Americans gave more than 350 billion to nonprofits last year, and half of that came from the wealthiest americans. So, what influences their giving . Ruben ramirez gets some answers. Reporter its another Typical School day at Truman High School in the bronx. The cooking class is busy in the kitchen. singing the choir is rehearsing. The astronomy class is learning about stars. But it wasnt always like this. Real estate developer Charles Bendit met truman high principal sana nasser a decade ago through a nonprofit called pencil. It connects Business People who want to volunteer with schools in their communities. I was a small businessman that was just getting started. I was just beginning to realize that someday i might be successful. I didnt have what to give in terms of big dollars, so what i did do was, i thought about how i could be most impactful. Reporter bendit serves as a mentor to principal nasser. Together, they developed the idea of specialized academies within the high school
Its our look at philanthropic spending and investing in others. Americans gave more than 350 billion to nonprofits last year, and half of that came from the wealthiest americans. So, what influences their giving . Ruben ramirez gets some answers. Reporter its another Typical School day at Truman High School in the bronx. The cooking class is busy in the kitchen. singing the choir is rehearsing. The astronomy class is learning about stars. But it wasnt always like this. Real estate developer Charles Bendit met truman high principal sana nasser a decade ago through a nonprofit called pencil. It connects Business People who want to volunteer with schools in their communities. I was a small businessman that was just getting started. I was just beginning to realize that someday i might be successful. I didnt have what to give in terms of big dollars, so what i did do was, i thought about how i could be most impactful. Reporter bendit serves as a mentor to principal nasser. Together, they de
John there are three ways to help people who need help, government can try to do it. Give people money, start programs. Charities do that too, and id say theyre better at teaching people how to help themselves. Theres the saying goes teach a man to fish. Then theres a third way, i think its the best way. Ill get to that later in the show. But first lets debate the first two. When i was in college, president Lyndon Johnson declared allout war on human poverty. He said for the first time in our history, its possible to conquer poverty. I believe him then but i watched his poverty programs create more poverty. Governments spent trillions of dollars and people are still people are still poor. People on the left say money was still worth it. Look at this chart. The poverty rate fell charply after the war began. Thats great, but the extended chart back two years when they were still kept at the poverty rate, they noticed it was already falling. Just as fast. Then it stopped falling about sev
And now john spos el. There are threeways to help people who need help. Government can try to do it give people money, start programs. Charities do that, too. They are better at teaching people how to sell teach a man to fish. Theres a third way the best way i will get to that later in the show. First lets debate the first two. When i was in college johnson declared an all out war for human poverty. I believe in them and then i watch his poverty programs create pore poverty. They spent trillions of dollars and people are still pour. People on the left say it was worth it. Look at this chart. The poverty rate fell sharply after the war on would have vert began. Thats great. But wait. He extends the chart back a faw years for when it was first kept the poverty rate you notice that it was already falling just as fast. But then it stopped falling about 7 years after the war on poverty began. The history professor said because government encouraged poor americans to be dependent on governme
From now, french president Francois Hollande will present his countrys highest honor to three americans and a british citizen. U. S. Serviceman Spencer Stone, Alek Skarlatos and their friend Anthony Sadler gave their first News Conference together saturday saying they had no choice but to confront the heavily armed gunman and talked about all the attention theyve received. It feels pretty crazy. Never thought i would be here in this position. So its unreal. Me, personally, im still waiting to wake up. This all just seems like a movie scene or something. Like he said, the word to describe it is pretty unreal. The latest on all of this, lets go to our Senior International correspondent Nic Robertson who joins us live from paris. The americans seem humble about the incident but the suspects lawyer saying Ayoub El Khazzani is dumbfounded by the terrorism charges but he seemed prepared for a massacre. What do we know . Reporter according to his lawyer he is saying he wasnt on the train for