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Just when you thought things couldn’t get worse in Detroit…they do. The unemployment rate in the Motor City jumped up almost 3 points last month. It now stands at a staggering 17 percent? the highest unemployment of any major city in the country. Is this the jobless economic recovery that economists keep discussing? And can Detroit rise again? Bankole Thompson, Senior Editor at the Michigan Chronicle, joins The Takeaway with more of the story.

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