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,
states, think again. because there is another humanitarian situation unfolding on the u.s. s northern border that also has caught the attention of the united nations and also involves people from another neighboring nation crossing into the united states. only in this case it is people on our side of the border who are in need of help and our foreign friends who could be coming to the rescue. i m talking about the people in the city of detroit, who have been deprived of access to the most basic element of human survival water. in a city that borders the largest source of fresh surface water on the planet, contained within the great lakes, thousands of people are being prevented from getting even a single drop out of their faucet. this summer detroit s water and sewage department is working to shut off the water for up to 3,000 delinquent city customers eechl we each week, in addition to the 710,000 people who had their water turned off in june and the 7,5567 people who had
thing you could have. when in actuality i ve seen things on the menu much worse looking than the meal loaf. by reputation, they don t care for it at all. i ve tasted it and it s not really that bad. carl alexander would be his own judge. it s horrible. that s good. you for real, man? this is good? yeah. tastes like card board. you have to try some of this. i ll add a little salt and pepper, that s cheating, right? you don t like it? it s not that bad. it actually wasn t too bad. it was very bland. but if you have the right con
station pump for the tonight show. was it a spontaneous moment or were they in on the act. we ll ask them today may 15th, 2013. and and good morning. welcome to today on wednesday morning. i m matt lauer. i m savannah guthrie. what a disturbing story at the top. all service members in sexual assault prevention programs to be rescreened and retrained in the wake of those back-to-back assault cases. let us get right to jim miklaszews miklaszewski. good morning to you. reporter: good morning, matt. here we go again p, for the second time in two weeks. an american servicemen, who is supposed to be protecting women against sexual assault is accused, at least, of sexual assault. lawmakers on capitol hill are already calling these latest allegations disgusting and sickening. the name of this army sergeant hasn t been released because he hasn t been formally charged yet. if these accusations are true, this case appears to be especially heinous. this latest military sex
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