Kid Rock talks Detroit

This video was reported, edited and produced by Poppy Harlow and CNNMoney.com as part of Time Inc's special series Assignment Detroit.

America's "most dysfunctional city" under the media microscope

“It sounds grandiose, but it is one of the great stories of our time,” Time Inc.’s editor in chief John Huey says in today's New York Times. “Detroit is like a prism on any story you want — social, economic, health care, race, education — it is all there. And it is all there in extremis.”