The Art of Economics, Courtesy of Braddock, Pennsylvania

By Sam Martin - October 22, 2009

Just watched a livestream of John Fetterman, the mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania, giving a talk at PopTech about how he's rebuilding his poverty-stricken, crumbling, crime-ridden community of 3,000. The situation in Braddock, a town about 10 miles outside Pittsburgh, hasn't completely turned around — the regional health care clinic is closing it's doors in 90 days, which means 675 people will be out of work — but the work Fetterman and the citizens of Braddock have done in the past four years is hopeful.

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