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What does downtown Camden New Jersey have to offer? Only all of the best of Philadelphia, just one modern subway stop and 5 minutes away.!!! No Tier 2 Downtown in America has more potential!                           GIS:  City of Camden, NJ Geographic Information System
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L.A. Times, June 3, 08: Skyrocketing gasoline prices force lasting changes. With 3 PATCO RAIL STATIONS AND 4 RIVERLINE RAIL STATIONS, and DOWNTOWN PHILLY ONE SUBWAY STOP AWAY, CAMDEN IS WELL POSITION FOR THE NEW WORLD, A REAL DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH.  8/09/08 After the Bubble, Ghost Towns.  New Policy Needed: What If our metropolitan areas had been built in an era of $4 per gallon gasoline?       Reconnecting America A national organization focused on the link between transportation and community development, providing resources on transit-oriented development.    8/14/08 U.S. Govt. Traffic Death Statistics for 2007 

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12/12/06  Family Values translates into economic statistics.             
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  Family Values translates into economic statistics.         U.S. Divorce Rate: 50%
China's Divorce Rate: 14%          India's Divorce Rate: 1% 

Chinese and Indian students combined account for 50 % of all advanced science and math graduate degrees awarded yearly by U.S. universities. 

In America,  70 percent of long term prisoners, 60 percent of rapists, and 75 percent of adolescents charged with murder grew up without fathers. " No urban reform could have a greater effect, if successful, than attacking the culture of single parenthood." - Heather MacDonald, Read more...

Consequently, no reform policy to strengthen families in Camden could compare to daily exposure to strong family role models.


"From the 1880's to the 1920'sthe immigrant workers of that era generally met or exceeded the skill levels of the native-born American's."  Today, when success in our economy requires ever more skills and education, the vast majority of immigrants arrive without necessary  skills or the education to contribute Read More.  

Today's work visa policy regarding skilled immigrations requires that the applicant have a corporate sponsor, which is virtually always located in a suburban municipality office park, thereby keeping many American cities like Camden in a state of perpetual ruin, as official policy diverts skilled workers, and their families, away from cities, their historic destination, and into surrounding suburban areas instead.

-Michael McAteer, Camden Land and Dream