Maybe you moved here for work or you're part of the student body, and you never set foot in South Bend until he became a student here. I don't know if I can impress upon you just what we were up against. When I took office, our per capita income, I think, was 17,000 or $18,000 per person. This isn't that long ago. It was 2011. Unemployment was double digits. Newsweek said we were one of America's 10 dying cities, and people refused to accept that. They stepped up. (19:27–19:33)
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Asserts that South Bend's per capita income was $17,000 to $18,000 when he took office in 2011.
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