America's cities face enough challenges without having to think about rising prices and slowing growth. Scranton, Pa., is well known as the childhood home of President Joe Biden and television's "The Office," but it's also a window to the broader changes underway in the U.S. economy. A century after the city’s heyday as a coal and steel powerhouse, Mayor Paige Cognetti describes a path ahead that includes smaller enterprises, targeted government support and, oh yes, brew pubs.

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