Up of those article about Flint, deindustrialization, and the comparisons to Detroit and other large northern industrial cities facing similar issues.

The good story for Detroit is that it is staging a comeback. Hard to see that in Flint.

http://www.msnbc.com/interactives/ge...overty/ne.html

"The city’s child poverty rate of 66.5% is nearly 10 percentage points higher than Detroit’s."

“Communities with more than twenty percent concentrated poverty is where you really start to see the effects on people's livelihoods,” said Erika Poethig, Director of Urban Policy Initiatives at the Urban Institute. “There is not one community in Flint that is lower than twenty percent. That concentration of poverty is distributed across the city.”