How has it been advocating to get resources here and what has been like your key focus of like what will help solve some of these problems? Well, look, When I was in the Michigan State House, I worked on the appropriations... I was able to bring a lot of money for education for Detroit. raise the per pupil equity for the first time. And the two years that I was in Michigan, those two years were the highest education budget we ever had. (55:40–55:50)
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