Overburdened: Stockton, CA

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Earlier this year I visited Stockton to see the effects the bankruptcy was having on its already fragile economy and on its citizens. Crime is up, its social services have been cut. Prostitution and gang violence have been increasing, as have its growing homeless population.  Local churches have been picking up some of the slack. Offering day care for working parents and places to sleep for a handful. But it is a city so burdened by its debt, that those most in need have fallen off the radar.  It may soon find its way out of bankruptcy, but will it find its way home for the people who live there?