There were a host of things that were going on and people told me, eric, it was going to take you five years to turn the city around. Five years. Let me tell you what happened in two and a half years. We broke employment records. We have more jobs in our city, in the city history. We decreased unemployment over the whole city. But in the black and brown community, we decreased unemployment by 20%. We invested in foster care. Children 6 to 700 age out every year. (01:25–01:32)
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