But when I took office, our poverty rate was around 25%. Our per capita income was about $18,000. Our unemployment was in the double digits. We were hurting. And when we came together to change that, the result was black unemployment fell by more than half. Poverty in the city and black poverty in the city fell. (08:38–08:41)
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Asserts that the unemployment rate in South Bend was in the double digits when Pete Buttigieg took office as mayor.
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