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Cutback in jobs felt in Camden Courier-Post (December 20, 2010)
According to 2008 figures from CamConnect, only one-fifth of employed Camden residents work within the city limits. Nearly half of them work in its downtown area. Half of the employed Camden residents work outside the county.
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Why it's so tough to solve Camden's crisis Philadelphia Inquirer (December 12, 2010)
More than $1 billion. That's how much state aid came to Camden with fewer than 80,000 people, in the last decade alone. (Forget about the schools, which received far more.) That's just to run city government. Despite this largesse, half of the Police Department and a third of the Fire Department could be laid off in the coming weeks because of a $26.5 million deficit on a budget of about $140 million.
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White out: New look for phone book Courier-Post (November 15, 2010)
Seventy-one percent of New Jersey's 3.1 million households have high-speed Internet, but only 29 percent of households in Camden have it, said Aaron Truchil, an analyst with CamConnect, a nonprofit data warehouse in Camden. "Given the disparity and the decline in the city's library services, there is a significant need for non- Internet access to data. There is a misconception that everybody has access," he said.
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In Camden, New Troubles on Top of Old New York Times (November 12, 2010)
“It’s not that the things they did with the money were bad, and they did create some good jobs, though not enough,” said Stephen Singer, former executive director of CamConnect, a nonprofit group that collects data to track the state of the city. “But they hardly did anything about these massive needs that you have to deal with to create a foundation for everything else — the crime, the schools. Fixing the sewers alone would have cost much more than the state spent on the entire effort.”
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Camden preparing to close library system Philadelphia Inquirer (August 06, 2010)
Camden is preparing to permanently shut its library system by the end of the year, potentially leaving residents of the impoverished city among the few in the United States unable to borrow a library book free. At an emotional but sparsely attended meeting of the library board Thursday, its president, Martin McKernan, said the city's three libraries cannot stay open past Dec. 31 because of severe budget cuts by Mayor Dana L. Redd.
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Mayor Redd, tear down these walls Courier-Post (June 13, 2010)
In Camden, where derelict buildings are all over the map, there's no comprehensive - much less current - list of vacant properties. "Everyone finds that hard to believe," says Stephen Singer, executive director of CamConnect, a nonprofit data-collection and analysis group. "Even in City Hall there are people who find it hard to believe."
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Data Unit Argues for Transit Stop Courier0Post (May 1, 2010)
When a coalition of Camden residents looked at the proposed expansion of the PATCO Hi-Speedline deep into Gloucester County, they suspected Camden might not be getting its fair share of new stops. They asked CamConnect, a nonprofit organization that analyzes data, to plot usage of the rail line by city residents and proximity to stations....
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Perspectives in Health Information Management: Hope for New Jersey’s City Hospitals: The Camden Initiative (Spring, 2010)
A tiny fraction of patients that consumes a disproportionately large share of medical resources in cities like Camden, NJ, threatens to overwhelm the state’s healthcare delivery system. Pursuant to federal law, hospitals and emergency departments (EDs) are required to provide life-sustaining medical care to anyone seeking treatment, regardless of the patient’s ability to pay. This situation is untenable in every respect...
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