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Raj and Matt think that finding, it matters for a lot more than just public housing.

The country as a whole, it seems to be growing more and more economically segregated.

Ross says there are still federal programs that try to revitalize low-income neighborhoods, but they're underfunded and not designed as well as they could be.

And he says we could help low-income kids connect to higher-income kids in all these other ways, too, through schools and sports and even the way we design mass transit.

The policy choices don't only have to be about housing.

And she says he met kids from all over, including kids who lived outside of public housing.

And yeah, some of them had parents who were better off financially.

Do you think that that had any impact on his life?

The idea that kids who grow up in better public housing, in mixed-income neighborhoods, that they would have a better chance of getting out of poverty?

Wysina buys it.

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