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Jan 24, 2017
America's 'Inner City' Problem, As Seen In One Baltimore Neighborhood
Some visitors to Charm City may never have veered from the downtown waterfront, which has been scrubbed clean thanks to ample government subsidies. But walk east or west, and one begins to see the real Baltimore.
Take, for example, McElderry Park, a 103-acre area just east of Johns Hopkins University's centrally-located medical center. The neighborhood, which was once middle-class, is now a severe version of the city's downward spiral. About one-third of families there live in poverty, and workforce participation levels are 54%. Nearly three-quarters of residents don't have any college education, meaning they are generally supported either by the government, or low-wage service jobs—which make up an increasingly high percentage of jobs in the city. The neighborhood's physical emptiness symbolizes another discouraging trend, population loss, which is at the heart of Baltimore’s problems.
And yet McElderry Park is not an anomaly; it's one of dozens of similar Baltimore neighborhoods, contributing to a widespread atmosphere of blight. Together, these areas compile what one Baltimore Sun reporter dubbed the city's “other world,” marked by stagnancy and abandonment.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottbeyer/2017/01/24/americas-inner-city-problem-as-seen-in-one-baltimore-neighborhood/#1432da0a16c9
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