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Theyll raise that question what if. We get every kid to follow 3 simple rules graduate from High School Get a job and continue work and dont have children tell youre 21 and right now we walked out at the entire country and we classified people according to whether they broke all those rules or they followed one or 2 or all 3 of the rules the results are astounding. So i started talking to judges and lawyers and doctors and Health Providers and interviewing people and literally asked thousands of people how many of you had the course istria part of the United States and. We are segregated in america by social class if you just think about it would a middle class people hang out with. Most middle class people dont know someone in poverty by 1st name foot in down to dinner together. Today millions of American Families are caught in circumstances beyond their control. Their children will be compelled to live lives of poverty unless the cycle is broken. President johnsons war on poverty has this one goal to provide everyone a chance to grow and make his own way. I think everything in life thats important really lives in the grey like theres no black and white theres this gray how do we make it more clear of what the problem is there are so many different Life Experiences of poverty and we dont have a real clear definition of the federal government doesnt meet the definition they say if your family is more right about. To take care of your family for a year in 2000 does that mean that if youre making more united and red. Thats not the case i think the most difficult challenge. Your way out of your current predicament. Of course people cannot contribute to the nation if they are never taught to read or write. If their bodies are stunted from hunger. If their sickness goes on 10 didnt if theyre alive to spend and hopeless poverty just drawing a welfare check. So we were asked to open the gates to opportunity. Were also going to give all our. Help that very neat. To roll. Through those gates. All of our wealth you get money and you get more have less income go through have 0 income get the biggest money. And then as you earn money lose part of the benefit sometimes if you were me. One extra dollar use the whole benefit medical for Health Insurance for people people who are disabled but that number seems low it should because its based on 1000 fixed these cost of living in the sixtys economists came up with a formula for calculating such as a family need and they said things like well well have a parent in the home so we dont have to include childcare people can walk to work so we dont have to include transportation and employers will pay for health care so we dont need to include that 3. 00 major family expenses are not included in the 2017 federal poverty guideline where you have more women in the workplace than ever in history if you look at parents and divide their income into 5 equal parts and lets look at just the bottom 20 percent of this would be parents with income below roughly 25000 dollars and now we come watch their kids grow up and we made sure their kids income. 30 to 34 years of age are they doing better than the kids from that bottom 5th of income below 25000 are twice as likely as we would expect based on chance to be in the bottom its very difficult to get out of the bottom. Its a fight every day to meet your needs and the needs of your family. For her long there are many. More must be done to reduce poverty and dependency and believe me nothing is more important than welfare reform i think. Is also a state of mind. Of a. Noble cause you can put some make. Some close. Sometimes if we struggled with poverty in a certain way with until the most critical because we say well we didnt i pulled myself up by the stress i got it done i struggled i had to work 2 jobs i did it well your situation is not the same somebody else is because were individuals and our characteristics our personality our network of people our demographics of the area that we lived in are different so we cant take 2 people from different sections the person did it he must be good and this person didnt do it they train an elephant backhand an elephant with a little roll when theyre young. And elephant growth of the bulls than the. Elephant. But the same little world around that elephant. But that elfin event condition only go in far as a result will lead. Probably west say wait a minute cases of people as he had a little rope around their mouth. Will will only let him go so far now it doesnt only let him drain. So far they would show. Me when they grew up. The same little rope youre talking about. That only goes towards. The 2 most important thing is where youre born and who youre born to so this one guy he said ill do your study for you he said i grew up in poverty and i said thank you so much i said tell me how did your family get by he said well my father was a physician he died when i was 12 i had to go live with grandparents i worked in their store i pulled myself up by my own bootstraps i had the right mindset and i was determined and i became a doctor like my dad and im listening to him through the eyes of somebody whos bought her 5 brothers in the back window of the car and im thinking you knew someone who owned a store and you were related to vote. But if you look at it from his context his experiences who are the children of professional singer. Typically its going to be other children of professionals and what people do is we compare ourselves to the people around us and we sometimes put an umbrella and say poverty is just poverty and thats not thats not true thats not the case its so difficult to come up with a solution to help someone we dont understand the problem ourselves how can we Work Together how can we understand each other and the answer is we have to accurately understand poverty what is poverty about. So understanding the perspectives of people who live in generational poverty or working class poverty or immigrant poverty or situational poverty theres so many different Life Experiences of poverty and we use one. Word to describe them so many people theyve they have no idea if youre born into a poor family youre born into a minority family if youre born into a family that only has a single parent that really constrains your life chances people die on average 15 years younger if youre born into generational poverty. Only 70 percent of the people born into generational poverty move out so you move a lot and you just get through the day and life becomes about getting through the day generational poverty is the deepest part radio cycle out of any people in generational poverty are working 1. 00 jobs a month to decide between paying for buying food. Thats the kind of poverty i come from where most of my family members cant read and write theres high mobility are absolutely a victim youre going hungry to have nutrition if you get really really sick you know the images through and just hope they give you sales. By the prescriptions working class poverty is a little different youre living paycheck to paycheck dont have a lot left over but know that checks coming so you feel like you have a little more control over your life but theyre very hard on themselves they buy into the idea that if they work or dont make it and they had the labor statistics they without an education or skill or your whole life. And then theres emigrant poverty where you have people who are struggling with housing transportation child nutrition out of your basic human needs and in addition to that you have the language barriers the cultural barriers. The discrimination racism to live to move really big obstacles to address to really develop to their potential and then you have situational poverty you go up to middle class environment you hear middle class words since you were in the war you know middle class and structure youre now saying you maybe have a divorce and you fall into poverty or maybe you get downsized in your job and you. Falling to pop it doesnt the ones that sometimes dont find their way into our numbers that didnt fill out the papers for the free and reduced lunch. So in america we like to thank that everybody who works hard has a certain amount of talent can make it and can join the middle class thats the American Dream and past generations the American Dream seem to be working pretty well its not working as well now we always think that in america on the theory of the land of the brave equal opportunity and its just simply not true. Some. Just so. Through education you can also better yourselves in other words you learn how to learn how to think critically and find solutions to unexpected challenges education also teaches you the value of discipline. But the greatest rewards come not from instant gratification but from sustained effort and from hard work. And finally with the right education both at home and at school you can learn how to be a better human being. Immediately you see you. Dont need your music. Just you have just to get it. When you are. Actually i think. It needs to be tracked. When customers go by your discipline. Well reducing our. Thats undercutting whats good for market phuket for the global economy. When you look at the landscape of our Community One of the things that keeps me up at night is. Our education attainment rates 70 percent of our citizens our neighbors they live with have no postsecondary credential todays economy is very. Scales and skills means education getting a job these days with just a High School Education is a lot harder than it used to make the chances are youre going to be in poverty. Be especially. Why did 20 different focus groups i did surveys i did interviews expecting to find that students were afraid of math which they are that students need more tutoring which they do but those werent the barriers that students identified that were keeping him from being successful in the classroom what students told me overwhelming is the Biggest Barriers to their success in the classroom. Nothing to do with the classroom transportation Childcare Health care housing food utility payments statistics show that college is a very successful way to go and its still the best decision for students or anyone who wants to get out of poverty or level up in what they want to do however i also think that the worst thing to do is go to college and drop out years ago the goal is to graduate you got a graduate like you just cant drop out because unlike anything else you still got to pay the bill. Now what higher ed would do is they would look at those success rates and they would go oh our students arent as well prepared theyre not smart they dont know how to study theyre not dedicated and i think what weve learned in emerald colleges those arent true at all our students are smart theyre ambitious theyre capable they want for themselves theyre burdened not just provide a future for themselves but to save their families but they have real barriers that they bring with them if were going to fulfill our mission and Higher Education weve got to understand those barriers and address them if we want our students to be successful in the classroom. And i teach people that if you dont get educated you dont get skilled you will be poor your whole life and so will your children is an absolute exception of the 1st thing you know so when i say well my own goal makes 800000 is not education including labor statistics and census data thats an exception i didnt know what i wanted to be and so after i graduated from college i think that thats somewhat normal but i went ahead and i i went to college and i picked. And i was glad that i had people in my life to encourage me just to go ahead and a lot of people because theyve learned they theyve been sent messages that theyre not smart enough theyre not good enough they dont try and tell you to. Get your High School Diploma or College Degree and then keep pursuing what it is that you have a skill set for and your passion about one of the hardest most heartbreaking things about not having your ged or your High School Diploma is sometimes you hit a ceiling at work or you miss an opportunity we dont want you to miss we we want people to have those are. The best due to you know im not iostat in every the. Walking around but i graduated man education and you need a plan. One of things i think were really not talking about High School Students about is this subject that i like to call success we teach english we teach math but we dont teach except which regardless how smart you are in any of those other categories if you understand the subject of the best way to lose is basic fundamentals of understanding you know how to network how to communicate would be bold but also how to be strategic realizing whats important. Colleges down about how smart you are its about how hard youre willing to work in every case we should exposed to at school that shows the average income of people who drop out of high school and people who graduate from high school but doable for the kids who get a 2 year degree in kids who get a 4 year the when they get to be adults the differences in those levels with education have exploded over the last 3 or 4 decades and if we could show the kids and make them understand and say you know if i get more education im going to make more money and that will have an impact on every other part of my life the most important thing is not the freedom to bite. Thing is the freedom to dream and chase what you really want to do the more money you can make and now and not spend it it allows you to dream at a place and give you the oxygen and dirt where youre not thinking short term. One thing that i think is so important to understand is how poverty steals your hope. And your confidence i was talking to 2 students at my t. Place and i loaded one up on my car brought them over here walk them through the process got them signed up we got a man rolled and then that student told me after we got him a schedule when it came time to go to class but the 1st day he said in his car in his parking lot for 3 hours that he couldnt get out of the car. Thats thats not because he won smart capable or he didnt want to do it thats because he was a brave and. Thats real but it cant be an excuse everybody and their lie everyone has fear i just challenge you dont work through your fear and dont let fear keep you from being your best self dont give out my yourself when you are educated and when you know the things that you know any know how hard you were. Made to create this story for yourself you need to surround yourself with other people who are going to be possibilities and do not allow negative people or negativity to talk you out of your dream. What are you passionate about what do you have skills that for and in the meantime keep pursuing your education you have to understand that you have so much purpose between 14 and 24 that the decisions you make not only going to pack yourself are going to pack your kids. Your grandkids you dont even know is going to benefit from the little decisions you make today you may not see it but your grandkids will def. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you i am. Ok once. I watched. That was going to be a singer. And and im telling you. From the moment she decided she was going to be a singer. Really a little girl at that point and every time i saw her do is not what think about it you know this work ethic that she had was this weekend amazing i mean you know as a kid authorise thing and all the things and then when we started this church in downtown houston our family joe and brought the kids to an assistant and she joined a choir. And every now and then she get a fellow and she would put more into that fellow than the whole choir would into the whole 12 and now she is on the largest platform in the world and they would be a thing. All because of a work ethic i mean young woman who made a decision what she was going to do and be in life. And allowed no one to get away will everyone be a. No. Thats why you got to have a plan a a plan b. And a play and see. We have a hard workers in this Community Whether theyre students Family College or employees in the community we have a really hard work ethic the issue is theyre underemployed so theyre working really hard and not making a living wage doing she already is working a crisis is 1. 00 jobs and still i cant put food and pay rent i have to make a choice so we say you just got to work harder in order to to make it thats not true not when youre experiencing poverty because people in poverty are working. I started looking at whos the number one teacher of poverty in the United States of america and the answer that i found was the media. So whats the average person going to know about poverty and the people who live in it its probably going to be things like when they get rich off welfare if a kid in high school is taken its not that big a deal as long as i have kids ill be fine ill be getting well for all the good and casual for will be covered by medicaid i can get housing and so. It doesnt happen that way in 1906 my welfare check was 408. 00 for me jennifer was 6 daniels to my 15 year old homeless cousin was living with me and they said we wont help her because shes not yours well give you 400. 00 my rent in a neighborhood melanie. In Portland Oregon was 395. The can do the math a welfare check today her family of 3 National Average or 78 thats 1962000 17 the average rent according to had a modest apartment 750. The average disability check is 756. 00 its almost impossible to get out of poverty based just on public but. Our labor statistics say if you take a minimum wage job and you work 10 years and you dont have Education Beyond High School you dont have a skill like an electrician or plumber the average increase after working hard for 10 years in a persons income is 2. 00 an hour didnt matter how hard you work with think about it who works harder the person cleaning the hotel room or the person in their office you dont move up without a skill or an education so if you want to buy your mom house going to make sure your kids dont go hungry cant get a skill got a good education now if you want to on say start all that 30000. 00 a year and have the possibility of up to 60 or 70000. 00 you know who have to have skills you have to be talented and have to know how to do you need what we call soft skills and hard skills parts skills are just you know being technically trained to do something Computer Literacy anybody who. Goes through school these days and isnt computer literate is going to be in trouble and i think our schools should be doing a lot more if theyre not already to teach people programming and coding skills and the whole set of things you cant get a decent job anymore if you dont have those skills either the soft skills and if you talk to employers employers will tell you that theyre really missing the soft skills as much as the hard skills the soft skills are things like getting to work on tall im dressing appropriately knowing how to interact with other people knowing how to be polite with a client or a customer knowing how to rob them solved knowing what to do when something doesnt go quite right you know being a bit creative. One of the things that helped me in my personal life was to see other people maybe of my same skin color or or the city and and see them succeed so it becomes attainable you dont know what you dont know and i think a lot of times is thats what i think Holding People back and they dont know its bigger than their town and they dont know what they can do bigger than what they see on t. V. And the people they see at school and the people that their parents are. Used to work in Elementary Schools and yes the kids what they want to be in life and they want to be doctors and anna in a lawyer but if your home life doesnt support the teen ability of those things. Its a nice dream but its not a reality in certain groupings neighborhoods dont have that exposure so its important that our schools our community lend itself and expose especially the youngest kids to that. Is anyone safe in the area wrongfully conservatives are defying. Those with the easy one. 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