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Urban poor burden Obama with unlimited hope

By John Reed in Detroit

Published: January 16 2009 21:25 | Last updated: January 16 2009 21:25

Bishop Edgar Vann, pastor of Detroit’s Second Ebenezer Church, led his congregation in prayers for the car industry last month as Washington wrangled over a bail-out bill for the city’s automakers.

About one in every 10 people who attend the hangar-like megachurch on Detroit’s mostly poor and African-American North End, which has room for 3,200 worshippers, is a carworker.

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