get a job and a steady salary, save up their pennies and get out of the city and start a better life. While Detroit continues to struggle we can see the light at the end of the tunnel with new housing and cheap housing for up and coming artists and young adults. In the last 10 years, Michigan alone had lost 50% of their manufacturing jobs. Jobs that made Detroit, the “Motor City” of the World. In the movie their is a very emotional scene where the auto workers discuss taking pay cuts ranging from 50 cents to 3 dollars. It may not seem much, but its a pay cut of around 4,000 a year. The president of the auto union presented this to the workers and it got immediately shot down. Nobody was going to give up 4,000 dollars. Theses families need the money to live and support a home. This is a very emotional scene, because I had a minimum wage job over the summer. I experienced getting a paycheck and seeing the taxes. If families are getting close to minimum wage and theses taxes, then it is close to impossible to support a home or family. So when these people are discussing pay cuts, it is obvious that it'll be hard to live a stress free life, let alone provide for themselves. Detroit, Michigan is bankrupt. The town equivalent to New York City or Philadelphia at one point is now bankrupt and abandoned. Although the ,mayor has tried to help the city by moving the the city in closer, so people are not as spread out and eliminate the empty houses, but the ci