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Restaurants downtown. some of the downtown business owners think that perhaps if we had maybe some more retail stores, specialty shops, boutiques, that kind of thing to bring people downtown other than just restaurants. we are hopeful that that may bring something in the future. >> i've been looking at the numbers having to do with flint, michigan. and in the year 2000 you had about 25,000 more residents than you have right now. you have about 102,000 give or take in the latest. that's the estimate. so you have lost about 25,000 people. your unemployment rate is at 11.8%. which is above the na...

In bringing the new restaurants downtown. some of the downtown business owners think that perhaps if we had maybe more retail stores, specialty shops, boutiques, that kind of thing to bring people downtown, other than just restaurants. we're hopeful that may bring something in the future. >> greta: i've been looking at numbers. in the year 2000, you had about 25,000 more residents than you have now. you have about 102,000, give or take that's the estimate. you've lost about 25,000 people. your unemployment rate is 11.8%, above the national average of 8.8. also down from march a year ago from 1...

In his speech, he certainly embraced some components of it. >> now the focus on jobs mandated both politically and economically by the december jobs report still 9.4% unemployment. but looking into those numbers, you got 8.3% white unemployment. the hispanic unemployment, 13%. the african-american unemployment, 15.2%. extraordinary numbers looking at what's happening to the minority community. so what does the urban league want to hear from the president on that? >> what we want to hear is focused strategies on training and retraining of workers. focus on america's urban communities and the cr...

>> detroit which has had a bit of a glowing spot yesterday. in fact, the new york times highlighting positive tee out of detroit for the first time in a longtime. they received $8.8 million, but they have only spent fewer than 1%, it makes little to no sense. >> and their unemployment is 14% in detroit. you mentioned feep next. >> 15.2 received their less than 1% spent. and fort lauderdale, did 2 million received and 66,000 spent. you talked earlier to the mayor down there. >> yes, we talked to the mayor, and there are a couple problems for these cities. one, they don't know how to spend the m...

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