For decades , Braddock , Pennsylvania , has been in decline as it lost jobs and people . Mayor John Fetterman says the population shrank from 20,000 to fewer than 3,000 . He blames a lack of investment by local businesses for this loss of business. In Braddock and in the surrounding areas , we have an abundance of quality , shovel-ready projects that range in complexity and scope from small-scale urban farming , and retrofitting a now-vacant 300,000 square foot hospital , to a $ 300 million-dollar repurposing of a former steel mill site into a green enterprise zone of economic redevelopment . Fetterman : Government bails out Wall Street while allowing Main Street to suffer .
For decades , Braddock , Pennsylvania , has been in decline as it lost jobs and people . Mayor John Fetterman says the population shrank from 20,000 to fewer than 3,000 . He blames a lack of investment by local businesses for this loss of business. Fetterman : Government bails out Wall Street while allowing Main Street to suffer .