Manna for Motown
Uncle Sam offers a little help
A FEW days before it shut down, the federal government offered to help one of the few cities that is even more dysfunctional than Washington, DC. On September 27th a clutch of cabinet ministers came to Detroit and sealed a deal offering $300m in federal and private aid. Shaun Donovan, the housing secretary, offered cash to knock down abandoned buildings. Others promised money to mend and police the city’s potholed and crime-infested streets, and to build cheap houses.
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