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How Detroit went broke: The answers may surprise you — and don't blame Coleman Young | Detroit Free Press | freep.com

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How Detroit went broke: The answers may surprise you — and don't blame Coleman Young | Detroit Free Press | freep.com:

 "How Detroit went broke: The answers may surprise you - and don't blame Coleman Young"

For this report, the Free Press examined about 10,000 pages of documents gathering dust in the public library’s archives. Since most of those documents have never been digitized, the Free Press created its own database of 50 years of Detroit’s financial history. Reporters also conducted dozens of interviews with participants from the last six mayoral administrations as well as city bureaucrats and outside experts.
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