Quinn Klinefelter did a report on Detroit 's poverty and prospects featuring remarks from Robin Boyle, professor of Urban Planning at WSU. Boyle said, "It took a hurricane and a flood, to show Americans just how separate we are," referring to the gap between the rich and the poor that is so evident in cities like Detroit and New Orleans . He said Detroit was just a larger version of New Orleans , plagued with the same problems of high unemployment, lack of public transportation and racial animus. Klinefelter also interviewed a homeless man, a former auto worker, who said that Detroit was not going to see a return to high industrial times, and that the future would probably be divided between those in very high-tech and very low-tech jobs. He called for a return to the public works projects of the depression to pull Detroit out of its economic slump.