patricia s. hernandez kelly. what is baltimore? >> one of the traces this most important in our nation that the current moment but in an area that receives very little attention. i see my research near its test close to a decade to understand poverty in the united states and because of this research so if it is but it is about how the government and society interact with impoverished people to the african americans. >> host: what is a population of west baltimore ? >> where i conducted my research the neighborhoods are predominantly black where more than one-third of young women have had at least one child. income levels never per sad -- surpass ted that women paul or the president and then to show for the first time to show policy in the united states. not just by a scarcity but the overwhelming presence of government officials and the likes of of four her gore recently i was introduced by a different organization and i noticed that it is not unusual for a child but but did does show the beginning of a trend set is says much as pa