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A
And
we
welcome
you
back
to
black
pittsburgh
matters.
Black
pittsburgh
matters
is
a
series
of
virtual
town
hall
meetings,
affirming
a
city-wide
agenda
that
black
pittsburgh
does
indeed
matter.
Black
pittsburgh
matters
mean
that
black
lives
matter.
We
must
protect
the
health
and
safety
of
black
people.
It
means
the
black
communities
matter.
We
must
focus
on
rebuilding
black
communities
and
it
means
that
black
wealth
matters.
We
must
focus
on
increasing
black
employment
and
entrepreneurial
ship.
B
The
black
community
has
been
disproportionately
affected
by
concurrent
crisis,
the
kovic
19
pandemic
and
its
economic
crisis
and
race
relations
and
the
unveiling
that
really
racial
equity
is
a
national
epidemic
in
our
country.
They're.
Both
public
health
crisis,
normally
in
times
of
crisis
and
great
change,
we'll
be
coming
to
you
as
the
black
elected
officials
of
pittsburgh,
having
meetings
across
the
city
with
our
constituents,
partners
and
allies,
since
we
cannot
do
so
safely
in
the
current
pandemic.
B
We're
now
using
this
median
platform
to
come
to
you
in
the
ways
in
which
we
can
to
talk
about
what
we're
doing,
discuss
policy
and
legislation
concerning
black
pittsburgh.
These
meetings
will
be
available
via
facebook
youtube
and
the
city's
cable
channel.
You
can
contact
or
ask
questions
via
the
black
pittsburgh,
marriage,
facebook,
page
or
email
us
at
black
pgh
matters,
that's
block,
pghmatters
gmail.com
and
of
course
you
can
comment.
A
Given
as
you
as
you
mentioned,
brad
that
we
are
indeed
in
women's
history
month
this
evening,
we
are
looking
to
highlight
the
experiences
of
black
women
in
pittsburgh.
There
are
statistics
highlighting
how
difficult
the
city
is
for
black
women.
There
are
extreme
disparities
for
the
infant
mortality
rates
of
black
women
here,
as
well
as
the
poverty
rate,
college,
completion
rate
and
share
of
the
workforce.
These
statistics
indicate
we
have
a
lot
of
work
to
do
as
a
city
to
uplift
and
support
our
black
women.
B
Yeah,
I
I
I've
been
working.
As
you
know,
in
this
issue,
a
long
time
before
I
became
a
member
of
council.
Actually,
I
ran
an
agency
specifically
to
provide
education
and
counseling
support
to
young
young
girls,
mostly
young
black
girls.
B
They
have
to,
of
course,
talk
to
the
man
or
woman
that
they
think
is
being
domestically
abused,
go
through
a
checklist
and
then
call
if
they,
depending
on
how
they
score
on
the
protocol,
make
hotline
call
right
then,
to
resources
for
that
person.
B
George
spurgeon,
a
cohn
police
judge,
said
that
he
thought
this
was
who
he
was
on,
and
then
he
was
the
d.a
over
prosecuting
domestic
violence
cases.
He
said
it
was
the
single
most
important
tool
in
the
last
50
60
years
for
addressing
domestic
abuse
and
we're
proud
of
that.
I
don't
talk
about
it
so
much
because
it's
really
more
about
protecting
the
lives
of
of
people
rather
than
take
any
political
credit.
A
Yeah
until
the
gender
equity
commission's
report
came
out,
I
didn't
have
a
full
understanding
of
the
statistical
they.
They
laid
out,
statistically
all
the
challenges,
and
so
that's
when
I
really
began
to
understand
it.
But
prior
to
that,
maybe
about
I
guess
about
five.
A
When
you
really
begin
to
understand
what
was
happening,
that
we
would
have
to
produce
a
report
that
also
spoke
directly
to
them
and
we
ended
up
having
a
very
insightful
and
enlightening
meeting
for
me
over.
It
was
at
carlow
university,
one
saturday
when
we
specifically
held
a
town
hall
meeting
just
for
women
to
come
and
talk
about
their
specific
experiences
here
in
the
city
and
how
the
peace
and
justice
initiative
that
we
were
trying
to
shape
how
it
needed
to
be
sort
of
centered
and
focused
on
their
lived
experiences.
A
If
we
were
actually
going
to
begin
turning
the
tides
in
this
city
and
really
began
lifting
our
communities
about
a
poverty.
So
it's
been
a
learning
experience
for
me.
I've
sort
of
been
slow
to
the
legislative
process.
Obviously,
after
the
report
came
out,
you
and
I
took
a
series
of
legislative
actions
that
we
thought
would
be
helpful
and
uplift,
our
city,
but
we
do
have
the
experts
here
with
us
this
evening,
and
so
maybe
they
can
tell
us
if
we
were
helpful
or
whether
or
not
there's
more
work
for
us
to
do.
B
Pittsburgh's
gender
equity
commission,
of
course
highlighted
some
of
the
inequities
black
women
in
the
city
face
with
a
view
toward
uplifting
and
supporting
black
women
to
ensure
pittsburgh
is
a
city
for
all.
We
want
to
talk
this
evening
about
some
of
the
underlying
problems
black
women
face
here,
as
well
as
the
work
being
done
to
fix
these
issues,
including
how
the
gender
equity
report
has
influenced
cities
policies
and
how
we
continue
this
work
of
uplifting
and
supporting
black
women
in
pittsburgh.
We
are
deeply
honored
to
be
joined
by
dr
jane.
B
The
executive
director
of
the
gender
equity
commission
miss
brooks
woods,
the
co-founder
of
the
urn
institute
and
ceo
of
the
pittsburgh
business
group
on
health
and
oliver
beasley
polly
policy
analyst
for
the
office
of
equity.
All
three
of
you
we're
just
glad
to
have
you
welcome
to
this
evening's
town.
A
D
Thank
you
and
I
hope
everyone
will
call
me
a
new
easier,
but
thank
you,
council
member,
so
the
gender
equity
commission
is
now
three
years
old
and
we
are
part
of
an
international
network
of
human
rights
cities
that
we've
passed
an
ordinance
that
requires
us
to
have
an
eye
to
women's
rights
throughout
municipal
government,
and
so
I'm
the
one
staff
person
and
my
goal
is
to
help
hear
diverse
community
voices
about
gender-based
barriers
and
then
identify
what
policy
changes
the
city
can
make
to
to
overcome
those
barriers
to
dismantle
those
barriers,
and
so
the
two
pieces
one
is.
D
We
need
to
be
in
constant
engagement
with
diverse,
especially
black
communities,
given
our
report
and
then
to
be
aware
of,
where
are
the
most
impactful
changes
going
to
happen,
that
when
we
do
our
report
again
in
10
years,
we
will
show
that
there
has
been
improvement.
We
need
to
benchmark
and
that's
what
our
report
was
really
meant
to
do.
D
We
asked
for
an
analysis
of
publicly
available
data.
We
did
not
set
out
to
do
a
report
about
black
women
in
pittsburgh,
although
we
suspected
what
the
data
was
going
to
show
us,
because,
of
course,
black
women
and
black
communities
have
been
telling
people
that
there
are
these
structural
inequities.
But
now
I
use
the
report
to
basically
say
to
people
it's
racism
and
sexism.
D
I
mean
there's
no
other
way
to
analyze
this
data
than
to
say
these
are
systemic
inequalities,
where
two
oppressive
systems
intersect,
and
we
see
it
in
the
data,
and
we
see
also
how
we
can
start
to
uplift
all
of
us
by
starting
with
those
who
are
most
vulnerable
to
those
the
social
determinants
of
poorer
quality
of
life,
that
we
can
change
that
in
the
city
and
the
other
thing
about
the
report,
that's
important
to
know,
is
it
compared
pittsburgh
to
89
other
cities?
D
So
we
know
that
lots
of
changes
need
to
happen
on
the
national,
the
state
and
the
county
level.
But
we
also
can
compare
ourselves
to
these
cities
to
say
well.
Is
there
a
good
model
for
how
this
other
city
has
made
more
progress
than
pittsburgh
in
terms
of
overcoming
some
of
these
barriers,
and
I'm
happy
to
talk
more,
but
I
wanted
to
just
give
you
a
high
level
context
for
that.
B
I
want
to
just
go:
I'm
going
to
ask
you
a
question.
I
I
say
this
all
the
time
on
council
right.
I
say
this.
I'm
sure
that
sometimes
council
gets
tired
of
me
saying
the
same
thing,
which
is
this:
if
you
live
in
pittsburgh
and
you're
poor,
that's
a
problem,
but
if
you're,
black
and
poor,
it's
worse.
If
you
live
in
pittsburgh
and
your
lgbt
commute
for
the
lgbt
community-
and
you
know
tran,
you
have
issues,
that's
bad
in
pittsburgh.
Right,
there's,
there's
homophobia,
but
if
you're
black
and
lgbth,
then
it's
worse
right.
B
If
you're,
a
woman
in
pittsburgh,
certainly
there's
sexism
and
you
make
less
than
men
in
all
sorts
of
ways
that
you're
oppressed,
but
if
you're
black
and
female
in
pittsburgh,
then
your
situation's
worse,
so
that
we
find
in
all
these
issues
being
black
adds
an
extra
layer
of
difficulty.
And
so
I
just
you
know
from
a
personal
note,
what's
been
your
experience
of
you
know,
working
in
pittsburgh
and
having
to
react
as
as
as
a
black
female.
C
C
You
know
internships,
and
at
that
time
we
had
vibrant
programs
like
inroads
that
sought
after
us
and
had
corporate
relationships
and
and
really
ensured
that
we
had
an
experience
that
otherwise
would
not
have
been
afforded
to
us,
and
I
was
privileged
to
be
able
to
be
a
part
of
such
programs
that
I
believe
in
and
I
believe,
are
lacking
today
and
in
corporate
america.
C
It's
an
area
and
without
black
mentorship
and
being
able
to
see
black
leaders
in
senior
level
positions,
you're
really
fighting
for
aspiration
without
really
having
the
example
in-house-
and
that
was
a
large
part
of
you
know
my
experience
earlier
in
my
career,
and
then
you
know
now
being
a
leader
and
leading
a
employer
coalition,
where
we
really
have
the
ability
to
truly
impact
a
lot
of
things
that
this
report
highlighted
were
issues,
it's
being
the
only
one
in
the
room
oftentimes
and
having
to
break
through
familiarity,
and
you
know
the
ability
to
really
connect
with
primarily
white
men
in
some
cases
or
white
women.
C
In
other
cases,
to
really
be
able
to
make
progress
and
being
invited
in
the
rooms,
I
think
I've
been
become
skillful
and
I've
built
a
network
over
time
that
has
allowed
that
to
be
more
possible,
but
it's
definitely
not
been
easy
to
do
and
it's
not
comfortable
still.
I
I
walk
in
plenty
of
rooms
that
I
don't
feel
welcomed
in
oftentimes
and
its
culture
and
it's
invisible,
but
you
feel
it
at
the
same
time,
and
so
that's
a
part
of
my
personal
experience.
C
I've
also,
you
know,
I'm
very
close
to
health
care.
That's
very
important
to
me.
I
have
personal
experiences
throughout
that
trajectory.
I
just
mentioned
to
you
from
having
children
and
and
interest
and
having
to
engage
with
the
health
care
system
and
have
had
very,
very
difficult
experiences
in
pittsburgh
in
our
hospitals.
So
when
that
report
came
out
highlighting
the
black
maternal
mortality
rates
and
infant
mortality
rates,
how,
however,
I
have
an
experience
that
I'm
thankful
to
be
here.
C
I
can
totally
see
how
that's
happened
and
how
it's
still
happening
and
that
my
mother
has
stories
from
when
from
40
years
ago,
where
similar
experiences
happen
that
we're
experiencing
today.
So
you
know,
the
the
experience
goes
both
from
personal
healthcare
experience
to
employment,
to
just
being
in
our
community.
So,
but
thank
you
for
asking
and
having
an
interest
in
that.
A
C
C
At
the
time
and
12
companies,
ceos
came
together
and
decided
that
only
employers
would
really
be
able
to
affect
health
care
costs
if
they
were
independent
from
the
health
care
system
leadership
as
well,
so
they
branched
off
and
became
independent,
and
over
time
I
started
sending
their
hr
benefits
leaders
to
really
be
the
primary
representatives
of
the
com
of
the
companies
in
the
region,
mostly
started
by
large
self-insured
big,
the
bigger
companies
in
our
region
at
the
time
westinghouse
ustill
draveau.
C
Now
we
have
a
really
good
mix
of
employers,
ranging
from
500
employees
upwards
to
40,
000,
plus
employees,
so
public
private
allegheny,
county
school
systems,
the
universities,
as
well
as
the
banking
industry
and
manufacturing
industry.
There
are
11
industries
that
are
represented
collectively
we
represent
over
500,
000
employees
and
or
families.
C
So
people,
though
we
count
the
employees,
actually
walk
into
the
workplaces
or
zoom
into
their
workplaces
at
this
point
and
their
families
that
would
be
on
their
benefits
plan,
so
that
could
be
their
spouses
and
their
children
so
collectively
of
the
100
employers.
That's
about
one
half
a
million
lives
in
our
region
that
we
touch
and
then
beyond
our
region's
about
two
million,
or
so
we
have
not.
Until
this
report
came
out,
health
equity
was
not
on
our
agenda.
C
Benefits
leaders
did
not
have
a
strategy
ceos
weren't
asking
for
us
to
address
health
equity.
What
we
were
used
to
addressing
was
cost.
That's
how
why
we
started
access
really
became
an
issue
with
the
high
murky
pmc
battle,
so
that
was
really
the
first
time
in
our
history
as
a
coalition
that
we
were
fighting
for
access
and
advocating
for
access
and
then
qualities
in
the
last
seven
years
since
I've
been
leading
this
organization,
we've
been
focused
on
quality
and
outcomes.
However,
that
was
still
in
a
homogeneous
fashion.
C
We
did
not
consider
that
outcomes
and
quality
looked
different
and
then
incorporated
that
into
our
strategy.
So
when
that
report
came
out
in
september,
2019
me
as
a
black
woman
leader
of
this
organization
could
not
move
forward
with
leading
this
organization
if
we
did
not
prioritize
health
equity
as
a
strategic
prior
priority,
so
there
it
is,
and
now
that's
happening
nationally
across
the
country,
and
so
employers
have
a
significant
opportunity.
What
I
didn't
mention
is
that
our
coalition
loan
spends
five
and
a
half
billion
dollars
on
health
care
spending.
C
We
have
the
ability
to
influence
a
lot
of
things
in
healthcare
as
the
purchaser
as
the
as
we
have
the
we
have
the
green.
So
you
put
money
towards
outcomes
as
employers.
We
have
the
ability
to
work
and
contract
differently
with
our
health
plans
and
expect
them
to
have
have
value-based
models
with
the
providers
in
the
region
and
ensure
there's
an
equity
lens
to
that
we
have
the
ability
to
educate
our
workforce
and
our
families
on
the
equity
outcomes
that
do
exist
and
equip
them
for
interacting
with
the
health
care
system.
C
You
have
health
plans
and
then
you
have
the
state
insurance
exchange
wherever
you
may
get
be
able
to
get
access
fqhcs,
but
employers
nationally
are
is
the
largest
payer
of
healthcare,
so
our
influence
is
significant
and
so
there's
there's
a
lot
of
opportunity
with
that,
including
the
out-of-pocket
costs,
co-pays,
co-insurance,
high
deductible
health
plans
or
plan
designs,
addressing
the
cost
barrier
to
care,
and
then
once
you
get
access
to
the
care,
ensuring
that
there's
equity
or
accountability
for
equity,
in
that
care
and
good
outcomes.
B
When
we
did
the
wage
review
study
with
the
city,
the
mayor's
office
union
representatives-
and
we
began
to
look,
we
did
what's
called
the
wage
review
study
and
we
interviewed
workers
at
upmc
and
workers
at
highmark
talking
about
their
experience
and
their
wages
and
perhaps
one
of
the
most
heartbreaking
stories.
B
I
heard-
and
I
remember
today-
a
young
black
woman
who
had
several
children
who
worked
at
one
of
the
upmc
facilities
and
she
began
to
tell
me
how,
even
though
she
was
a
full-time
worker
in
the
upmc
hospital,
the
health
plan
that
she
had
was
provided
for
her.
She
could
not
take
her
kids
to
the
emergency
room
at
that
hospital,
because
the
deductible
was
so
high.
B
She
couldn't
afford
it
and
I
just
thought
something's
wrong
right
when
someone's
working
full-time
in
the
hospital
and
they
cannot
take
their
children
to
the
to
the
facility
that
they're
they're
working
and
something's
wrong.
And
so
we
began
to
argue
about.
You
know
the
need
for
15
an
hour
and
higher
in
the
healthcare
industry
and
and
that
we
believe,
I
think
it's
true.
B
We
can
all
agree
that
that
one
of
the
barriers
that
black
women
face
is
poverty
right
and
we
have
to
lift
up
their
wages
and
and
and
and
that
brings
us
really
to
oliver.
Oliver-
can
you
talk
us
talk
to
us
a
little
bit
about
the
new
program,
that's
being
implemented
through
the
mayor's
office,
that
of
universal
basic
income
guaranteed
income?
Can
you
talk
a
little
bit
about
that
and
how
we'll
help
women
in
general
depress
black
women
specifically.
E
Absolutely
thank
you
rev.
So
it's
a
it's
a
guaranteed
income
pilot
that
the
city
of
pittsburgh
is
looking
to
partner
with
one
pgh,
which
is
the
resiliency
nonprofit
headed
up
by
the
mayor
here
in
the
city
of
pittsburgh,
and
the
pilot
is
called
a
short
cash
experiment
pittsburgh
and
it
is
meant
to
be
a
just
that
an
experiment,
a
quantitative
and
qualitative
look
at
what
a
guaranteed
income
could
do
in
a
city
for
the
size
of
pittsburgh.
E
So
referencing
back
to
the
20
of
the
2019
gender
equity
commission
report,
which
all
the
sparks
from
it
got
national
attention.
We
did
win
when
deciding
on
what
to
do
a
program
about
the
idea
came
about
to
focus
it
on
black
women
at
or
below
50
ami,
since
it
had
already
been
targeted
and
already
been
depicted
from
the
report
that
that
is
our
demographic.
That
is
that
that
has
the
largest
disparities
from
inequities.
E
The
mayor
decided
that
was
a
good
idea
and
deciding
to
go
100
women
at
or
below
50
ami
black
women
had
or
below
50
ami
and
then
another
100
from
randomly
selected
neighborhoods
around
the
city
from
north,
south,
east,
west
and
central
regions,
and
then
just
a
control
group
wondering
what
it
would
trying
to
bring
a
trying
to
bring
an
analytical
answer
to
what
a
guaranteed
income
could
do
that.
A
lot
of
people
from
a
lot
of
different
backgrounds
can
get
behind.
B
E
Yeah,
so
it's
it's
still
long
theory.
Now
we
haven't
launched
it
yet
we're
still
building
it
and
creating
it
with
the
mgi
team
in
stockton
for
mayor
tubbs
and
everything,
but
it
would
be
100
black
women
or
below
50
ami.
E
Everyone
involved
in
the
pilot
would
have
a
debit
card,
a
debit
card
with
also
a
check
savings
account
attached
to
it,
and
the
ability
to
have
no
fees
for
cash
transfers
to
your
bank
account
if
you
wanted
to
the
card
would
be
loaded
500
every
month
and
the
length
of
the
pilot
we're
looking
to
have
it
to
be
for
24
months
so
500
a
month
for
24
months
and
then
in
in
that
time.
E
Studying
because
of
the
the
partnership
mgi
has
the
american
guaranteed
income
will
be
able
to
track
their
spending
on
what
they're
spending
it
on
and
through
surveys,
and
community
engagement
just
be
able
to
have
like
a
storytelling
component
to
understand
what
they
have
experienced
and
how
they
have
utilized
the
base
income
throughout
the
pilot.
B
Back
to
new
in
a
minute,
but
in
other
cities
they
found
that
people
who
get
this
at
guaranteed
income.
You
know
they're
not
spending
the
money
on
the
lottery
or
you
know
going
to
clubs
they're
spending
money
on
detergent,
they're
spending
money.
You
know
they're
spending,
money
on
vegetables
and
fruit.
Like
then,
there's
been
the
money
on
life's
necessities,
not
life's
extras.
E
Yes,
sir,
there
there
there's
a
bunch
of
different
palettes
that
have
been
done
in
different
countries,
but
the
most
recent
one,
the
one
I
was
just
finished
in
stockton
and
on
march
3rd.
They
just
released
their
findings.
You
know
the
people
that
push
back
said
that
there's
no
need
to
give
money
to
the
stigma,
to
give
money
to
poor
people,
because
they're
going
to
spend
it
on
booze
and
alcohol
and
cigarettes,
and
the
lottery
and
stuff
like
that-
and
this
is
the
mayor's
favorite
quote
thing
to
say-
is,
and
they
were
right.
E
They
did
do
that
on
about
less
than
one
percent
of
it.
Less
than
one
percent
of
the
money
spent
was
on
alcohol
and
cigarettes,
and
everything
else
was
on
food
transportation,
paying
down
bills,
gateways,
education
and
and
abundance
other
things
that
that
can
be
referenced
from
the
stockton
economic
empowerment
demonstration
was
the
name
of
it.
So
if
you
were
go
in
and
just
seed
is
the
acronym,
so
if
you
just
search
like
seed
stockton,
you'll
be
able
to
find
the
findings
from
their
white
pages,
but
to
your
point
rev.
B
Tell
us
you
know
you,
you
have
a
report.
You're,
you
know,
you've
mastered,
tell
us
kind
of
the
challenges
facing
specific
challenges
that
are
facing
black
women
in
pittsburgh.
You
know,
so
I
think
we
say
that.
But
if
you
don't
live
it,
you
know
one
of
the
things
I
was
driving
through
homewood
today
and
I'm
perhaps
talking
a
lot
because
I'm
very
passionate
about
these
issues.
B
But
if
you
drive
when
I
talk
about
block
poor
communities-
and
I
say
that
there
are
no
white
core
communities
in
pittsburgh,
but
there
are
only
black
poor
communities,
people
push
against
them,
they'll
say
well
what
about
carrick?
I'm
thinking?
No,
you
can't
compare
carrick
to
homewood
right
in
homewood.
There
are
no
grocery
stores.
There's
no
drugstores!
There's
no
restaurants!
There
are
no.
There
are
no
no
shoe
stores.
There
is
no
fast
food
restaurant
of
any
time,
any
kind,
there's
only
one
gas
station
and
it's
on
the
last
block
of
the
last.
B
It's
on
the
last
parcel
of
the
last
block
of
homework
for
them
for
and
for
the
most
part
it
doesn't
service
only,
and
so
you
can't
compare
this
so
talk,
talk
about
in
pittsburgh,
sort
of
the
real
basic
problems
that
black
women
challenges
that
they're
facing
that.
Your
study
found
that
they're
facing.
D
The
challenges
have
to
do
so.
I
guess
I
want
to
frame
it
for
just
a
second
that
one
of
the
ways
that
american
inequality
has
been
justified
in
my
lifetime
and
I'm
nearly
50
so
just
to
give
you
a
sense
of
the
span
is
that
people
don't
work
hard
enough
and
to
take
the
example
of
black
women
in
pittsburgh
and
a
lot
of
people
so
that
compared
to
other
cities,
white
men
experience
more
poverty
in
pittsburgh
and
they're
doing
the
best
of
all
of
the
racial
groups.
D
D
They
could
work
harder
than
anyone
it
has
ever
worked
and
their
access
to
living
wage
is
so
predetermined
to
be
so
difficult
that
the
majority
of
people.
Anyone
in
that
situation
would
find
it
very
difficult
to
pull
themselves
up
by
their
bootstraps.
It's
not
impossible,
and
I
studied
this-
the
american
dream,
so
I
can
say
with
no
no
hesitation.
The
research
is
very
clear.
D
Most
americans
cannot
just
pull
themselves
up
that,
in
fact,
between
whites
and
and
people,
black
indigenous
and
people
of
color,
that
the
inherited
wealth
creates
such
a
gap
and
then,
when
you
create
policies,
for
example,
redlining
who
can
buy
houses
where
who
can
invest
and
watch
generation
after
generation?
D
That's
how
you
can
get
out
of
poverty,
but
if
you
are
born
in
poverty,
if
you
are
impoverished
by
policies
that
explicitly
keep
you
out
and
don't
give
you
access
to
opportunities,
you
know
to
loans
to
mortgages,
etc.
So
I
think
what
we're
seeing
is
a
lot.
You
know
a
lot
of
people
in
communities
who
are
heads
of
households.
As
you
said,
a
lot
of
women
who
are
heads
of
helpful
living
in
poverty
in
our
area.
D
A
lot
of
them
are
black
women
and
they
are
working
inhumanely
hard
against
a
system
that
doesn't
give
and
says
why?
Don't
you
work
harder
on
in
the
policies,
for
example,
that
have
been
created
have
been
based
on,
as
oliver
was
saying
about
the
mgi
on
stereotypes
and
bias
and
assumptions
that
if
they
just
changed
how
they
behave,
they
will
succeed,
which
is
nonsense.
It
is
just
not
true
the
evidence,
the
research
none
of
it
is
there,
and
so
we
need
to
stop
punishing
people.
Who've
been
impoverished
by
our
policies.
D
We
need
to
create
policies
that
enrich
all
of
us,
not
just
some
of
us
in
in
the
country,
and
I
think
the
guaranteed
income
program.
I've
been
saying
this
for
20
years.
Poor
people
don't
need
a
lot
of
forms
and
hoops
and
to
prove
their
worthiness.
D
It
is
a
human
right
to
be
able
to
eat
and
we
are
human
rights
city,
so
I'm
very
comfortable
saying
that
and
so
give
people
money,
and
we
see
again
and
again,
the
pilots
have
shown
us
that
you
know
you
stop
making
people
poor
and
they
will
positively
contribute
to
the
economy,
so
we
all
benefit,
so
I
so.
D
I
think
it's
very,
I
think,
of
this
very
much
in
terms
of
structure
that,
if
you
wouldn't
want
to
be
a
certain
demographic
in
pittsburgh,
you
need
to
fix
what
it
is
that
that
demographic
is
facing.
If
you
would
only
want
to
be
white
in
pittsburgh,
then
you
as
a
white
person
in
pittsburgh,
need
to
say
what
can
I
do
to
make
it
so
that
anyone
in
this
city
can
succeed
on
merit?
F
Yeah
and
I'll
stop.
B
Talking,
but
without
another
example,
I've
said
is
true.
Statistics
poured
out
that,
if
you're,
if
you're
a
white
person
who
was
born
in
mount
lebanon
and
graduate
from
high
school
with
no
college
at
all,
you
will
actually
have
a
much
stand
higher
standard
of
living
in
your
lifetime
than
if
you
were
born
in
homewood,
with
an
undergraduate
or
even
a
graduate
degree
that
that
the
location
is
so
determinate.
Your
where
you
were
born
at
is
so
greatly
determined
on
your
success.
D
As
someone
who
was
in
higher
education
for
a
decade
as
a
professor,
I
just
have
to
say
that
it
breaks
my
heart
and
that
that
education
was
going
to
be
the
uplift
and
incredibly
highly
educated
black
communities,
individuals,
people
of
color
once
again,
there's
just
a
lot
of
assumptions
that
are
made
about
people's
worthiness
that
we
just
shouldn't
stand
for
that.
It's
not
acceptable
if
policies
are
recommended
for
the
future.
I
want
to
see
a
statement
that
says
how
is
this
going
to
lift
up
our
most
vulnerable,
the
people
at
the
top?
D
D
That
said,
we
are
going
to
invest
in
certain
neighborhoods
and
not
in
other
neighborhoods,
and
we
need
to
fix
that
history
so
that
we
have
a
future
that
actually,
once
again,
I'm
I've
done
the
research
for
a
long
long
time
and
there
will
be
more
peace,
less
violence
and
a
better
quality
of
life.
D
For
all
of
us,
if
we
can
pull
people
help,
people
pull
themselves
out
of
impoverished
poverty
situation
and
in
our
city
that
starts
with
a
focus
on
black
women
and
listening
to
black
women
and
trusting
black
women
when
they
tell
us.
This
is
what
we
need,
not
what
you're
trying
to
give
us
that
we
don't
need.
A
So,
from
your
perspective
anew
you've,
oh
you
acknowledged
that
policies
have
put
our
community
in
the
position.
Horrible
situations
that
we're
in
is
policies
that
have
made
the
city
of
pittsburgh,
one
of
the
worst
cities
for
black
women
to
live
in
and
obviously
you're
having
a
conversation
with
two
policy
makers.
So,
from
your
perspective,
what
policies
should
we
be
looking
at?
Should
we
be
considering?
A
D
I
think
my
answer
is
and-
and
I
wonder
if
oliver
is
because
alice
oliver
is
much
more
of
a
policy
expert
and
has
a
history
with
this,
and
so
I
don't
want
to.
I
would
love
to
hear
a
psalm.
I
definitely
think
the
guaranteed
income
is
one
experiment
that
a
year
ago
people
said
you
know
we're
still
saying
as
they've
been
saying
for
decades,
that's
a
terrible
idea
and
then
suddenly
the
interest.
D
D
This
is
the
city.
We've
got
the
size,
we
need
the
political
will
and
we
need
our
foundation
communities
to
put
millions
of
dollars
into
piloting
things
that
are
that
are
perhaps
they
seemed
outlandish
to
people
and
and
we've
got
some
research.
We've
got
some
some
things,
but
what
I
was
going
to
say
rather
than
one
policy
issue,
because
the
gender
equity
commission
is.
We
understand
that
gender
impacts
every
single
one
of
us.
However,
we
identify
male
female
gender
non-binary,
their
systems
of
gender,
that
impact
us
and
then,
of
course,
differently
if
you're
disabled.
D
If
you're
in
a
certain
age
group,
I
think
we
need
to
have
every
policy
in
the
city
have
an
equity
lens
that
someone
needs
to
to
read
it
before
it
gets
implemented,
approved,
voted
on
and
approved
and
implemented
that
someone
looks
at
and
says,
okay
who's
being
left
out.
How
is
this
going
to
create
barriers?
D
What
are
the
unintended
consequences
because
I
think
very
well-intentioned
policy,
and
once
again,
I'm
going
to
stop
talking,
because
I
don't
want
to
insult
anyone
who's
an
expert
on
policy
like
all
of
you
are,
but
well-intentioned
policy
often
forgets
to
say
what
are
the
gender
impacts?
What
are
the
race-based
impacts?
D
What
is
the
equity
question
as
jessica
and
hi
jessica
jessica
was
describing
earlier
that
that
equity
lens
needs
to
be
systematic
and
that's
the
policy
change.
I
guess
I
would
like
to
see
it
I'll
stop
talking.
E
Well,
for
me
personally,
I
think
one
of
the
largest
best
inequities
amongst
black
populations
in
this
city,
and
it's
not
just
this
city,
it's
out.
It's
absolutely
a
national
thing.
It
would
be
economic
mobility.
The
three
major
contributing
factors
to
economic
mobility
is
the
income,
the
ability
to
pay
for
education,
homeownership
and
wealth
transfer,
and
for
wealth
transfer.
For
clarity,
I'm
not
talking
about
redistribution
of
wealth,
I'm
talking
about
actual
transferring
of
wealth,
inter
intergenerational.
E
So
to
your
point
rev.
If
someone
were
to
live
in
mount
lebanon
and
they
not
go
to
college,
they
said
they
not
want
to
go
to
college.
They
just
wanted
to
go
and
be
a
fireman.
E
The
probability
is
higher
that
their
that
the
wealth
transfer
from
mount
lebanon
that
home,
if
you're
paying
if
one
of
your
parents
has
a
small
business
whatever
assets
they
accumulated
from
their
parents.
The
trip,
just
just
just
the
transfer
alone
of
that
wealth,
is
going
to
be
able
to
give
that
individual,
an
influx
of
money
that
most
of
us
from
black
neighborhoods
will
never
see
in
our
lives
or
and
and
also
have
never
experienced.
E
So
the
idea
and
the
the
focus
on
the
ability
to
transfer
wealth
and
home
ownership-
I
think,
are
extremely
important
in
these
next
couple
years
and
decades
is
how
do
we
continue
to
increase
the
ability
to
your
your
earning
potential,
reducing
barriers
and
providing
more
access
and
opportunity
for
wealth
transfer?
So
that's
starting
small
businesses
or
funding
different
businesses
or
creating
different
or
making
sure
we
have
represented
representation
in
different
industries
and,
of
course,
homeownership,
which
is
extremely
low
in
pittsburgh.
E
A
If
we
were
able
to
assist
them,
then
their
mortgage
would
actually
cost
and
that's
sort
of
a
programmatic
way
of
getting
at
what
oliver
was
talking
about.
But
there's
other
programmatic
ways-
and
I
know
it's
6
45
now
and
I
know
jessica-
has
a
hard
stop
at
seven.
So
I
want
to
ask
you
a
question
because
you
recently,
along
with
two
other
of
your
colleagues,
launched
the
urn
initiative
and
I'm
hoping
that
you
could
speak
a
little
bit
about
that
initiative.
A
The
impact
that
you
hope
is
going
to
have.
You
spoke
about
some
of
your
corporate,
your
corporate
experiences
at
the
beginning,
but
if
you
could
just
share
a
little
bit
about
that,
why
you
launched
it
what
it's
looking
to
achieve?
I
know
a
little
bit
about
it
cause
I
followed
it,
but
for
those
who
aren't
as
aware,
if
you
could
talk
about
that,
a
little
bit.
C
Sure
I'm
happy
to
thank
you
for
asking
so
earn
the
executive
action
response
network
was
founded
by
myself
and
two
other,
my
colleagues
leaders
within
their
own
industries
and
rights
within
the
organ
within
pittsburgh,
and
our
goal
was
really
to
elevate
the
response
of
black
professionals
to
the
social
unrest
that
we
were
are
still
all
facing
and
have
been
facing,
but
was
highlighted
in
june
summer
2020
and
felt
that
our
voices
really
weren't
collectively
at
the
table
as
it
should
and
wanting
to
leverage
that
voice
to
hold
the
corporate
structure
that
we
see
as
a
petri
dish
of
racism
and
really
where
one
of
the
founding
were
plantations
was
an
employer.
C
So
you
know
get
paid.
But
that's
that's
the
corporate
structure
that
we're
built
from,
and
so
we
wanted
to
ensure
that
we
had
a
voice
there
and
our
ultimate
goal
is
to
improve
the
quality
of
african
americans
in
pittsburgh.
And
we
want
to
do
that
by
facilitating
economic
empowerment
through
the
elevation
of
talent
into
senior
level
leadership
roles
within
our
organization
organizations.
Here,
increased
procurement
opportunities
for
african-american
businesses,
increased
significant
increased,
spend
to
african
american
businesses
and
entrepreneurs
and
informing
the
corporate
structure
to
sustain
that.
C
We
also
wanted
to
ensure
that
organizations
as
they
were
now
hiring
and
moving
forward
with
dei
roles
that
they
had
support,
that
organizations
need
and
those
people
need
resources.
They
need
staff,
usually
they're
underfunded.
How
can
we
provide
an
augment
support
to
actually
make
those
strategies
more
successful?
Health
equity
was
another
recommendation
and
another
organization.
C
I
I'm
a
part
of
founding
health
desk
which
allows
people
to
elevate
the
voice
of
patients
real
time,
while
they're
receiving
bias
care
real
time,
and
so
that's
a
service
that
they
can
implement
right
now
and
then
the
corporate
staffing
structure
and
partners.
So
we
actually
started
a
corporate
staffing,
firm,
earned
staffing
solutions
from
temp
to
executive
leadership,
with
the
focus
of
african
american
advancement
across
a
variety
of
different
roles
and
industries.
C
So
we
are
really
excited
about
the
momentum.
However,
we
there
are
is
not
nearly
enough
corporate
leaderships
that
have
called
us
and
taken
the
step
to
move
forward
in
this
direction.
C
We
want
us
to
go
from
click
bait
and
multi-million
dollar
investment
announcements
and
I'm
sure
execution
to
actually
making
that
work
for
the
people
that
work
for
them
and
with
them,
and
so
that's
what
earn
aims
to
do,
and
hopefully
we
can
give
everyone
a
you
earned
it
badge
at
some
point
in
time
and
there's
criteria
for
that
from
the
cultural
work
to
the
actual
doing
the
job
of
hiring
black
leaders
and
keeping
them
there,
because
your
culture
welcomes
them.
F
B
I
would
argue
that
the
last
in
in
oliver
for
the
last
10
years,
our
city
has
been
one
of
the
most
thoughtful
and
progressive
cities
in
the
country
for
designing
and
implementing
policy
to
uplift
african
americans,
whether
it's
the
housing
opportunity
fund,
whether
it's
emerge
pittsburgh,
whether
it's
cal
depaul,
whether
it's
any
of
this
a
a
slew
in
you,
will
be
able
to
find
some
of
these
policy
pointers
on
our
black
pittsburgh
matters.
Facebook
page
youtube
and
eventually
the
city's
the
city's
website.
B
But
I
guess
why
is
it
and
when
I
hear
sometimes
a
counter
argument
saying
that
well,
it's
still
not
enough!
I,
and
when,
and
I
and
I'm-
and
I
guess
I'll,
ask
you
that
question.
But
why
haven't
we
in
you
know
a
year
or
two
solve
the
problem
for
african
americans
in
the
city
of
pittsburgh?
B
Why?
Why
do
you
think
there's
still
this
this
this
anger,
even
though
we
have
invested
millions
upon
millions
of
dollars,
innovative
programming,
councilman
level,
and
I
have
been
in
partners,
I
I
think
we've
probably
passed
more
legislation
collectively
in
this
issue
than
any
council
people
are
before
us
and
maybe
more
than
most
council
people
in
the
country.
But
there's
still
this,
you
know
you
haven't
done
enough,
what
you've
done
and
so
far
doesn't
count.
What
what's
your
response
to
that.
E
E
The
this,
the
the
ingrained
visceral
policies
and
practices
are
decades
decades
old
and
we're,
and
we're
meant
to
last
so
it
it
takes
longer
than
the
last
couple
years
to
it,
takes
it
takes
longer
than
the
last
couple
years
to
completely
undo
white
supremacy.
So
I
I
don't
every
day
you
know,
at
least
from
my
perspective,
in
my
work
within
office
equity
and
the
legislation
that
comes
from
your
two
offices.
It's
where
we
chip
at
it
every
day,
but
it
is
gonna.
E
It's
gonna
take
a
long
time,
not
just
in
pittsburgh,
but
throughout
the
country,
and
you
know
to
to
a
certain
extent.
I
get
the
urgency
and
care
from
from
from
those
who
expect
more
been
better
from
from
us
public
servants,
and
that
is
why
we
need
to
get
up
everyday
and
continue
to
serve.
E
But
just
being
able
to
like
me
personally,
like
I
have
it,
took
me
a
long
time
of
reading
and
reading
articles
and
talking
to
people
a
lot
more
educated
than
I
am
to
wrap
my
mind
around
this
whole
economic
mobility
thing
and
how
all
things
are
connected
and
focusing
on
economic
mobility
may
be
a
area
that
is
less
less
talked
about
and
less
focused
on
in
the
area,
and
I
can't
remember
anyone
before
me.
E
You
know
focusing
on
something
like
that,
so
it
it
it
just
takes
time
and
me
personally,
being
a
resident
of
the
city
of
pittsburgh
taxpaying
resident.
I
just
want
to
say
I
am
grateful
for
your
your
leadership,
both
you
councilman
burgess
and
councilman
level,
going
back
to
the
question
and
how
some
of
the
raids
about
policies
and
legislation
for
for
economical
ability
I
mean,
even
I
just
shall
work
on
177a
in
the
work
that
it's
been
able
to
produce.
The
last
couple
years
has
been
phenomenal.
E
So
thank
you
for
that,
but
it
you're
not
doing
your
job
right
if
you're
not
getting
your
attention.
So
I
I
just
appreciate
it,
and-
and
just
I
just
continue
to
serve.
B
D
Oliver
go
because
he
he
he
covered
it
that
yes,
so
I
guess
it
just
seems
naive
to
think
that
systems
that
were
built
over
centuries
will
go
away,
and
that
has
to
there's
both
the
there's.
These
are
very
entrenched
systems,
they're,
deep,
deep
into
our
the
policies
that
rule
our
lives.
How
resources
have
been
allocated
and
then
there
is
also
a
kind
of
benign
neglect,
all
the
way
to
outright
hatred,
and
we,
you
know,
with
asia
anti-asian
attacks
around
the
country
we
need
pittsburgh
is
stronger
than
hate.
D
Many
of
us
believe
that,
but
if
we,
if,
if
we
want
to
actually
show
that
then
those
of
us
who
can
have
a
good
quality
of
life
in
pittsburgh,
I
came
from
elsewhere.
You
know
it's
a
very
affordable
city,
so
some
of
us
can
come
and
appreciate
the
benefits
of
pittsburgh.
D
We
owe
it
to
everyone
else
in
the
city
to
make
sure
that
that
we
say
how
am
I
making
this
change
happen
because
we
have
to
chip
it
away
at
it
all
of
us
together-
and
I
just
I
wanted
to
now
that
you
got
some
really
expert
policy
advice.
D
I
also
wanted
to
make
sure
that
everyone
knew
that
the
gender
equity
commission
in
june
of
last
year
put
out
a
set
of
policy
recommendations
for
city
council
and
the
mayor's
office
called
building
an
equitable
new
normal,
and
it's
on
the
city
of
pittsburgh
website
and
part
of
how
it's
written
is
both
for
our
policy
makers
to
see
what's
doable.
But
anyone
in
any
organization
can
start
right
now
and
so
part
of
it
is.
A
We
will
absolutely
be
making
improvements.
I
think
one
your
work
on
the
gender
equity
commission,
the
work
that
ms
brooks
is
doing.
I
know
she
had
to
move
on
to
another
meeting,
but
she
was
invaluable
with
the
input
and
insight
that
she
has
the
work
that
oliver
is
doing
on
the
mayor's
side.
Everyone
and
it
needs
to
be
acknowledged-
it's
putting
in
a
lot
of
work
to
move
us
forward,
and
so
I
just
really
want
to
thank
you
all.
A
We
are
up
against
our
hour
and
I
know
you
all
have
busy
lives
and
schedules
and
other
things
to
do,
and
so
I
just
want
to
take
a
minute
to
thank
all
our
guests,
starting
with
dr
jane,
the
executive
director
of
the
gender
equity
commission.
A
Ms
brooks
woods:
the
co-founder
of
the
urn
initiative
and
ceo
of
pittsburgh
business
group
on
health
and
mr
oliver
beasley
the
policy
analyst
for
the
office
of
equity,
and
what
I
will
lastly
say
is
I've
said
this
for
a
long
time,
despite
all
the
negative
statistics
that
we
hear
to
the
best
of
my
knowledge.
One
of
if
not
the
one
of
the
most
educated
individuals
in
our
country
is
a
woman
of
color
one
of
the
primary
business
starters.
A
A
And
so
I
just
want
to
thank
all
of
what
you
are
doing
and
just
acknowledge
that,
in
order
to
have
a
significant
investment
in
the
black
community,
it
is
imperative
that
we
make
our
community
safe
and
peaceful
and
that
we
are
committed
to
rebuilding
our
black
communities
in
pittsburgh.
For
black
people
by
black
people
with
our
partners
and
allies.
B
I
want
to
thank
all
of
you
for
watching
and
participating
in
this
town
hall
meeting.
Remember
you
can
watch
this
show
on
facebook,
the
city's
youtube
channel
or
the
city's
cable
channel.
A
new
meeting
will
occur
every
every
wednesday
by
working
together,
united
purpose.
We
can
transform
our
city
strengthening
it
for
all
of
its
residents.