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That means it's our job to find those kids. it's our job to help them understand their potential and get them enrolled in a college that can help them meet their needs. get them enrolled in a college. that's not always easy, especially given what many kids are dealing with when they get to campus. just think about it. you heard a snip from troy, just to make it to college, these kids have already overcome so much. neighborhoods riddled with crime and drugs, moms and dads who weren't around. too many nights they had to go to bed hungry. as i tell these kids when i talk to them, we can't think a...

Experiential. >> several years ago, when fema was funding for food supports was at risk and food pantries across this country were seeing a growth in the number of people coming and accessing, middle income people who had lost their jobs, looking for food. one of the things i noted when i was reaching out to the community is that people who were accessing the food pantries were often taking food out of their bags to spread it among others, because they knew there wasn't enough food. that sense of collective responsibility, as opposed to personal responsibility. so it is ideology, but it is exp...

Such place. it was all one of his lies. >> jones built this church and offered sanctuary there, a safety net to the elderly and poor, usually blacks from the inner city. they signed over their social security checks and the peoples temple cared for them for the rest of their lives. >> he built this whole thing on the premise of brotherhood, economic equality and a world where no babies go to bed hungry. >> jerry parks and his family followed jones from the midwest out to ukiah in 1966. jerry got a job in a supermarket. >> he started talking about everybody giving 25% of their income. i sat dow...

It was all one of his lies. >> jones built this church and offered sanctuary there, a safety net to the elderly and poor, usually blacks from the inner city. they signed over their social security checks and the peoples temple cared for them for the rest of their lives. >> he built this whole thing on the premise of brotherhood, economic equality and a world where no babies go to bed hungry. >> jerry parks and his family followed jones from the midwest out to ukiah in 1966. jerry got a job in a supermarket. >> he started talking about everybody giving 25% of their income. i sat down one time a...

Named sonny. my life was turned upside down that night when we lay on top of a garbage dump with caulk roaches crawling all over us. >> that's where you slept? >> that's where he lived. >> nearly one in seven of every person in the world goes to bed hungry, astonishing statistic, despite the fact that the world has enough food to feed everybody one and a half times over. what are we doing wrong? >> well, it's about a lack of political will. i think ultimately in the year 2000, all of the world leaders gathered together and made a commitment. this was a commitment to halve extreme poverty by 20...