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so we were raised the following question what if we could get every kid to follow 3 simple rules graduate from high school get a job and continue work and don't have children tell you're 21 and right now we've walked out at the entire country and we classified people according to whether they broke all those worlds 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 throughout the course istria part of the united states of america. and we are segregated in america by social class if you just think about it who the middle class people hang out with. most middle class people don't know someone in poverty by 1st name and often down to dinner together. today millions of american families are taught 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 this 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 of the federal government doesn't meet 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. 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 their sickness going on 10 didn't if their live to spare and hopeless poverty just drawing a welfare check. so we were asked. to opportunity.

we're also going to give all our people the help that 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 them to dismantle. and then as you earn money lose part of the benefit sometimes if you were even $1.00 extra dollar a whole benefit medical. help for people and people who are disabled but that number seems low it should because it's based on 1000 fix these cost of living in the sixty's economists came up with a formula for calculating 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 and divide their income into 5 equal parts and let's just look beyond 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 and sisters. parents and home along with our own apartment and a master. our military air and 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 we're going to be 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 that 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 trained elephant by saying the elephant was a little girl when a young. man elephant growth of the bull found them all the elephant.

and put the same little world around that elephant. but that elfin is a condition only go in far as a result 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 drain. so far and he would children. no need to go up. in the bell. that's a little rope tied to demand. and only good for that rope. 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 setting out what. typically it's going to be other children are 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. poverty or situational poverty there's so many different life experiences of poverty and we use one word to describe them and 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 17 percent of the people born into generational poverty move out so you move

a lot and you just get through the day and 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 pain. that's the kind of poverty i come from where most of my family members can't read and write there's high mobility you're absolutely a victim 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 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 they have 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 you 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 in a house where you were in the womb you know middle class family structure you're nothing at all to 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 and it's just simply not true. it's. just. to. some. extent. said. just 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. thank you. it is a. lot of me. 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 they live with no post-secondary credential today's economy is very demanding. 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 power.

especially if you're trying to support a thing. 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 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 they do is go to college and drop out years ago the goal

is to graduate you've got to graduate thank 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 at emerald college is 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 and higher education

we've got to understand those barriers and address them. if we want our students to be successful in the classroom. you know i teach people that if you don't get educated you don't get skilled you going to be poor your whole life and so will your children is an absolute exception as a person or as a living you know so it'll say well my uncle makes a 100000 and he's 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 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 that encouraged me just to go ahead and go in 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 me which i . bet 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 eyes with a coma 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 it a lot of 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 success 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 not about how smart you are it's about how hard you're willing to work.

who should expose. it's. that shows the average income of people who drop out of high school and people who graduate from high school but google for the and kids who get a 2 year degree and kids are good for you when they get to be adults with different . levels of if you could 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'll 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.

i don't think 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 him 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 and 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 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 anything. argue

and work. you need to create this story for yourself you need to surround yourself with other people who are going to be possibility and do not allow negative people or negativity to 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 pack yourself are going to pack 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.

that it was for a moment i watched her just. that she was going to be. and i'm telling. from the moment she decided she was going to be a singer. 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 and she would put more. more in her solo than the whole choir would into the whole club and now she is on the largest platform in the world and they will be on site. all because of a work ethic in me young woman who made a decision as to where she was going to do and be on life. and allowed no one to give it 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 it already 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 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 is probably going to be things like whether get rich on welfare with a cannon high schoolish they can it's not that big a deal as long as i have kids i'll be fine i'll be getting welfare i'll be getting the ashwell for will be covered by medicaid i can get housing and so. it doesn't happen that way in 1906 my welfare check this 400 dollars jennifer was 6 daniels to my 15 year old homeless because i 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. the thing to the man

a welfare. to date her family of 3 national average or 78 that's 196-2000 17 the average rent according to hide a modest apartment 750. the average disability check is $756.00 it's almost impossible to get out of poverty based 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 were about it who works harder the person cleaning the hotel room or the person in their office. without a skill or an education so if you want to buy your mama house going to make sure your kids still go hungry can get a skill good education now if you want to. start all that 30000

a year and have the possibility of up to 60 or 70000 you know you have to have skills you have to be talent 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 take computer literacy anybody who goes through school these days and isn't computer literate 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 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 them 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 that's what i think holding people back in poverty they don't know it's bigger than their town and i don't know what they can do bigger than what they see on t.v. and the people i see at school and 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 that inability 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 kind of blend itself in and expose especially the youngest kids to that.

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