City of Ruins | Economic Crisis

Poster child of postindustrial decay. Camden, New Jersey (2nd most dangerous city in America) stands as a warning of what huge pockets of the United States could turn into as we cement into place a permanent underclass of the unemployed, slash state and federal services in a desperate bid to cut massive deficits, watch cities and states go bankrupt and struggle to adjust to a stark neofeudalism in which the working and middle classes are decimated.

"The poor have to help the poor, because the ones who make the money are helping the people with money."
"Today's a very hard time to be poor, because you know you're poor. You hear people say, 'We were poor. We put cardboard in our shoes, but we didn't know we were poor. Today you do.
And how do you know you're poor? Your television shows you that you're poor. So it's very easy to build up anger in a high-voltage kid of 17. He knows he's poor, he looks at the TV and all these people have everything and he has nothing. And so he's very angry.... I'm talking about the violence that rises out of the marketing that shows the kid what he could have, creates a huge anger that explodes easily. That you discover very quickly when you come to Camden.

... and regrettably many other cities in America as well...

City of Ruins | Economic Crisis | The Investigative Fund