Thinks. We hear him to ask. So we were raised the following question what if we could get every kid to follow 3 simple rules graduate from High School Get a job and continue work and dont have children tell youre 21 and right now weve walked out at the entire country and we classified people according to whether they broke all those worlds or they followed one or 2 or all 3 of the rules the results are astounding. 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 throughout the course istria part of the United States of america. And we are segregated in america by social class if you just think about it who the middle class people hang out with. Most middle class people dont know someone in poverty by 1st name and often 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 pov
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 definition 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 youre not in red and that thats not the case i think the most difficult challenge. Your way out of your current predicament and youre. Of course people cannot contribute to the nation if they are never talked to read or write. If their bodies are stunted from hunger. If their sickness goes on tended if their life is spent and hopeless poverty just drawing a welfare check. So were off when they get used to opportunity. Were also
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
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
Association of San Francisco, and i would say that i well, i identify as an alcoholic and an addict. Ive been clean and sober for around 25 years, through 12step recovery, but im also very familiar with the principles of Harm Reduction and the the value of that. Im not somebody thats going to try to, you know, i dont know, foist a 12step recovery on somebody thats not ready or not interested in it, and i also identify with Mental Health challenges. Id say for my whole life im in my early 60s now, and its taken me that long to realize how my Mental Health and substance issues have impacted my life. I got clean and sober, didnt really address my Mental Health issues very well, so even though i was clean and sober, i would continue to still have issues and problems. And its only in the last, say, six, seven, or eight years that ive found Mental Health recovery thats been consistent. I believe in peer recovery, and the idea that a 12step recovery to me is about one alcoholic or an addict h