And oftentimes when I go into those areas, I kind of pivot the conversation to let them know that these things are equally as important to people who live in the cities. When we have students, where in the inner city, where the highest rate of absenteeism is from asthma related illnesses, where we are talking about diesel school buses idling in communities. where we are talking about during COVID many of these communities having no open spaces or walking trails, and really having just witnessed a born witness to decades of blighted … (55:16–55:31)
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