{"id":169,"date":"2008-07-11T10:37:26","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T14:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=169"},"modified":"2008-07-11T10:37:26","modified_gmt":"2008-07-11T14:37:26","slug":"philadelphia-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=169","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia losses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/inquirer\/local\/20080710_Phila__s_population_shrinking__though_region_s_is_growing.html\">here<\/a> about the continued dropping population of  Philadelphia.  <\/p>\n<p>Nearly all of the academics note the lack of real jobs to draw people to the city.  Neither tourism nor casinos will bring the kind of employment necessary for a city to prosper.  And&#8230;there&#8217;s no industry that will allow Philadelphia to become the kind of global city that necessitates a service industry.   <\/p>\n<p>Three questions:<br \/>\n1.  Is shrinking so bad?<br \/>\n2.  Where is the population decreasing?  I think about the neighborhoods West and North of me, where new housing is being developed; these communities will have a much lower density than what they replace.<br \/>\n3.  How is the racial composition changing, i.e., who is leaving and who is staying?  This article talks of brain drain, of the inability of Philadelphia to &#8220;keep&#8221; college students, but are these really the folks who are departing?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Story here about the continued dropping population of Philadelphia. Nearly all of the academics note the lack of real jobs to draw people to the city. Neither tourism nor casinos will bring the kind of employment necessary for a city to prosper. And&#8230;there&#8217;s no industry that will allow Philadelphia to become the kind of global &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=169\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Philadelphia losses<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-2J","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}