The Intersection: Poverty [CHARTS]
At the 50th anniversary of 1967, WDET reviews the issues that led to unrest and still define the city’s neighborhoods.
Nearly 50 years after a police raid at 12th and Clairmount streets ignited violence and carnage, WDET and the Detroit Journalism Cooperative are continuing to explore whether the conditions that helped produce the civil unrest in July 1967 have improved for Detroit residents.
One of those is the economic conditions in communities, including the prevalence of people living near or below the poverty level, which was cited by the “Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders” published in 1968. Commonly known as the “Kerner Commission Report,” the document was the result of a presidentially appointed panel looking at urban violence around the country.
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Here are some of WDET’s conversations and findings about poverty and economic conditions in Detroit:
A Detroit Today Conversation: The Timeline of Poverty
The Politics of Jobs and Poverty
A Detroit Today Conversation: What is Detroit’s Business Community Doing to Address Poverty?
The Persistence of Poverty: The problems of poverty are bigger than the programs, policies designed to solve them.
All of the work of the Detroit Journalism Cooperative partners can be found here.
