so we'll raise the question, what you want to get every 3, simple graduate from high school, get a job and continue work and don't have still room till you're 21. and right now we've worked out that the entire country and we classified people according to whether they broke all those rules or they followed one or 2, or all 3 of the rules. the results are astounding.

so i started talking to judges and lawyers and doctors and health providers and interviewing people and literally asked thousands of people how many of you had the course istria poverty, united states, and we are segregated in america by social class. obvious. think about who the middle class people hang out with. most middle class people don't know someone in poverty by 1st name, in a fit in down to dinner together. today, millions of american families are caught in circumstances beyond their control. their children will be compelled to live lives of poverty unless the cycle is broken. president johnson's war on poverty has this one goal to provide everyone

a chance to grow and make his own way. i think everything in life that's important really lives in the grey 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 clear definition of the federal government doesn't have the definition. they say if your family is more right about 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 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 to offer cures. we're also going to give all our people help the very meat through goes all of our wealth 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 whole benefit medical health 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 the formula for calculating the family needs. 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 and 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 in the modern day. it's a fight every day to meet your needs and the needs of your family.

we find some quarter 1000000 of our brothers sisters, parents or home along with our own apartment and a messed up. our military, our marriage. 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? because he can pledge to make up the clothes on anything about sometimes if we struggled with poverty in a certain way with him to the most, 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 thing 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 than we can take 2 people from different sections that say, well, this person did it he must be good and this person didn't do it. they trained elephant by pound elephant with a little bell. when a young man elephant growth of the bull found them all the elephant. it put the same little world around that elephant, but that elfin is a condition only go in far as a rope will lead anywhere, say, 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 go up. in the bell. that's

a little rope. tied to demand. and 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 off 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 setting out what?

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. so many people they've, they have no idea if you're born into a poor family. you're born into a minority family. if you're born into

a family that only has a single parent that really constrains your life, chances people die on average 15 years younger. if you're born into generational poverty, only 70 percent of the people born into generational poverty move out. so you move a lot and you just get through the day and the life becomes about getting through the day. generational poverty is the deepest part radio cycle out of any people in generational poverty are working 1.7 jobs and to decide between paying more 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 absolutely addicted. you're going hungry to have nutrition. if you don't really, really sick, you know the bridge through and 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 left over,

but you know that checks coming so you feel like you have a little more control over their lives. 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 any poverty where you have people who are struggling with housing, transportation, child nutrition, medical care, basic human needs. and in addition to that, we have the language barriers, the cultural barriers, the discrimination, racism to live, to move really big obstacle to address, to really develop to their potential. and then you have a situation of passing by and making him middle class where since you were in the womb, no middle class family structure, your nothing. 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. so in america,

we like to thank that everybody who works hard has 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 seem 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 to simply not just say to some set your skills. 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. oh, look forward to talking to you all. that technology should work for people. i robot must obey the orders given to human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the 1st law. for should be very careful about official intelligence and the point. obesity is too great ever

played on a serious chops or with artificial intelligence will summon the demon the robot must protect its own existence is the next instant. with imax keyser, one for my guide to financial survival. this is a fun, it's a device used by professional scallywags to earn money. that's right. these has flaws, are simply not accountable. and we're just adding more and more to them. totally destabilize the global economy. you need to protect yourself and get informed as are for 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 make. the chances are you're going to be in poverty or close to be especially difficult if you're going to support the why did 20 different focus groups, i did surveys, i did interviews, expecting, i find that students were afraid of mass, which they are, that students need more tutoring, which they do, but those weren't the barriers that students identified that were keeping them 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, or anyone 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 got to graduate. like you just can't drop out because unlike anything else, you still got to pay the bill. now what higher ed would do is they would look at those success rates and they would go, oh, our 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 in emerald colleges, those aren't true at all, our students are smart. their ambition is 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. teach people that if you don't get educated, you don't get skilled, you will be poor, your whole life also will your children is an absolute exceptional person. you know it's a living, you know? so when i say, well my uncle makes a 100000 and not educated, but i'm quoting 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. 'd that that's somewhat normal, but i went ahead and i, i went to college and i picked

a major. and i was glad that i had people in my life that encouraged me just to go ahead and go in a lot of people because they've learned they, they've been sent messages that they're not smart enough. they're not good enough. they don't try and tell me which i bet your high school diploma gets or 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. we want people to have those are the best food, you know, i'm not honest that into every, the walking around, but a graduate of man education and you need to plan one of things, i think we're really not talking to high school students about is this subject that i like to call success. we teach english, we teach math,

but we don't teach except which regardless how smart you are in any of those other categories. if you understand the subject of success, because when you lose basic fundamentals of understanding, you know how to network, how to communicate will be bold, but also how to be strategic. realizing what's important college is down about how smart you are. it's about how hard you're willing to work . who should expose? it 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 it for you. really, when they get to be adults, the difference most of those you could have 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 spending, 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 minute 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 and 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 because he was a brave. and that's real, but it can't be an excuse everybody in their lives. 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 far you'll work. to create this story for yourself. you need to surround yourself with other people who are going to be off the melody and do not allow negative people or negativity to you talk you out of your dream. what are your passion about what you have? skills that are in the meantime, keep pursuing your education. you have to understand that you have so much purpose between 1024, that the decisions you make. not only going to pat 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 it, but your grandkids will definitely see it's true but it was for a moment. i watched her decide that she was going to be a thing. and i'm telling from the moment she decided she was going to be a singer, do the really a little girl at that point. every time i saw her do the work thing.

ok. you know, this work ethic that she had was just freakin amazing. i mean, you know, as a kid sourcing it all the time. and then when we, we started just church in downtown houston, her family joined the kids in a system and she joined a choir and every now and then she'd get a solo. and she would put more into that solo than the whole choir would into the whole flow. and now she is on the largest platform in the world. and they would be on say all because of a work ethic. i mean one woman who made a decision as to why she was going to do and be on life and allowed no one to get away. will everyone be a no. that's why you got to have a plan, a plan b. and a plan c. . we have hard workers in this community, whether they're students or enroll

a college or employees in the community. we have a really hard work out there. the issue is they're underemployed, so they're working really hard and not making a living wage. doing poverty is i am working according to census 1.7, jobs and still i can't put food and pay rent. i have to make a choice to always say you just got to work harder and 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 like 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 like whether getting rich off welfare with a kid in high school is like, and it's not that big a deal as long as i have kids. i'll be fine. i'll be getting well for all the good cash. well for will be covered by medicaid. i can get housing and so it doesn't

happen that way. in 1906 my welfare check was $408.00 me. jennifer was 6 daniels to my 15 year old homeless because it was living with me. but they said, we won't help her because she's not yours. we'll give you $400.00 my rent in a neighborhood. melanie, in portland, oregon, was 390, can do the math, a welfare check today. her family 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 7, since 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. didn't matter how hard you work about it, who works harder, the person cleaning the hotel room or the person in their office. you don't move without a skill or an education. so if you want to buy your mom house, going to make sure your kids still go hungry can get a skill good education. now if you want to earn a start all that 30000 a year and have the possibility of up to 60 or 70000 or have to have skills, you have to be talented. you have to know how to do things. 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 missing the soft skills as much as the hard skills, the soft skills or 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 could 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 lawyers. 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. groupings neighborhoods don't have that exposure. so it's important that our schools, our community itself and expose especially the youngest kids to that since he had my pappy, i always look like it would if he does much good enough for me. come close. oh goodness. will it come

out of me that he come with us on the left in the middle of the jobs and alternate as a comedian, but not a lot of what's going on back. i mean, i want to buy a book about the noise part of a lot of people did, you know, and it's a comment about the seemed wrong just don't call me you get to shape

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