"There are other signs that Newark, however troubled it remains, has left Detroit behind. While the percent of Newark's population below the poverty line has dropped since 2000, the Motor City's has increased. Newark's unemployment is still nearly double the national rate, but it pales in comparison to Detroit's jobless rate of 13.7 percent. 'Each of these two cities has been the poster child for urban problems in the second half of the 20th century,' says Kenneth T. Jackson, a history professor at Columbia University. 'Newark no longer is. Detroit probably still is.'"
Will Sullivan in U.S. News & World Report looks to see how Newark and Detroit have fared since the 1967 riots.
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