And yet the Detroit metro area as a whole is healthy. Median household income is $49,000, only two thousand short of the median household income of metro Chicago. Detroit is ranked as number 17, not far behind the ranking of Chicago at number 12.
In Europe and Canada national or provincial government routinely merges local governments into metro government. If that was done in the United States a competent metro government that included the middle class would better manage their fiscal affairs. The older central city would not go bankrupt.
We should be working towards this solution.
| 12 | Chicago–Gary–Kenosha, Illinois–Indiana–Wisconsin CMSA | 9,157,540 | $51,046 |
| 13 | Bloomington–Normal, Illinois MSA CMSA | 150,433 | $50,795 |
| 14 | Seattle–Tacoma–Bellevue, Washington CMSA | 3,554,760 | $50,733 |
| 15 | New London–Norwich, Connecticut–Rhode Island and Providence Plantations MSA | 293,566 | $49,283 |
| 16 | Madison, Wisconsin MSA | 726,526 | $49,223 |
| 17 | Detroit–Ann Arbor–Flint, Michigan CMSA | 5,456,428 | $49,160 |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highest-income_metropolitan_statistical_areas_in_the_United_States
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