Soledad i am soledad obrien. Welcome to matter of fact. The lack of Affordable Housing is a problem for many americans, but for adults with disabilities, it is on verge of becoming a disaster. That is according to the nonprofit groove the arc. They warn there are nearly a million intellectally on development ally living with a caregiver 60 or older. Manny worry their Adult Children will become institutionalized or homeless. About a half million children will reach adulthood in the next decade. As Jessica Gomez tells us, parents are now taking taking matters into their own hands. In a small coffee shot in rural mount horeb, wisconsin, this group of parents has become a fixture. Meeting here every tuesday for the past six years. Brochures hot hot off the press. At the helm. Friends for decades, mary and and osuna. They share a common bond, children with disabilities. Susans son, 27yearold frankie, and mary anns daughter, 25yearold amy. Both have severe autism. The conversation buss their childrens future started long ago when they were in preschool. We we know she is going to continue to require that 24 7 care for the rest of her life. It was always the worry in back of our minds what is is that going to look like . In places across the country they say there are few affordable and available organizations. When i had cancer, i wasnt afraid of dying myself. I was afraid of who is going to take care of my son. That is what i would lay in hospital thinking about. How will frankie be cared for . No is going to do all the things he needs that i do for him . It is a beautiful spot. The moms are now one step closer to answering those questions. With help from a nonprofit wisconsin developer and federal tax credits, this rural land will soon be the site of an integrated housing complex. A portion will go to special needs adifficults like amy or frankie. And the rest for those earning 22 an hour or less or seniors on a fix income. Rent begins at 400 a mop. Going to be a Real Community of people. This is the front entrance. Since news broke of what the grass roots of parpse parents are accomplishing, calls are pouring in from around the country. Other parents zprates for help. There are stories and stories about children with autism and those stories need to be heard, right . But these children grow up, and that first big wave of children with autism when that spike starred to happen, well, those young people are now in their mid to late 20s, early 20s. I think its frankly a Public Health crisis, and it is an Affordable Housing crisis. The country will see a wave of homelessness for people with autism and developmental disabilities. It is coming. In richmond, virginia, parents don and lynn founded the center for autism 20 years ago. Back then there wasnt much help for their daughter, brittany. It is up to the parents to figure out what to do with these children. Once just a school, they have now added adult housing, where those like 23yearold matthew can live on their own. I was able to learn like how to be able to cook on my own, and be able to clean things around the apartment. There is such a great need, and people need help, and there is nobody helping to educate them. The whole thing changes when they turn adults. Technology like motion sensors, ovens that turn off automatically, and cameras focus on front door help keep those like matthew safe and independent. In a Perfect World there are Housing Options for the entire spectrum. That is the problem across the country. There are no options. People are trying to shoe horn adifficults with autism into other housing situations that just dont work. I just cant believe we are here now. It is a great transformation. His new life, a relief for matthews mom. I feel bad for her knowing that she was worried. Bless your heart. You are so sweet. Absolutely gorgeous. And back in wisconsin, there is less worry for moms susan and mary ann. As a vision 20 years in the making will soon become a reality. I cant wait to see what is going to happen, how the community will grow and what will come from this. I am Jessica Gomez. Soledad according to the c. D. C. It cost buss 17,000 a year mother to care for children with autism spectrum disorder. There are Financial Planning tools available on websites. When we come back. When he had to fend for myself and provide for myself, i reverted back to cooking. A young chef hungry for more out of life shares his recipe for success. And could fake snow solve a very real Climate Crisis . Red dress on the first day bold move. Same red dress today even bolder. Fight the fade and keep your red dress red. Is it new . No, its washed in studio by tide. You mighyour joints. Ng for your heart. Or your digestion. So why wouldnt you take something for the most important part of you. Your brain. With an ingredient originally discovered in jellyfish, prevagen has been shown in Clinical Trials to improve shortterm memory. Prevagen. Healthier brain. Better life. And here we have another burst pipe in denmark. If you look close. Jamie, are there any interesting photos from your trip . Ouch, okay. Huh, boring, boring, you dont need to see that. Oh, here we go. Can you believe my client steig had never heard of a home and auto bundle or that renters could bundle . Wait, youre a lawyer . Only licensed in stockholm. What is happening . Jamie anyway, game show, kumite, cinderella story. You know karate . No, alan, i practice muay thai, completely different skillset. Upbeat musieverything was so fresh in the beginning. [sniff] dramatic music but that plug quickly faded. Upbeat music luckily theres febreze plug. It cleans away odors and freshens for 1200 hours. [deep inhale] breathe happy with febreze plug. Soledad 2019 is turning into a very good year for this chief. Food and wine magazine named him one of the best new chefs in america. Plus he won the prestigious james beard award, and he is the executive chef at one of washington, d. C. s hottest restaurants. But his career hasnt just been a series of highs. He has always experienced a lot of lows as well, and he recently joined me to talk about them and his memoir, notes from a young black chef, which is now being turned into a movie. It is so nice you. It is a pleasure to go here. Soledad thank you. Lets start with beginning. You talk about your childhood, which was a rough childhood and not one you might think reading about it you would think by his mid 20s he it would be a twiledry successful chef. Walk us through where you grew up . Are are well, i grew up in the bronx. My mother operated a Catering Company from our onebedroom apartment. My sister an became her first two employees. Instead of doing laundry and taking out trash, i was peeling shrimp and fabricating vegetables. Soledad and you had some troubles. Your mom sent you off when you were about 10 to nigeria. Yes, growing up in the bronx, it is easy to veer from the wrong path. She wanted to nip that in the bud. He shall didnt want to see me in a body bag or in jail. Nigeria was cheaper, so she sent me there. Soledad you had experiences dealing drugs, in a gang, and these are all things you talk about. Where did cooking come into that . For me i think food has always been a Common Thread throughout my life. My mother being a chef, living in nigeria. We had to cultivate our own food. We had to raise our own livestock. We had to harvest different things. That intrigued me as a kid, and it trickled into my adulthood. And when i had to fend for myself and provide for myself, i reverted back to could going. Soledad you became very successful, to the point where you were handed the reigns of a fancy restaurant. And it was amazing, and expensive, and fabulous until it was not. Exactly. Soledad tell me a little bit about that restaurant . Well, the restaurant was kind of like the brainchild between me and one of my best friends. This restaurant, we took an old 200yearold italian row house and transformed it into a restaurant. And it took two and a half years to build, and we built it with our hand. We tiled everything, pained the walls, put undry wall. Unfortunately, it didnt pan out how we expected it to. But you have to keep going. Soledad and then the people who did not love the first restaurant when the second one came to be have jumped on the bandwagon and it has become wildly successful. Tell me how this one is different . It means friends and family. Soledad so we are friend and family and can all come and eat at your restaurant . Exactly. When guests come, i say welcome home. We have a lot of different dishes, spread them out on the table. We try a bit of this and that. There are really four pillars of cuisine that we represent. Trinidad, jamaican, nigerian and creole, and sprinkle in the american south. There have been black people in kitchens forever, and i would imagine if you walked into any restaurant, famous or not, there it would be a whole bunch of black people working in the back, but not a lot of chefs. Why not . Well, i think it is the same reason why there are not a lot of plaque quarterbacks. If you go back 40 or 50 years ago they said we didnt have the mental capacity to quarterback a team. We are proving them wrong, and we need to continue to prove them wrong. But i think it comes from top down. It comes from editorial staffs having more diverse writers, so they are more inclinedo seek out these young black chefs, or black chefs in general. It takes investors to put their cards in black chefs hands and let them have their shot. Soledad do you see that as part of your role if you are a very visible and successful black chef, you can move the needle for other black chefs . Absolutely. As chefs in general we have a platform. We have to choose what we are going to do. We can continue to put out great food, which is part of our job. But we also have another job to do, and thats to advocate for something, and thats what im here advocating for. Soledad the book is called notes from a young black chef. It is excellent. A memoir at 27, 29 nine. Kwame, nice to have you. Thank up. When we come back, a road map for how one person can change the world. Take the lessons from failure. They can be very powerful in terms of moving you forward. Why tech pioneer jean kay says it is time for you to be fearless. Plus, how three million americans could lose the ability to put food on the table. Soledad you know the saying go big or go home, and you know what that means. But do you know how to do it . Jean case is the chairwoman of the National Geographic society and the c. E. O. Of the Case Foundation. And for more than two decades she and her husband, a. O. L. Founder steve case have been investing in people who are changing the world. Her advice for reaching your goals . Be fairless. It is the name of her book as well, which she recently joined me to talk about. Soledad thanks for being with us. Thank you, soledad, i have been looking forward to being here. Soledad people say i need to be practical. I am not rich and well positioned yet. Shouldnt i be practical first . It is a fair question. I should start out by saying although the book is call be sphereless, it is understanding that fear will play a role in your life and pushing past it when you see it. Some people get caught up in this idea that it takes a special genius or special quality that they dont have wealth, connections or the right school to take their idea forward. About six years ago the Case Foundation led some research to look at the core qualities of change makers, videogators and entrepreneurs, and what we found were five simple principles that are present whenever transformational change takes place. Soledad lets walk through them. In the book you say take big bet. Thats right. Soledad and again, people are like well, i would if i felt like i had a net underneath me. But i dont have a snet, so i am going to a net, so i am going to take the little net. I am going to take the small step. The book debunked the myth that you had to have some special causality. The stories in the book, and it is a story telling book, the first story is dr. Barbara findell. At the peak of the war, over 200,000 women and women were serving, and we didnt have the staffs to serve them. She started doing a pro bono hour a week and got friend to do it. She caused me one day and asked me to come in and said i want to build a National Network of doctors. Looking at her, she was a soledad practitioner. She didnt have an m. B. A. , didnt even have an assistant. She used an answering machine. After i heard the passion, the division and the urgency she brought to the moment. I said go for it not only did she, she got thousands and thousands of doctors from around the nation to join her. Her movement was called give an hour. To date they have done over 25 million in pro bono oh health care for military families. Soledad that is amazing. You say make failure matter . Really, the point of the failure principle is to say take the lessons from failure. They can be very powerful in terms of moving you forward and improving on your idea or what you are trying to get done. Soledad i want to talk about unlikely partnerships. I think often we gravitate to the people we know who are like us, who make us feel comfortable, who kind of think the same way hey, that is comfortable, right . Soledad yeah. That principle is called reach beyond your bubble. Like it or not, we are all in a bubble. So it actually takes intentionality to get out of that bubble. You try to surround yourself with people who think differently, different backgrounds, doifer perspectives. There is data in the book that says diverse teams outperform nondiverse teams. This is true in organizations. For those who dont want to build diversity because it is the right thing to do, they might look at building more diverse teams because it is really Smart Business now. Soledad the book is called be fearly. Jean, so nice to have you. Thank you for i think joe us. Nice to be with you. To go up next, how school lunch is caught in the middle of a fight over food stamps. Plus, why would antarctica need 7. 4 trillion tons of fake sno hacked a warning from our responds team on that equifax settlement. What the ftc wants you to know before you try to cash in. Pluskari hall is tracking your work week forecast. Join us monday morning from 4 30 to 7. Soledad now to a weekly feature we like to call we are paying attention even if you are too busy. More than three Million People could be stripped of their food stamp benefits if the Trump Administration gets its way. The Agriculture Department wants to close a socalled loophole that automatically enrolled people into the Food Stamp Program if they already receive other welfare benefits. It is formally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or snap. 40 states and d. C. Take advantage of this option. Sony purdue argues change would save about 2. 5 billion a year. But antipoverty groups say about 265,000 children could lose their Free School Lunch that is automatically included with snap benefits. By separating welfare and snap, parents would have to reapply and hope to get approved. And many seniors and people with distants who depend on food stamps might not get them anymore if their assets are more than 3,500 a month. He says the idea is to end idea called snap dependency. The number is down from 47 million in 2013. When we return, fake it until you make it takes on a whole new meaning. Soledad scientists propose pulling water from the satisfy, removing the assault and spring training it back into the air over antarctic soledad and final, is fake snow a real solution to combat Climate Change . German scientists propose pulling water from the sea, removing the salt, and spring training it back into the air over antarctica to create snow. The goal is to slow down the melting of the west Antarctic Ice sheet. It is roughly the size of scotland. Scientists say if it mets it would add to rising sea levels across the world. You need 7. 4 trillion tons of it to counteract the melting, that is about 500 billion tractor trailers. And it would take the energy there more than 12,000 Wind Turbines to generate that much snow. It doesnt sound very practical. That is sort of the point. 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