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 history of poverty United States and. We are segregated in america by social class think about it what a middle class people hang out with. Most middle class people dont know someone in poverty by 1st name and settle 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 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 clear definition of the federal government doesnt meet the de
Narrator hello, im george stone. The big count of the population in these United States is made every 10 years. This is the time when Census Bureau enumerators visit every household with a list of basic questions such as, where were you born, how many people live in this house, how many headed how did you get to work last week and so on. , this is not the whole story. Between the censuses, the bureau conducts other counts of agriculture, business, housing and many others as well. And the results of all this questioning appear as statistical tables in this fivefoot shelf of books. I dont suppose many of you reach for a volume of census reports when you feel the urge to curl up with a good book. But still, these columns of figures have a great deal to tell us about who we are, what we do and how we live, about the american drama and the American Dream. And my authority for that statement is dr. Philip hauser, professor of sociology and director of the Population Research and Training Cen
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. Its a fight every day to meet your needs and the needs of your family. I am very aware. Of the. Current for how long we are on the. More must be done to reduce poverty and dependency and believe me nothing is more important than welfare reform. To a large extent its also a state of mind poverty in a sense. How does piloted love. Papa didnt have a loan. Because you can put make up. Some clothes on anything about it sometimes 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 wor
Narrator hello, im george stone. The big count of the population in these United States is made every 10 years. This is the time when Census Bureau enumerators visit every household with a list of basic questions such as, where were you born, how many people live in this house, how many headed to work last week, and so on. This is not the whole story. Between the censuses, the bureau conducts other counts of agriculture, business, housing and many others as well. And the results of all this questioning appear as statistical tables in this fivefoot shelf of books. I dont suppose many of you reach for a volume of census reports when you feel the urge to curl up with a good book. But still, these columns of figures have a great deal to tell us about who we are, what we do and how we live, about the american drama and the American Dream. And my authority for that statement is dr. Philip hauser, professor of sociology and director of the Population Research and Training Center at the univer
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