hey, if you're a family or you need ride about $24000.00 to take care of your family for a year, and does that mean that if you're making more, you're not in red? and that's not the case. i think the most difficult challenge with the way think your way out of your current predicament in your property of course, people cannot contribute to the nation if they are never taught to read or write if their bodies are studied from hunger, if their sickness goes untended, if their life is spent and hopeless poverty, just drawing a welfare check. so we want to open the gate to opportunity. we're also going to give all our people the help that they need to walk

through those gates all of our welfare. but you get money in, you get more if you have less income. so 30 income. you get the biggest medical and manage you earn money, you lose part of the benefit gum times. even one extra go use a whole benefit medicaid for health insurance, but people and people who are the same. that number seems low and should because it's based on 1960 the living in the sixty's economists came up with a formula for calculating. what does the family mean? 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 expense, and they're not included in the 2007 tool. federal poverty guidelines where you have more women in the workplace than ever in the history of parents and divide their income into 5 parts and less for us at 120 percent. so this,

the parents with income below roughly 25000 dollars year. and now we come and watch their kids grow up and we measure their kids income. 303034 years age. are they doing better than their kids from that bottom just of in humble or 25000 and 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 model. it's a fight every day. to meet your needs and the needs of your family in some corner of our brothers and sisters in paris on a lonely, i'm on poverty. in the midst of a vast ocean material, more must be done to reduce property in dependency and believe me, nothing is more important than welfare reform. i think poverty to a large extent. it's also a state of mind, poverty,

a death sentence. how does poverty look pocket? it doesn't have a line, you know? because you can put some, make up the clothes on anything a bad sometimes if we're struggling with poverty in a certain way, we tend to be more most critical because we say, well, we didn't, i pulled myself up while i was dressed. i got it done. i struggled, i had to work 2 jobs. i did it. well, your situation is not the same as somebody else is because we're individual and our characteristics, our personality, our network of people, our demographics, the area that we lived in are different. so we can't take 2 people from different, they will, this person did it, he must be good and this person didn't do it. they trained the elephant elephant with a little rope. when they're young. when that elephant growth to be both more than elephant. put the same little roll around the elephant, but but that elephant has been condition only go on as that

rope will live in poverty. were the same way. many cases the people as he had that little rope around there, man. and that rope will would only let them go so far. only let them read so far. when they were children, then when they grew up, i came in though in the same little row to them, i can only go for that road in a 2 most important thing is where you're born and who you are born to. so this one guy, he said i'll do your study for you and 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 for the back window of the car. and i'm thinking you knew someone who owned a store and you were related to them. but if you look at it from his context, his experiences, who did the children a professional thing? typically it's going to be other children or professionals in what people do is we compare it to the people around us. and we can kind of cutting umbrella and say poverty is just poverty, and 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 i

ah, so understanding the perspective of people who live in generational poverty or working poverty or immigrant poverty or situation poverty, there's so many different life experiences of poverty. and we use one word to describe them. so many people 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 lives, chances people die on average. 15 years younger who born into generational poverty in only 72 percent of the people burning generational poverty move out. so you move a lot and you just get through the day life becomes about getting through the day generation poverty, poverty or michael out of people in generational poverty or worked in 147 job every

month. have to decide between pain or find food. i kind of poverty, i come from where most of my family members can't read it, right? there's high mobility, you're constantly evicted. you're going hungry crystals that really, really sick, you know, the emergency room and hope they give you sample. you're not gonna be on by the prescript. home working class. poverty is a little different. you're living paycheck to paycheck. don't have a lot leftover but know that check's coming. so you feel like you have a little more control over your life, but they're very hard on my end of the idea that if they work hard to make it the labor day without an end or your whole life in. and then the immigrant poverty where you have people who are struggling, housing, application, child care in christian medical care, basic human needs. and in addition to that, the language barrier mo, barriers prejudice, the racism to really dig off to address,

to really develop to there. and then you have a question of poverty open in the classroom. i am that you hear me word. since you were in the womb know middle structure. you're not saying you maybe have a divorce and you fall into poverty, or maybe you get downsize in your job. and you fall into 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 think that everybody who works hard, it 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, the home of the free, the land of the brave, equal opportunity. and it's just simply not sure why

it's, you know, those go just get dangerous to education. you can also better yourselves another way. 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.

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back guys, or financial survival. when customers go buy, you reduce the price now well, reduce a lower that's under cutting, but what's good to food market is not good for the global economy. ah ah, i i, when you look at the landscape of our community,

one of the things that keeps me up at night is our education attainment rate, 70 percent of our citizens. our neighbors that live with us have no postsecondary credential. today's economy is very demanding skills 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 to poverty and will be, especially if you're trying to support me. why did 20 different focus groups? i did surveys. i did interviews expecting to find that students were afraid of math, which they are, that students need more tutoring, which they do. but those weren't the barriers that students identified that we're keeping from being successful in the classroom. what students told me overwhelmingly, is the biggest barriers for their success in the classroom. had nothing to do with

the classroom. transportation, child care, 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 anyone who wants to get out of poverty or level up and what they want to do. however, i also think that the worst thing to do is go to college dropout years ago. the goal is to graduate. you got to graduate like you just can't drop out because unlike anything else, you still gotta pay the bill the the 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 to them or colleges, those aren't true at all. our students are smart, durant, vicious, they're capable. they want for themselves their burden not just provided 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, i teach people that if you don't get educated, you don't get skilled, you're going to be for your whole life. so will your children, if it's an absolute exception of a person living, you know someone else? well my uncle makes a 100000 and he's not educated, but i'm quoting labor statistic fences. that's an exception. i didn't know what i wanted to be until after i graduated from college. i think that that's somewhat normal, but i went ahead and i went to college and i picked the major. and i was glad that

i had people in my life, encouraged me just to go ahead and go in a lot of people because they've learned they've, they've been sent messages, but they're not smart enough. they're not good enough. they don't try. i'm telling you it's 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 thing about not having your d d or your high school diploma is sometimes you hit a, a ceiling at work or you miss an opportunity. we don't want you to miss. we want people to have those opportunities and the best students, you know, i'm not, i'm, there is not a lot of them walking around, but a graduate of man education. they need a plan. oh 0, one of the things i think we're really not talking about high school students about is the subject that i like to call the success. we teach english, we teach math,

but we don't teach exam, which regardless how smart you are in any of those other categories. if you understand the subject of success, when it loses basic fundamentals of understanding, you know how to network, how to communicate with people, but also how to be strategic. realizing what's important in college is not about how smart you are. it's about how hard you're willing to work in every dispos that shows the average of people who drop out of high school and people who graduate from high school. but to go further. and kids who get a 2 year degree, it gives you better for you. when they get to be adults, different levels of education explode over the last 3 or 4 days. and we could show the kids and they could understand, you know, am i get more education, i'm going to make more money. and that'll had an impact on every other part of my life. the most important thing is not the freedom to buy things is to freedom,

the 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 endurance where you're not thinking short term. i . one thing that i think is so important to understand is how poverty seals are hope. and your confidence. i was talking to, to the students at my place and i loaded one of my car, brought him over here, walk them through the process, got him signed up, we got him enrolled, and then that student told me, after we got him, his schedule, when it came time to go to class for the 1st day. you said in his current line for 3 hours they couldn't get out of the car that's. that's not because he

was 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 life. everyone has for you. i just challenge you to work through your fear and don't let fear. keep you from being your best self. don't give up by yourself. when you are educated and when you know the things that you know and you know how hard your work, you need to create the story for yourself. you need to surround yourself with other people who are going to be a possibility and do not allow negative people for negativity to talk you out of your grade. i, what are you passionate about? what do you have skill set for? and in the meantime, pursuing your education, you have to understand you have so much purpose between 14 and 24, that the decisions you may not only gonna pack herself, they're going to pack your kid in your grandkids. you don't even know is going to

benefit from the little decisions you make today. you may not see it, but your grandkids will definitely i me. the show was about a young woman watched her this that, that she was going to be a thing or and, and i'm telling you. but the moment she decided she was going to be a thing or really a little girl at that point. every time i saw her doing what thing is,

okay. you know, this work ethic that she had was just amazing. i mean, you know, as a kid, i sort of thing and all the things. and then when we, we started to church in downtown use that our family joined the kids sienna system . and she joined the 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 well. and now the in, on the largest platform in the world. her name is b r. i all because of a work ethic. when the young woman made a decision where 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 plan b and a plan. we have hard workers in this community,

whether they're students in general, a college or employees in the community. we have a really hard work ethic. the issue is they're under employed. so they're working really hard and making a living wage doing already is i am working according to this is 1.7 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, i started looking at who's the number one teacher of poverty in the united states of america. and my answer that i found was the media. so what's the average person going to know about poverty and the people who then it, it's probably going to be things like where they're getting read off. well, if a kid in high school is thinking it's not a big deal, as long as i have kids, i'll be fine. i'll be getting well for i'll be getting a cash offer will be covered by medicaid. i can get housing and so it doesn't

happen that way. in 1986, my welfare check, the $408.00 for me. jennifer was 6 daniels to my 15 year old homeless because i was living with me and they said, we won't help her because she's not yours. we'll give you $408.00. my rent in a neighborhood called melanie. in portland, oregon was 395 to think a man and welfare check today for a family history. national average 478-980-6070. the average rent according to had for a modest apartment, $750.00. the average disability check if $756.00, it's almost impossible to get out of poverty based on public in our labor statistics. if you take a minimum wage job and you were 10 years, and you don't have education beyond high school, you don't have a skill like 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, think about it, who worked hard as a 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, make sure your kids don't go hungry. god give skill guy get education. now if you want to say start out at $30000.00 a year and you have the possibility of going all the way up to 60 or 70000 year, you 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, part skills her 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 school 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 that are the soft skills. and

if you talk to employers, employers will tell you that they're really missing this skills as much as the hard skills. so soft skills are things like getting to work on time, dressing appropriately, knowing how to interact with other people. knowing how to be polite with the client or a customer knowing how to problems all knowing what to do when something doesn't go quite right. you know, being a bit creative. one of the things that help me my personal life was to see other people, maybe of my same skin color or, or as necessity 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 poverty, they don't know what's bigger than their town. and they don't know what they could do, bigger than what they see on tv and their people at school and the people that their parents are used to work in elementary school and ask the kids what they want to be

in life. and they want to be doctors and, and in a lawyer. but if you're home, life doesn't support the inability of those things. it's a nice dream, but it's not a reality. answering groupings, neighborhood don't have that exposure. so it's important that our schools, our community kind blend itself and expose, especially the youngest kids to that. me since close my case work so well. people don't like to use the word inconsistency. they like to say, oh it's, it's amazing in comprehensible mysterious when i say it can't be quite right. and this is what direct says, this is what i just was sure. i met my local bank and obviously

wanted to get up. not because you guys are not going to the the or up any kids in the regency blocked them or not. i think i get my don't get a get. we'll put it on the show to wait for the meeting id. really lucky then this is me. god, to bye, bye little bye. now, bye. and then you guys mean, i mean, why,

why not what i mean? i media a reflection of reality the in the world transformed what will make you feel safer? type relation to community you going the right way? where are you being that somewhere which direction? what is truth? what is in a world corrupted. you need to this end. the join us in the depths, the will remain in the shallows. ah, ah,

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scabbing or, or where were rescuing resources that are still good. this is best buy march 21st, which is in 2 days. all these potatoes, holla panels, onions, all of these came from waste ground sources. this is great for me because i'm always looking for a way to give things away. dr. because the tax laws, you know, definitely do benefit the wealthier people in our society. so that makes sense for them to throw it out right off rather than give it to somebody who could use it, then that person is not going to buy it. i the school was a super, super like case study the make it to the transformations over the past decade, advanced mega project most go urban for him to and to and he won the largest

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