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Eric Adams: “We knew 30 to 40% of our inmates were dyslexic, yet we never…”

Featuring: Eric Adams, Democratic | Mayor of New York

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Interview with Mayor of New York Eric Adams

Published | Video Starts at 11:33

We had a government that betrayed everyday New Yorkers. We had a government that watched people fall in the river and then would pull them out. We knew 30 to 40% of our inmates were dyslexic, yet we never did anything upstream to prevent them from falling in the river. We knew that foster care children 6 to 700 age out every year and they slipped through the cracks of criminality, homelessness, mental health issues. (11:33–11:42)

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