article_snippet: For many city residents with limited skills and education, Detroit is an employment desert, having lost tens of thousands of blue-collar jobs in manufacturing cutbacks and service jobs as the population dwindled.
article_snippet: Alison Norris says there are too few jobs in Detroit .
article_snippet: There no jobs in Detroit,' said Alison Norris, 26, waiting in 16-degree temperatures for the first of two buses to the Somerset Collection mall in Troy, where she makes $8.25 an hour as a bistro hostess. '
article_snippet: If it's no jobs, then why stay in Detroit?' said Alison Norris. '
article_snippet: Detroit's unemployment rate, which hit 25 per  cent in 2009, stood at 14.9 per cent last year, state figures show, compared to a regional rate below 7 per cent.
article_snippet: Many residents without cars — about 40 per cent of Detroit's population, according to federal figures — often enter low-paying retail or sales positions far outside Detroit.
article_snippet: Detroit Detroit has been on hard times for a while, and there aren't as many jobs in Detroit as I'm sure Detroit will like,' said Palombo.
article_snippet: But for right now, there are a lot of jobs — and some of the lower paying jobs — in the suburbs that people from Detroit are trying to fill,' Palombo said.
highlights_snippet: For many residents with limited skills and education, Detroit is lacking jobs .
  