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Brandon Johnson: “In the nineties, when I was in high school, there were 900…”

Featuring: Brandon Johnson, Democratic | Mayor of Chicago | Illinois

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One-on-one with Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson | Cap Times Idea Fest

Published | Video Starts at 35:49

… after 34 years and is gonna have a pension of $38,000 a year, that somehow that person is the problem with our economy. And so, yes, we inherited this mess. In the nineties, when I was in high school, there were 900 people being murdered in the city of Chicago annually. And so between not responding to the financial reality that was in front of them, not responding to community safety in a real way, not investing in our public assets, … (35:49–35:56)

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