It isn’t simply a perceived corrupt system, or tainted images of success that tear down the citizenships hope in the American Dream, but also the state of the country’s economy that has left so many without hope, unable to sustain the ideals of the people. With each passing year, more and more job positions are sent overseas at the behest of companies wishing to save cost. The city of Detroit is hit hardest by this trend, as recorded in the book “The Fall of an American Rome”, which details the huge loss of manufacturing jobs within the city, a drop from 290,000 positions in the 1960s, to merely 27,000 in recent years (Skrabec). The loss of work doesn’t simply affect income, but the city’s prosperity as whole, even the city’s literacy, which
