i think everything in life that's important really lives in the gray like there's no black and white there's is gray how do we make it more clear of what the problem is there are so many different life experiences of poverty and we don't have a real clear definition on the federal government doesn't have the definition they say if your families are born you need right about 24000 to take care of your family for a year in 2000 does that mean that if you're making more you're not in red and that that's not the case i think the most difficult challenge. the a way to get your way out of your current predicament. of course people cannot contribute to the nation if they are never taught to read or write. if their bodies are stunted from hunger. if they're sick they're

still untended if they're alive to spam and hopeless poverty just drawing a welfare check. so we rafted from the goodies to opportunity. we're also going to give all our people. help the very meat. through those. all of our well for you get money and you get more if you have less income go through have 0 income get the biggest money. and then as you earn money lose part of the benefit sometimes if you were even $1.00 extra dollar a hole benefit medical. help for people and people who are disabled if that number seems low it should because it's based on 1000 fixed these costs of living in the sixty's economists came up with a formula for calculating much as a family need and they said things like well we'll have a parent in the home so we don't have to include childcare people can walk to work

so we don't have to include transportation and employers will pay for health care so we don't need to include that 3 major family expenses are not included in the 2017 federal poverty guideline where you have more women in the workplace than average in the history if you look at parents divide their income into 5 equal parts and let's just the bottom 20 percent of this would be parents with income below roughly $25000.00 and now we come watch their kids grow up and we made sure their kids income. 30 to 34 years of age are they doing better than kids from that bottom 5th of income below 25000 are twice as likely as we would expect based on chance to be in the bottom it's very difficult to get out of the bottom. it's a fight every day to meet your needs and the needs of your family.

we find some quarter 1000000 of our brothers and sisters. parents and home along with our own apartment and a mess of. our military barracks more must be done to reduce poverty and dependency and believe me nothing is more important than welfare reform i think poverty to a large extent is also a state of mind poverty in a sense. how does piloted love. papa didn't have a loan level that he can put to make up. some clothes on ain't a bad sometimes if we struggled with poverty in a certain way we think of the most critical because we say well we didn't i pulled myself up by the stress i got it done i struggled i had to work 2 jobs i did it well your situation is not the same somebody else is because we're individuals and our characteristics our personality our network of people our demographics of the area that we live in are different so we can't take 2 people from different

sections and say well this person did it he must be good and this person didn't do it they train the elephant by saying the elephant with a little roll when a young. man elephant growth of the bull found them all the elephant. put the same little rope around that elephant. that elfin event condition only go in. as a rope with a lead and. how many were saying wait a minute cases of people as he had a little rope around their mouth. level will only let him go so far in a lesson only let him dream. self was when they were children. no need to up. in the delta. if a little rope gets added a man. is only good for that will. the

2 most important thing is where you're born and who you're born to so this one guy he said i'll do your study for you he said i grew up in poverty and i said thank you so much i said tell me how did your family get by he said well my father was a physician he died when i was 12 i had to go live with grandparents i worked in their store i pulled myself up by my own bootstraps i had the right mindset and i was determined and i became a doctor like my dad and i'm listening to him through the eyes of somebody who's bought her 5 brothers in the back window of the car and i'm thinking you knew someone who owned a store and you were related to vote. but if you look at it from his context his experiences who are the children of professional singer. typically it's going to be other children of professionals and what people do is we compare ourselves to the people around us and we sometimes put an umbrella and say poverty

is just poverty and that's not that's not true that's not the case it's so difficult to come up with a solution to help someone we don't understand the problem ourselves how can we work together how can we understand each other and the answer is we have to accurately understand poverty what is poverty about. so understanding the perspectives of people who live in generational poverty or working class poverty or immigrant poverty or situational poverty there's so many different life experiences of poverty and we use one word to describe them all so many people they've they have no idea if you're born into a poor family your born into a minority family if you're born into a family that only has a single parent that really constrains your lives. dances people die on average 15

years younger if you're born into generational poverty. only 17 percent of the people born into generational poverty move out so you move a lot and you just get through the day and a life becomes about getting through the day generational poverty is the deepest part radio cycle out of any people and generational poverty are working 1.7 jobs to decide between paying for buying food. that's the kind of poverty i come from where most of my family members can't read and write there's high mobility of simply a victim you're going hungry to have nutrition if you got really really sick you know the images through and you just hope they give you sales. by the prescriptions working class poverty is a little different you're living paycheck to paycheck don't have a lot less dover but know that checks coming so you feel like you have a little more control over your life but they're very hard on themselves they buy into the idea that if they work or don't make it and get the labor statistics they

without an education or skill or your whole life. and then there's immigrant poverty where you have people who are struggling with housing transportation child nutrition medical care basic human needs and in addition to that you have the language barriers the cultural barriers the just the discrimination racism to live to move really big obstacles to address to really develop to their potential and then you have situational poverty globally middle class environment you hear middle class words since you were in the war you know middle class and structure you're not saying you maybe have a divorce and you fall into poverty or maybe you get downsized in your job and you fall into poverty those are the ones that sometimes don't find their way into our numbers that didn't fill out the papers for the free and reduced lunch. in america we like to thank that everybody who works hard. a certain amount of talent

can make it and can join the middle class that's the american dream and past generations the american dream seemed to be working pretty well it's not working as well now we always think that in america on the theory of the land of the brave equal opportunity and the. dream. kids. should choose to. go to school so. through education you can also better yourselves in other words. you learn how to learn how to think critically and find solutions to unexpected challenges education

also teaches you the value of discipline but the greatest rewards come not from instant gratification but from sustained effort. and from hard work. and finally with the right education both at home and at school you can learn how to be a better human being. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe from. high salacious cool community. are you going the right way or are you being lead so. direct. what is truly wants is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us

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these that you don't. see a lot of crimes to have nothing on. the idea of developing an economist to try and clients. and you can since. that was a friend's. son i didn't control him just right it would be for a short while. in the room one of the world's most. unusual rooms and during a sinister selfish founder to the song of the song knowing. there was a great deal of jealousy in the mainstream or the song you're going to why won't it be more like all they have hugh seen all. instantly. says my. goodness. we have giuliani sides in solitary confinement in the prison for terrorist i wait you know

how it's a live person. i don't see him dying. and i. know what he's saying. this politically impossible in the united states to advise eating was anything that has the industry. that makes a lot of money. going to say over and over again we know what it healthy diet is it means not much for one for one thing and eating less is very very bad for business it doesn't make anybody rich people eat less sleep. when you look at the landscape of our community one of the things that keeps me up

at night is. our education attainment rates 70 percent of our citizens our neighbors that live with us have no post-secondary credential today's economy is very demanding scales and skills means education getting a job these days with just a high school education is a lot harder than it used to be the chances are that you're going to be in poverty or close will be especially difficult if you're trying to support a family. why did 20 different focus groups i did surveys i did interviews expecting to find that students were afraid i'm asked which they are that students need more tutoring which they do but those weren't the barriers that students identified that were keeping him from being successful in the classroom what students told me overwhelmingly is the biggest barriers to their success in the classroom had

nothing to do with the classroom transportation childcare health care housing food utility payments statistics show that college is a very successful way to go and it's still the best decision for students for anyway. who wants to get out of poverty or level up in what they want to do however i also think that the worst thing to do is go to college and drop out years ago the goal is to graduate you gotta graduate but you just can't drop out because unlike anything else you still gotta pay the bill. i. know what higher ed would do is they would look at those success rates and they would go oh your students aren't as well prepared they're not smart they don't know

how to study they're not dedicated and i think what we've learned at emerald colleges those aren't true at all our students are smart they're ambitious they're capable they want for themselves they're burdened not just provide a future for themselves but to save their families but they have real barriers that they bring with them if we're going to fulfill our mission in our education we've got to understand those barriers and address them if we want our students to be successful in the classroom. and i teach people that if you don't get educated you don't get skilled you will be poor your whole life and so will your children is an absolute exception of the person who is living you know so when i say well my uncle makes 800000 is not educated including labor statistics and census data that's an exception i didn't know what i wanted to be and so after i graduated from college i think that that's somewhat normal but i went ahead and i i went to college and i picked the major and i was glad that i had people in my life

their courage me just to go ahead and a lot of people because they've learned that they've been sent messages that they're not smart enough they're not good enough they don't try and tell you. your high school diploma gets your college degree and then keep pursuing what it is that you have a skill set for and you're passionate about one of the hardest most heartbreaking things about not having your ged or your high school diploma is sometimes you hit the ceiling at work or you miss an opportunity we don't want you to miss. we want people to have those are. the best due to you know i'm not i asked that every the lot of those walking around but i graduated man education and you need a plan. one of things i think we're really not talking about high school students about is this subject that i like to call success we teach english we teach math but we don't teach success which regardless

how smart you are in any of those other categories if you understand the subject of the best you can win and lose is basic fundamentals of understanding you know how to network how to communicate would be bold but also how to be strategic realizing what's important. colleges down about how smart you are it's about how hard you're willing to work in every case we should expose it's the way that shows the average income of people who drop out of high school and people who graduate from high school but doable for the kids who get a 2 year degree in kids who get a 4 year to when they get to be adults the differences in those levels with education have exploded over the last 3 or 4 decades and if we could show the kids and make them understand and say you know if i get more education i'm going to make more money and that will have an impact on every other part of my life the most important thing is not the freedom to buy things it's the freedom to dream and

chase what you really want to do the more money you can make and now and not spend it it allows you to dream at a place and give you the oxygen and during where you're not thinking short term. one thing that i think is so important to understand is how poverty steals your hope. and your confidence i was talking to 2 students at my t. place and i loaded one up on my car brought them over here walk them through the process got them signed up we got a man rolled and then that student told me after we got him a schedule when it came time to go to class but the 1st day he said in his car in his parking lot for 3 hours that he couldn't get out of the car. that's that's not because he won smart capable or he didn't want to do it that's because

he was a brave and. that's real but it can't be an excuse everybody in their life everyone has fear i just challenge you don't work through your fear and don't let fear keep you from being your best self don't give out my yourself when you are educated and when you know the things that you know and you know how hard you know where. to create the story for yourself you need to surround yourself with other people who are going to be possibilities and do not allow negative people negativity to talk you out of your dreams. what are you passionate about what do you have skills that for and in the meantime keep pursuing your education you have to understand that you have so much purpose between 14 and 24 that the decisions you make not only going to pack yourself are going to back your kids and

your grandkids you don't even know who's going to benefit from the little decisions you make today you may not see you but your grandkids will definitely see. the. elaine. looks. like so keep. going keep. going to kick. it was. i watched her do it. that was going to be a singer. and and i'm telling. from the moment she decided she was going to be a singer. because of the 1000000 little girl at that point. every time i saw her

do is not what think about. you know this work ethic that she had was this week an amazin i mean you know as a kid authorise thing and all the things and then when we started this church in downtown houston our family joe and brought the kids to an assistant and she joined a choir. and every now and then she get a fellow and she would put more into that solo than the whole choir would into the whole 12 and now she is on the largest platform in the world and they would be a thing. all because of a work ethic i mean young woman who made a decision what she was going to do and be in life. and allowed no one to get away will everyone be a. no. that's why you got to have a plan a a plan b. and a plan c.

. we have hard workers in this community whether they're students in amarillo college or employees in the community we have a really hard work ethic the issue is they're underemployed so they're working really hard and not making a living wage doing she already is working a crisis is $1.00 jobs and still i can't put food and pay rent i have to make a choice so we say you've got to work harder in order to to make it that's not true not when you're experiencing poverty because people in poverty are working. i started looking at who's the number one teacher of poverty in the united states of america and the answer that i found was the media. so what's the average person going to know about poverty and the people who live in it it's probably going to be things i have kids i'll be fine i'll be getting well for all the good and casual for will be covered by medicaid i can get housing and so. it doesn't happen that

way in 1906 my welfare check before going to any dollars me jennifer was 6 daniels to my 15 year old homeless cuz i was living with me and they said we won't help her because she's not yours will give you $400.00 my rent in a neighborhood melanie. in portland oregon was 395. the can do the math a welfare check today her family of 3 national average or 78 that's 196-2000 17 the average rent according to had a modest apartment 750. the average disability check is $76.00 it's almost impossible to get out of poverty base just on public. our labor statistics if you take a minimum wage job and you work 10 years and you don't have education beyond high school you don't have a skill like an electrician or plumber the average increase after working hard for 10 years in a person's income is $2.00 an hour doesn't matter how hard you work with think

about it who works harder the person cleaning the hotel room or the person in their office you don't move up without a skill or an education so if you want to buy your mama house going to make sure your kids don't go hungry can't get a skill got a good education now if you want to on say start all that 30000 a year and have the possibility of up to 60 or 70000 you know who have to have skills you have to be talented you have to know how to do you need what we call soft skills and hard skills parts skills are just you know being technically trained to do something computer literacy anybody who goes through school these days and isn't computer illiterate is going to be in trouble and. i think our schools should be doing a lot more if they're not already to teach people programming and coding skills and the whole set of things you can't get a decent job anymore if you don't have those skills either the soft skills and if you talk to employers employers will tell you that they're really messing with the

soft skills as much as the hard skills the soft skills are things like getting to work on tall i'm dressing appropriately knowing how to interact with other people knowing how to be polite with a client or a customer knowing how to rob i'm so all knowing what to do when something doesn't go quite right you know being a bit creative. one of the things that helped me in my personal life was to see other people maybe of my same skin color or or in a city and and see them succeed so it becomes attainable you don't know what you don't know and i think a lot of times is that's what i think holding people back and they don't know it's bigger than their town and they don't know what they can do bigger than what they see on t.v. and the people they see at school and the people that their parents are. used to work in elementary schools and yes the kids what they want to be in life and they want to be doctors and anna in

a lawyer but if your home life doesn't support the teen ability of those things. it's a nice dream but it's not a reality in certain groupings neighborhoods don't have that exposure so it's important that our schools our community kind of blend that self in and expose especially the youngest kids to that. during the vietnam war u.s. forces to neighboring laos there was a secret war. and for years the american people did not know. how much it is officially the most heavily bombed country per capita. human history millions of unexploded bombs still in danger lives in this small agricultural country jordyn

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the world to. day traders now stock trading is free got all that free money from the government was a lot of speculation. this politically. in the united states. was any. industry. that makes a lot of money. as i'm going to say over and over again we know what it feels to die in these not much for one for one and even less is very very bad for business it's it doesn't make anybody rich people eat less.

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