'Detroit is just about one of the most fragile cities' in the country, Betsey Stevenson, a professor of economics and public policy, said. 'If it doesn't get help from both the federal government and the state, I think it's in pretty substantial trouble.'
Some congressional leaders have called for another major stimulus package, but that would be subject to negotiations between Congress and the White House.
Health care workers collect samples to be tested for COVID-19 at a drive-by collection site in Dayton, Ohio, on March 18."We'll have less firefighters, less police officers," she said, noting that she has so far been able to protect her first responders from furloughs."You have to retrench, because you know there's no money coming in."
In Detroit, Duggan said the city's success in building a rainy day fund in the 5½ years since it emerged from the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history softened some of the blow of this latest crisis. So far, using savings, he's been able to protect police, fire and emergency workers, as well as bus drivers, from pay cuts and furloughs.
"You're going to see delayed road repairs. You're going to see closed recreation centers," Duggan said in his address Tuesday night."Blight is going to get worse in the neighborhoods. We've got to find a solution to it, but that's the truth. These are painful cuts."The cuts Duggan proposed assume that the crisis will end relatively soon.
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