A child born in a mostly Black census tract bordering the Cleveland Clinic, sponsor of tonight& #39;s presidential debate, has a life expectancy 22 years shorter than a child in a White-majority suburb a 15-minute drive away.

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They’re four times more likely to die in the first year of life than a White child in the city and twice as likely to live in poverty as the average Cleveland kid, if they make it past their first birthday.

The Cleveland Clinic, one of the world’s leading medical research institutions, occupies a sparkling campus with manicured lawns and artificial ponds in the middle of one of the city’s poorest areas

The clinic has long argued it has done what it can to help neighboring communities plagued by problems that go far beyond health and has pointed to the broader economic benefits it brought to the city.

It also has benefited from government funding for research, and it got almost $200 million in federal coronavirus relief, despite having more than $1.5 billion in cash on hand and more than $10.5 billion in investments.