Keep in mind folks that in CBS's media relations eyes, being from Detroit could include the nearby suburbs of Detroit.
While the city itself is in bankruptcy reorganization, that does not mean everyone living in the area is in bankruptcy, many private corporations are doing just fine there (i.e., auto manudacturers) and others, and there's a resettlement boomlet under way as new businesses incubate in previously abandoned and cleared neighborhoods, artists and creative types have been floaking to resettle some of those neighborhoods.
Detroit's debt is mostly related to the huge unpaid pension liability it has to retired city employees such as police, fire, EMTs, and so forth. The economic recessions of the past 20 to 30 years already drove away many of those who couldn't find work, and there's been a plan underway in that city for years to tear down abandoned homes and building whose owners or landlords have allowed to fall into disrepair. Many of those lots are now blocks and blocks of grass.
So if the team from Detroit are dentists, that does not mean they're not doing well financially, there is a shortage of medical professionals in the US, including dentists, so I wouldn't mix their possible personal situations with the situation of the public sector in that area.