warning usa swimming coach, arrested, allegedly had sex with the 12 year old girls. this happens almost every week. we get calls at the office, i get informed about one of my greatest fears is someone's going to start linking all this together. there's going to be a 60 minute documentary about youth coaches in sports like gymnastics swimming. is that documentary? see it on our team? the mm. mm. mm. ah,

[000:00:00;00] excuse me. so we raised the following question. what if we could get every kid to follow 3 simple rules, graduate from high school, get a job and continued work, and don't have children until you're 21. and right now we looked out at the entire country and we classified people according whether they broke all those rules or they follow one or 2 are all 3 of the rules. the results are stone. i mean, i'm trying to select your will be what you think that around, you know,

when now with my grandma, my tell me go to and so what that mean and that's that a prepare for mama getting coming in the last year. so i started talking to judges and lawyers, and doctors and providers and interviewing people and literally thousands of people . how many of you've had the course history of poverty, united states of america see a hand from her america. i social class and he just think about it who people hang out with a lot of people don't know someone in poverty by 1st name, sitting down to dinner together today, millions of american family thought and 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 every one a chance to grow and make his own way. ah, i think everything in life that's important really lives in the gray where there's no black and white this grey. how do we make it more clear of what the problem is? there are so many different life experiences to poverty, and we don't have a real clear definition of it. federal government definition. they say, if you're a family or you need right about 24000 to take care of your family for a year. and does that mean that if you're making more you're not in read and that's not the case. i think the most difficult challenge with the way they do away 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 stunted 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, you get more if you have less income. so 30 income, you get the biggest benefit. and then as you earn money, you lose part of the benefit. sometimes it's even one extra go use a whole benefit medicaid for health insurance for 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 equal parts and less for us at 120 percent. so this would be 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 the 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 of our brothers and sisters in perishing on a lonely and poverty. in the midst of a vast ocean material bearing more must be done to reduce property 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, a death sent out the poverty look pocket. it doesn't have a line because you can put some make up some clothes on anything. 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 of the area that we lived 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 trained the elephant elephant with a little rope. when they're young. when that elephant growth of the full moon elephant put the same little roll around that elephant elephant, i have been condition only go far 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 dream so far when they were children, then when they grew up, i came down in the same little ro deal tied to them

in, but only goes for that rope. in the 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 for 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 bought her my brother 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. and what people do is

we can paris off to the people around. sometimes putting umbrella in a poverty is just poverty and that's, 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 situational poverty, there's so many different life experience of poverty. and we use one word to describe them so many little bit. 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 lives, chances people die on average. 15 years younger who born into generational poverty only 72 percent of the people burning the generational poverty move out. so you move a lot and you just get through the day. life becomes about getting through the day . generational poverty, poverty or michael out of and people in generational poverty are worked in $1.00 jobs every month, have to decide between pain or fine. i the kind of poverty i come from, where most of my family members can read and write. there's high mobility or constantly evicted. you're going hungry threshold to do that. really, really sick, you know, emergency room and hope they give you sample. you're not gonna be by the professional 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 little more control over your life. but they're very hard on my end of the idea that if they work hard, don't make it the labor day without an engine skill or your whole life in. and then the immigrant poverty where you have people who are struggling, housing, sanitation, childcare, in christian medical care, basic human needs. and in addition to that, of the language barrier, cultural barrier, prejudice, racism to really dig off to address, to really develop to there. and then you have a question of poverty grew up in the middle class environment. you here middle password. 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 think that in america, the home, the free, the land of the brave, equal opportunity. and it's just simply not your documents to go 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. ah, me, an entire village in alaska has had to move. if another country threaten the wipe out in america, we do everything on our part a project in water, they escaping climate change poses the same threat. right now alaska has seen some of the fastest coastal erosion in the world. we lost about

3535 feet of ground in just about 3 months while we were measuring is fatty. and that means the river is 35 pounds, then limiting was yours for. i think we're a part of america, the 3rd from or america lose. you join me every closely on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guess in the world. the politics sport business. i'm show business. i'll see you then me the, the, the, the 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, they 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, you know, 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, overwhelming is the biggest barriers to 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. he got a graduate like you just can't drop out because unlike anything else, you still got to 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 at emerald colleges, those aren't true at all. our students are smart, you're ambitious, they're capable. they want for themselves their burden 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, i teach people that if you don't get educated, you don't get killed, 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, some of the, well my uncle makes a 100000 and he's not educated, but i'm quoting labor statistics 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 a lot of people because they've learned they've been sent messages, but they're not smart enough. they're not good enough. they don't try to get your high school diploma gets your college degree and then pursuing what it is that you have a skill set. boring. you're passionate about. one of the hardest, most heartbreaking thing about not having your d d or your husband 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. the best student, you know, i'm not, i understand and not a lot of walking around, but a graduate of men education. they need a plan. 0, one thing that we're really not talking to 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 was just 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 exposed book that shows the average income of people who drop out of high school people who graduate from high school. but don't go further. and kids who get a 2 year degree, it gives you better for you when they get to be adults with different levels of education explode over the last 3 or 4 days. and if we could show the kids and make it understand and you know, i'm, 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. the 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 feels or 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 them roll. and then that student told me after we got him, his schedule, when it came time to go to class. so the 1st day you said in his current parking line for 3 hours, they couldn't get out of the car that's at night because he was smart, capable,

or he didn't want to do it because he was afraid. and that's real, but it can't be an excuse for everybody in their life. everyone has for you. i just challenge you to work through your peers and, and don't let fear, keep you from being your best. so 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 or negativity to talk you out of your dream. 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 be it, but your grandkids will definitely get the give me the one story about a young woman. i watched her this that, that she was going to be a thing. 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 it.

okay. you know, this work ethic that she had was just, we can amazing. i mean, you know, as a kid, a thorough thing and all the time. and then when we, we started this church in downtown used in our family join, brought the kids sienna system. and she joined our 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. and now be in on the largest platform in the world. her name is b r. i all because of a work ethic, young woman, who made a decision as to 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 plan b and

a plan. we have hard workers in this community, whether they're students at emerald 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 when 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 on 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 live in it? it's probably going to be things like when they're getting rich on welfare. 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. $986.00, 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 will help her because she's not yours. but give you $408.00. my rent in a neighborhood called melanie in portland, oregon was $395.00. to think a man welfare check today for a family history. national average for 78 of 98670 the average rent, according to had for my department 750. the average disability is $76.00, 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 to think about it, who worked hard as a person cleaning the hotel room, where the person in their office, you don't move up without a skill or an education. so if you want to buy your mom house, make sure your kids don't go hungry, can give skill guy get education. now if you want to say start out in $30000.00 a year and they 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 that. you need what we call soft skills and hard skills. part skills are just, you know, being technically trained to do something. take computer literacy. anybody 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 and then the soft skills. and

if you talk to employers, employers will tell you that they are really missing this off skills as much as the hard skill. 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 problem solve, knowing what to do when something doesn't go quite right, you know, being a bit creative i, one of the things that helped me in 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 obtainable. 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 in poverty, 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 tv and their people at school and the people that their parents are i used to work in elementary school and he asked the kids what

they want to be in life, and they want to be doctors and, and in the lawyer. but if your home life doesn't support that ability 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 are a community, a, lend itself and expose, especially the youngest kids to that. me ah ah ah me in the

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