Eisenbrey : Detroit has a cash-flow shortfall of $ 198 million . Stripping Detroit 's workers of their modest pensions will kill middle class . Ross Eisenbrey : Most pensions are 30,000 ; $ $ 19,000 year a year for police and firefighters . He says culprits are sky-high financial costs , corporate subsidies , tax loopholes . He says Detroit bankruptcy caused by same dynamics creating inequality in the nation .
Eisenbrey : Stripping Detroit 's workers of their modest pensions will kill middle class . Ross Eisenbrey : Most pensions are 30,000 ; $ $ 19,000 year a year for police and firefighters . He says culprits are sky-high financial costs , corporate subsidies , tax loopholes . He says Detroit bankruptcy caused by same dynamics creating inequality in the nation .