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St ti tics provided by the
Center for Urb n Studies at
W yne State Unive ily indi­
cate that in" outhc t ichigan
an r ho economy' large­
ly domnated by utomobilc
- manufacturin unemployment·
has incre ed as manufacturin
has declin d. In the city of
Detroit, the un mployment r tc
ha more than tripled in the 15
years following 1970, nd the
rate w up' gnificantly outside
th city U."
A ummary of the Urban
Studies tati ti profile points
out th "in 1970, 10.3 percent of
BI cks in the civilian labor force
o
ic cri
were unemp compared to
5.0 percent of whites.' However
by 1985, "the dty of Detroit's
Blac rate was 30.7 percent
compared to the white rate of
13.3 percent."
In the larger metropolitan
Detroit area, statistics show that
the unemployment rate among .
. African America . four tim
greater than t of whit
According to Mayor Yo
"a city 0 emp oyed citize
caJlLDOI be a strong city or a gr
city. If city· going to be an -
tractiw place in . to me,
r d raise a family,· m
h ve rOD eeo omy tha
geae es j (I. citize
H ;
tio will b· n in t in
Detroit? Coinciding with the
exp . on of organized labor
d increased deman for em­
powerment by African­
American , I rge investor
abandoned the city.
The tr egy of the Yo
admini tr lion h s -been to
provide tax bate men to th
investor' n incentive for
them to locate in Detroit.
A good example wa the
General Mo ors plant buill .
Pole town which will not provi
any property tax revenu to lh
city until ftcr the conclusion of
thi century. or ha the project
ever provided the promised
number of jobs. As of this writ­
ing, the plant's lin is hut down
due to inventory b ckup.
Meanwhile, despite these tax
inducements for busine , th
unemployment and poverty
. rates continue to climb. Young
state that "just thi year we
reached agreement with our .
local financial institutions that
they will in more than $2 bil­
lion in Detroit over the next
three .•
The Mayor, however, does
not mention ow this $2 billion
will "trickle down" to the wor -
ing, unemployed and im­
poverished m' , who are till
ubjected to ever incre ing
property t r tes and the over­
II e cal ting cost of living in the
city. .
Providing tax incentive. for
large corporation to inve t n
Detroit over the Ja t 15 years
h not reversed the d cline in
the city's industrial, commercial
and residentii I infrastructur .
Unemployment and labor idle­
ness among African Americans
hus continued to incre , with
illegal drug trafficking becom­
ing the new "indu try" employ­
in J youth on " road to ocial
de truction, poor health, long
prison terms nd premature
death. To Be Continued
. Eccl
a member app al
OREGON CITY, Or. - Four
,. members of BI ck r ligio
ct known the Ecclesi Ath-
'Ietic Associ tion have n­
nouced p ns to ppeaJ their
first -degr m nslaughter con­
victions in the be in de' th of
n eight-year-old girl.
. The group w origin lly
ba ed in Lo Angeles but
Klan rdere
to cia
I in civil right
in Luth r .
�
, MONTGOMERY,�.-
A federaljudg h nte ced
group of Ku Klux K1 m m-
ber. who attacked civil right
m rcher ten y r go to t - '"
tend a lWO hour cour n r
relations.
The ch will be t u t by
Rev. osepb Lowery of the
'outhern Chri tian Leader hip
Conference. Th SCLC wa