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. Whole neighborhoods on the west side of our city had more vacant houses than people living in them. (27:11–27:16)
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Asserts that South Bend's per capita income was approximately $18,000 when Buttigieg became mayor.
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