Obama showcases his own failure

SCRANTON, Pa.

 

This city has been combating hard economic times for a very long time.

Coal, steel and railroads, which made Scranton an industrial powerhouse early in the last century, faded long before the start of World War II. Folks began exiting the mine-ravaged city in the early 1940s when industrial jobs and businesses began drying up.

 

Scranton fell into decline earlier than other Rust Belt cities because its rich supply of anthracite coal fell out of favor — first to oil-burning systems, then to natural gas — as the energy supplier for most large public buildings and schools in the Northeast.

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