ALL. FROM 바카라게임, THIS IS LET'S TALK CINCY, PRESENTED BY WESTERN AND SOUTHERN FINANCIAL GROUP. PUT OUR FINANCIAL STRENGTH BEHIND YOU. HELLO, EVERYONE. I'M COURTIS FULLER AND WELCOME TO LET'S TALK CINCY. TODAY I WANT TO TALK ABOUT A REPORT THAT SHINES A LIGHT ON THE WEALTH GAP IN CINCINNATI. THIS IS A PROJECT THAT'S BEEN IN THE WORKS FOR SEVERAL YEARS NOW. THE PERSON LEADING THE EFFORT IS DOCTOR WENDY ELLIS. SHE IS A CINCINNATI NATIVE, CURRENTLY THE DIRECTOR OF THE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY RESILIENCE AND THE INSTITUTE FOR RACIAL, ETHNIC AND SOCIOECONOMIC EQUITY INSTITUTE. THAT'S AT GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. SHE WAS THE KEYNOTE SPEAKER FOR THE MARTIN LUTHER KING LEGACY PROGRAM AT THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD FREEDOM CENTER, AND TOLD THE AUDIENCE THERE THAT CLOSING THE WEALTH GAP IS NOT JUST A CINCINNATI ISSUE, BUT HER RESEARCH CAN SPARK ACTION AND CHANGE ALL ACROSS THIS NATION. AND IT IS MY PLEASURE TO WELCOME MY FRIEND, DOCTOR WENDY ELLIS. IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU. IT IS SO GOOD TO BE SEEN. YEAH, WE SHOULD SAY RIGHT AT THE TOP AGAIN. YOU ARE FROM CINCINNATI, WALNUT HILLS GRAD. THAT'S RIGHT. AND YOU USED TO WORK HERE AT 바카라게임 MANY MOONS AGO AS A PRODUCER, A PRODUCER, YES. AND SO TO SOME, THIS MIGHT SEEM A STRETCH, BUT AS I'VE LISTENED TO YOU AND WATCHED SOME OF THE THINGS THAT YOU'VE PUT TOGETHER, THE DISCUSSION ABOUT THE ROLE OF THE MEDIA AND ALL OF THIS, IT FELL RIGHT INTO PLACE. YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. AND THERE ARE OFTENTIMES FOLKS WHO KNEW ME WHEN I WAS IN TELEVISION AND IN RADIO AND THEY SAY, WELL, WAIT A MINUTE, NOW YOU'RE A PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCHER. HOW CONNECT THE DOTS, TELL THE STORY. AND I TELL THEM ALL THE TIME. I SAID, YOU KNOW, WHEN I WAS A PRODUCER, IT WAS SO IMPORTANT FOR ME TO KNOW THE COMMUNITY WHERE I LIVED AND KNOW THE PEOPLE AND REALLY TELL THE STORIES OF OF WHETHER IT WAS DISPARITY, WHETHER IT WAS HOPE OR JOY. AND AS YOU BEGIN TO LEARN THOSE, YOU OBVIOUSLY AS A PRODUCER, YOU ALSO HAVE TO TELL THE WHYS. WHY DID THIS OCCUR? AND YOU'RE GATHERING DATA, YOU'RE GATHERING CONNECTIONS AND RELATIONSHIPS. AND THAT'S VERY MUCH WHAT WE DO AS RESEARCHERS. YOU KNOW, WE HAVE TO TAKE THE DATA, BUT WE ALSO HAVE TO BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND THE NARRATIVE. AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, WHICH IS MISSING FROM BEING THE ROLE OF A PRODUCER, RATHER THAN JUST TELLING PEOPLE THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED. AS A RESEARCHER, I ACTUALLY HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO INFORM REAL CHANGE. WHAT ARE THE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WE CAN USE TO REALLY STOP THE PATTERNS OF WEATHER? THAT'S CYCLES OF POVERTY, WHETHER THAT'S CYCLES OF ABUSE AND LEARN FROM THE THINGS THAT WE'RE DOING RIGHT AND SAY, LET'S DO MORE OF THAT TO PRODUCE MORE PROSPERITY FOR OUR COMMUNITIES. YOU TALKED ABOUT THE POVERTY IN CINCINNATI, AND SADLY, WE STILL SEE THAT ALL ACROSS THIS COUNTRY. AND WHAT REALLY UNDERSCORES THAT ISSUE IS, AS YOU POINTED OUT, THAT WAS ONE OF THE THINGS DOCTOR KING WAS TALKING ABOUT IN THE 60S. AND AND HERE WE ARE STILL TALKING ABOUT THE ISSUE OF POVERTY IN 2025. YEAH. YOU KNOW, I TELL PEOPLE ALL THE TIME THAT FIRST OFF, POVERTY IS NOT JUST ABOUT BEHAVIORAL OR INDIVIDUAL CHOICES. IT REALLY IS A REFLECTION OF OUR POLICIES AND THE INTENTIONALITY OF OUR POLICIES TO HAVE A SEPARATE CLASS SYSTEM THAT RELIES ON HAVING AN UNDERCLASS. ONE OF THE REASONS WHY, AND I THINK CINCINNATI IS, IS SO POISED FOR INNOVATION IN THIS SPACE IS BECAUSE WE ARE A UNIQUE MICROCOSM OF THE COUNTRY. AS I POINTED OUT IN MY TALK ON MONDAY, YOU KNOW WHAT'S REALLY STRIKING ABOUT CINCINNATI'S POVERTY RATE IS ONE THIRD, 29% OF OUR TOTAL POPULATION LIVES IN POVERTY. THAT IS ALMOST TWICE THE STATE AVERAGE, LET ALONE THE NATIONAL AVERAGE. AND POLITICIAN AFTER POLITICIAN. AND MY GROWING UP HERE ALWAYS TALKED ABOUT ADDRESSING POVERTY AS IF IT WERE A MORAL FAILING AS OPPOSED TO UNDERSTANDING THAT THE MORAL FAILING REALLY LIES IN OUR POLICIES. SO AND ALSO AN UNDERSTANDING THAT WHEN I TALK ABOUT IT BEING A NATIONAL EXAMPLE IS THAT CINCINNATI, WHILE IT'S RELATIVELY ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT 50 OVER 50 AS FAR AS A BLACK AND A WHITE POPULATION, IS THE PROPORTION OF HIGH PROPORTION OF BLACK PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN POVERTY, WHICH RIGHT NOW IS ABOUT 39%, 39%. I REALLY NEED THAT TO SINK IN. 39% OF BLACK FAMILIES IN CINCINNATI ARE LIVING IN POVERTY. BUT YOU ALSO HAVE AN EXTREMELY HIGH POVERTY RATE AMONGST WHITE FAMILIES IN THIS IN THIS CITY. AND PART OF THAT IS CINCINNATI HAS A A DESIGNATION, A CENSUS DESIGNATION AS URBAN APPALACHIA. WE KNOW THAT APPALACHIA REGION IN THIS COUNTRY HAS SOME OF THE MOST HIGHEST POVERTY RATES IN THE COUNTRY. SO IT'S CONSISTENT WITH THE POPULATION PATTERNS. AND WHEN YOU AGGREGATE THAT AND CONCENTRATE THAT IN ONE URBAN AREA, THAT REALLY HELPS US TO UNDERSTAND THE SYSTEMIC NATURE OF POVERTY. YES, IT'S BY RACE, BUT IT'S ALSO BY PLACE AND BY CLASS. I SAID THAT THIS WORK YOU'RE DOING HAS BEEN TAKING PLACE FOR SEVERAL YEARS. PEOPLE SHOULD NOT THINK THAT THIS IS SOME SIX MONTH STUDY. THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR FOR MANY YEARS. AND WHAT I WANT TO DO IS TAKE A BREAK AND THEN COME BACK AND TALK ABOUT THE GENESIS OF THIS, AND THEN WHERE WE ARE NOW, AND THEN WHERE WE'RE GOING NEXT. BACK IN A MOMENT. WELCOME BACK, EVERYONE. WELCOME BACK, EVERYONE. I'M HERE WITH DOCTOR WENDY ELLIS AND AND SHE HAS BEEN LEADING THE EFFORT ON THIS REPORT. IT'S CALLED CLOSING THE WEALTH GAP. I SAID THAT THIS DID NOT START OVERNIGHT. TEN YEARS. YOU'VE BEEN TEN YEARS. WE'VE BEEN WORKING WITH COMMUNITY PARTNERS HERE IN CINCINNATI. I LAUNCHED THE BUILDING COMMUNITY RESILIENCE COALITION. IT'S A NATIONAL COALITION OF COMMUNITY BASED PARTNERS WHO ARE REALLY LOOKING TO ADDRESS WHAT I HAVE CALLED THE PAIR OF ACES. SO ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES AND THE CONTEXT OF ADVERSE COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTS. THAT MEANS WE'RE LOOKING AT ROOT CAUSES, AND WE'RE LOOKING AT SYSTEMS. SO YES, WE'VE BEEN AT WORK TOGETHER FOR TEN YEARS. I'M VERY PROUD OF MANY OF THOSE COALITION PARTNERS WHO HAVE PIONEERED AND CHAMPIONED AND INNOVATED IN ADDRESSING TRAUMA, SUCH AS JOINING FORCES FOR CHILDREN, DOING TRAUMA INFORMED CARE AND PRACTICE. BUT EVEN IN A STATE, MINISTRIES IN AVONDALE, WHERE THEY HAVE BEGUN TO DO SCRIPTURE BASED CURRICULA TO HELP PEOPLE OF COLOR, THE BLACK COMMUNITY REALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT IS WHAT ARE THE EFFECTS AND THE THE TOLL OF RACIAL TRAUMA OVER GENERATIONS AND WHAT'S ALSO IMPRESSIVE IS THAT YOU'VE BEEN TOUCHING BASE WITH WE HAVE 52 NEIGHBORHOODS, AS YOU KNOW, IN CINCINNATI. AND SO YOU MAY NOT HIT EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD, BUT YOU'RE HITTING THE EAST AND THE WEST SIDES OF TOWN, IF YOU WILL TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT. YEAH. YOU KNOW, IN 2020, WE WITH OUR PARTNERS HERE IN CINCINNATI PILOTED A TRUTH AND EQUITY INITIATIVE. AND IT WAS REALLY MEANT TO HELP THE COMMUNITY HERE IN THE WAKE OF THE GEORGE FLOYD AND BREONNA TAYLOR AND ALL OF THE WHAT SOME PEOPLE SAID WAS OUR RACIAL AWAKENING AS A NATION TO REALLY THINK ABOUT HOW DO WE COME TOGETHER TO TALK ABOUT WHAT'S THE PROBLEM HERE? WHAT IS THE ROOT OF RACIAL TRAUMA IN THIS COUNTRY, AND HOW DO WE MOVE FORWARD? AND SO, AS YOU SAID, YOU KNOW, THERE WERE COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS ALL OVER CINCINNATI, AND I DOCUMENTED THAT IN A FILM, A DOCUMENTARY, TRUTH AND EQUITY CINCINNATI, BECAUSE I THOUGHT IT WAS REALLY IMPORTANT TO DO A DEEP DIVE IN TELLING THE STORIES FROM THE COMMUNITY PERSPECTIVE OF WHAT DOES RACIAL TRAUMA LOOK LIKE? SYSTEMIC TRAUMA LOOK LIKE, AND IT HELPED US TO UNDERSTAND THE POLICIES THAT COME FROM CINCINNATI PUBLIC SCHOOLS HISTORICALLY, OR EVEN OUR OWN CITIES. MATT 1948 MASTER PLAN AND UNDERSTANDING THAT IT WASN'T A POINT IN TIME THAT A DECISION WAS MADE. IT'S A DECISION THAT WAS MADE THAT HAS HAD RIPPLE EFFECTS ACROSS GENERATIONS. AND OUT OF THAT INITIATIVE CAME THE FROM THE COMMUNITY. THIS AGENDA OF WE WANT TO MOVE TOWARDS CHANGE. IT'S NOT JUST REHASHING THE TRAUMA, BUT HOW DO WE HEAL, HOW DO WE RESTORE, HOW DO WE ACTUALLY THRIVE? AND SO THAT WAS THE GENESIS OF THE WORK THAT BECAME THE WEALTH GAP STUDY. AND PEOPLE SHOULD KNOW THIS IS NOT A BLAME GAME. NO, THIS IS LOOKING IN THE MIRROR AND NOT NECESSARILY SEEING WHO YOU MIGHT WANT TO BE, BUT WHO YOU ARE. AND WHEN YOU DO THAT, YOU'RE ABLE TO REACH A POINT OF SOLUTIONS. YOU CAN'T GET TO THE SOLUTION WITHOUT REALLY FULLY UNDERSTANDING HOW YOU GOT THERE AND WHAT THE PROBLEM IS. YEAH, I THINK THAT THAT PART ABOUT THE BLAME GAME IS SO IMPORTANT BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, YOU'VE HEARD POLITICIANS SAY, WELL, YOU KNOW, I NEVER HELD ANY SLAVES OR I DIDN'T WRITE THAT POLICY. OF COURSE, THOSE THINGS ARE TRUE, BUT WE'RE ALL BENEFITING OR BEING OPPRESSED BY THESE POLICIES THAT WOULD THAT WERE PUT IN PLACE THAT HAVE AN AFTERLIFE. YOU KNOW, I TELL PEOPLE ALL THE TIME, I MYSELF HAVE PARTICIPATED IN SYSTEMIC INEQUITY AS A HIRER. YOU KNOW, WHEN WE ARE HIRING PEOPLE, A LOT OF TIMES WE WILL PEG THEIR NEW SALARY TO THEIR PAST SALARY. SO WHEN YOU'RE ASKING FOR SALARY HISTORY, WELL, THE JUSTIFICATION IS MADE. WELL, IF THIS PERSON IS MAKING $60,000 AND WE WERE GOING TO POST THE POSITION UP TO $95,000, WELL, WE'RE NOT GOING TO PAY THEM $95,000. IT'S TOO BIG OF A JUMP. WE'LL OFFER THEM 70,000. WHY? THAT'S NOT THE VALUATION OF THE WORK THAT THEY'RE GOING TO DO. SO SALARY HISTORY IS ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE WAYS THAT SYSTEMIC INEQUITY HIDES IN PLAIN SIGHT. AND SO, YOU KNOW, I LIVE IN WASHINGTON, DC AND IN WASHINGTON, DC, THEY HAVE ELIMINATED THE USE OF SALARY HISTORY TO DETERMINE CURRENT SALARY. YOU PAY PEOPLE WHAT THE JOB IS WORTH AND WHAT THEY ARE WORTH, NOT WHERE THEY'VE BEEN VALUED IN THE PAST. SO THOSE ARE THE WAYS THAT SYSTEMIC INEQUITY EXISTS IN PLAIN SIGHT, AND HOW ALL OF US UNKNOWINGLY PARTICIPATE IN THAT. SO THE BLAME GAME, LIKE YOU SAID, HOLD UP THE MIRROR AND YOU THINK ABOUT HOW YOU ARE PERPETUATING INEQUITY SIMPLY BY FOLLOWING THE RULES OR THE PRACTICE. I'M GOING TO TAKE ANOTHER BREAK WHEN WE COME BACK, HOW CINCINNATI DOES REFLECT WHAT'S HAPPENING ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY, AND WHY YOU REALLY BELIEVE THAT THIS STUDY COULD BE A MODEL FOR FOR THE REST OF THE NATION? ALL RIGHT. WE'RE GOING TO TAKE A BREAK BACK IN A MOMENT. WELCOME BACK EVERYONE. WELCOME BACK EVERYONE. AN INTERESTING REPORT CALLED CLOSING THE WEALTH GAP. AND DOCTOR WENDY ELLIS IS A HUGE PART OF THIS. CINCINNATI. THIS IS HOME FOR YOU. YOU'RE SAYING THAT WHAT YOU SEE IN CINCINNATI IN MANY WAYS, IS A REFLECTION OF WHAT'S TAKING PLACE IN EVERY CORNER OF OF THE USA. TALK A BIT ABOUT THAT. HOW THIS REPORT COULD BE A MODEL FOR ACROSS THE COUNTRY. YEAH. YOU KNOW, IT IS CERTAINLY NOT A REPORT TO REHASH DATA OF WHAT WE ALREADY KNOW, RIGHT? WE KNOW THAT THERE'S A HOMEOWNERSHIP GAP. WE KNOW THAT THERE'S A LIFE EXPECTANCY GAP. WE KNOW THAT THERE'S AN EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT GAP. AND THAT'S FAIRLY RELIABLE BY RACE AND BY PLACE. AND WHEN I SAY PLACE, I MEAN NEIGHBORHOODS, LOWER INCOME NEIGHBORHOODS. YOU SEEM TO HAVE A CONCENTRATION OF ALL OF THESE DISPARITIES. SO THAT'S THE GRADIENT THAT WE LOOK AT. WHAT IS IMPORTANT AND UNIQUE FOR CINCINNATI IS NOT THE POLICIES OR THE SYSTEMS THAT HAVE DRIVEN IT. IT IS THE OPPORTUNITY FOR ACTION. YOU KNOW, WHEN I LOOK AT WHO ARE THE ELECTED LEADERS, WHEN I LOOK AT THE AMOUNT OF WEALTH THAT IS CONCENTRATED IN THIS CITY, WHEN WE THINK ABOUT THE FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES AND THE MONEY THAT IS ALREADY BEING SPENT, VARIOUS POCKETS TO CLOSE THESE GAPS, WHAT WE SAW WAS THERE WAS A MISALIGNMENT OR A LACK OF ALIGNMENT AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, MEASUREMENT. AND SO THIS REPORT OUTLINES SPECIFIC OPPORTUNITIES FOR ACTION AND ALIGNMENT. YOU KNOW, MAYOR PUREVAL WROTE THE BLUEPRINT FOR FINANCIAL FREEDOM AND RELEASED THAT WITHIN THE LAST TWO YEARS, AVONDALE RELEASED A QUALITY OF LIFE REPORT IN 2018, TWO SEPARATE INITIATIVES, BUT OUTLINING REALLY THE SAME VISION FOR THRIVING NEIGHBORHOODS THAT HAVE SOLID ECONOMIC FOUNDATIONS. AND SO FOR US, IT WAS, WELL, WHY AREN'T THESE EVEN CONNECTED? THEY'RE OUT THERE. THEY'RE ACTIVE, BUT ALSO LOOKING AT SOME OF THE PHILANTHROPIC, PHILANTHROPIC, PHILANTHROPIC DONATIONS THAT ARE ALREADY OUT THERE, WHETHER THAT'S FIFTH, THIRD, KROGER, PROCTER AND GAMBLE, GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION, WHERE ARE WE COMING TOGETHER TO COLLECTIVELY SAY, THIS IS WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE, AND THIS IS HOW WE'RE GOING TO DEFINE IT. AND WHAT I THOUGHT WAS UNIQUE IN AN OPPORTUNITY WAS TO DEMONSTRATE THAT THESE INVESTMENTS HAVE NOT ONLY A SOCIAL RETURN, BUT THEY ALSO HAVE AN ECONOMIC RETURN. AND THAT MATTERS TO PRIVATE BUSINESSES. BUT IT ALSO MATTERS TO OUR CITY LEADERS, AND IT MATTERS TO OUR COMMUNITY. AND SO WHAT THIS REPORT DOES UNIQUELY, IS PUT THOSE TWO TOGETHER TO. AND HERE'S WHERE THE PRODUCER MIND COMES TO TELL THE STORY OF SUCCESS IN A MEASURABLE WAY. SO WE, IN ADDITION TO PRODUCING THE REPORT, WE HAVE DEVELOPED WHAT WE'RE CALLING AN OPPORTUNITY DASHBOARD. AND IT'S NOT A DASHBOARD THAT, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE A LOT OF DASHBOARDING THAT GOES ON. BUT RATHER THAN JUST BEING ABLE TO DO RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS, WE'RE ACTUALLY CREATING PREDICTIVE MODELS, PREDICTIVE MODELS BASED ON SPECIFIC DATA FROM CINCINNATI THAT HELPS US TO UNDERSTAND IF WE MAKE A COUPLE OF POLICY TWEAKS HERE, WHETHER THAT'S IN HOUSING OR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OR EDUCATION, INVESTMENTS IN EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT, THEY'RE NOT IT'S NOT AS SIMPLE X TO Y. IT IS LOOKING AT THE CUMULATIVE EFFECT OF ALL OF THOSE POLICIES TO THEN DRIVE CHANGE OVER TIME. I HAD SOMEONE ASK ME YESTERDAY, YOU KNOW, WELL, WHAT CAN WE EXPECT TO SEE IF THIS IS IMPLEMENTED IN 3 TO 6 MONTHS? SIR, WE ARE TRYING TO CHANGE THE NEEDLE ON SOMETHING THAT'S BEEN INTRACTABLE FOR GENERATIONS. WHAT WE WOULD HOPE TO SEE IF WE HAVE THIS COLLABORATION IN 3 TO 6 MONTHS, IS THAT WE HAVE DETERMINATION, AND WE'VE BUILT TRUST. AND HOW DO YOU DO THAT IS BY ACTUALLY MAKING THE INVESTMENT TO GET THE NEEDLE MOVING. AND SO WHAT WE'RE REALLY SAYING IS THAT CINCINNATI, YOU HAVE ALL THE ASSETS IN PLACE. LET US HELP TO FRAME BUILD THIS FRAMEWORK, DEFINE HOW WE'RE GOING TO MEASURE SUCCESS AND THEN TRACK THAT OVER TIME. AND WHERE WE FAIL, WE FAIL FAST AND WHERE WE SEE CHANGE, WE WE WE DOUBLE DOWN ON THAT INVESTMENT. BUT IT'S POSSIBLE. AND THAT'S WHAT'S SUPER EXCITES ME, IS THAT, YOU KNOW, THIS IS ALL INNOVATION. AND AND I GET TO BRING IT BACK HOME TO MY HOMETOWN. YEAH. AND THE OTHER THING PEOPLE SHOULD REALIZE THAT THIS IS NOT A ONE TIME DEAL, IF YOU WILL. THIS ISN'T A QUICK FIX TO SOMETHING. AND WHILE THE INTENT OF THE THE QUESTION ASKED OF YOU IN TERMS OF IF IT'S DONE IN 3 TO 6 MONTHS, THIS THIS IS AN ONGOING PROCESS. YOU USE THE WORD INTENTIONAL. PEOPLE WILL HAVE TO BE INTENTIONAL, NOT JUST FOR SIX MONTHS, NOT JUST FOR A YEAR, BUT ONGOING TO MAKE LASTING CHANGE THAT THAT WILL DEFINE NOW AND IN THE FUTURE. YOU AS A PRODUCER, YOU KNOW THAT I HAVE TO TAKE ANOTHER BREAK. HERE WE GO. WE GOT TO PAY THE BILLS. PAY THE BILLS. IT'S THE FINAL BREAK. BUT THEN WE'LL COME BACK AND AND I REALLY WANT YOU TO LET PEOPLE KNOW HOW THEY CAN FIND OUT MORE INFORMATION AND HOW THEY CAN BE A PART OF THIS. WE'LL BE BACK IN A MOMENT. BUT. THE FASCINATING CONVERSATION WITH MY FRIEND, DOCTOR WENDY ELLIS. BUT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT CLOSING THE WEALTH GAP IN CINCINNATI AND REALLY EVENTUALLY ACROSS THIS NATION, THIS REPORT THAT IS OUT, IF PEOPLE WANT TO FIND OUT MORE INFORMATION. BECAUSE TO HAVE IT IN YOUR HAND, TO READ IT, TO LEARN, LEARN ABOUT IT. IS THERE A PLACE WHERE THEY CAN GO TO GET THIS? YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. THEY CAN DOWNLOAD IT EITHER FROM OUR WEBSITE AT THE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY RESILIENCE OR THE INSTITUTE FOR RACIAL, ETHNIC AND SOCIOECONOMIC INEQUITY. AND I WILL ALSO SAY THAT IN ADDITION TO READING THE REPORT, WE I WHILE I DON'T LIVE HERE, I AM CONSTANTLY COMING BACK AND FORTH. THERE WILL BE COMMUNITY, CONTINUE TO BE COMMUNITY MEETINGS. THERE WILL BE PUBLIC MEETINGS. AND SO THERE ARE WAYS FOR PEOPLE TO GET ENGAGED WITH THE LEADERS THAT ARE ALREADY HERE. I SHOULD ALSO POINT OUT THAT I THINK THE LAST TIME YOU WERE ON THE PROGRAM, WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE KENYAN BAR STUDY THAT YOU DID AND WORKED ON. AND I THINK YOU MENTIONED THAT BEFORE THE CITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE, WHEN YOU SPOKE TO THEM. JUST UPDATE PEOPLE ON WHAT THAT REPORT WAS ALL ABOUT. DIFFERENT DIFFERENT FROM THIS? WELL, ACTUALLY, THERE WASN'T A REPORT FOR KENYAN BAR. IT WAS MUCH MORE TELLING THE STORY ABOUT THE DESTRUCTION OF KENYAN BAR, SO THAT PEOPLE REALLY UNDERSTOOD THE POLICIES THAT REALLY DROVE WHAT WE SEE AS THE CURRENT WEST END. SO THAT'S IN THE DOCUMENTARY. AND BUT WHAT HAS HAPPENED SINCE THEN HAS REALLY BEEN, I THINK, AN UNDERSTANDING, A CRYSTALLIZATION OF UNDERSTANDING WHAT REPAIR IS NECESSARY AND THAT WHILE WEST PARTS OF WEST END ARE BEING REVITALIZED, MANY OF THE SAME PEOPLE THAT HAVE ALWAYS BEEN LEFT BEHIND ARE BEING PUSHED EVEN FURTHER BEHIND. INTERESTINGLY, AFTER THIS MEETING WITH YOU, WE'RE GOING BACK TO WEST END THIS AFTERNOON TO MEET WITH COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND UNDERSTAND HOW CAN WE APPLY THE SAME APPROACH THAT WE DID FOR AVONDALE AND FOR RIVERSIDE TO WEST END AND SIMILARLY BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND HOW MANY OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WE HAVE FOR THE CLOSING THE WEALTH GAP CAN BE APPLIED SPECIFICALLY TO THE WEST END WITH REGARD TO CREATING THESE NEIGHBORHOOD BASED HUBS. AND ALTHOUGH I SAID THERE ISN'T A DIRECT CONNECTION WITH THE CLOSING THE WEALTH GAP REPORT, I GUESS I COULD CORRECT THAT IN SAYING THE FACT THAT IT IS A HISTORICAL POINT. THAT DOES LEAD US TO NOW AND BEYOND, RIGHT? OH, ABSOLUTELY. THERE'S A THROUGH LINE HERE. IF YOU, YOU KNOW, WATCH JUST THE MATURATION OF THE WORK OVER THE LAST TEN YEARS. WE STARTED WITH COMMUNITY BASED COUNCILS. THE MORE THAT WE LEARNED, THE DEEPER WE WENT. THAT LED TO THE TRUTH AND EQUITY WORK THEN THAT THE MORE YOU KNOW, IT WAS REALLY LIKE ONE OF THOSE THE VEIL WAS REMOVED AND WE WERE ABLE TO CONNECT THE POLICIES OVER TIME. YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT JUST TELLING THE STORY OF WEST END IN THAT FILM. I TELL THE STORY OF THE COMMUNITY I GREW UP IN KENNEDY HEIGHTS, AND UNDERSTANDING HOW CLOSURE OF ONE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, THE RIPPLE EFFECT OF THAT IN THE 80S, THE MOVING OF KROGER INTO THAT SPACE, THEN KROGER LEAVING. WHAT ARE THE EFFECTS OF NOT JUST PUBLIC POLICY, BUT OUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DECISIONS TO DISRUPT WHAT OUR HEALTHY NEIGHBORHOODS? SO THERE WERE A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES THAT WE WENT DEEP IN TO TELL THAT STORY. AND AS WE LEARNED FROM THAT, YOU KNOW, EFFORT, THAT'S WHAT LED TO, OKAY, THE DEEPER THAT THE NEXT, DEEPER DIVE IS THE WEALTH GAP STUDY. AND SO FOR ME, THIS IS JUST A CONTINUATION OF WHAT HAS BEEN A DECADES LONG EFFORT WITH COMMUNITY PARTNERS HERE TO GET TO THE ROOT CAUSE, NOT JUST TALK ABOUT IT, BUT WE HAVE THE WE HAVE THE RESOURCES TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. THE QUESTION IS, DO WE ACTUALLY HAVE THE WILL? I BELIEVE THAT WE DO. BUT WHAT'S NEEDED IS A FRAMEWORK. AND I'M THAT'S MY GIFT TO THIS CITY IS A FRAMEWORK OF WE CAN DO THIS AND WE CAN MEASURE OUR PROGRESS OVER TIME. WE JUST HAVE A FEW SECONDS LEFT. I HAD ASKED YOU THIS BEFORE THE RESPONSE FROM THE CORPORATE AND POLITICAL LEADERSHIP OF CINCINNATI HAS BEEN GOOD. IT'S BEEN VERY RECEPTIVE. YOU KNOW, EVERYONE IS INTERESTED IN THIS STAKEHOLDER MEETING THAT WE WANT TO PULL TOGETHER, THAT, YOU KNOW, HOW CAN WE WORK TOGETHER, HOW CAN WE USE THE OPPORTUNITY DASHBOARD TO MEASURE OUR SUCCESS OVER TIME? SO AS MY SLEEVES ARE ALREADY ROLLED UP, LET'S DO IT. I'M READY. WELL, CONGRATULATIONS ON THIS. AND WE'LL PUT UP THE INFORMATION SO PEOPLE CAN FIND OUT MUCH MORE. IT'S ALWAYS GOOD TO SEE YOU. SO GOOD TO DOCTOR WENDY ELLIS. WELL THAT DOES IT FOR THE PROGRAM TODAY. THANKS FOR JOINING US. I'LL SEE YOU NEXT TIME FOR ANOTHER EDITION OF LET'S TALK CINCY.