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. And it was very clear to me that my job was just to unlock the power that was already there in the community and to guide it in certain ways. (08:49–08:54)
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Asserts that overall poverty and black poverty in South Bend decreased during Pete Buttigieg's tenure as mayor.
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