I’m unemployed nf cure 20 Michigan Governor Rick Snyder called the Detroit bankruptcy àâÂÂour opportunity to stop 60 years of decline.” Perhaps, but it won’t happen in a matter of months, or even a few years. The switch from a manufacturing economy to a mixed technology economy is difficult, because steelworkers or autoworkers canâÂÂt become tech workers overnightâ or ever in many cases. In Pittsburgh, the process is still evolving. Consider that the downtown didnâÂÂt see a new office building constructed for about 20 years after the mid 80s collapse.àAnd it still shares problems with many old northeastern manufacturing centers: huge pension and healthcare obligations, a smaller, older population, and pockets of poverty.