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This week Meg and Alex talk about the benefits and challenges of living in a meritocracy, speficically as it pertains to areas of concentrated poverty.

This week, Meg and Alex talk about scarcity around the holidays and the annual gift shop at We Got This.

All of us have routines and patterns that create bubbles for us. This week, Meg and Alex talk about that value in reaching outside of our bubbles and share how that can benefit us personally and benefit the world around us.

Why does anyone do what they do? For most of us, we choose to do whatever seems like a good idea at the time. This week, Meg and Alex talk about how living in the inner city seemed like a good idea 20 years ago and how it still does today.

This week Meg and Alex continue their conversation on SNAP and give a little insight on what it might be like to be reliant on a safety net like SNAP.

Every few years, we get moments in time where the call to do something becomes louder while simultaneously, the questioning on why we should care becomes more targeted. The suspension of SNAP benefits may have been one of those times. This week, Meg and Alex talk about SNAP benefits and our societies preference that programs like SNAP to not exist.

This week, Meg and Alex dream a little bit about how the current and future advancements in artificial intelligence could promote progress in inner city neighborhoods.

For years the perception of our neighborhood has been one of the biggest things holding it back. This week we talk about neighborhood perception and talk about reasons someone would want to stay here.

Vacant properties are abundant in the inncer city. Sometimes they are rehabbed and become useful housing stock again and sometimes they end their lives vacant and are torn down. This week Meg and Alex talk about how a house gets torn down and give some insights on how the community is impacted.

The unexpected happens more often in the inner city. This week, Meg and Alex talk about an unexpected guest at the White House On The Corner and give some insight into the mental health challenges that face areas of concentrated poverty.