Gov. Wes Moore

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The Bulwark Daily · S2 Ep1004: Wes Moore: The System Doesn't Work for a Lot of People · 20 Mar 2025 podcast

It is people who will put arbitrary barriers in the way of it happening because change is tough and change is hard. And I get it. I also know we need to be better. If you want to grow an economy, if you want to invite more people in, if you want to bring housing prices down, you must increase inventory. You know, it's true.

Many are saying that Maryland is probably one of the most aggressive states in the country right now when it comes to building more housing. I agree. Guilty as charged. Because a lot of people are not going to touch it because it is politically challenging. It is politically fraught. It is a third rail of American politics. I understand that. And we have to be unafraid to touch it.

Because if we do not, you will never be able to get the economic growth and the economic prosperity that you're hoping for. So, yes, I'm very aggressively pro-housing. And we're going to continue to be as long as I'm the governor of the state.

Yeah. Well, you know, March 26th is the year anniversary of the Key Bridge collapse. And I'm telling you, man, I'm never going to get that morning when I got a call at 202 in the morning that the Key Bridge was gone and that the Port of Baltimore, which represents about 13% of our economy, was now shut down.

A bridge that's about a two mile long bridge that 40,000 people went over every day was now in the bottom of the river. And then we had six Marylanders who we lost that morning. So I remember that first morning we laid out four objectives as I stood there with a whole phalanx of leadership. And I said, you know, we are going to bring closure and comfort. to these families.

We're going to reopen the federal channel as quickly as possible. And people told us it would take 11 months. We got it done in 11 weeks. We said we're going to make sure that everybody who was impacted was going to be supported, the port workers, their families, the small businesses. And we did that. And I said, and we're going to we are going to rebuild the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

And so I'm thankful that late last year with bipartisan support, Republicans and Democrats, Congress voted for the 100 percent cost share for the Key Bridge rebuild. So we're already in the process of moving. We're already doing the analysis of soil sampling starting off this spring. We're going to finish the final demolition of the. of the pillars that are still up and start the reconstruction.

But I'm really proud of the fact that Maryland put on a case study on how to respond in crisis because we responded in a unified fashion. And I think that's the only reason we were able to get this done as quick as we were able to.

You know, and you're right. And this is another one. This is very personal to me. You know, people talk about what happened with men in the election. I'm like the election. Shit, man, this has been going on a lot longer than that. Like the election was the tail. Yeah. we've known about this problem for a long time and we've known about it because society has failed.

you know, I think we did a really wonderful job. You look at the past 30 years, we looked at the data and the data showed that how women were just so significantly falling behind.

And so there was a distinct and a very intentional move to be able to make sure that we're elevating women, getting, you know, coming to everything from education to employment, to wealth creation, to all this kind of stuff. And we were successful. That's exactly right. Pay a little bit better. That's exactly right. Right. So, and we were successful, right? We still haven't gotten it exactly right.

But to look at where the numbers were in the 60s and 70s and look at where the numbers are now, you've seen a drastic move. Well, all I'm asking is do the same thing we did then. Look at the data. Look at what the data right now is showing about when it comes to young boys and employment. Look at what the data is showing when it comes to suicide rates that we're seeing with young men.

Look at what the data is showing when it comes to college attainment levels. College attainment levels right now are at the same level as they were for men and boys back when it was in 1964. Right. And so if you look at what's happening when it comes to juvenile justice within our state right now, where the juvenile justice system is so heavily dominated by boys. and our young boys.

And so all I'm saying is, y'all, we have to follow the data. And the data says, if we do not put a distinct focus on young men and boys, we will fall behind because you will have repeatedly have young men who are falling behind. And so, yeah, so, you know, I've actually issued Bruno probably the most aggressive in the country push to be able to deal

With this issue, I've ordered all of my cabinet secretaries where we are coming together on this exact issue. And I'm actually having this as a lens on how I look at performance management for our cabinet secretaries about what ideas that we're working on together to be able to address it. It does go back to education levels. It does go back to things like employment.

and moving more men into agencies, into areas, being like teachers and nurses and places where we have massive shortages of men in those areas. It does go back to making sure that we're supporting the juveniles and our young men who are involved in the juvenile justice system and getting them back onto a right track.

And so we're thinking really broad-based and holistically about it, but I have an exclusive focus. If we do not address what is happening with our young men and boys in the state of Maryland, The state of Maryland will never succeed. And I really do believe the state of Maryland is going to lead on this issue.

And I think there's a lot of truth to that. But I think we've stopped even trying. And I think that that's noticeable too. I think that we have stopped being curious. We've stopped caring. We stopped asking. And we look at so many times with young boys where we do not ever even really evaluate what was happening. I mean, I'm thinking about it for me, right?

Again, I was a kid who had handcuffs on my wrist at 11 years old. What'd you do? That time I was for tagging.

I agree.

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