Opinion: Promote residency for city workers #DetroitNews

Among these major cities — Cleveland, Nashville, Baltimore, Atlanta and Philadelphia — Detroit has the lowest number of jobs per capita, about .37 for every resident. And of those jobs, more than 70 percent are held by people who live outside the city.So it's understandable that Mayor Mike Duggan would want to amend an existing order to require that contractors on city-funded projects have workforces comprised of at least 51 percent Detroiters. The soon-to-be amended order,

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