Segregated in america by social class. It is, think about it who the middle class people hang out with. Most middle class people dont know someone in poverty by 1st name and fit in down to dinner together. Today, millions of American Families are tossed in circumstances beyond their control. Their children will be compelled to live lives of poverty unless the cycle is broken. President johnsons war on poverty has this one goal to provide everyone a chance to grow and make his own way. I think everything in life thats important really lives in the grey like theres no black and white, theres 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 dont have a real clear definition of the federal government doesnt want to diminish. 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 youre making more and youre not in red and that thats not the case. I think the most difficult challenge your way out of your current predicament and your 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 on 10 didnt. If theyre alive, to spend and hopeless poverty, just drawing a welfare check. So were off to open the gates to opportunity. Were also going to give all our people the help that very neat to roll through those gates. All of our wealth. 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 Health Insurance for people, people who are disabled if that number seems low, it should because its based on 1000 fixed. These cost of living in the sixtys economists came up with a formula for calculating as a family need. And they said things like, well, well have a parent in the home, so we dont have to include childcare. People can walk to work, so we dont have to include transportation and employers will pay for health care. So we dont 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 ever in the history. If you look at parents and divide their income into 5 equal parts, and lets just the bottom 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 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. Its very difficult to get out of the bottom bites. Its a fight every day to meet your needs and the needs of your family for having long hair on the more must be done to reduce poverty in dependency, and believe me, nothing is more important than welfare reform. I think its also a state of mind how do you know . Because you can put, make some close some times if we struggled with poverty in a certain way. Were going to be most critical because we say, well, we didnt, 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 were individual. 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 good and this person didnt do it. They trained elephant backhand, elephant with a little girl when theyre young and elephant growth of the bulls than the elephant. But the same little world around that elephant. But that alpha has been conditioned, only go in far as that rope will lead. Probably were saying 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, it doesnt only lead him to so far under which your newly grew up the same little rope youre talking about it only goes towards the 2 most important thing is where youre born and who youre born to. So this one guy, he said, ill 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 im listening to him through the eyes of somebody whos bought her 5 brothers in the back window of the car. And im thinking you knew someone who owned a store and you were related to though. But if you look at it from his context, his experiences, who were the children a professional singer, typically its 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 thats not, thats not true. Thats not the case. Its so difficult to come up with a solution to help someone we dont 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, theres so many different Life Experiences of poverty. And we use one word to describe them and so many people theyve, they have no idea if youre born into a poor family. Youre born into a minority family. If youre born into a family that only has a single parent that really constrains your life, chances people die on average 15 years younger. If youre 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. And generational poverty are working 1. 7 jobs and to decide between paying more thats the kind of poverty i come from. Where most of my family members cant read and write. Theres high mobility or constantly a victim. Youre going hungry to have nutrition. If you dont really, really sick, you know the bridge through and you just hope they get the sales by the prescriptions working class. Poverty is a little different. Youre living paycheck to paycheck. Dont have a lot left over but know that checks coming so you feel like you have a little more control over your life, but theyre very hard on themselves. They buy into the idea that if they work or dont make it and they have the labor statistics, they without an education or skill or your whole life. And then theres any poverty where you have people who are struggling with housing, transportation, child nutrition, out of your basic human needs. And in addition to that, you have the language barriers, the cultural barriers, the us, the discrimination, racism, to live, to move really big obstacle to address, to really develop to their plans. And then you have a situation of passing by and making him middle class where since you were in the womb, you know, little pricing structure, youre 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 dont find their way into our numbers that didnt fill out the papers for the free and reduced lunch. Now 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. Thats the American Dream and past generations. The American Dream seem to be working pretty well. Its not working as well. Now, we always think that in america on the theory of the land of the brave, equal opportunity for kids to 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. Always be polite, never engage with a negative, aided or consultation. Get into any conversation or start answering questions just to survive and youre more likely to walk free if youre rich or if youre poor you got one now. So you should be seen in here and a whole lot more than youre saying if you dont take that advice, easy going to dig yourself a little financial survival. Stacey bailouts, lets say im not so i get a. 9 lot, thank you for the story. Thats right. If you looked at slavery, 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 that live with us have no postsecondary credential. Todays 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. The chances are youre going to be in poverty or close to be, especially if youre trying to support a family. Why did 20 different focus groups . I did surveys. I did interviews expecting to find that students were afraid. Im asked, which they are that students need more tutoring, which they do, but those werent 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 its 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 and get a graduate. Thank you just cant 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 arent as well prepared. Theyre not smart. They dont know how to study, theyre not dedicated. And i think what weve learned at Emerald College is those arent true at all. Our students are smart, theyre ambitious, theyre capable, they want for themselves. Theyre burdened not just provide a future for themselves, but to save their families. But they have real barriers that they bring with them. If were going to fulfill our mission and higher education, weve 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 dont get educated, you dont get skilled, you going to be poor your whole life. And so will your children is an absolute exception of a person who is living. You know so little say, well my uncle makes a 100000 and hes not educated, but im quoting labor statistics and census data. Thats an exception. I didnt know what i wanted to be, and so after i graduated from college, i think that thats 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 theyve learned that theyve been sent messages that theyre not smart enough. Theyre not good enough. They dont try and tell you to get your High School Diploma, get your college degree, and then keep pursuing what it is that you have a skill set for. And youre passionate about one of the hardest, most heartbreaking things about not having your dignity or your High School Diploma is sometimes you hit a ceiling at work or you miss an opportunity. We dont want you to miss we. We want people to have those are the best food, you know, im not, i asked them a lot of walking around, but i graduated man education and you need to plan one of things, i think were 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 dont 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 whats important college is not about how smart you are. Its about how hard youre willing to wait. Every house we should expose. It 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. And kids are good for you when they get to be adults, with Different Levels for those people should 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, im 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. Its 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 youre not thinking short term, i dont 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 for the 1st day. He said in his car in his parking lot for 3 hours and i couldnt get out of the car thats. Thats not because he won smart, capable, or he didnt want to do it. Thats because he was a brave. And thats real, but it cant be an excuse everybody in their lives. Everyone has fear. I just challenge you dont work through your fear and dont let fear. Keep you from being your best self. Dont give out my yourself. When you are educated and when you know the things that you know and you know how hard you work, you need to create this story for yourself. You need to surround yourself with other people who are going off the ability and do not allow negative people negativity, to talk you out of your what are you passion about what you have, skills that are and in the meantime, pursuing your education, you have to understand you have so much purpose between 1024, that the decisions you make, not only going to pass, theyre going to pack your kids and your grandkids. You dont even know whos going to benefit from the little decisions you make today. You may not see you, but your grandkids will definitely i am. I am i was that was going to be a singer. And, and im telling you from the moment she decided she was going to be a singer and do that really a little girl at that point. Every time i saw her do the work, think about, you know, this work ethic that she had was if we can amazin, i mean, you know, as a kid, authorise thing and all the things. And then when we started to start in downtown houston, our family joe, and brought the kids to an assistant and she joined a choir and every now and then see vienna solo and see 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 to what she was going to do and be in life. And allowed no one to get away. Will everyone be a no. Thats why you got to have a plan, a, a plan b. And a plan c. We have a hard workers in this community, whether theyre students, family, college or employees in the community. We have a really hard work ethic, the issue is theyre underemployed, so theyre working really hard and not making a living wage. Doing she already is. I work in a crisis is 1. 00 jobs and still i cant put food and pay rent. I have to make a choice, so we say youve got to work harder in order to, to make it thats not true, not when youre experiencing poverty. Because people in poverty are working i started looking at whos the number one teacher of poverty in the United States of america. And the answer that i found was the media. So whats the average person going to know about poverty and the people who live in it . Its probably going to be things like whether get rich off welfare. If a kid in high school is thinking, its not that big a deal, as long as i have kids, ill be fine, ill be getting well for all the good and casual for will be covered by medicaid. I can get housing and so it doesnt happen that way. In 1906. My welfare check before going any dollars. Jennifer was 6 daniels to my 15 year old homeless cuz i was living with me and they said, we wont help her because shes not yours. Well give you 400. 00 my rent in a neighborhood. In portland, oregon was 395, but then do the math. A welfare check today. Her family of 3, national average, or 78. Thats 1962000 17. The average rent, according to had a modest apartment 750. The average disability check is 0. 75. Its 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 dont have education beyond high school, you dont have a skill like an electrician or plumber. The average increase after working hard for 10 years in a persons income is 2. 00 an hour. Didnt matter how hard you were. Big about it, who works harder, the person cleaning the hotel room, or the person in their office. You dont move up without a skill or an education. So if you want to buy your mama house, going to make sure your kids dont go hungry, cant get a skill. Got a good education. Now if you want to on, say start all that 30000 a year and have the possibility of up to 60 or 70000, you know, who have to have skills. You have to be counted 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 isnt computer literate is going to be in trouble. And i think our schools should be doing a lot more if theyre not already to teach people programming and coding skills and the whole set of things. You cant get a decent job anymore if you dont have those skills, either the soft skills. And if you talk to employers, employers will tell you that theyre really missing the soft skills as much as the hard skills. The soft skills are things like getting to work on tall. Im 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 solved, knowing what to do when something doesnt 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 dont know what you dont know. And i think a lot of times is thats what i think Holding People back and they dont know its bigger than their town and they dont know what they can do, bigger than what they see on t. V. And the people they see at school and the 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 doesnt support the teen ability of those things, its a nice dream, but its not a reality. Groupings neighborhoods dont have that exposure. So its important that our schools, our community itself and expose especially the youngest kids to that is youll be a reflection of reality in a world transformed what will make you feel safe from isolation or community. Are you going the right way or are you being led to direct . What is true . What is great . In the world corrupted, you need to descend to join us in the depths. Or im a bit loose shallowness of my pappy and always a Little Pocket board. If he does much good enough for me to give equal google of mere hire, someone who doesnt like that can tumble that the commission was mad at me back. 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