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Eric Adams: “Black and brown businesses have received billions of dollars…”

Featuring: Eric Adams, Democratic | Mayor of New York

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Stephen A. Smith Show: In-Depth Discussion with NYC Mayor Eric Adams on Trump Administration and Urban Challenges

Published | Video Starts at 15:41

And so when you look at what I inherited and then you fast forward to today, with all that we've gone through, we have more jobs in the city's history. More small businesses are open. Black and brown businesses have received billions of dollars in contracts from the city. We have outpaced the state in reading and math. We're doing dyslexia screenings so that we don't have 30% of our prison population being dyslexic like I am of what we have done in the city, paying for college tuition for foster care children. (15:41–15:48)

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