the folks who live in high poverty neighbors, what elijah anderson calls decent folk. get along with their lives, play by the rules, not get in trouble. and so we used census data to show that community is much more diverse than in the corner and we reported interview information from our respondents, 6 years old, but at age 28 when we talked to them, who had grown up and many followed diverse paths. one of the interesting details is that many of them were working class whites, who were missing from the scene in most urban poverty yet in big cities like baltimore and they provided a really important perspective on what it means to be poor and growing up poor. what you say here is so critical. you say, you have to be open to discovery. that s in your journalism role, academic role and certainly in the policymaker role. tianna gaines-turner, thank you for being here.
found, from those low income, working class families, only 4% earned college degrees. joining the table now is carl alexander, professor of sociology at johns hopkins university and co-author of the new book based on his study the long shadow: family background, disadvantaged urban youth. part of what i d like you to do, we re hearing about the big policy picture. we know something about tianna s personal story. if you put it in context for us of a 25-year study, what do you know about poverty and what tends to keep people there and what tends to provide an avenue out. thanks so much for having me on, first. it s an honor to be here with tianna. her story is riveting, inspiring and it won t surprise that many of the children that we followed over this 25-year period in our project follow a similar path, struggling along the way and working hard to make a go of it. we thought that this was going to be a book about achieving success by doing well in school,
mosque, house of worship in the united states, just on that issue alone, to each raise $50,000 every year for 10 years to replace the amount of service that was being cut. and today, chairman ryan allowed something extraordinary in a congressional hearing about poverty, testimony from a poor person. at the urging of congresswoman barbara lee, the committee came face to face with the struggles of poverty when they listened to the experience of tianna gaines turner. this photograph right here is a photo of my children. my children are everything to me. i would like to say that we need to break the cycle. we need to make sure that we all remember what the american dream is. values, family values. i m not a number, i m not a statistic, i m not a food stamp recipient. i m an individual who happens to
when you do something that involves you taking a hit or people affiliated with you taking a hit. and so the reason why having someone line tianna as part of the national conversation as well as you having her on the show and the senator having her there, it adds more people for us to have that back and forth. lord knows us in the media get to say a lot. it s different when you have the back and forth. the president also in part of this follow-up from the state of the union went yesterday and did this google plus event which is not about technology. it s about the fact that he believes it s important his administration to have unscreened interaction with americans. that s an important thing. tianna gaines turner in philadelphia, know you always have an open invitation to the table here in nerdland. i m excited you had the opportunity to go to the state of the union. thank you so much for having me again on the show. and thank you so much for those sitting around the round table
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