http://www.freep.com/article/20110825/NEWS06/108250536/Michigan-Legislature-caps-health-insurance-spending-puts-new-time-limits-welfare
$60 million saved, but how much will this cost the city of Detroit in the long run? Wayne County (Detroit) will be most effected by welfare cap and is least equipped to handle the change. Michigan needs to stop neglecting the urban poor and begin investing in urban centers to drive economic growth.
The cap on welfare and limitations on public employee health insurance will be felt severely in already struggling urban areas such as Detroit and Flint, where the public sector is overwhelmingly the largest source of employment. Rural and suburban areas that are not as reliant on the public sector for employment and do not have the same concentrated poverty affected communities relying on welfare will not suffer to the same degree as the urban centers, causing Detroit to continue falling behind the rest of the state & country.
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