Dispatch Detroit: Voices from the Field

Editor’s Note: We’ll be posting Detroit stories as we hear them from the field. Here we hear from former Detroiter Carolyn C. from Bowling Green, Ohio whose family has been struck directly and indirectly by the auto industry woes. We’d like to hear from you, too.

My step dad was laid off from the auto industry. He still resides in Walled Lake. My brother was laid off in January, although not from a car job, but from a computer aided design job in Farmington Hills area. (Note: Farmington Hills is a suburban industrial hub home to automotive R & D centers and technology corporations, including up until recently Nissan Design, which left Michigna in January.) And while my husband and I live in Bowling Green, tons of jobs have been lost and even our store is posting such huge losses that we will be leaving to return to the military jobs we once had. FYI.

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