If Biden’s political goal is to help people like his former neighbors, it’s not clear he’s succeeded, at least not yet.
“Scranton isn’t my home because of the memories it gave me — it’s my home because of the values it gave me,” Biden said outside the Electric City Trolley Museum during the October trip, as his cousins sat in the front row. “So when I ran for president, I came back to Scranton. … And I resolved to bring Scranton values to bear, to make a fundamental shift in how our economy works for working people.
Still, McAndrew said he’s worried about the rising price of food and housing. His landlord just announced a rent increase, and he’d like to move to a better place, but even nearby apartments that have sat empty for months are too expensive — and so, it seems, is almost everything else, despite the dropping price of gas.
“I went food shopping the other day and just two little bags [of groceries] was 60 bucks,” McAndrew said. “Everything went to sky high. These open apartments are $1,500 a month.” Nearby, several storefronts look like they’ve been shuttered for years. One features a handwritten “no loitering” sign. Another, apparently from a relocated bank, has been closed since 2014.But many in Scranton dismiss the idea that Biden is responsible for the city’s struggles. The city has been on the losing end of tectonic economic shifts for more than a century.. The last coal mines started closing a few decades later.
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