There's a lot of deep poverty in Philadelphia and also particularly over the last decade or to a lot of affluence as well. So this revitalized Philly is a very economically unequal one, something you can see very plainly by comparing conditions at the neighborhood level. Helen: Many of the forces that we fought in communities and neighborhoods are the same forces that replicate themselves and the candidates who are running in the Philadelphia mayor's race.
Featuring Nikil Saval and Helen Gym on how the history of Philadelphia social movements brought Nikil into the state senate and has made Helen, a long-time public education organizer, a frontrunner in the mayoral race.
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