Reading – Income in Below Poverty

Scranton – Income in Below Poverty

Reading – Population 16 Years and Over: Not in Labor Force

Scranton – Population 16 Years and Over: Not in Labor Force

Field notes:

On April 19, 2018 my partner (Joel) and I went into the city of Reading around three in the afternoon.  It was not that beautiful of a day, it was cloudy and windy.  We started walking around the city and it was pretty empty by the streets going off Penn Street but once we started walking down Penn Street we started to see more people.  We got down to the I-LEAD Charter School and the kids started to come out of classes.  There were walking out and getting into their parents cars or they were walking to their houses.  Joel and I then walked by a place that looked like it was closed and what was interesting was that the doors had a thick chain on them.  I wonder why they would put that there.  Is it because someone already tried to get in?  Or is it just for extra security measures?  There are other places that are closed but they don’t have a chain, why this one?  We then crossed the street and we went back up Penn Street.  We walked down 6th Street and before we got to the intersection with Washington Street we saw that there were two cops standing next to a red pick-up truck.  There was a young mom who locked her keys and her couple month baby in the car.  She was very worried and was trying to make her kid laugh and distract him/her.  After talking to the two police officers we kept walking around.  We came to the conclusion that we didn’t see as many people as we were going to because of the weather.  If it would have been a nicer day, we think we would have seen more people.  We finished our walk back at the car and we were done by four in the afternoon.