baltimore ready for business again. stay with us for some smart insight and analysis. rebecca: welcome back to this special edition of "washington busiss report we are the washington baltimore reregion, so wther you live or work in the area, , all of us he ties to the city tt ofoffers so mumuch to the reason. and it is notust baltimore torn apart by issues of race and economic disparity. this week, we wand to stop to emily badr, a reportert "the washington post" who had a smart take on the issues found in -- challenging baltimore. you wrote about the challenges in baltimore. we are not trying to tackle the police issues or freddie gray, but we are oking at the poverty issue which so manyay are part of the riding and frusustration in the city. talk abobout some ofhe problems baltimore faces in the inner-city. >> as i think about the event that led up to today, it is very similar to what has happened in other big citities across america. in chicago, boston washington, basically policies and active desions that have been made by government and institutions over decades which have contributed to making these deeply poor urban neighborhoods isolated, and you think a lot of times we think