Business Professor: Data Tell the Story of Sandtown-Winchester's Problems
May 14, 2015
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Seema Iyer, director of the Real Estate and Economic Development program in the University of Baltimore's Merrick School of Business and associate director for the University's Jacob France Institute, tells the Associated Press that published data about incomes and jobs in Sandtown-Winchester reveal the depths of the neighborhood's problems with crime and violence.
According to a report by the Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance-JFI, roughly half of the neighborhood's residents earn less than $25,000.
"It's really hard to argue with numbers," Iyer says.
Read the AP article.
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