I think because our city is on the map for one reason, at least in football season and around tourney time, they maybe imagined that we're this kind of tidy, wealthy, homogenous college town. 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. (08:31–08:34)
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Asserts that the poverty rate in South Bend was around 25% when Pete Buttigieg took office as mayor.
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