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 part of the united states of america. and we are segregated in america by social class if you just think about a middle class people hang out with. most middle class people don't know someone in poverty by 1st name you know that in 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 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. your way out of your current predicament and you're.

of course people cannot contribute to the nation if they are never talked to read or write. if their bodies are stunted from hunger. if their sickness goes on tended if their life is spent and hopeless poverty just drawing a welfare check. so we're off when they get used to opportunity. we're also going to give all our people the help that very neat. to walk. through those gates. all of our wealth for you get money and you get more 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. one extra dollar use the whole benefit medical for health insurance for people people who are disabled if that number seems low it should because it's based on 1000 fixed these cost of living in the sixty's economists came up with

a formula for calculating what's 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 $3.00 major family expenses are not included in the 2017 federal poverty guideline where you have more women in the workplace than ever in the history if you look at parents and divide their income into 5 equal parts and less well just the bottom 20 percent of this would be parents with income below roughly 25000 dollars and now we come and watch their kids grow up and we made sure their kids income. 3030 to 34 years of age are they doing better than the 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. i am. her for her going along where i'm going to remember. more must be done to reduce poverty in dependency and believe me nothing is more important than welfare reform i think. it's also a state of mind. you know because you can put some make. some close. some. times have we struggled with poverty in a certain way we tend 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 thing somebody else is because we're individuals and

our characteristics our personality our network of people our demographics of the area that we lived in are different so we can take 2 people from different sections and say well person did it he must be good and this person didn't do it let's find an elephant backhand an elephant with a little girl when a young. man elephant growth of the bull found the. elephant. but the same little world around that elephant. that elfin has been conditioned only goal in. as a result will lead. us to say wait a minute cases of people as he had a little rope around their mouth. will will only let him go so far. you know enough of me. so far and there with your. newly grew up. aflame little rope you're talking about.

it only goes for example. 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 both. but if you look at it from his context his experiences who do the children

a 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 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 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 i'm going to decide between pain. and . 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 constantly a victim you're going hungry to have nutrition if you don't really really sick you know they were just through the 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 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 point. and then you have a situation of. passing by and making him in a house where it's since you were in the womb you know 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 and 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 that's just simply not true. let's. just. say. some. 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. denied a financial survival job today was all about money laundering 1st to visit this cash into 3 different. oh good this is a good start well we have our 3 banks all set up here maybe something in europe something in america something overseas in the cayman islands in a room full of these banks are complicit in their club congress who decide to give

mccall and say hey i'm ready to do some serious money laundering ok let's see how we did while we've got a nice luxury watch for max and for stacy oh beautiful jewelry and how about. luxury automobile again for max you know what money you want to hire. watch kaiser of course. thank you. it will. it is the it takes. a lot of.

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 poverty or close to be especially difficult 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 of which they are. 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 payment 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 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 also will your children is an absolute exception of the 1st thing you know someone else they will make some. that 1000 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 that 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 it's. better 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 a 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 iostat into every the. walking around but i graduated man education and you need a plan. one of things i think will 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 every how we should expose. 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 aboard the when they get to the adults the differences in those levels with education 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.

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 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 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 to work through your fear and don't let fear keep you from being your best self don't give out by yourself when

you are educated and when you know the things that you know and you know how hard you know where. 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 negativity to talk you out of your doing. what are you passion about what you have a skill set. and in the meantime pursuing your education you have to understand that you have still much purpose between 1024 that the decisions you make not only going to pass they're going to pack your kids and their 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.

i am i and. q. . but it was for. i watched her decide that she was going to be. and and i'm telling you. from the moment she decided she was going to be a singer. to have that many a little girl at that point. every time i saw her do the one thing about. you know this work ethic that she had was this weekend amazing 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'd get a fellow and she would put more into that fellow 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 the work ethic of me 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 just 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. then it is probably going to be things like when i get rich with a kid in high school is thinking 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 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 they said we won't help her because she's not yours we'll give you $400.00 my rent in

a neighborhood. in portland oregon was 395. that can do the math a welfare check today birth 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 $756.00 it's almost impossible to get out of poverty based just on public but. our labor statistics say 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 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 earn say 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 talented and 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 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 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 city and and see them succeed so that 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 of 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 in a 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. so we've got to do is identify the cigarettes that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race is on all sides very dramatic developments only mostly i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very. time to sit down and talk. always be polite never engage with baited or confrontational. don't get into any conversation or start answering questions just. to survive and. definitely don't want to be.

in the jumpsuit. you're more likely to walk free if you're rich. or if you're poor and. you've got 2 eyes 2 ears and one mouth. so you should be seen in here and a whole lot more than you're saying if you don't take that advice easy going to dig yourself. a financial survival guide stacey. fill out let's say i'm not so i get. the fight. thank you for they. destroy that's right. debt slavery.

make no certainly no blood. to nationalities. has emerged we've. seen. to. judge a. commentary crisis like this listening to things we can do better we should be. everyone is contributing way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenge is crazy to respond as for so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it together.

in france runs into a 2nd weekend over a bill that could ban the filming of the police but the government insists it won't drop it despite concerns from the united nations also to come. let's go inside and talk to the 1st woman to years of world's furthest and she called it a mass vaccination. we speak to one of the doctors 1st in line for russia's free mask over tax and nations this started over the weekend in the capital. so help people who are sick with hospitalizations and intensive care and needing long ventilators and i don't want to see this anymore or become such a patient myself also on the way to the inhumane and degrading treatment or.