And yet it has been difficult for even some of the most well resourced and powerful people in the US business community to see this, as I often do. I'll return to the municipal analogy. So When I arrived as mayor of South Bend, we had lost our main employer, The Studebaker Car Company, 50 years before I became mayor. And that was still the dominant fact about the life of our city. When I arrived, our per capita income was in the neighborhood of $18,000 per person. (26:59–27:09)
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Asserts that South Bend lost its main employer, The Studebaker Car Company, 50 years before Buttigieg became mayor.
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