Philadelphia's Fall From Grace: How a Once-Proud City Became Its Own Punch Line
Columbia University Graduate School of JournalismGenerations have watched Philadelphia slowly slide down the ladder of national prominence. The final slip came in 2006, when Philadelphia exploded in a crime wave that claimed the highest homicide rate of any big city in the country. Somewhere along the way, the "Athens of America" lost its focus -- and increasingly, it seems Philadelphia is the brother no one wants anything to do with.
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