janet murguia as president ceo of national council of la raza. dixon slingerland is the executive director of youth policy institute which serves more than 100,000 youth and young adults at 125 programs in los angeles. randi weingarten is president of the american federation of teachers which represents

1.6 million educational professionals. and, finally beth williams is evil of roxbury technology, a company with mission to get back to its urban community by creating jobs and manufacturing earth friendly products. so we have a great group of people here today. i would like to start out the discussion with lee saunders. why should we care about our urban areas? >> first let me thank c.a.p. for coordinating and sponsoring with afscme. we believe this is a discussion that is long overdue. that, in fact, there's a tragedy going on within our urban centers across this country. the lack of jobs the lack of good paying jobs, and we got to talk about it. not only on the labor side but business, academics, elected officials all of us have to think outside the box to talk about the problems that exist in the urban areas right now. you know about the detroit of

the world you've heard about atlantic city. you've heard some of these cities are actually having a comeback. but if you look at the specific comebacks you will see that in effect it is just in small areas of that particular city. and that, in fact when you go outside of the area you see a lot of poverty, a lot of joblessness problems with public education with infrastructure. we believe we've got to have a dialogue, a conversation collectively thinking outside the box and saying that our urban areas are the engines of our states for job growth and job creation. and we've got to pay particular attention to resolving this problem and rebuilding urban centers across the country. we do this discussion as the beginning, not the end. we believe this should be a priority not only of the federal government but it should be a priority and we should coordinate our activities between the federal, state and

local levels to resolve the problem to provide quality jobs in these urban areas to provide employment, to provide hope for people who reside in these areas. they are playing by the rules every single day. they want to have a chance and they want to have an opportunity to achieve the american dream so we are very excited about the session and looking forward to having more dialogue on it. >> excellent. secretary clinton, as i mentioned you were senator from new york, representing new york city. why should the country care about the cities success or failure is? >> first, i join with lee and thinking and c.a.p. for pulling us together on this, and i thank you, ma lee as well as afscme for motivating this conversation. i did represent new york for eighteight years and an utterly represented new york city i represented buffalo and rochester and syracuse and albany and binghamton and a lot of other places that had very

different challenges. they all fell under the category of how do we make sure our cities are good places for people to live and work? has become even more important as we've watched how cities are driving economic prosperity. it used to be that jobs were moving out of cities into suburbs into rural areas. that trend is reversing. so people want to live in cities. to all kinds of reasons and his research that we'll hear from hear from bruce about millennials wanting to live and work in the same place. cities have always been the engines of prosperity, but now what we're seeing is a less we pay attention and come up with some very creative and i would argue effective solutions based on our past preferences, we will not see our cities do what cities do best. and it goes to the least point. a lot of our cities truly are

divided. they have a lot of in the quality that is only gotten worse. they have some of the most dynamic well-educated affluent people in the world, and people who are trapped in generational poverty and who's the skills are not keeping up with what the jobs of today and tomorrow demand. so i'm looking not just at what can be done by working across governmental lines, because as lilee said, that is the absolute critical, but what we can do in partnership with the public and private sector, and applied we've got people on the panel who are seeking -- speaking to the. let me make three quick points. one, i think that we for a long time special at the federal level but also at the state level shifted resources to follow people which meant we shifted resources out of cities. it made sense because roads had to be developed.

all kinds of utilities and other infrastructure had to be put into place in suburban areas and even further out. i remember having all kinds of conversations as a senator with people who wanted to bring jobs to update new york in particular, and they would move it into what they called green areas or clean areas, even though the utilities and a lot of the other infrastructure was actually in the old cities. so how do we begin to make what we already have more of an attraction, but then that raises the second point how do we repair and update a lot of our infrastructure? and a lot of the older cities we have terrible problems with water systems, sewer systems to say nothing of not keeping up with an electric grid or broadband access that are the infrastructure of the future. we have to do what i would hope to see kind of a mapping of our cities and an understanding when it comes to the physical infrastructure we have to take

care of what we already have upgrade modernize. we have problems in washington in new york. potholes exploding all kinds of issues. we have to really invest in the winter throw it into the future. the second big issue though is the human infrastructure. that's the most important part of any city. it's the most important part of our entire country. what do we do to better equip our people to be able to take the jobs, and how do we keep middle-class families in cities where they want to stay? they don't want to leave but they are being priced out. we need to do more to put the human needs with both the potential that people have starting early with pre-k. i'm very much a supporter of what mayor to ted laws you did in your trying to create pre-k access for every young child in new york regardless of who that child is -- mayor ted laws you. we have to do more on affordable housing and more of the amenities so families, middle-class families, working

families can stay in cities and other place to go. i want to public acknowledge randi because throughout clinton global initiative's commitment to a have lci oh and the building trades hold the public pension money to train people to do energy retrofits, energy efficiency. it now created tens of thousands of jobs. that's the kind of creative work that we can do together and i am proud that siege i was a computer to make that happen. but the final point i want to make is this. we know a lot about social mobility. one of the biggest issues we face is income inequality combined with wage stagnation. they really go hand in hand. we don't have enough good jobs we have people been placed into those job. would have enough social mobility. some really interesting work being done by the professor and his colleagues at harvard. i think really wakes us up as to what we are facing.

they have looked at the indicators of social mobility. why do some communities have frankly more ladders for opportunity and other communities? how do we promote success and upward mobility? it's not only of average income as important as that is. you can look at cities that on average have similar affluence but people are trapped and unable to move up in one city under moving up in another. i will give you two examples, to cities with similar affluence seattle and atlanta. have markedly different rates of economic mobility. it's not about race, white and black citizens of a city like atlanta both have low upward mobility. it turns out that places where the fabric of community is strong with a vibrant middle class, places that are more

integrated across class, places with good schools places with unions places with religious organizations and civic organizations help people feel rooted, part of a community and then being able to pull together all of the aspects that play into upward mobility. so we need to think hard about what we are going to do now that people are moving back into a state in cities to make sure our cities are not just places of economic prosperity and job creation on average but do it in a way that lifts everybody up to deal with the overriding issues of inequality and lack of mobility. and that's what i think this conversation is so timely and hopefully c.a.p. and others will continue to work on these important challenges. >> thank you so much, secretary clinton. just building off of your

remarks we at gap worked a little bit on this issue and found that the size of the middle-class of economic social mobility of have. but i think it's really important point. bruce katz in the '90s we saw articles about how cities were dying. secretary clinton referenced this. now they are seen as the engines of growth, what are the strategies you were sent to actually succeed in making cities more hospitable to the middle-class families who want to live there? >> i think the secretary has it right. this is a very different conversation today than 10 years ago because cities have enormous demographic and market wind behind the back. it's the millennials. they want immunity's where they can live work and play. companies are moving towards open innovation model.

they are not staying in their silos inventing only within the four wall so the company. they are looking to interact with researchers and others. there's for strategies that matter that are playing out today. innovation. you have to as a city, your companies continuously innovate on products and services, advanced research institutions matter, medical campuses and companies that cluster around them. skills s.t.e.m. skills, science technology, engineering and math, not just for people with four-year degrees but with people coming out of high schools, community colleges business training efforts. infrastructure as you said not just roads transit and bridges but to move energy, ideas broadband, ports, airports logistics. cities are trading indices. and last the quality of place. is probably matters more today than it has in the past 50 years.

authenticity, amenities, vitality, that's critical to the innovative process which makes cities and the economy move. that's a recipe out here. its work in the password bunch of cities, and we go around the country what we are seeing is a cities and not just governments but private, civic, unions, community, philanthropy stepping up and doing some really hard work. louisville and lexington they're making manufacturing a pretty. charlotte and chicago changing their community colleges to equip workers with active -- actual technical skills they need. you can go to denver and l.a. using local resources to build out state-of-the-art transit and you can go to the heart of detroit and to the heart of buffalo and josie the cities coming back. it's still a very small land mass, but when you put the innovative economy on steroids one innovative job equals five other jobs.

it can basically expand that into the neighborhood if we are smart about skills and education. there's a recipe out there. it's about collaboration. it's about public-private at its core. it will fundamentally i think it will change with the national government does. in some cases the national government really does need to lead to a lot of this advanced research is really coming out of the national government. no one else does the same work on basic science or even applied research, but on skills, infrastructure, and national government needs to be a better partner in the service of city priorities and city vision. so there is exciting work out there and there is a roadmap for prosperity shared prosperity. but it does mean that we need to recognize the world has fundamentally changed. >> thanks in which. sector kaster, i'm actually going to come back to you to discuss what the federal government could do to of late but first i would like you to

talk about your experience as the mayor of san antonio. you pick a number policies to address some of these key challenges that we've race. what works for you as mayor and what can we learn from your experience of? >> thank you, mayor. and thank you to tap into afscme as well. this is a very timely subject. i'm convinced we are living in century of cities and here in the united states america's falling in love again with cities. the census bureau estimates by 2015 we will see 80 million new people in our country and about 60 million of them are going to live in urban areas. in san antonio if i have one piece of advice for local leaders around the country, it would be to break through the silos that often exist at the local level. so one of the things we saw the administration up here doing very early on was an effort called sustainable communities

that was hud working with a department of transportation working with epa, and we said, hey what we should do is organize ourselves in a similar way. the city government needs to be talking to the community college district which needs the hall talking to the transit, two electric, water utility. it is surprising how often that doesn't happen even at the local level. what we found was first of all the a lot of resources going after that if they were coordinate in a better way they could make a bigger impact. that's money and resources you already have. secondly it ready allows you as a community to create a long-term vision for lifting up parts of the urban core that are most in need. in our case in san antonio we focus on the east side of the city, one of the poorest areas of san antonio and looked at improving the schools, improving the roads making neighborhoods

safer, ensuring we had better bus routes to that part of the city. not only did that help us eventually get promise never grant choice never grant, the promise zone but maybe more importantly we saw the attendance rates going up at the schools that were in the neighborhood. we saw the graduation rate at the high school that was in this area going out. so you start to see by coordinating and making investment in housing, in education, in safer streets the actual bottom on on the ground result that you want to see. that would be my advice for local leaders is the number one thing you can do immediately is to break through your silos and get into meetings with the community and amongst each other as leaders to look to the future. >> thank you so much. mayor aja brown, throughout your career young focus on change in

this event community. what has been working in compton to foster growth? >> we've been amazingly busy. i was an urban planner and economic developer so when i came into office i brought every sector of government committed, faith-based organizations together and i introduced a vision i had and it came from hearing what the residents were divided in their community. we focus on the tough issues first, public safety and crime. to think about why to middle-class families flee from inner cities, because they want to raise their kids in a safe and private. we brought together every single level of law enforcement, labor unions, every single entity that touched content, we came together focus on eradicating him trafficking which is a huge issue and impacts 90% of people involved in him trafficking that are actually miners. we addressed gang violence or intervention and through our

task force we split apart and focused on what factors allow these activities happen in our communities. so we are human trafficking eliminate it hourly motel rentals because tourists don't read motile rooms by the hour. [laughter] we were able to identify with hubs of these activities were. we also focused on addressing gang violence. we wrote out prevention programs. we focus on truancy and how can we work with the kids into the back on track. we also focused on a getting sick of it i asked every single level of leadership in terms of our games ever cities to come together and sat in a circle and we ask them could we have peace? who is going to be the last man standing? at the end of the day something came really unfair to them that they been in the cycle the they committed to having peace eight months later by the crime was down 40%. we didn't commit any dollars on

law enforcement. we have less law enforcement on the street. we focus on creating mentorship programs and bringing in ex-gang members and members to make them accountable but to empower them to make their timidity better. we also focused on the job creation component and tying it back to infrastructure was we have joined other cities prepare our water lines and our streets and so i proposed a 1% sales tax measure and we sat there with labor leaders and said how can we make this a group project? with our community members they'retheyare excited about the opportunity that don't have clean streets but good jobs. we are grading the employment develop programs now. we legislation i crafted were 35% of new hires have to be compton residence, but we also employment develop programs at the onset of the project so they can be no excuse they are not qualified residents ready. we have an amazing effort and it's all collaboration and it's

about empowering the stakeholders to have in your community because i thought everyone who is a joined amazing things but in the silos. we came together, can we do a few great things together well and we've seen the number results. when we focus back on people i ethic about what america is and really the pride of being an american it's about having strong people and strong skills strong families build strong communities. we are just focusing on the basics in the city of compton and we've had tremendous results. i am honored to be here. >> think is a much. that's very inspiring. that williams, you are ceo of the company that action also does a similar thing, right? you are hiring people, 10% of your hires have a criminal record. you have a particular goal of revitalizing your community as you do business. what has helped enable you to grow your business and be so

mission focused? >> first, i'd like to thank you for having this conference and invite me. i feel like now i kind of listening what i represent, at a represent a group, that community we're talking about that needs to be revitalized. we are seeing tremendous revitalization in certain pockets of the city, but there are certain pockets that are truly being left out. so basically my company's growth really has been focused around green technology and really has benefited from the corporate diversity programs and people wanting to spend x number of dollars of minority when a business. we work every day to increase employment opportunities for low skilled labor force who are often trapped in that circle of poverty as we talked about, and the have no real clear path out. when we think about it this isn't new. american cities were built on manufacturing the immigrants came here, got jobs build skill sets and move on the american dream as you just said.

people just need opportunities. we have proudly supported criminal offenders record information, and 20% of her workforce are ex-offenders and ex-gang members but we make a big effort to hire young men. i feel like young men particularly young men of color are at tremendous risk in this country, and that unless we do something about it those communities are at tremendous risk as low. so it's great for some of the things mayor brown you were doing. so we really focus on how they're a waste to prevent recidivism the you've got to create jobs. we can talk about all the innovation, people want jobs. i felt like i had a blood my job, yes, we build supplies for staples, my biggest customer. it's not just their learning how to build a toner cartridge or ink cartridge, they are learning to read quality control procedures, warehouse logistic

shipping and receiving, skill sets they can take on two other companies. safi like i've been successful when i turn the young gang member around and said you said my -- you saved my life. i'm working at a warehouse at neiman marcus, those are things that says success to me. we really made a positive impact. we made manufacturing happen in the inner city of boston, and the value of a company like that and bringing those partnerships together between corporate and small businesses and minority businesses to have the capacity and ability to do the is you create a bribery business if you will, that feeds the second a business, the main street. when my folks go to lunch my 75 employees, they go to eat in the restaurant and that area, it sort of that's what revitalization means. no asked me in our debriefing room how do you get your people. it's word of mouth.

i cannot tell you, we live in a labor surplus. a name has changed so many years throughout the past affirmative action, had sown, but there's tons of workers we have that just want jobs. anywhere i go if i say -- a cousin my brother you know a chemical of an application. so it really very very critical data corporations and government continue their focus to allocate resources to helping small businesses and women and minority businesses. because typically when these programs were established they were established with a mindset the minority and women business programs or companies rather will hire people from their community. the government is one of the largest consumers in the country, so i really hope that as we continue to look at this issue that we tried to get ways that we can tweak some of these programs the government has to make them more effective in

partnering in figuring out ways to help grow these businesses. >> thank you so much. glenn i'm going to turn to you. glenn hutchins, you invest in companies in a range of cities. innovation is a critical component but i would love to get your views on what cities and what cities are not working. >> after listening to this i want to invest in compton and in pittsburgh and in boston, though i do have investments in boston. you are both heroes. i admire what you've done. i think we should all listen very hard to what you guys said. i talk very quickly three minutes, over the course of the last 30 years i've had the opportunity help rebuild businesses that became world-class businesses in both pittsburgh and detroit.

and over that time period i saw one city go through a renaissance and the other collapse into bankruptcy. i had a front row seat to do that. it was very interesting. pittsburgh, by the way, both cities were vulnerable to decline basic american industries. basically the same set of problems. it's berg lost 75% of its basic metal employment but over the course of the next 30 years built a world-class city. what i saw was a collaboration between all parties business, labor, universities, hospitals, et cetera. to build a tech hub built on robotics, computer science around carnegie mellon, based on how this is around pittsburgh medical university center. steel fortunes invested in education, cultural institutions, historical percolation projects -- reservation.

government with private plans invested in a bunch of brownfield projects the revitalize cities. and the students who came to go to the university got good jobs and affordable housing and state and created a resurgence in the economy. so by 2009 when i would note the automobile industry in the united states was in bankruptcy, pittsburgh was voted by the economist intelligence unit of the most livable city in the united states. in contrast, in detroit which of the very same set of challenges, decline of the major industry loss of high value taxpayers and businesses from the city collapse of public revenue, massive increase in city obligations, pension, health care, responded what i observed was the response was based on a culture of contention rather than one of collaboration. i also thought it came out of a stored relationship between the largest industry and its labor

base. but it seemed pervasive across the community. what i observed was a zero-sum exercise in a dispute over dwindling resources. the capital and i'm in capital defined broadly, financial human, all migrated away from the city. notably to ann arbor a nearby place that flourish. and the lesson i took from that is you can have a collaborative approach and a forward thinking point of view, or you can find yourself mired in old disputes that you are relitigating in a culture of contention. it seemed appreciate for. it seemed also about detroit these days, it's late our focus on that understand the lesson, final have had excellent of bankruptcy and are getting to it but it's a lesson we have to learn and has a business version of the show so much we can do. we can thrive in the cultures of

collaboration and we can succeed in the culture of contention but it's a lot easier to succeed elsewhere. >> i hope some folks in washington take note of -- >> local, not national politics. >> my word, not yours. randi, i wanted to ask you about something that transformation human capital, human capital resources will. we've heard throughout this discussion imports of attracting business and growth is on the human capital potential. bruce has referenced that as a high point for cities. what are strategies to make sure that our schools are developing kind of the human capital of tomorrow? >> in three minutes speak with you can take more than three minutes. >> it is absolutely doable to create these kind of -- can you hear me? it's actually doable to create

these kind of human capital strategies. the real question is how do we do it for every child? the real question is sustainability and scalability. and so let me just start with this. three districts really quickly. district on the breakup collapsed find its way back from recession lawrence massachusetts. it could have closed schools but instead decided with a new superintendent to focus on a strategy of this will suffer no to both glenn thank you sector cast, everyone has been talking about this engagement intervention collaboration. working with teachers and working with parents working with kids and did one year at a don't want to sound like it is going to be that's a slap in every civil year, but they turned around schools so that in massachusetts they had a five or 10-point increase in schools in one year.

second, school with alpha delta social workers for students, families, guidance counselors, support for housing early childhood settings, you say this is school system, yes, sensitive to the schools have become centers of community and will be seen is cincinnati is the highest performing district in ohio because secretary castro said, breaking down the silos and it was done economically well. third, this gets to the whole point about cities. think about a school where kids got to learn on the water, school where students work with her hands building and operating boats, harvesting oysters designing submersible vehicles and gagging underwater, yes, i know it is your husband's favorite school in new york city this is the new york harbor school. it's one of hundreds of career tech ed schools that got not only nukes even the landscape and this is what so important about these schools.

when you are lying to work that is a commuter just like you talked about in terms of manufacture we're doing this in pittsburgh as well peoria illinois. when you online manufacturing or the of the kind of skills, the employers that are in the city and the high schools and community colleges you create this amazing robustus in terms of that pipeline. and, in fact, that's where someone like that chairman and ceo of snap on tools has said we're in a global competition for jobs and the single best weapon is ctd. we need a skilled the competition why do i start with these three? because if we know we can do it then we need to make these the norm, not the exception. if you want to all kids, when we have to do it to borrow the phrase the secretary used in in years ago it takes a village. because economics and

educational policies have to go side-by-side. even though it's not an urban setting, we learned this in west virginia where we are actually building housing, trying to create jobs the poorest in the eighth poorest county in the united states, while at the same time working with folks in san francisco to build housing there. it is a public-private partnership where we are collaborating as opposed to send engaging in conflict. we can do it but if we don't have we can do in this ad hoc way. and we don't have as you said before the kind of intervention and strategies that promote this all throughout the country, they will still be outliers as opposed to the norm. >> thank you randi. randi is was talking about strategies matching up human capital with economic development, faith-based

strategy. dixon, wanted to talk to you about how a number of urban areas are facing these issues in their housing, poor health failing schools and one of the initiatives that secretary castro talked about was promises owns, which is really looking at the fact that today research shows that persons of good has more to do with their life expectancy than their genetic code. so how do we really directly address those come what's happening to the individual in that community, promise zones is when the initiatives. can you tell us how that helps tackle some of these challenges and what you are seeing from your experience? >> thanks. and i want to echo what an honor it is to be part of the distinguished panel display. as we have already heard the or a host of collective impacts

initiatives going on in urban communities across the country really a modern-day war on poverty. the federal government is going a major role in this work. we are thrilled in los angeles to be at the forefront of these efforts, efforts to break the intergenerational cycle of poverty. so targeting specific geography in our case the community with about 200000 residents, and saturating that committee with resources. our nonprofit youth policy institute happens to be the only agency in the country that has been awarded all four of the white house signature initiatives around neighborhood revitalization. that's the los angeles promise him at a partnership is a we've heard about the that's promised neighborhood which is there are now 12 hamas neighbors in use. choice neighborhoods out of hud and out of the department of justice. i'm pleased to announce and the last two years, $100 million in new targeted federal investment has come into the los angeles

promise zone from seven different agencies. these are not big capital projects our lives. this is programmatic funding for specific community. what we're learning on the ground is there's no silver bullet for the urban challenges. you have to do everything and just to do it well. in our case that the focus on the continuum from cradle to college and career with high quality schools, in early education and wraparound services for youth and family. targeting disconnected youth have dropped out of school and don't have employment, all of that needs to be part of the lisa strategy and it has to be results driven. we have a system that all our partners in the committee use so we can track these outcomes over time. and i think you've got to have everybody at the table. and now i we are lucky the annenberg foundation put together something -- to bring local philanthropy in to align and support these public sectors.

finally, i just want to add in this except that in this bill today that leadership is really critical. we had a fantastic met in hell a was a big believer in this approach who is in debating and restructuring at the state government level. not of this would've happened if the obama administration had not taken on what i think is a herculean challenge of getting federal agencies to collaborate to break down silos to better support place-based work in communities like a. honestly, i think it's a best kept secret of the last six years in d.c. we're just happy to be a part of it and happy to be here today. >> thank you so much. janet, i want to come to. would areas we've really seen pick up his latina entrepreneur should it has grown immensely over the last 15 years and we know from research that latinos actually more than -- how do we harness that energy as part of an economic agenda for the

future? >> sure. it's a great question. latinos are entrepreneurial and we're clearly punching above our weight when it comes to small business area. the facts show that more than 3 million hispanic owned business in this country generate more than $1 trillion into our economy, and one of every five new entrepreneurs is latino, and hispanic women-owned businesses are leading the way. let dean is are the fastest going segment of the small business community. latinos. but many times they are doing that out of sheer grit and will, and yet they are -- are still not enough support and services to help keep the small businesses sustainable. and the theme that we've heard already today is really one that that's what needs to be reinforced, and one area and group, i guess a sector that would like to highlight is that

community based organizations. they are doing so much to pitch in and collaborate with those community colleges and with the businesses, the larger businesses, often with the chambers. for us it's going to be essential that community based organizations who know these commute, particularly in the latino communities, can help give them the skills, the support they need so that they can have access to capital. a lot of times it doesn't take much. secretary clinton knows your deputy secretary was part of a great model. there is a new spinoff called lived that is helping many small business owners particularly across different sectors. they are doing it by using this model that we talked about, breaking down the barriers that are often better and the silos. and we of the national council

are looking to make sure that our affiliates dixon is one of us and is a shining example but there's lots of ways we can be doing more. i will say that when charles was an washington, d.c. last week, and while he did many things one of the things he did was visit the carlsen center in d.c., nclr affiliate, and he was looking at was told the way they were integrating immigrants to have the skills to be able to succeed in the mainstream oftentimes many of them need small businesses and learning about the access to capital, but sometimes it's just the language skills that we need to transition them so that they can be fully successful. and i think that there is more that we could do. one of the things i would just say as a close is that we are doing a lot as a community i think to be part of that vitality in the urban core, but

i would say that one reason that oftentimes some of these folks return to the small business sector is because still the labor market is not sort of an even landscape and our limited opportunities. and i would hope that we could still look at adequate ways that we can support our workforce develop systems. because i think we need to be moving on several fronts to make sure that the urban progress we make is inclusive of all of our communities. >> can't i just jump in? i know i'm not on the agenda next but i agree 100% with one of the points you made, and that is we are looking partnership with the community colleges, looking a partnership with the schools. we are not looking partnerships with a small businesses and particularly the small minority and women businesses that are there. we don't have the bandwidth to reinvent ourselves as a large corporation does. as we're looking all the changes

of innovation, we need to be partnered with some of these corporate partners and to be a part of it be at the table. we are not. so i couldn't agree more you know, 100% because that kind of where i am right now. i know a lot of folks but i'm looking at my peers and what's happening and we are seeing a big, big change, wonderful things happening in boston particularly and innovation district but it's not filtering over. so really it's a good look at ways corporate and government to pay attention to the small businesses and integrate it into this due process withstand and the community colleges et cetera, that if they could really have an impact. >> that's great. janet, did you of anything else you wanted to say? >> no. i was finishing up so it was fine. i think that for me it's important to reinforce this notion that a hidden gem in these core urban centers are

these committee based organizations. and they are hustling trying to support, and they're really credit a number of folks in the public and private sector, foundations have stepped up to offer us models so that we can scale some of these programs. but it has to be a partnership and has to be coordination and collaboration. vicious a lot of folks working really hard out there. they want to make it they want to contribute that to me just a little bit of help. again having a small loan, it doesn't have to be a big one, for some of our folks to be able to open those doors but to keep them open for their small business. that's going to be how we are really making sure there's vibrancy in these urban centers. >> glenn? >> i think beth and i talked about this before, businesses good schools with sides indicating degrees are going to do just fine. will need is to focus on the people who have never had a job, the jobless the long-term

unemployed and the post-incarceration population. that's a lot about not about stem research but it is about skills training and degree with local businesses, small and large. it still amazes me our unemployment insurance this is based upon job search as opposed to trading. if you're going to break into the hard-core unemployment, those levels you have to be able to do that. >> i just want to add, this is exactly on point. we have at the last count i saw 5.6 going young people in america between 16 and 24 who are neither in school nor at work. if we don't consciously try to set up a better systems to reach out, find the young people and train them come we're doing something of the clinton foundation called job one because there's glenn said a lot of them have never had a job before. so they don't have the hard

skills but they also don't have the soft skills. support of the challenge is working with companies that will do exactly what you were saying, and that is make it possible to have these entry points where companies with i think either already existing government support or revamped support for skills training, will coordinate. the other thing that germany does is instead of an unemployment system the heavyweight subsidy system the you don't let people go in the first place, and i think there are lots of great ideas both in our own countries -- country that is being tried but we have to focus on that first job and get people into the system so that they then can maybe get better educated and better opportunities will,. >> so what we often do is we do top down rather than bottom up. and this whole notion of neighborhood space and thinking about how you work with the

assets, you leveraged assets including human assets and community-based organizations and the faith community to actually find your kids in the neighborhood. and that's part of the reason that what we have seen when we wrapped services around schools and try to think about the school as the center of committee or church as the center we find those kids because kids, if we can engage them, they don't drop out. if we can actually engage businesses, we actually have a pipeline to jobs and a pipeline to do more. >> i'm getting a number of things out of this discussion but are a couple of words people have constantly repeated and one is elaborations. and as a matter of fact, someone said that should be collaboration rather than -- unfortunately in many cases that's where we begin in a

contentious vote. i can give you a variety of examples in detroit for example, with the first thing when it went into bankruptcy they were looking at cutting retirees benefits to earn on average $19,000 a year. they're looking at cutting the benefits by 40%. just out of the box. we had to react to the. our members and our retirees live in these immunities, they live there they provide essential public services but rather than starting off in a contentious mode it seems to me there are enough examples, we talked about it this morning when we can collaborate and we can bring all of our communities together whether it's a nonprofit, small business community, government, labor elected officials, corporations and we can sit down and creatively talk about resolving these problems. that's what's missing in many cases. we've got to bring this discussion together and bring everyone at the table so we can honestly have dialogue about how

we can rebuild our structures, infrastructure, education system, provide decent housing while the jobs in these areas across the country. there are examples that are out there. people are doing it. but we've just got to talk about it and get it into a plan a strategic program, a strategic plan to get the job done. >> there's a great phrase by governor hickenlooper collaborate to be. be. if there's any anyplace that is, more collaborative than any other metropolis in the united states, it's in the. they were flat on the back in the early '80s, and the city and the suburbs came together invested back into the downtown the suburbs invest in the downtown because they knew they needed a vibrant core. you fast forward 25 years later, they're building 122 miles of light rail transit with primarily local resources.

so success goes to success goes to success. the only thing i would say is if you put your stamp economy on steroids, i me every job in a stem economy yields another five jobs. summit support the stem it summit just basically housing sector. in many respects in the cities they really isn't a difference between the stamina, and the nonstick economy or between downtown and neighborhoods. these are unified immunities essentially. i which is argued going forward we need to think about stoking the fires. if you go to downtown detroit, downtown buffalo or downtown st. louis we've got to focus even more on supercharging those economies because the multiplier effect is really off the charts for people living in those neighborhoods. then we have to connect them. >> can we call it the steam and not stem, put the arts in there? >> arts is critical.

>> i like that. >> building on that others have research on how higher educated folks in cities actually raised the wages for everyone from folks who never went to high school. mr. secretary of housing and urban development, i'm going to start to close with you. from this conversation what are the strategies we can really learn from say gulf overcome and what are you looking to work on at the federal level? >> it's been a wonderful conversation. i think great points made all of them. i got elected to center city council when i was 26. just last year, in fact. [laughter] and i remembered that early on were tried to make a decision about where to put the limited resources that the city had every year for street maintenance and repair. basic things that happened in cities all the time.

and at one of the neighborhood association meetings i ran into a woman who came up to me and said that they had been waiting in the neighborhood for many years for sidewalks to be created on the street. and that it meant something to her because her mother -- this was an adult woman -- her mother who is totally have diabetes and the doctor had advised her mother to walk to try and walk to help out with her health condition, but she couldn't do that because there were no sidewalks, and there were also dogs in the neighborhood that would harass anybody who tried to walk by. and for me as a policymaker it drove on this idea that all of these things that we do are connected in terms of policy. but it's infrastructure it's health it's economic development for housing. so the best thing that we are doing i believe out there are

really bringing all of those issues together investing in ensuring there's good polity affordable housing making sure that cities are safe. we are celebrating 50 years this year and one of the things we're most proud of our place based initiative neighbors built from 26 years ago that said it is about housing, about education about safety sustainability of standing with promise zones promise neighborhoods. i believe that we need to do more of that in years to come to lift up the urban cores of communities out there that have been struggling but at the same time and it was noted at the beginning of the conversation today those metros make up 75% of our national gdp. and in this 21st century as the united states finds itself

in an unprecedented competition were jobs and investment with nations that are rising around the world, we need more than ever over the cities to excel. i think we can do that if we collaborate but also think of the policy in a way that blends all of those areas. >> thank you so much. lee, closing thoughts? >> let me once again to thank you for what you've done as far as pulling this together. you've gotten good recommendation so captured able to resolve this problem by tomorrow. [laughter] >> my report is coming out tomorrow. >> this is what i'm getting out of this and this is a discussion that i believe is a beginning. we should continue it. afscme is committed to that but let me highlight a couple things i've heard constantly today. one is that jobs are the key to rebuilding our cities. good jobs are at the root of all the other social and economic challenges that really must be addressed across the country. that includes improving education and establishing pre-k

programs investing in public safety, addressing health disparities, and preserving affordable housing. there something else i heard today. we cannot -- every committee has got to be included in this discussion and every injured has got to have the opportunity to advance and to make better lives for themselves and are families. we need to invest in our infrastructure. we're going to need help we are going to need resources coming from the federal government but also from the private sector to do just that. i really am excited about this endeavor. i think that this is the right thing to do and it's an important thing to do. we have the examples of where we can be successful all across the country. the trick is going to be to pull those examples together and to bring people together rather than continuing to fight and argue with one another.

so thank you transport. >> secretary clinton, closing thoughts? >> well, amen. i love sessions like this because it's nice to get back into an evidence-based discussion about what works and what doesn't work and to try to learn from examples that i think and teachers all a lot of lessons. and that to me is the most important take away. we have cities that are working well because they have been reinventing themselves and they have done so in a collaborative inclusive manner. they still have work to do. but they at least are demonstrating their our approaches that we can learn from and then try to apply. -- their our approaches. there are other cities when are having difficulty overcoming the

contentiousness, trying to figure out ways to collaborate where it's really more of a political battlefield than a policy discussion. so i hope that c.a.p. and the other represented here this morning can do together what is omitted it as to try to seem like a conversation in cities themselves. because i do think it's both bottom-up and top 10. if we can get more cities going to state capitals and come here to washington and saying, we need to abolish the silos, need your help in creating the condition for coordination and collaboration, we need to have your help in convening, and that's something that secretary castro is very focused on. and that looking at what works and looking at results, which i think dixon also has pointed to. look at what works and get out of the very unproductive

discussion that we've had for too long where people are just in their ideological bunkers having arguments instead of trying to reach across those divides and come up with some solutions. and, mayor, i think what you did with the games and gang members is exact what needs to be done in so many places in our country. so don't be surprised if you get a call to come in maybe we will start not too far from here in a beautiful domed building -- [laughter] where we get everybody in the same room and start that conversation. that could lead to collaboration and better results for our cities and our country. so thank you all very much. >> thank you. thanks for the ending and thanks, everyone, for participating. [applause]

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