for the best of our parents, so we re going to ask parents to do something that most of them are not capable of doing. so we look at this social economic strat tpaoeu indication that we are addressing, many of these parents need help. i know i worked in the inner-city of chicago. i ve been in the hard-core schools and i have worked with parents. we know we node more parents help. we need to put in programs that are affordable that target this population, we need tone gauge these parents this focus groups. how can we best help you to help your child. have we done that? i don t know, because the parents have invested. when they invest in a program they help it to work. jaime: it sound like wayne, win representative campfield are you thinking about any of the money that you save and investing in parents who can then invest in their kids? actually my program, every penny that is saved goes back into the same program to help other people who are towing the line. honestly i can t disagree w
michigan where similar laws were proposed. great to see both of you. thanks for being with us. actually our first guest is on the stone. i want to ask first about what is going on in tennessee, so representative campfield if i can ask you why you re proposing this, because you already have a measure in place that if kid don t go to school parents lose 20% of their welfare cash payments. yeah, you know we re taking it to the next level and saying, listen if your kid is failing every single class because who knows what reason, unless you are a special needs child or something like that we re going to stop or cutback on the amount of straight cash payments you re going to get. this has nothing to do with food stamps or wick or school lunches or anything or schoolhousing vouchers, this is a straight cash payment that the state gives to these people that are in need, but we need to stop this generational poverty. jaime: i under your feeling is that you may be able to stop the cycle of pov
who has to raise a child. jaime: representative campfield that is the almost of money you re already withdrawing that 20%. you want to take it up another 10th. is there a compromise you re considering? if you want to talk motivation, nothing motivates like cash. when somebody says wait a second my kid is failing maybe there is a problem because i m tphoplt getting as big a check as i was getting, maybe a parent will say wait a second, maybe i should talk to the schools, maybe i should return their calls. we have teachers who are calling, we have after school programs for parents. we have after school tutoring programs for our students. we have hit a brick wall. we can search out these parents but sometimes it s very, very difficult. if the parent is selfmotivated they show up. when they realize there is some skin in the game for themselves they show up and they take an active part and then these kids start succeeding. this is like the new york times has said this is successful in