here with us now, founder, president, and ceo of a nonprofit organization that aims to break the cycle of poverty and illiteracy. he is the coauthor of the book walk in their shoes. can one person change the world? the answer is? absolutely. we can t do it alone, but if we unite behind what we believe in, we can make a change. we have been talking about income inequality and you took a trip that changed your life after college and saw it on a global scale in a big way. after college i worked a couple of jobs and saved money and backpacked and hitch hiked around the world and spent a lot of time in developing countries. i was overwhelmed when in nepal i passed through the village where they were celebrating the
explain this chart and i want leigh who has written an incredible book to follow up. the academics basically took income mobility data and theygr and loes. it s lowest in the deep south. the higher the number the better, right? the bluer the color the better, redder the worst. so for example in atlanta, if you were born in the born 20% has only a 4% chance of moving up to the top. if you re in new york, a child born in the bottom 10% as a 10% chance of moving up to the top. there are a lot of reasons, but it includes the way people organize. so for example atlanta is a city where people of low incomes or high incomes tend to be very aggregated.
manifestation of it. but this story although you can pinpoint to that day in april, it s a story that continued throughout the year. you see the way the city rallied after this over the course of the months later, around the team, around the red sox, but in general. you go up there, you spend a lot of time up there this fall, boston exhibited an extraordinary a resilience in the months that followed. they rallied around the team and won the world series. and we ll see this next marathon in a few months and there is no doubt it will be the biggest marathon ever. people will stand up and in a spirit of both resilience and resolute nance, they shoel it won t keep people down forever. you see it nationwide much in the way people rallied around morning after 9/11 and new orleans after hurricane katrina.
colleges, in technical college, things that train people for that place in the labor market that is not about getting a four year college degree, but is about getting something that is not better than getting just a high school degree, not quite a college degree, and tons of money that can be spend on the government there. we don t do that here. i heard that in more places i ve gone, whether it s talking to governors or ceos. what you you just said really is. and we ve all talked about it. you talk about and this is critical. steve, how do we get there? by the way, do you agree everything i said on education, too? you actually do because like bloomberg has been killed for 12 years because he s and the transportation piece that mike mentioned also matters a lot. getting people to jobs. one quick chart.
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