For decades , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , has been in decline as it lost jobs and people . Mayor Dan Fetterman says the population shrank from 500 to fewer than 100 . Upon taking office , we set out to help reinvent Braddock through diverse solutions ranging from effective policing and the arts , to urban agriculture and youth employment . He says stimulus spending has helped reverse the tide in the old steel town . Fetterman : Government bails out Market Street while allowing Main Street to suffer .
For decades , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , has been in decline as it lost jobs and people . Mayor Dan Fetterman says the population shrank from 500 to fewer than 100 . He says stimulus spending has helped reverse the tide in the old steel town . Fetterman : Government bails out Market Street while allowing Main Street to suffer .