Dozens of sites across the country because they can use these real dollars to help scale them up. So those are the types of things we think are important, scaling takes on a couple different forms. Some people think about scale were going to take this model and mcdonalds it and were going to be in a million places, but sometimes scale is taking a model and sharing it, saying heres what works you take it and you run with it, the last thing i would say, though and this is interesting in the case of bam. Everybody loves bam the president loves bam, i love bam, we funded them. But theyre really before smart growth. After the president visited with those young people. Theyre getting dozens of calls a day from all over the world, bring bam here. And bam smartly said we need to sure up our model first make sure chicago is secure the funding is coming in, sometimes when you get famous people think youre set and stop writing checks. They had to focus on their first market. Now several years in, theyre just now thinking about the first replication, on that point, teach for america, what they did they were in a similar problem, they created a whole separate unit, teach for all that was about helping to do some of this scale, so it didnt zbrakt their core growth. Questions, im going to take two at a time. These two gentlemen. Thank you. Larry checko, i would like to piggyback on what donald said about what keeps these neighborhoods down. Theres predatory lending going on in these communities. Regarding Credit Card Debt spp someone can lose their house for a few hundred dollars i think this policy that needs to be implemented here i would call this cannibalistic capitalism, where were eating our own. I dont mind people making money, not on someone elses back. I understand why these communities feel disenfranchised. Can we talk about how these policies can be changed . Thank you. Jennifer said a couple of the issues or assets, don talked a little bit about help, freddie gray was poisoned. How do we have these interventions early on. Older adults as an anchor resource in these community sies. Older adults as an anchor resource, how do we keep older adults in the residence, as leaders. I want to hear some others. We try to keep the comments short so we can get to other questions. So on the matter of the first question. We worked pretty extensively with Philadelphia Court system. We found that and tested it, eight years later, and found it to be quite effective. I dont know if that system is relevant to Public Sector leans. They skirt that process. It was really about bankers to accelerate it. There are policy recommendations that have been studied in a couple places through the foreclosure crisis that i think could speak to that. Municipal or county level policy recommendations. Let me go to the second question just on the lead poisoning, youre right, there was a survey of prisons and a lot of people that were in prisons had elevated lead levels, theres a tremendous amount positive done with this. They really looked at that issue, theres another unit in fact based in baltimore thats working around the country on green and healthy Housing Initiatives thats doing terrific work on that, and in factual find it doesnt solve for those older cases, but youll see that the incidents of led poisoning of kids is way down from its not perfect, but from where it was before. So thats one of the things were really positive progress is being made. That model is being shared across the country to get at this issue this is an elemental issue of led poisoning. Talk about the role of adults. Another example of how our communities are economically cannibalizing their citizens. Something that has come up a lot. Young people are coming to our programs and theyre reaching adults, why are they already in debt . Because energy costs are so high keeping the home warm and the lights on and paying rent and feeding your children gets to a point where it gets cut off in mom and dads name. Its being turned on in one of the childrens names by the time they turn 18 its time for them to establish credit and be an adult, they cannot theyre having to repair that and this is way more common than you would think. Its something that we need to think about. Its another layer of caring adults. Nothing new that we try to implement is going to work if the young people dont believe that we care about them i always think about the fact that when they refer themselves to me my mentor, my case manager my friend. I thought the impact of the loving and caring adults. I realize how important it issed day i started referring to them as my young people. Many graduates, my friends, my brothers. Its important we see this as something thats not detached from us something thats connected to our collective well being. We have to have the courage to care, engage, to value their diversity of experience and let them know that we care about them. Good morning thank you very much i lived in baltimore with friends on an offer almost a year and i took local bosses. For the people in the room and the people up here, first of all, i would suggest that you know how much a quart of milk costs in some of these neighborhoods and how far you need to go to get it. And the Expiration Date and maybe a couple other products. And rent. Because theres this concept out there that people who live in poverty can live cheap. And in my experience, particularly in baltimore if youre poor and in a predominantly black neighborhood that your access to milk is going to have a low Expiration Date and its going to be expensive, because 7eleven and cvs are your Grocery Stores. I think in. Living in poverty is not cheap living. I work at executive intelligence intelligence. My heartached. I think mr. Harvey hit the mail on the head. These kids dont see a future. Former congressman mfume put it correctly. It doesnt take much to set him off. Even though baltimore does not have the same profile, it does have an economic problem. I fought for reindustrialization of baltimore. We are capable of developing like Franklin Roosevelt had. Former governor omalley is building jobs, building the city city. Can we fix the rage and despair. This is a question from twitter. Christina would like to hear the panelists thought ss on how to grow baltimore. We were able to perform for the state of maryland, identify the food deserts with grade specificity to the degree to which food dollars are migrate ing identify those neighborhoods. We have financed two or three Grocery Stores in baltimore and there needs to be a lot more. Its expensive to be poor. At least in chicago theres a transportation issue. A lot dont have the access to public transportation. They have to travel further to get to their jobs and what not. Its another component of the cost that poor folks face that people dont often think about. I think that the food doesnt want to know the city theyre trying to focus on the issue. We just found out were going to get the obama president ial library. That will bring some investments into the community that we havent had in a while. Just do one and then answer that, and well go to other questions. Validating your point on transportation. And second fox and the department of transportation. Theyre a part of the task force. Were seeing communities use tiger grants on making sure there are better transportation routes, there are neighborhoods where there used to be jobs and the same neighborhoods where you have folks from low income background s backgrounds. Youre seeing interesting ideas on how to move that. People are having to commute longer. It spans that gap where kids are home alone for hours. Were seeing communities try to tackle and address. On the schools piece, i know both trf and bart talked about reforming and building Charter Schools in the neighborhoods youre working. Are those higher performing in these functions. The henderson hopkin school thats a contract school. It sits in between a conventional Public School and a charter school. In its design. It took a heck of a lot of public and private resources to lift that off the ground. You know, the bond issue that has since come out around rebuilding and refurbishing schools, is essential money. It had to be state money, baltimore couldnt have afforded that. The models reach the monthly lace. We took Public Schools and had an agreement with the mayor s as to what could and couldnt be done. Moved the needle and we took the teachers invested in them and in the principles showed them exams, brought them back in we ran afoul of the union transferring out our principles. They both quit. It was 247. There are lots of issues, lots of theres lot of experimentation going on right now, and you see it in new york you see it in other places. And new orleans is the biggest example, they just blew everything up and started over again its not easy and the final thing ill say on this, we watched our k through 8 go into a high school that we couldnt control. And we lost a lot of that investment because they had been in a nurturing environment and ended up in something that was out of control. We had to go to aillternative schools. Its a hard long term continuum youre dealing with. Real quickly. I often have thought that there has to be if you take a real need in the infrastructure. If you do that you hopefully can do something that may not be the most efficient but that is the most effective for getting people to apprentice and work and be able to be part of a program that is not shovel ready, but is longer term that is aimed at integrating jobs that go all the way down to our cities. The problem with jobs training that we ran across was people got trained and there wasnt a job and this is read jennifers report, its terrific on this. Its a terrific report she does. Were going to have time for three more questions. Were going to go with sandy i think this gentleman has had his hand up. Youve also had your hand up for a while. Lets do these three. Maam, you can have your question, and i want to keep your questions tight. What are two or three Game Changers that business can initiate at the local level and National Businesses that would actually have a major dent in the problem . Im thinking in chicago of the internal revolution that whole foods is going through to change its Business Model to enter englewood. And any like that. Looking at the intersection, regarding jobs on where we work in the americas on the same issues im also chairman of the board of a company in essex, maryland that hires 153 youth. Its called tessie maes. Were working with whole foods on the food december ert issue. The issue is the reform of the penal system. What it does to create fear. Isolation and lack of trust. We talk about the connectivity issue that we need, but theyre always disconnected. They all have resources. The first thing is, lower your risk these are termed high risk youth, why would you take this risk. You have to whos working on penal reform. Lets hold i think theres a lot of comments to that question. I think this gentleman in the back, and then were going to take one more. Two quick questions. The connection between nutrition and community development. My wife works at hhs and shes been hammering on me about this connection for the last five years. I didnt hear any discussion of urban Community Gardens were working in pittsburgh with a group of Community Gardens. Kids not only grow their own food but sell their own food. They learn business skills. The second issue is a leadership issue. Pittsburgh where i do a lot of work has a program modelled after the harlem childrens village, and as i said to the director, these kids, if you get them to graduate from high school and get them into college. When they graduate, theyre not coming back to homewood and hazelwood and some of these other communities. How do we keep the leadership Young Leadership in those communities . Maam . Im debbie goldberg. We had a lot of conversation about jobs and income, we havent talked about growth. Theres a huge wealth gap in this country. I saw some research recently that a College Graduate africanamerican College Graduate has less wealth on average than a White High School dropout. We have decades worth of Government Policies that have helped to create this wealth gap, its the gap that needs to be changed to promote future prosperity, economic security. And how do we get over this huge gap. A lot of this conversation has been on systemic issues, which is important, but is hard to connect back to the new zip code. It doesnt necessarily seem like it might fit into this conversation, but its trying to connect some of these different structures and these different systems and streams of work at the neighborhood level. And i guess im interested in whether you have thoughts on how this regulation may be a tool to address these problems at the neighborhood level. Let me remind you of the topics. Business models criminal justice reform. Healthy foods and farming. Leadership retention. Wealth gap housing, stickiness to neighborhoods. If you all can take two at the most to address those. Id like to speak to criminal justice. Ill give you the experience working on the program. 50 of the people i was working with were involved in the criminal justice system. Being in probation, misdemeanor to felony offenses. Where the policies where the federal and state laws said they couldnt be deployed, it was really hard to work around. We are aware of this, bringing awareness to our young people to our programs. We convene a group of amazing dynamic leaders a number of groups internal. A National Group of Young Leaders that are graduates of 11 other National Youth development organizations, like city era, Like National gateway to college college. And they put together a set of recommendations, and im kicking myself in the head right now for not bringing a copy with me. Its the National Council of Young Leaders recommendation for decreasing poverty in america. Theyre recommendations around criminal justice reform, these are coming from young people from a Cross Sector Group not just from youth, but from young people who are coming from all communities, have been theyre current and former opportunity youth. Theyre saying, heres what needs to be done. I highly recommend that everyone google the National Counsel and the recommendations to increase opportunity just to add on to that. Winchester has a prison u connection. It has a large number of exoffenders and we ran into one problem after theyre an automatic exclude as you know by maryland law. We had to go all the way back into the parole and prison system, et cetera, to try to find a job, and mentor on that very expensive, very long term, it was one of our biggest issues, it remains a huge issue. Getting it changed, which we attempted for many years is very difficult. Because its a sound bite for a new politician. I would jump on two quick issues, on the crime when i do want to say that theres another issue thats prevalent. I didnt know that much about it, you all the cook county president. She was an alderman in the city of chicago for 20 years. When she got there she looked at the data and it showed that 80 of the people in jail had not been convicted. They were awaiting trial. She said, you have a huge number of people sitting there, maybe they did it, maybe they didnt do it, but they dont they cant afford the bond they cant pay to get out, those who have resources, they dont sit in jail. Shes taken policies working with the court system with the state attorney to try to reduce the number of people who are awaiting trial sitting in jail where its very costly. On the game changer obviously whole foods coming into englewood. Englewood is one of the most challenged communities in the city of chicago it spawned and cat liesed a lot of other investments coming in as whole foods often does. Another game changer is one i talked about earlier is that coalition of large institutions we form in chicago now invested in the neighborhood. We havent got there yet, but we talked to some folks in cleveland and a couple at University Circle or whatever they call it they create a partnership with baxter they got baxter to build a major facility, in a distressed neighborhood which had a physical presence creating a couple hundred jobs and the way they got him to do it they guaranteed him a long Term Contract when you can get that kind of collective were talking about billions of dollars we spend. You can get that and use that influence on the people that serve us i think it has Game Changing potential. Jump in on this point . I think we have to realize theres an economic imperative here. I think theres Something Like 6 million kids for a society thats based on production and consumption. We cant have that. A couple Game Changing things that were seeing, second chances, the mistakes of your youth should not be limited for the rest of your life. One thing that were seeing around the country this idea of banning the box. Almost every single job where you have to fill out an application, you have to check that box, whether or not youve been arrested or had a felony conviction, there are 65 million americans that would have to check that box. Data shows that theres really no difference for some of these jobs what were seeing across the country is Companies Like walmart are getting rid of that box so they bring these folks in. Interview them see if theres a skill set before they get to this kind of background check and see whats happening. The other idea is we have to hire them, youre seeing organizations like jp morgan chase, making this a core part of their practice. Theyre bringing in kids from their sophomore years and training them and giving them mentors, theyre following with them, working w