“We have to talk about this more as a community and broaden our understanding of what factors are creating this kind of failure for our community,” said Andrea Krieger, president and CEO of the United Way of Escambia County. “We simply have to do a better job of owning these issues, issues like high school graduation rates and kindergarten readiness, which in many ways are tied to the poverty that we are known for in Escambia County. The challenge for us as a community is that more of us need to step up.”