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US car manufacturers received bail-out money and are now reporting profits, but the financial recovery of America’s car makers is not filtering down to the streets of the country's once-booming automotive capital.
Detroit increasingly looks like a ghost town with its residents literally surviving on scraps, while once it was a city that symbolized America’s innovation and manufacturing might.
Today Detroit is the third most violent city in the US, with unemployment estimated to be as high as 50 per cent.
According to officials, the once glamorous "motor city" now has more people living in poverty than cars on the streets.
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http://rt.com/news/detroit-ghost-city-scrappers-975/