And we know that the racial dynamics of this are also immense. Right. We've seen over the past few decades, our city has lost 200,000 black New Yorkers. From 2010 to 2019, the population of black children and teenagers declined by 19%. And you can feel that in this city, in neighborhoods that are shells of what they once were, and small businesses that don't have those same customers coming through, that came in for years in classrooms that are a little less full. (38:48–38:56)
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