Editing Coleman Young (section)

===Economic conditions===
Young's administration coincided with some periods of broad social and economic challenges in the United States, including [[economic recession]], [[1973 oil crisis|oil shock]], the decline of the U.S. automotive industry and a loss of manufacturing sector jobs in the Midwest to other parts of the U.S. and the world. [[White flight]] to the Detroit suburbs, which had begun in the 1950s and accelerated after the [[1967 Detroit riot|1967 race riot]], persisted during Young's two decades in office, amid ongoing crime and drug problems in the inner city. Supporters of Young attributed the flight to factors such as white resistance to court ordered [[Desegregation in the United States|desegregation]], deteriorating housing stock, aging industrial plants and a declining automotive industry leading to a loss of economic opportunities inside the city.<ref name=decline>{{cite magazine| url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,873465,00.html| title=Michigan: Decline in Detroit| access-date=July 15, 2014| magazine=Time| date=October 27, 1961| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070520082431/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0%2C9171%2C873465%2C00.html| archive-date=May 20, 2007| url-status=dead}}</ref> Over the course of his time as mayor, Detroit lost about one-third of its population.<ref>[[Largest cities in the United States by population by decade]]</ref>

Economic conditions in Detroit generally trended sideways or downward over the period of Young's political tenure, with the unemployment rate trending from approximately 9% in 1971 to approximately 11% in 1993, when Young retired. However, most economic metrics (unemployment, median income rates, and city gross domestic product) initially dropped sharply during economic recessions, reaching their lowest points in the 1980s and early 1990s, with the unemployment rate in particular peaking at approximately 20% in 1982.<ref name="cus.wayne.edu">{{cite web|url=http://www.cus.wayne.edu/content/publications/Detroit%20Crime%20Barometer%20October%202005.pdf |title=Detroit Crime Barometer |publisher=Wayne University Center for Urban Studies |date=October 2005 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029195308/http://www.cus.wayne.edu/content/publications/Detroit%20Crime%20Barometer%20October%202005.pdf |archive-date=October 29, 2013 }}</ref>

Young himself explained the impact of the riots in his autobiography:

{{blockquote|The heaviest casualty, however, was the city. Detroit's losses went a hell of a lot deeper than the immediate toll of lives and buildings. The riot put Detroit on the fast track to economic desolation, mugging the city and making off with incalculable value in jobs, earnings taxes, corporate taxes, retail dollars, sales taxes, mortgages, interest, property taxes, development dollars, investment dollars, tourism dollars, and plain damn money. The money was carried out in the pockets of the businesses and the white people who fled as fast as they could. The white exodus from Detroit had been prodigiously steady prior to the riot, totalling twenty-two thousand in 1966, but afterwards it was frantic. In 1967, with less than half the year remaining after the summer explosion – the outward population migration reached sixty-seven thousand. In 1968 the figure hit eighty-thousand, followed by forty-six thousand in 1969.{{sfn|Young|1994|page=179}}}}