socioeconomic

Still Working on the Revolution

"You’ve given status to people who would ordinarily not have it...thus giving them power and ability to make change." Rev. Dr. Gregory Jones Edited by Rebecca Werner Transcript for Still Working on the...
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Resilience of the Residents

"I’m talking about people in my neighborhood who have been in their homes for forty years—they believe in the city and believe that it can work. https://youtu.be/mP-MnM6cszU Transcript for Resilience of the Residents Well, you know, I used to always...
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Not Something That You Force

"You learn how to trust each other, you learn to assume responsibility for each other, you develop relationships… It’s something that happens in the course of time." Rev. Dr. Gregory Jones Edited by...
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No Interest in Seeing Our City Progress

"Why don’t you come to Gary and see what Gary really is?" https://youtu.be/YPOfcFVlWx4 Transcript for No Interest in Seeing Our City Progress You know—city services are based on tax revenue and if you don’t have enough people who are paying...
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Remember Where You Came From

"You can never forget who you are." https://youtu.be/FYjndEmJH4c Transcript for Remember Where You Came From I say to my grandkids all the time, you can never forget who you are, but you have to remember where you come from. You...
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Back Then, It Mattered

"So these are things that I kind of learned that I didn’t realize I was learning." https://youtu.be/LNAsOt9SGPA Transcript for Back Then, It Mattered I’m Croatian. And when I was a kid, it mattered. My dad was Croatian, my grandfather, George...
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Learn from the Past to Build a Future

"There should be an allegiance to Gary to build it up and make it prosper once again." https://youtu.be/gtphIVBMxOA Transcript for Learn from the Past to Build a Future As a history major, I know that we learn from the past...
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Double Whammy

"Now, we talked about the white flight; we didn’t talk about what really made it worse in Gary." Double Whammy is part of our Flight Paths initiative. Double Whammy So the white flight...
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A Well-Kept Secret

"If you don’t have access to the information, you don’t know what your potential is." https://youtu.be/ZiQ6egJ5MQs Produced by Reagan Skaggs. Transcript for A Well-Kept Secret I remember going to Pulaski. Pulaski was a middle school back then. Seventh grade, we...
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