If 'Detroit Never Left,' who wrote the comeback story?

In 2013, Detroit filed the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history. Within a few years, outsiders were calling it "the new Brooklyn." But the poverty rate barely moved.

Wayne State sociologist Nicole Trujillo-Pagán's new book argues the people who defined the city's problems understood it least — and profited most. Trujillo-Pagán joined host Robyn Vincent to discuss the forces and people who controlled the narrative and the consequences for residents.

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