Depressed Mill Town Looks Beyond Steel
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Channel: Voice of America · 2009 · News & Politics
Long before the current economic downturn, the town of Braddock, Pennsylvania, was already down on its luck. As early as the mid-1970s, this little river town - once a hub of the U.S. steel industry - was in decline. Competition from foreign steel led to factory shutdowns. Thousands of jobs were lost, homes were foreclosed, businesses moved elsewhere. Braddock today is a ghost of its former self, but as VOA's Rosanne Skirble reports, newcomers are joining long-time residents to make the town viable and livable once again.
