so let me talk about my hometown of detroit where about 95% of white children in the metro detroit area live in very low poverty neighborhoods. these are neighborhoods with, for the most part, highly functioning schools, good jobs for their parents, places to buy, fresh fruits and vegetables, capital to start a business. in contrast, only about 40% of black and latino kids in metro detroit live in those kinds of neighborhoods. now, you might say, well, that's to be expected given differences in wealth, income and education. but let's control for that. in detroit poor white children, about three out of every four live in neighborhoods with very low levels of poverty. in contrast, there are similarly poor -- their similarly poor black and latino peers very overrepresented in high poverty neighborhoods. so these are the issues that are at the root of our conversation. so i invite our panelists, how do we tackle these challenges? how do we begin to understand the sorting that has happened as a result of a variety of historic and contemporary factors and tackle those challenges so that, ulti

infrastructure that is secured by the revenues the water department and guess what people throughout metro detroit will pay for water and sewer circe one someday we'll hear about what's going on they say it makes sense that this would happen to be able to learn the language on their bill for a very long time but in detroit a unique you need case. the truth is you need jason everything that we hear there's no other city he certainly has the american and it's hard to manage it in. your hands touch and if you're standing out through neighborhoods and shutting. between one thousand five hundred and three thousand residential looking once a week i mean in any other city since our local elected has been decapitated by the. neighbors and for us that they were just the management was there's no accountability so that they're getting you know we get. this right the average monthly water bill is nearly double the national average of forty dollars which is incredible to think about on top of that the detroit city council approved a nine percent hike last week for a city that's already struggling why do we co

the root of this conversation so let me talk about detroit where 95% of white children in the metro detroitw poverty neighborhoods. these are neighborhoods with for the most part highly functioning schools, good jobs for their parents, places to buy, fresh fruits and vegetables, capital to start a business. in contrast only about 40% of black and latino kids in detroit with the most kinds of neighborhoods. you might say well that's to be expected given differences in wealth, income and education but let's control for that by just looking i kids whose families are below the poverty line. in detroit for white children, about three out of every four live in neighborhoods with very low levels of poverty. in contrast there are similarly poor black and latino -- so these are the structural issues at the root of this conversation so i invite any of our panel is how do we tackle these challenges? hardly begin to understand the sorting that has happened as a result of the historic and contemporary factors and tackle those challenges ultimately we are not talking about preferences of any sort? >> thi

. >> that metro detroit be where the criticism steps in. >> becky, i'm all for looking at marginal reductionsould create economic growth again, to have a trust fund. this is the fifth time since 2008 where we get to this point where state government, local government, people all across the country don't know if the program is going to be extended. they are pretty sure congress will throw people under the bus to pay for this. they still don't enter into those longer-term contracts better for our country. again, let's talk about this. anybody would have to say the current six is totally atenable. it's ridiculous for a nation of our greatness to be handling transportation, road funding, bridges the way that we are. why not pay for it as we go. let me say in sens tennessee, that's what we do. we have zero grow debt. >> they say when you look at interest rates, these historic lows, why wouldn't you take this time to beef up as much infrastructure and get it at lower interest rate? >> it's a state thing or a national thing. >> look, joe, i'm okay with that debate. if people want to deinvolve some o