This report looks at changes experienced in Milwaukee's inner city during the period 1970-1990. Topics covered include: Demographics, Impact of Deindustrialization on Employment, Poverty, Income, and Economic Activity. The author concludes that Milwaukee's inner city has experienced a grim thirty-year period of economic decline since the 1970s, which has persisted throughout the 1990s. In terms of employment, the author discovered a labor market in which disappearing industrial jobs have not been replaced, where unemployment remains four times higher than the metro area average, and where over half the working age male population is out of work.