their resources, she obviously worked with the governor. i don t know that any of us would be having this kind of conversation if the city had the national guard against high school students. obviously, the city took a significant turn for the worse. . they did what they node to do. but there will be enough time for after action operations or analysis with that particular mom and her son. let s talk about the resources needed to make sure that young man has something to do in the after school hours and the many programs that baltimore has and it would be hypocritical to talk about the challenges, in many cities a i kros the united states don t have jobs this summer.
reprioritize resources so that that area can now begin its own renaissance beyond the ashes of the last two days? what actions are you prepared to help this leadership if baltimore move this city forward? well, first of all, it s good to be with you all. mike the first thing i m going to, do we need to do and i ve said this before is put a mirror up to ourselves to make sure we are listening to our children. we need more of a conclusion revolution. it s so important and, you know i think the first thing that we will do is try to physical out how to make sure that the limited resources that we do have are snentd a way that are most meaningful to our city and our young people. i think with barnacle the most thing that concerns people of this nature are jobs. jobs are very important. you know what mike you start with something before that that s education. so many of these children and
near the inner harbor are expressing concern, have expressed concern that those same resources farce development and investment are not happening in their communities. baltimore city has a big challenge with have a can t housing, in many cases where you can be on one block, there could be 17 18 vacant homes and maybe one or two. sir, doesn t this back up with this tim swift is bringing up, there has not been a focus on the pockets of poverty, that they have been left behind while the water front has been built up and is shining and bright that there is something unfair and ferguson like about parts of baltimore. well, that is correct. and that is what is being expressed by many other residents in various communities, especially my district, which is the western part of baltimore city. and we need that same type of investment uptown as we re getting downtown. we looked at neighborhoods in
maryland has strict lead paint lous. a lot of the landlords, people that owned those houses abandoned them. then it takes a lot of money, my friend to demolish those houses, but we re going to himco back. because there are other parts of the city unfortunately that you don t see on that train ride. i ve done that train ride many times. we gtd to be about the business of trying to get the resources to do those things. somebody said it earlier on your shows while the recession everybody believes the recession is over. the fact still remains there are a lot of folks left behind. congressman elijah cummins, thank you very much. we appreciate you being here and appreciate your leadership. this is a 2016 issue. this isn t an inequality issue, sorry, we either want the government and the candidates involved in this conversation or they re leaving it to businesses. i can t address inequality. you really can. i want to clean something up yesterday, somebody wrote a snippy article about
young people feel starved of a good education. i m just basing that on what i have heard over and over and over again. many of them feel to some degree that like as if they re crippled. so i think we need to work with our new superintendent. he has only been on the job a few months. then we got to sit down and physical out how do we make sure that these children are properly educated so they can get the jobs within they come here? one of the first thing i did, by the way, yesterday, was called cvs drugs and i called rite aid. i called -11 stores affected the other night and harmed and said to those ceos, we will make hard to make sure we get you the kind of resources you need. we want to protect your businesses. why? i want to make sure we have jobs. i will also concentrate on education. we will continue to press on the national level to try to understand when cuts are made at