Archive for October 2009

How Detroit, the Motor City, turned into a ghost town

Oct 31st, 2009 | By | Category: News

Wall Street is celebrating a recovery in the US economy, but the future looks increasingly bleak in America’s industrial heartland Try telling Brother Jerry Smith that the recession in America has ended. As scores of people queued up last week at the soup kitchen which the Capuchin friar helps run in Detroit, the celebrations on Wall Street in New York seemed from another world. The hungry and needy come from miles around to get a free healthy meal