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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
A new new deal or some form of public/private infra, or both at once, is needed. You’re in a successful city. The infra in and around Philly and Baltimore is simply atrocious. I mean, approaching third world.
The economic segregation is way trickier to fix. I don’t know how you do that exactly, but I do know that NE Philly is filled with low end labor (working class area) that would benefit from infra spending. So perhaps the fix for infra is a large part of the fix for economic disparity between neighborhoods within cities.
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It's very frustrating here, because we desperately need, for example, computer programmers, doctors, and nurses, yet the only one of those three areas that is successfully reaching in and hiring from the parts of the city with higher unemployment is nurses. Breaking down the racial and class barriers in tech and medicine would really help everyone, and yet....
