news paper icon

Analyzed News

For Detroit, a Crisis Born of Bad Decisions and False Hope

One of the largest cities to face mandatory oversight has come as a result of millions in uncollected fees, a flight of its affluent tax base and misguided hopes that downturns might melt away. [Source]

Publication Date:

Origin: nytimes.com

Category: Budgets and Budgeting

Topics: might, downturns, hopes, misguided, affluent, flight, uncollected, millions, result, oversight, mandatory, cities, largest, False, Decisions, Crisis, Detroit

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/12/us/for-detroit-a-financial-crisis-was-long-coming.html?partner=rss&emc=rss