You know, despite the essay's claim, you cannot blame it just on the unemployment. It says Detroit and Flint are approaching 10%, but the national average was

You know, despite the essay's claim, you cannot blame it just on the unemployment. It says Detroit and Flint are approaching 10%, but the national average was 9.5% in June and was undoubtably worse, since there were several problems with how they calculated it. (I have seen estimates that the actual national unemployment rate for June could have been as high as 11%.)