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Podcast: The NeoLiberal Round
Episode: What’s Wrong With Philadelphia, American Cities and the World Today? Featuring M. Smith & R. Travis
Description: Today we discussed the question: What’s Wrong With Philadelphia and by extension American cities and the world and explored solutions. Two Philadelphia residents who are professionals and higher education graduates discussed this question with me today on two separate takes. Their ideas about what’s happening was quite powerful and revealing. We not only looked at Philadelphia but cities across the world in terms of the issues that are creating problems for society in various places today. We explored and highlighted: Social decay
Lack of family and supervision
No guidance
Poverty
Falling median incomes
Lack of opportunity
Anger
Politicization of i...