home to the new york shipbuilding corporation, a campbell s soup company, and rca victor records. a company town. about 80,000 people live here today. that s the same number of people who were employed during its heyday. nearly 40% of the city s high school students don t graduate. the entire police force replaced by the state. more than 1/3 of city residents live below the poverty line. voter turnout, not good. if there s any place one can be forgiven for just throwing your hands up in the air and giving up, it s here, but no. cities with serious problems need extraordinary people, and tawanda jones is clearly an extraordinary person. when you give, especially to someone who is really in need, you know, i feel it makes me feel complete.
ugly stuff in it, but there is much more, i still think, beauty and kindness and humor and people doing the best they can in often very, very difficult situations. it is a magnificent planet filled with fascinating and more often than not beautiful people. there are few american cities, places where things have gone as disastrously wrong as camden, new jersey. once a manufacturing powerhouse. home to the new york shipbuilding corporation. the campbell s soup company. and rca victor records. about 80,000 people live here today. that s the same number of people who were employed during its heyday. more than 1/3 of city residents live below the poverty line. if there s any place one can be forgiven for just throwing your
to see new orleans post-katrina makes me angry. to see camden, new jersey, in my own state that i grew up in, it makes me angry. yes, there s a lot of scary, ugly stuff in it, but there is much more, i still think, beauty and kindness and humor and people doing the best they can in often very, very difficult situations. it is a magnificent planet filled with fascinating and more often than not beautiful people. there are few american cities, places where things have gone as disastrously wrong as camden, new jersey. once a manufacturing powerhouse. home to the new york shipbuilding corporation. the campbell s soup company. and rca victor records. about 80,000 people live here today. that s the same number of people who were employed during its
own state that i grew up in, it makes me angry. yes, there s a lot of scary, ugly stuff in it, but there is much more, i still think, beauty and kindness and humor and people doing the best they can in often very, very difficult situations. it is a magnificent planet filled with fascinating and more often than not beautiful people. there are few american cities, places where things have gone as disastrously wrong as camden, new jersey. once a manufacturing powerhouse. home to the new york shipbuilding corporation. the campbell s soup company. and rca victor records. about 80,000 people live here today. that s the same number of people who were employed during its heyday. more than 1/3 of city residents live below the poverty line.
there are few american cities, places where things have gone as wrong as camden, new jersey. it s like the poster child for everything a city could screw up. once a manufacturing power house, home to the new york shipbuilding cooperation. theab theab the campbell s soup company, and rca records. a company town. about 80,000 people live here today. that s the same number of people who were employed during its heyday. nearly 40 % of the city s high school students don t graduate. the entire police force replawe placed by the state. more than one-third of city residents live below the poverty line, voter turnout, not good. if there s any place one could be forgiven for giving up, it s