17 May 2008

[Pittsburgh] As Deaths Outpace Births, Cities Adjust


A new phenomenon in some areas, the changing age demographic forces municipalities to rethink how to serve the needs of an older population.
...."At a certain point the school system becomes no longer viable," said Grant Oliphant, the new president of the Pittsburgh Foundation, which is overseeing a program that provides college scholarships worth up to $40,000 for any student who has attended the city's public schools since the ninth grade and graduates from high school with a grade point average of at least 2.0...
NYT > Home Page 5/17/08 9:21 PM By SAM ROBERTS and SEAN D. HAMILL Aged Medicine and Health Pittsburgh (Pa) Families and Family Life

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