@@neverendingparty2060 money is just a pass to resources that we made, we have more food than enough to end world hunger, and yet, the ultimate reason someone dies of hunger today is becaus they didn't have money(read: permission) to have food and avoid death
Unfortunately that was nearly 13 minutes of motivational speaking that didnt offer one single idea in how to address the actual problems she kept hinting at. Vague comments on complex issues bring nothing to the table.
@@rianroth1652 she said do a community survey 2. teach skills at a community center 3. ppl keep voicing their opinion. She was kind of vague and rushed it tho.
It's a very good presentation and great strategy. However, I've been working on development for more than 25 years and I find it very very difficult to keep it sustainable from one generation to another
According to the Brookings Institute, if you do these three things, you won't remain poor. 1.) Graduate high school. 2.) Get a job. 3.) Wait on children until after your married. Less than 2% of children from poor families that do these three things are poor as adults.
Met a fiance college graduate working for doordash and uber who blows his money of nights out and partying, so being financially literate doesn't really mean anything.
@@iwontreplybacklol7481 Going to school and being educated are two completely different things. Apparently he was not financially literate regardless of his degree. Or he didn't care and was choosing to live that way.
Excellent and valuable talk! The "it is dismissive ..." statement at 3:42+ that received reflex applause, was implausibly complex to receive such applause so quickly. It may be true but it is far too vaguely explained. The audience had obviously heard it before. Regardless; Heilbroner and Milberg already solved the problem in their book: "The making of Economic Society." It's not the economy it's the mal-distribution of income. Part of this problem is the "city." Even in China people are leaving the cities to go back to livable farms with no money. The "working with people" statement was very important.
yes, the old people have to pollinate the fruit trees by hand due to the city pollution killing off the bees and still the young people ripe for breeding congregate in the cities and i doubt any return to the country movement will out weigh the birth rate of the major bloated cities of china.
Yea. . Because everyone saw the Enron fiasco coming, and everyone saw the crash of 08 coming, just as everyone should know by now that economic bubbles burst due to poor economic design rather than dead beat mothers and fathers.
To save you some time she basically said,#1 don't rely on hand outs and the government. #2 work with your community and neighbors to get stuff done. #3 Educate your children so they aren't in the same situation. All three points are highly recommend.
That’s not the answer though the answer is blind action of the distribution of all the trillions of dollars that should go right to people in a form of a million dollar check !!!
I disagree with your #1. She was talking to you/me. We are the ones not treating the root of the problem. We are the haves and they are the have nots. It is easy for us to pass the buck and stand in judgment but obviously, many of us have not walked in their shoes.
@@DigitalLoom nope, structural change is necessary, programs are necessary, not a million dollar check that is going to cause inflation and then vanish in years.
"How china was lifted out of poverty." Good videos. USA could learn a few lessons. Also intergenerational kids are slower learners because parents fail to see the effects of drug and alcohol use on the fetus.
@@SovereignStatesman Not sure what you mean, but as far as I know there is quite a lot consensus about not being sick. Who are the slaves and dictators?
@@vsiegel The World Health Organization measures "not being sick" by average lifespan; while the slaves are those who are deprived of choices regarding their own definitions of education and health.
Try getting a job without an address. Try getting a job without the right clothes. Try talking to a bank, bill collectors, collection agency when you cannot pay without losing your home, without going to a food bank while working 3 jobs. Try working full time with a sick child. It's not as easy as many think. I am fortunate. My parents helped. They had the resources to do so. My late husband's family did not and would not. There is much more than just getting a job or 2 or 3.
This is so true. Yet there are lots of self-righteous people who say there are enough good jobs and affordable homes for everyone. The self-righteous think that is true and that it lets them off the hook.
then your parents could have helped buy you a proper set of clothes for interviews and invested in a resume writing service and job interview service to get a decent job
As I said, I was truly fortunate that my parents were there to help me ( and my husband ) and I will be forever grateful to them for doing those things for me. Not everyone has parents like mine.
A habit of saving is a proven way to rise out of poverty, but our government poverty programs punish saving. If you have money in the bank, you can't get temporary help out of a rough patch. People learn not to bother saving. If they get a big EITC "tax refund," they blow it immediately in order to avoid losing their benefits. As a result they never have the resources to deal with a setback.
this is spot on. if you're disabled in the U.S. and have medicaid to supplement Medicare, you are allowed $2000 in assets, typically. $2000. If you lose your home, can you find another one to move into with only $2000? The whole system was set up to promote dependence on the government across the whole spectrum of existence, including housing. The problem is that - besides being a killer of self-worth - that there is not and never will be enough government subsidized housing for people with disabilities. This model must end.
Also this system of capitalism is set up to keep you HAVING to buy stuff...just think at how often you need to repair (and don't even get me started on cars) something especially with all the cheaply made products from china things just don't last like they used to. refrigerators , stoves , washers, dryers, these essential household items could really set a struggling family back especially if the keep needing repairs..and again CAR is a WHOLE separate can of beans!!!
So true. My wife and I know a young couple from church with 2 children that have always lived on government aid. WIC, disability and several others. The husband is a mechanic but only takes cash so he doesn't report income. Last year they got over $8,000 tax refund. The wife made the comment, " It's free money!" I was so mad I corrected her by saying, "It's not free. I PAID that much in taxes. So you got money that I worked hard for." Now they're expecting another child and will get even more aid. So the cycle continues.
Simple solution, don't rely on welfare to fund your children's future. I am serious. These democratic institutions are made to keep the poor beneath the poverty level. It is an endless feedback loop that makes poor folks addicted to social welfare (that needs you to make a minimum or sub-minimum wage). My immigrant parents suffered from the same thing, but they worked without government support; that is the only way to build and sustain wealth in this world. Working for yourself.
When seeking the right answers, we must first seek to ask the right questions. Seek the long term build, not the temporary fix. Give a man a fish, feed him for a night. Teach a man to fish, and feed him for a lifetime. Politics feeds on poverty, yet milks the worker, and creates laws of enslavement on every level, engulfing all aspects of life.
some people are just oblivious but honestly working 40+ hours a week and getting paid low wages is simply a form of modern day slavery Tbh our time / life is the most valuable thing in the world we all are here on Earth for a matter of years and most Americans waste half of there precious life working just to barley get by trying to provide for family / pay bills ect , sadly some not ever owning houses cars nice things because they could never afford it much less having anything to pass down to the next generation 😭 it's the reality for millions and it's so tragic
@@hollycruz5061 If you look in the dictionary the definition of ingratitude is whining about a forty hour work week while watching a video on a global information network which houses the entirety of human knowledge in the comfort of a climate controlled dwelling.
The Elite: How do we end world poverty? The Elite: We eradicate the poor. Depopulation, Vaccination, Abortion, Wars, Create Famine, Cancer, Poison Food & Water Just some tools of The Elites to Eradicate Poverty
Did she just compare poverty in the U.S. to China?! A human is **objectively** and **physically** better off being poor in the west than being in the middle class in China. And then she slams charities by saying they aren't "serious". What a mindless and heartless tool. TED needs to find an actual expert on this issue.
The comments here seem to suggest that a 40 hour week with one worker who could support an entire family in the US at one time. This may have been true in the late 40's and 50's up to the late 60's but was far from the normal state of affairs in the US, and indeed much of the European and English speaking world. People forget the depression of the 1930's and the war based economies of the 40's where all family members working 60 or 70 hour weeks with very high taxes and enormous social obligations was the norm. It seems to me that the era from 1949 to 1969 was a sort of victory bonus for workers in the US, major tasks such as rebuilding Europe, defending against Russian aggression in the cold war etc meant that all able bodied workers were sorely needed and paid reasonably good wages. This is no longer the case, most manufactured items consumed by US and Europe are now made in the Far East and South Asia. Even the Chinese can no longer compete with the likes of Vietnam, Bangladesh etc as low wage centers of work. It is a false-hood to think that the present difficulties are unique or that other generations had a free ride and an easy time of it in their lives. Each 75 year lifetime will have its difficult times which need to be overcome in some form or another.
This is so inspiring!! I'm going to school right now for my mental health certification and I have so much to say about this video. I agree with everything about this. I grew up poor and still in my 30s poor trying to make it work and am now being told I cannot continue my education just because of where I reside. on top of it all i have several disabilities and struggle daily. I am fighting it of course and will continue to fight and plan to help end poverty as well.
Does anybody notice what is missing here? It's not really a "what" but a "who" and the "who" is Dad. I happen to be a parent myself and I can testify that the idea of successfully raising children alone is absolutely mind-boggling to me: to never have somebody else to rely on, to never be allowed to have the flu or start dinner before you get home, somebody to go to the supermarket or watch the kids while you do. These families headed by teenage girls will always be at a disadvantage to households of two parents and no amount of raising the minimum wage and government housing can really work until we restore the two parent household.
As if single mother house holds are the only ones who exist. As shown in this video, it is the only one being addressed. There are very little resources available for the single father households versus the single mothers. I went to apply for aid as I am a single parent of two, and have been for over10 years. And I can personally say that there are no locations near me for help. I had to work two jobs myself to try to support my children. The only reason it wasn't a third was because we were living with family. The support places around laugh you out of the building. Not very helpful there either.
Statistically speaking it is the Father, But there are single fathers that are trying to raise children. Responsibility is a huge issue here. As in finish school, focus on a career, and other things that fall in that category, Then you can start a family, but with that said, our divorce rate is really high, and that would lead to single parenthood. So the question is how do we stop the cycle of the single parenthood, split up families, It has to start with the parents teaching there children morals, responsibility, hard work, etc. etc. Children that grow up in a single parent home is at a much higher risk to be a single parent also. So the cycle goes on and on. 50+ years ago it was common for most woman to stay home to be quote housewives while the father goes out and brings home the paycheck. Todays time thats almost impossible do to wages and cost of living also many other factors, I see everyday parent(s) struggle just trying to put food on the table and its very sad.
Heath - Don't know where you live, but I know churches have programs to help families. I don't believe the program at my Church refuses help to single parent households. You have to go to the Office - to request help. Asking a Churchgoer for money usually won't get it done. The programs have stable members to mentor people with parenting, budgeting, education, housing, furnishings, etc.
@@heathbruce9928 I have to ask, just like with the single mothers: Why are you raising them on your own? Did she just leave you? Did she go insane? Did she die? Or did you just leave her? Why havn't you looked for a partner to share your burden with? I personally decided never to have kids, because I know couldn't handle having to live with a partner for endless years.
She's already talked about the solution and how she did it in last mininutes. Maybe you know as much as her but she did things to the community. How about you?
You can’t end poverty unless you end inflation. Why? Because each year you can buy less and less with the increasingly worthless dollar. Why is there inflation of 5% per year?? (The government lies when it says that inflation is only 1 to 2%). The Federal Reserve prints so much money that the value of the dollar tanks every year. Your dollar is worth half every 10 years. You can’t possibly keep up. The Fed profits from printing so much money. It is owned by people who are robbers, not the government. End the Fed, end inflation, end poverty. Low skill workers doing manual labor can get ahead, like the 1950s. People don’t understand economics, and that’s how the Fed rips them off; Year after year.
'People don’t understand economics, and that’s how the Fed rips them off; Year after year. ' Reading this comment section, that fact is abundantly clear
It disturbing that the blame is placed solely on society. It is a fact that systemic structures significantly contribute to poverty yet individual choices are just as significant.
Naw.the system is more guilty... The system creates the dysfunctional environment that results in so many "bad choices" that iso many Americans are making... Bad choices are a byproduct of a lack of education.. bad educational systems created the uninformed individuals... We create a better system better choices will be the byproduct... Systems matter greatly
just a thought .. how about stop having kids we can't afford ... there is no shame in an abortion when the future of the child is diminished..... we live in a country that will not help the needy and i see no change of that ... poverty is a problem that can be solves .. but has to start at the beginning .... a child did not ask to be born into poverty .....
your wrong ms. sienicki as long as capitalism (money) is around we will have poverty capitalism needs it to keep wages low. as well as capitalism does not care were money is made whether its through crime or legal businesses.
@@MaruskaStarshaya...THE PROBLEM IS THE SINGLE MOTHER BUT NO ONE IS ADDRESSING THE REAL PROBLEM!!! WOMEN MUST NOT HAVE ANY CHILDREN UNTIL THEY ARE MARRIED AND FINANCIALLY STABLE. WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE POVERTY RATES OF INDIVIDUALS IN AMERICA, THE HIGHEST RATE OF POVERTY IS WITH THE SINGLE MOTHERS!!! THIS IS A FACT!!! SO, WHY ISN'T ANYONE EXCEPT FOR ME TELLING WOMEN NOT TO HAVE ANY CHILDREN UNTIL THEY ARE MARRIED AND FINANCIALLY STABLE? IS IT THIS WAY BECAUSE WOMEN DO NOT WANT TO BE ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR ACTIONS AND GET ANGRY WHEN SOMEONE TELLS THEM TO BE? PLEASE REPLY WITH HONEST FEEDBACK!
Where are the father's? Why are they not being held financially accountable? She wants more money,change jobs. BTW it's not Jackie's fault she's poor it's her mother's choice. And by default her non existent dad's. Third wave feminism and welfare are the biggest ones at fault.
Reagan-nomics 101. Give tax breaks to the wealthiest greedy business's and break the only blue collar protection,,, Union's. This propelled lower income and already existence, Poverty
4:06 "Too often we focus on the immediate human needs without addressing the issues that create them" That sounds like how we deal with all our problems in this country. We don't want to do the hard work to fix the root causes, we'd much rather slap a bandaid on and let someone else figure it out in the future.
That's not completely our fault as citizens, that's the money in politics and the class war waged against us by the bourgeois (elite ruling class/ owners of the means of production). Where we do have the most fault is letting corporate power and rich elites fully capture our government. We have to get the money out 1st before we can ever accomplish anything else.
@Public Guy Here’s the thing-no one has to lose money to erase poverty, we need to copy Finland’s education system. It wouldn’t cost a dime more than current spending. We spend the same amount per student. And from what Ive seen the better education gets the higher the median income goes-slowly but surely. We don’t need to rob the 1 percent we just need to restructure education system, it’s a fairly simple concept, and sure the transition and planning might take a little funding but not much... And there are plenty added benefits to a restructure of education including but not limited to, cheaper healthcare (obesity is linked with poverty), less crime, and less police interaction which leads to less cases of police brutality. Look, the point I’m trying to make is that it isn’t a question of money, but a question of how you spend the money you have... Edit I’m not saying it is the fault of the “common folk”
@@publicguy1664 I’m just making this comment in hopes that you see my comment above it because I accidentally forgot to reply to the first time to you and now I’m not sure you will see it...
You really want to END poverty??? First off, realize that Congress SHALL HAVE the ability to collect taxes, but it DOES NOT MEAN that it MUST. And that all debt crisis management implies fiat currency. Which btw, by the intent of the US Constitution, which btw, is The Law, is expressly forbidden. To use, not just to look at once and then put in file cabinets for 7 years. You’d think that someone from a not for profit would understand this…wouldn’t you?
Among people who, (1) Finish High School, (2) Do not get married before age 21, and (3) Do not have children until they are married, Long term chronic poverty is virtually statistically ZERO. Poor decisions have poor outcomes, who knew?
Definitely great work, and a necessary aspect of the solution, but the root cause is a system that requires a pool of poverty to force compliance among workers so that a few can become obscenely wealthy and rule over the many.
@Billy Jackson My point was referring to their ability to conform as you want all human to conform to by gun point. For this extreme control of the people you will need to make this socialism to work. Guns will not work on these people. Even if they wanted to comply. They could not.
It"s no surprise that many Americans, if it promotes their utopian agenda, will rationalize the legal killing of inconvenient people. After all, many Americans already support and celebrate the legal right of a pregnant woman to abort an nconvenient baby if it suits her personal agenda. Jesus is coming, and boy, is He pissed!
I hope that this talk is simply using the "Single Mothers" examples and almost entire absence of the word "Father" (instead using "Parents") intentionally to avoid people thinking "Why aren't the MEN taking responsibility for this?" as a way to try to avoid doing anything to "fix" the problem of poverty. But I worry that the lack of mention of "Fathers" in this is an indication that they're more concerned with a current Ideology than with actually ending Poverty. One of the quickest ways out of poverty is having two parents - and generally, if we're looking at a single-mother, that's a straight woman, so having the father of the child(ren) in her life is an option. And the mention of "Community" and "Community coming together" only feeds that particular worry that this is ideologically driven, as it's indicating that we aren't bringing a family together but a community of families all working together - and the example given indicates a community of Single Mothers coming together to fight for a playground and rent protection. I worry that this might actually make the problem WORSE; it may perpetuate the growing problem of Men not feeling like they need to stick around AND Women not feeling that they need Men to stick around. Essentially, it is helping to perpetuate a gender-segregation at a time when bringing them together is more effective and important.
Because men are a tiny number of the people who need support services. It is women who overwhelmingly bear the economic brunt of poverty. Please do some work and educate yourself about your privilege.
Finish high school. Don't have a kid out of wedlock. Get a job. You solved poverty for 90% of people. This talk is vague, misleading and irresponsible, taking the responsibility out of the hands of the individual which is extremely dangerous and cancerous to society. I like her sentiment but the approach will never work at scale.
Summary: A long-winding emotional charade which revolves around having a strong goal - to end poverty - without any explicit steps or empirical data to back that up.
Yeah. She said that McDonalds worker should be paid a living wage. She would’ve been laid off if workers at fast food restaurants were paid living wages. The education thing I agree with though. But public spending has increased in the educations system but no real results. Wasted money. Wanna end poverty. Drop regulations in businesses, lower taxes and cut useless spending,
well, the speaker gets their own poverty ended by political means via the academia community that is totally on the dole of the taxpayers and a major contributor to poverty instead away from poverty...see, i can be long winded too!
The minimum wage is now way up. Up so high that some people will be let go. E.g. pandemic restaurant with few customers in tow while paying 1-2 waitresses on duty. If you mark up the food even more, then the customers won't come. The better angle is to bring back all jobs from China.
I became a divorced non tertiary educated single parent of one at 28 years old. I stopped at 1 child. Worked 2 jobs. Paid my mortgage and bills. No social life, no dating, I’m a non drinker, non smoker, no holidays, no new furniture or clothes until I was 42. Any incidental money went on extra lessons etc for my daughter. I’m now 57 still work - but now I am mortgage free, travelled. Sacrifice. Delay gratification. Work ethic, focus, purpose., the ability to save. Stop consuming. Self responsibility. My now 28 year old daughter was like me and not academic - she started a Saturday dishwashing job at 15. From 16 she worked weekends and school holidays. Left school at 16 with no qualifications but only after she had a fullt8me job. She has worked full time ever since. She is a good saver , non drinker. This year she bought her first home alone in the hot Auckland market. Life skills and stubborn focus and not education is what solves poverty.
Lol this guy has the mind of a slug 🐌. . But yet I still don’t doubt you because you don’t have to keep that sluggish mentality. You clearly haven’t matured enough yet love others unconditionally as you do for your family. But you probably won’t understand where I’m speaking from yet because your still have too MUCH Pride I assume. Good luck man and watch out for those stairs and potholes.
Not everyone finishes high school. Many that do still can only find minimum wage jobs. 30% of americans struggle all the time. Thats ok with you? We can do better
Did anyone ever explain to Jackie that getting pregnant in High School is a very bad idea both to yourself and the baby? Is Jackie's "baby daddy" supporting the child? It doesn't sound like it. Was Jackie's father involved? Is Jackie, a high school drop out, skilled enough, to make the big box store money if they were to pay her a living wage? Now that everyone is mad at me, let me say the following: It sounds like the program is doing good. It is getting parents more involved in their children's lives. This alone should help reduce teen pregnancy, which will lead to fewer drop outs, both of which will go a long way to ending poverty. It sounds like the programs. A hand out is not what people need; it is direction that will end poverty. Keep up the good work.
:) Not everyone is mad at you. My wife knows a co worker who has 6 children from two different fathers, neither of whom provide support. She has been on welfare continually since before her first child. She works only part-time because her welfare checks are reduced dramatically the more hours she works. Her oldest daughter is now pregnant in her junior year in high school. The system is perpetuating the problem.
Ok, hold on... i grew up in poverty and the only thing i got from it was a focused desire to get OUT of poverty by getting an education and a good job. This lady has NO idea what she's talking about.
Actually it is the moral decline of our society which is the cause of intergenerational poverty. I too work at a homeless shelter where it became clear to me that poverty could not be solved by food shelter and clothing, but by fundamental changes in HOW people are educated. Today, and growing rapidly in the last 50 years, the moral fabric of our country has declined and the cultural, political and intellectual leaders and role models of our society perpetuate a godless, victim mentality of entitlement. It occurred primarily by social programs that were based on a secular, material, psychosocial, educational and political attitudes of moral and cultural relativism. This was primarily executed by the media for sensationalism that profits by selling stories as entertainment, by government selling programs to secure votes, and by academia where government funding is required to perpetuate a monopoly over the youngest most impressionable adults by subcultural, socialistic activist professors in the humanities.Stop blaming Jackie? OK, but don't forget to hold her accountable for her own life, and that means some very basic truths: hard work, honesty and respect. And if she can avoid getting herself knocked up, aborting her child, addicted to drugs, and free of criminal behavior, you have made a very strong moral step in the right direction. There are no guarantees. But in the US, if you work hard, are honest, and respectful you have a 90% chance to be a successful person.Basically Teva ideas remain as much a part of the problem as the solution.
All poor people have to do is live flawless, monastic lives of unrelenting discipline, never get sick, not form families, never spend more than the absolute living minimum, and work three jobs.
BrownHawk2 Only in America do we believe that if you work hard, you can climb your way out of poverty no matter what. Sure, it’s possible, if you’re given the opportunity to do so. That’s always the caveat. Many people in this country have never been and never will be given that opportunity (people of color, disabled, mentally ill, etc). So when you say people should wait until they can afford child rearing, it’s a fallacy. It will never happen for many. And that in itself is a classist way of thinking about reproduction. The right to have offspring should not be contingent on a certain income level, otherwise you imply that the systems of power that keep people poor should also prevent them from rearing children. I don’t know about you, but I certainly don’t have a problem with tax dollars helping someone raise children when their job amounts to charity work for corporate America. As long as corporate America is paying their fair share of taxes...
3 words will sum up the source of persistent, generational poverty: Systemic Institutionalized Racism. Far too many prosperous indigenous communities were decimated because of jealousy and hate. Certain people (the ruling class) can’t bare to see others (so-called minorities) prosper and thrive.
Poverty is a two-prong problem. To end it requires personal responsibility of a poor person. ALSO, it requires outward opportunity to pull that poor person out. It's about the inner and outer. A poor person needs the discipline it requires to received an education, BUT they also must be provided with a quality education to begin with. To stay in good health a poor person must develop nutritious eating habits, BUT a poor person must have ready access to nutritious food. A poor person has to stay off of drugs, BUT they also need affordable housing. Do you see where I'm going here? If we do nothing but point fingers this problem will never be solved.
We spend too much time telling the poor how they should live and not enough time listening to them talk and trying to understand what their life is really like. We are all talk and no listening.
Single mothers create single mothers. Poverty is taught by the habits passed down to children. I'm not even religious but people keep making poor choices, having children too young, having children out of wedlock, picking undesirable men to have children with, then putting all of the burden on the tax payers. It's easy to get ahead, live below your means, don't have children before you can afford them, if you want to go to college pay for it in cash, if I could do it all over again I would have gone to trade school when I was young and retired by 40, I'm doing well but not as good as I could have done.
Free markets, though not perfect, yet have created the most wealth in human history and lifted more people out of poverty. Individual effort in a free market is the best system. With the least amount of "regulation" or government intervention as possible equals the best chance for the individual to pull him self up out of poverty. It's not over night though. Forcing people to "give" is immoral and ultimately will fail to produce what those utopian's "feel" is the "right" thing to do and will use force to achieve it. Socialism defined oh and BTW unsuccessful...
There's this crazy idea of not having kids you can't afford to raise. Don't get married or have kids before getting a full time job and don't go to jail. Make sure there is a father to take responsibility also. Simple, problem solved.
You are ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. Yes, so true. There is no reinforcement of INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY. Not once has taking responsibility, preventing unwanted pregnancies and education about family size mentioned in this talk. How about empowering young women to truly VALUE themselves so they won't accept a man who is not invested in them and who has nothing to offer long-term? Could that possibly become part of this poverty prevention program?
@@tijnblub6221 when I posted the comment I researched the project and if I remember correctly it didnt turn out as envisioned. (The talk is a couple of years old, so one can cross check ambition with reality)
Personal effort and personal responsibility is whats missing. Poverty has as much to do with whats between a persons ears and their work ethic as anything else. A good first step is learning to keep your legs closed. If your already struggling to survive, how do you think your going to survive with extra mouths to feed? Further your education with extra mouths to feed? Self control and common sense is whats missing. It's also something that's not in the liberal wheelhouse. They believe other peoples money solves all problems.
It is delusional, even preposterous for someone to fault the person in poverty for their circumstances. I remember us having to live without heat for a year with a newborn daughter due to affordability. There were even times when we had to choose between food or paying the electricity bill. I listened to your story about the young lady losing her home. It reminds me of us trying to find someplace to stay when we had no place to stay. I am a witness that poverty does mess with your heart, mind, body, soul, and spirit. I agree with her points and when we are on one accord, change takes place. Even though this video is from 2016, it is still relevant today. Thank you Teva, God bless you, and may your journey continue in a lifetime of success!
Abstain until marriage, Stop eating out, live within your means, learn a skilled trade. Welding, HVAC, Plummer, Electrician, etc. Low tuition, high pay.
So, please explain to me, how does this create jobs? I don't have children, I don't eat out, I can't live within my means unless I become homeless, I am well educated (Electronic Engineer, Civil Engineer, Teacher, Tradesman, Veteran) but there are no jobs. The big issue is inability for people to find a job with adequate hours and pay, or even a job at all. How you live has no bearing on this. And what is a plummer? Someone who picks plums?
LeopoldMidas A.I artificial intelligence the robots are coming. As the American Workforce will all be losing their jobs in the next 10-15 years,truck drivers will no longer have a job sooner than that, change more than one can imagine but think of the Industrial Revolution soon in our future! The Paradigm of quantum computing!
Then you would have to redefine "good job". If you see a good job as a hob people look forward to , then okay. But the free market (capitalist) is built in a way that there will always be lower paying jobs. There will always be a high podium if you allow people to work at different paces. That is the American dream.
And you're forgetting one every important aspect of capitalism, it's doesn't care whether or not it's a person or robot increasing the efficiency of productively and decreasing overhead by removing the human resource department in the equation. I mean look where all the jobs, Asia.The phone that i have in your hand right now was designed in San Francisco well Palo Alto South Bay by Apple computer and built-in China. It only took how many years for over what 2 billion people to have cellular phones? Yes things are going to be moving a lot faster more so than the Industrial Revolution that's how technology works, we're not ready for it we are in a paradigm shift. Most human are conditioned to live each day filled with stress to accomplish his/her daily task of work! So what do you do when you no longer have to work? Self refect that's going to be the hard, as our dogma is the worship of comfort and consumer goods! Its no longer religion or so called traditional American values; Honor, Pride, integrity that's out the window long gone. AI comes into play we will not know what to do because our brains are programmed just like a robot us we're going to get way more lazy! All the information is there go on TED Talks on UA-cam the scientists and program developers and CEOs of all the tech companies explain it all!
I deal with the poor all the time. The average IQ of a poor person is less than 90 and that explains most of the problem. Giving excuses to those who choose to be irresponsible isn't the answer. She wants government to go around and hold everyone's hand and keep throwing money at them. A poor person in America is better off than a middle class person in South America, China, or India.
All of the organizations that exist are giving men fish rather than teaching them to fish, anything given freely is creating a pattern that will continue to exist they will begin to become more and more dependent on free handouts the more you give them
Ok... Between this video and the one that says I need to be more accepting of child molesters, I think I'm done with Ted talks ... SMH! These used to be good and insightful, but they've just gotten more liberal and insane. This lady (despite the experience her profession should've given her) completely missed the boat.
She speaks well, but i did not hear any tangible actions that can be implemented that can fix these problems. If you increase the minimum wage then prices for everyone rise. If you mandate job benefits like maturity leave or a living wage then you increase the incentive for employers to seek automation for low skilled workers.
I think she has good intentions but unfortunately it is clearly she doesn't know about economics. The system is not designed to keep the "poverty loop", people stay there because of bad decisions.
How to be rich faster Be single Be antisocial Be independent Be a workaholic Finish school Get a degree And ignore all of your constant psychological traumas and disorders due to your desperate need of succeeding And that's pretty much it. Now go and make some money my friend. Best of luck.
So true! But you forgot to mention; Go out and make lots of money so you can pay a shitload of taxes so that the woman who made this video can redistribute your money to the poor people which is really codename for people with a low IQ.
Marc Stephan Nkouly You don't have enough to eat because you wasted time being in the statetheist brainwashing camps they call school instead of doing real work, learning real skills. Schools keep people unskilled and useless, and deluded into entitlement mentality. And it gets people deep into debt.
Talks about how we cant help the symptoms of poverty to fix it. Says its more complex. The only solutions she gives not solutions. Just vague inspirational ideas.
Not impressed at all with this presentation. The way to get out of poverty is to not have kids unless you are married in a stable relationship. That doesn't solve every problem, but it does solve most of them. No, I do not blame Jackie for being born into a single mother household. Nothing she could do about that. But I absolutely DO blame her for having kids at a young age without having a father around for them. That is all on her. This video was a lot of bland, left-wing socialist pap. Let's take away the fruits of the labors of those who chose to live responsibly and hand it over to those who chose not to. Not interested.
I also want to make awareness of public transportation. People are often choosing between cars or homes because of the price. Cars are very expensive. Some people don't even have car insurance, maybe due to history of driving. Enhancing public transportation can eliminate a lot of those issues. It can make it more affordable to live in a home.
She is absolutely wrong about the not putting any honest on the people that is wrong. I live in the hood I am the hood I'm actually moving out because I got a better house but the point is personal responsibility is a good thing for all people. These people are people they need it just as much as everyone else. That idea that they are just victims of circumstance is as toxic as anything else. Fight the Power with truth
I admire the work described here. And I agree with almost everything she’s said. But here’s why we as a nation will always have appallingly high poverty: Because as a nation, we don’t care. I’ve heard the rhetorical question ‘How can the wealthiest nation on the planet have 20% of its children live in poverty?’ raised many times. And it should be raised over and over again because this fact is shameful. It’s when you talk about state and federal government that it breaks down. Why? The answer lies in our history. Look at how we have become the wealthiest country on Earth. It’s not through compassion or through wanting to take on poverty head on. Not a few national initiatives have tried and failed. Poverty in this country can only really be addressed at the local level, one block at a time. The US is too cruel a country to allow for any other way.
Stephen Jenkins true but that ‘reality ‘ does not make it justifiable. The US is a cruel country. Again if you look at history, we endure cycles of extreme depression in pursuit of this appallingly high inequality (wealth and social mobility). On your point about other countries, I think it’s time we stop thinking ‘either-or’, either Che communista or robber barren capitalist. Look at for example the platform of Andrew Yang.
It's been proven time and time again that rule of law is the best solution to improve a nation's economy. A country needs to let industry flourish and get out of its way by streamlining and standardising their bureaucracy. A huge reason why a lot of African countries are poor is because they are either controlled by a monarch, a crazy dictator or worse their own military. To truly let them flourish, these countries need to establish free market capitalism in their country and also implement democracy.
Is U.S. a country of rule of law? Doesn't U.S. have flourishing industries? So, why is Teva talking about poverty in the U.S.? Did you miss the summary part of her talk?
All you guys like to do is talk and yet we see no results. how about we stop taking and start doing something instead of standing on a stage in front of a bunch of privileged people
We agree on the problem, but I do not agree with her solution. It is easy to see if having a higher minimum wage eliminates poverty by looking at cities with very high minimum wage and see if raising minimum wages will reduce poverty in those cities. It is a fact that cities with high minimum wages also have high poverty. It would be better to create more jobs than to raise wages. When there are a lot of jobs open, then there is more choice for people on where they want to work. When the demand for hiring outweighs the demand for jobs, the companies will naturally raise their wages in order to attract more workers. This means lower unemployment, more tax revenue for the government, higher wages, and more career opportunities. Creating jobs > raising wages. We should be focused on the first, not the latter. The latter kills jobs. Let's not kill jobs. Let's create jobs.
Poverty is what you get when wealth can be hoarded and stolen and hidden and human needs like food and water and medicine can be capitalized on in order to acquire wealth. We need a hybrid economic system where capitalism is a privilege one must earn the right to participate in and not just inherit that privilege.
Having been raised in poverty myself (stealing food, sleeping under bridges, ....) upon graduation, I spent two years working for the poor in Alabama (USA). Most of the middle class community did their BEST FOR the poor - but the less fortunates had an incentive to remain in a state of dependency: 1- More kids out-of-wedlock (i.e. without a father) were born - the state was paying, they were not using birth control as it would prevent them from having children (child=federal/state money), 2- Kids were not completing high-school - "it is hard/boring to study" - they repeated the same mistakes as their absent fathers/elders, 3- Many young adults did not want to work the jobs available (jobs were available, they were physical or required some training which my "clients" did not want to invest in, and did PAY). They made more by living at the expense of the tax payers/state/federal government and being free considering than "being boxed-in a regular job". Lets us stop blaming the system! Our society can help but poor people have to really want to get themselves out of misery (see three issues above); take their responsibilities, society cannot do that for them. Ciao, L (former Public Health official)
There is big money in oversight of poverty. That's it.
It is all about the DOLLARS AND CENTS. Pretty much the source of MOST of our problems.
Like ive always said..."where humans went wrong in our evolution , began when we started to covet shiney worthless things."
No it's not, no money, no goods to buy, less jobs, no money. You need people to have excess money to spend on other things to make money
@@neverendingparty2060 money is just a pass to resources that we made, we have more food than enough to end world hunger, and yet, the ultimate reason someone dies of hunger today is becaus they didn't have money(read: permission) to have food and avoid death
Gail Lewis: no, the people do not consent to their government.
THAT'S "it."
Unfortunately that was nearly 13 minutes of motivational speaking that didnt offer one single idea in how to address the actual problems she kept hinting at.
Vague comments on complex issues bring nothing to the table.
If you don't hear "go take all money from middle class" it doesn't mean she didn't give a solution
I don’t believe that you watch the entirety of the video.
bruh, she's just addresing, not really proposing a solution dum dum
@@rianroth1652 she said do a community survey 2. teach skills at a community center 3. ppl keep voicing their opinion. She was kind of vague and rushed it tho.
You basically just exposed the entire Christian doctrine
It's a very good presentation and great strategy. However, I've been working on development for more than 25 years and I find it very very difficult to keep it sustainable from one generation to another
and yet human beings continue on planet earth without ever asking your or my opinion about the matter
According to the Brookings Institute, if you do these three things, you won't remain poor. 1.) Graduate high school. 2.) Get a job. 3.) Wait on children until after your married. Less than 2% of children from poor families that do these three things are poor as adults.
You dont need a job if the government give you money each month, millenial thinking
People can never get rich until and unless they are financially literate.
If you spend all your money or buy all you want you will be poor...
Met a fiance college graduate working for doordash and uber who blows his money of nights out and partying, so being financially literate doesn't really mean anything.
@@iwontreplybacklol7481 Going to school and being educated are two completely different things. Apparently he was not financially literate regardless of his degree.
Or he didn't care and was choosing to live that way.
Excellent and valuable talk! The "it is dismissive ..." statement at 3:42+ that received reflex applause, was implausibly complex to receive such applause so quickly. It may be true but it is far too vaguely explained. The audience had obviously heard it before. Regardless; Heilbroner and Milberg already solved the problem in their book: "The making of Economic
Society." It's not the economy it's the mal-distribution of income. Part of this problem is the "city." Even in China people are leaving the cities to go back to livable farms with no money. The "working with people" statement was very important.
yes, the old people have to pollinate the fruit trees by hand due to the city pollution killing off the bees and still the young people ripe for breeding congregate in the cities and i doubt any return to the country movement will out weigh the birth rate of the major bloated cities of china.
@@daieast6305 Thank you for your thoughtful comment. Those cell phones better get to, educating better, quickly!
That you for not only lecturing but also doing !!! Great speech!
less talk and more action is needed for positive progress
It stops being about doing things for people and starts being about doing things with people. Or having people be part of their rise from poverty.
kemohere capitalism
Candice Dice exactly .. funny how some people dont recognize when they advocate for the very thing they fight against.
@@candicedice8605 hey came to socialist Ukraine, I am sure you will be thankful for our $120 per month HAHAHA!
"When you have nothing you are poor. When you have no one you are truly poor." I don't know who I'm quoting.
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Rule number 1. If you don't have a responsible man at your side and a ring on your finger, don't have a baby.
Whirled Peas what if aliens tho.
more men in USA and Canada, if not all men between ages of 22 to 45, get a no scalpel, no needle Vasectomy.
STOP OVERPOPULATION, PLEASE!
The problem is teenagers having babies with no realistic ability to support them. Your "solutiion" will not affect that.
you really cannot judge from a distance. And really if your teaching one should always consider being single parents.
Yea. . Because everyone saw the Enron fiasco coming, and everyone saw the crash of 08 coming, just as everyone should know by now that economic bubbles burst due to poor economic design rather than dead beat mothers and fathers.
To save you some time she basically said,#1 don't rely on hand outs and the government. #2 work with your community and neighbors to get stuff done. #3 Educate your children so they aren't in the same situation. All three points are highly recommend.
That’s not the answer though the answer is blind action of the distribution of all the trillions of dollars that should go right to people in a form of a million dollar check !!!
I disagree with your #1. She was talking to you/me. We are the ones not treating the root of the problem. We are the haves and they are the have nots. It is easy for us to pass the buck and stand in judgment but obviously, many of us have not walked in their shoes.
@@DigitalLoom nope, structural change is necessary, programs are necessary, not a million dollar check that is going to cause inflation and then vanish in years.
Thanks man, I was about to waste my time
"How china was lifted out of poverty." Good videos. USA could learn a few lessons. Also intergenerational kids are slower learners because parents fail to see the effects of drug and alcohol use on the fetus.
You could solve that as a stone-cold economical problem: Invest in having healthy, educated citizens. Others did it, it pays.
You mean SLAVES. People have different ideas about what constitutes health and education.
Other are DICTATORS.
@@SovereignStatesman Not sure what you mean, but as far as I know there is quite a lot consensus about not being sick. Who are the slaves and dictators?
This requires people to be documented, and legally in the country, contributing. As long as you don't push the socialist mental disease...
@@vsiegel The World Health Organization measures "not being sick" by average lifespan; while the slaves are those who are deprived of choices regarding their own definitions of education and health.
ya mean not paying for people who don't have their act together by any stretch of the imagination, to procreate?
So ridiculous for the rest of the world when people from the US talk about poverty.
Don't have children out of marriage. That's 99% of it.
Try getting a job without an address. Try getting a job without the right clothes. Try talking to a bank, bill collectors, collection agency when you cannot pay without losing your home, without going to a food bank while working 3 jobs. Try working full time with a sick child. It's not as easy as many think. I am fortunate. My parents helped. They had the resources to do so. My late husband's family did not and would not. There is much more than just getting a job or 2 or 3.
This is so true. Yet there are lots of self-righteous people who say there are enough good jobs and affordable homes for everyone. The self-righteous think that is true and that it lets them off the hook.
then your parents could have helped buy you a proper set of clothes for interviews and invested in a resume writing service and job interview service to get a decent job
As I said, I was truly fortunate that my parents were there to help me ( and my husband ) and I will be forever grateful to them for doing those things for me. Not everyone has parents like mine.
@@charlieoscar2339 some families are gone in an instant and still humans continue on earth...nobody gets out alive
A habit of saving is a proven way to rise out of poverty, but our government poverty programs punish saving. If you have money in the bank, you can't get temporary help out of a rough patch. People learn not to bother saving. If they get a big EITC "tax refund," they blow it immediately in order to avoid losing their benefits. As a result they never have the resources to deal with a setback.
this is spot on. if you're disabled in the U.S. and have medicaid to supplement Medicare, you are allowed $2000 in assets, typically. $2000. If you lose your home, can you find another one to move into with only $2000? The whole system was set up to promote dependence on the government across the whole spectrum of existence, including housing. The problem is that - besides being a killer of self-worth - that there is not and never will be enough government subsidized housing for people with disabilities. This model must end.
Also this system of capitalism is set up to keep you HAVING to buy stuff...just think at how often you need to repair (and don't even get me started on cars) something especially with all the cheaply made products from china things just don't last like they used to. refrigerators , stoves , washers, dryers, these essential household items could really set a struggling family back especially if the keep needing repairs..and again CAR is a WHOLE separate can of beans!!!
So true. My wife and I know a young couple from church with 2 children that have always lived on government aid. WIC, disability and several others. The husband is a mechanic but only takes cash so he doesn't report income. Last year they got over $8,000 tax refund. The wife made the comment, " It's free money!" I was so mad I corrected her by saying, "It's not free. I PAID that much in taxes. So you got money that I worked hard for." Now they're expecting another child and will get even more aid. So the cycle continues.
Simple solution, don't rely on welfare to fund your children's future. I am serious. These democratic institutions are made to keep the poor beneath the poverty level. It is an endless feedback loop that makes poor folks addicted to social welfare (that needs you to make a minimum or sub-minimum wage). My immigrant parents suffered from the same thing, but they worked without government support; that is the only way to build and sustain wealth in this world. Working for yourself.
Never thought about it from that perspective
When seeking the right answers, we must first seek to ask the right questions. Seek the long term build, not the temporary fix. Give a man a fish, feed him for a night. Teach a man to fish, and feed him for a lifetime. Politics feeds on poverty, yet milks the worker, and creates laws of enslavement on every level, engulfing all aspects of life.
The best thing I have read today!
Thanks a lot for sharing this amazing concept!
May Allah bless you!
some people are just oblivious but honestly working 40+ hours a week and getting paid low wages is simply a form of modern day slavery Tbh our time / life is the most valuable thing in the world we all are here on Earth for a matter of years and most Americans waste half of there precious life working just to barley get by trying to provide for family / pay bills ect , sadly some not ever owning houses cars nice things because they could never afford it much less having anything to pass down to the next generation 😭 it's the reality for millions and it's so tragic
@@hollycruz5061 Slavery was never truly abolished, it just morphed and became all inclusive.
@@hollycruz5061 If you look in the dictionary the definition of ingratitude is whining about a forty hour work week while watching a video on a global information network which houses the entirety of human knowledge in the comfort of a climate controlled dwelling.
@@67cuda38 "Slavery a form of economy based upon the absorption of oxygen and the exhalation of carbon dioxide" Good call you nailed it.
During COVID isolation I've been bingeing on these Tedx talks. This is one of the best I've come across, on any subject.
No wonder you’ve been ‘isolated’ by a normal pathogen that has no difference in impact than any average annual pathogen.
The Elite: How do we end world poverty?
The Elite: We eradicate the poor.
Depopulation, Vaccination, Abortion, Wars, Create Famine, Cancer, Poison Food & Water Just some tools of The Elites to Eradicate Poverty
@@surferxblood but if they eradicate the lower class, wouldn’t there be a new lower class?
You should check out Rutger Bergman’s TED talk. He has some amazing insights on the issue as well.
@@evanprice5470 Rutger Bregman writer/historian from the Netherlands.
Did she just compare poverty in the U.S. to China?! A human is **objectively** and **physically** better off being poor in the west than being in the middle class in China. And then she slams charities by saying they aren't "serious". What a mindless and heartless tool. TED needs to find an actual expert on this issue.
The comments here seem to suggest that a 40 hour week with one worker who could support an entire family in the US at one time. This may have been true in the late 40's and 50's up to the late 60's but was far from the normal state of affairs in the US, and indeed much of the European and English speaking world. People forget the depression of the 1930's and the war based economies of the 40's where all family members working 60 or 70 hour weeks with very high taxes and enormous social obligations was the norm. It seems to me that the era from 1949 to 1969 was a sort of victory bonus for workers in the US, major tasks such as rebuilding Europe, defending against Russian aggression in the cold war etc meant that all able bodied workers were sorely needed and paid reasonably good wages. This is no longer the case, most manufactured items consumed by US and Europe are now made in the Far East and South Asia. Even the Chinese can no longer compete with the likes of Vietnam, Bangladesh etc as low wage centers of work. It is a false-hood to think that the present difficulties are unique or that other generations had a free ride and an easy time of it in their lives. Each 75 year lifetime will have its difficult times which need to be overcome in some form or another.
DONT BRING KIDS INTO THE WORLD IF YOU CANT AFFORD TO GIVE THEM A GOOD LIFE!
This is so inspiring!! I'm going to school right now for my mental health certification and I have so much to say about this video. I agree with everything about this. I grew up poor and still in my 30s poor trying to make it work and am now being told I cannot continue my education just because of where I reside. on top of it all i have several disabilities and struggle daily. I am fighting it of course and will continue to fight and plan to help end poverty as well.
clapping like seals, what is being done about it?
everything is done 'about' it and nothing is being solved...maybe the problem is not the poor but rather the problem is the rich!
Does anybody notice what is missing here? It's not really a "what" but a "who" and the "who" is Dad. I happen to be a parent myself and I can testify that the idea of successfully raising children alone is absolutely mind-boggling to me: to never have somebody else to rely on, to never be allowed to have the flu or start dinner before you get home, somebody to go to the supermarket or watch the kids while you do. These families headed by teenage girls will always be at a disadvantage to households of two parents and no amount of raising the minimum wage and government housing can really work until we restore the two parent household.
As if single mother house holds are the only ones who exist. As shown in this video, it is the only one being addressed. There are very little resources available for the single father households versus the single mothers. I went to apply for aid as I am a single parent of two, and have been for over10 years. And I can personally say that there are no locations near me for help. I had to work two jobs myself to try to support my children. The only reason it wasn't a third was because we were living with family. The support places around laugh you out of the building. Not very helpful there either.
Statistically speaking it is the Father, But there are single fathers that are trying to raise children. Responsibility is a huge issue here. As in finish school, focus on a career, and other things that fall in that category, Then you can start a family, but with that said, our divorce rate is really high, and that would lead to single parenthood. So the question is how do we stop the cycle of the single parenthood, split up families, It has to start with the parents teaching there children morals, responsibility, hard work, etc. etc. Children that grow up in a single parent home is at a much higher risk to be a single parent also. So the cycle goes on and on. 50+ years ago it was common for most woman to stay home to be quote housewives while the father goes out and brings home the paycheck. Todays time thats almost impossible do to wages and cost of living also many other factors, I see everyday parent(s) struggle just trying to put food on the table and its very sad.
Feminism at its best
Great post
Heath - Don't know where you live, but I know churches have programs to help families. I don't believe the program at my Church refuses help to single parent households. You have to go to the Office - to request help. Asking a Churchgoer for money usually won't get it done. The programs have stable members to mentor people with parenting, budgeting, education, housing, furnishings, etc.
@@heathbruce9928 I have to ask, just like with the single mothers: Why are you raising them on your own? Did she just leave you? Did she go insane? Did she die? Or did you just leave her? Why havn't you looked for a partner to share your burden with?
I personally decided never to have kids, because I know couldn't handle having to live with a partner for endless years.
She didn't tell me anything I didn't already know. No solutions discussed.
exactly
She's already talked about the solution and how she did it in last mininutes. Maybe you know as much as her but she did things to the community. How about you?
Lol fr
You can’t end poverty unless you end inflation. Why? Because each year you can buy less and less with the increasingly worthless dollar. Why is there inflation of 5% per year?? (The government lies when it says that inflation is only 1 to 2%). The Federal Reserve prints so much money that the value of the dollar tanks every year. Your dollar is worth half every 10 years. You can’t possibly keep up. The Fed profits from printing so much money. It is owned by people who are robbers, not the government. End the Fed, end inflation, end poverty. Low skill workers doing manual labor can get ahead, like the 1950s. People don’t understand economics, and that’s how the Fed rips them off; Year after year.
'People don’t understand economics, and that’s how the Fed rips them off; Year after year.
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Reading this comment section, that fact is abundantly clear
It disturbing that the blame is placed solely on society. It is a fact that systemic structures significantly contribute to poverty yet individual choices are just as significant.
Naw.the system is more guilty... The system creates the dysfunctional environment that results in so many "bad choices" that iso many Americans are making... Bad choices are a byproduct of a lack of education.. bad educational systems created the uninformed individuals... We create a better system better choices will be the byproduct... Systems matter greatly
just a thought .. how about stop having kids we can't afford ... there is no shame in an abortion when the future of the child is diminished..... we live in a country that will not help the needy and i see no change of that ... poverty is a problem that can be solves .. but has to start at the beginning .... a child did not ask to be born into poverty .....
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Capitalism is the problem with poverty in a big way ooh and of course human GREED
Or, if you really want to talk about systemic change, you could start by using the C-word - capitalism.
your wrong ms. sienicki as long as capitalism (money) is around we will have poverty capitalism needs it to keep wages low. as well as capitalism does not care were money is made whether its through crime or legal businesses.
both of her examples pointed to single mothers..and the issue was never addressed.
she pointed out about importance of educating those kids and force parents to change their mindsets
@@MaruskaStarshaya...THE PROBLEM IS THE SINGLE MOTHER BUT NO ONE IS ADDRESSING THE REAL PROBLEM!!! WOMEN MUST NOT HAVE ANY CHILDREN UNTIL THEY ARE MARRIED AND FINANCIALLY STABLE. WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE POVERTY RATES OF INDIVIDUALS IN AMERICA, THE HIGHEST RATE OF POVERTY IS WITH THE SINGLE MOTHERS!!! THIS IS A FACT!!! SO, WHY ISN'T ANYONE EXCEPT FOR ME TELLING WOMEN NOT TO HAVE ANY CHILDREN UNTIL THEY ARE MARRIED AND FINANCIALLY STABLE? IS IT THIS WAY BECAUSE WOMEN DO NOT WANT TO BE ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR ACTIONS AND GET ANGRY WHEN SOMEONE TELLS THEM TO BE? PLEASE REPLY WITH HONEST FEEDBACK!
Where are the father's? Why are they not being held financially accountable? She wants more money,change jobs. BTW it's not Jackie's fault she's poor it's her mother's choice. And by default her non existent dad's. Third wave feminism and welfare are the biggest ones at fault.
@@jamesperry2052 so... what you're saying is that poor people and single mothers shouldn't have kids?
@@too.much.finance.8429 Yes.
Republicans have the war machine and democrats have the poor machine and both are big business .
The 600+ people who down voted this video are all huge jerks. Or obscenely wealthy. Maybe both.
Reagan-nomics 101. Give tax breaks to the wealthiest greedy business's and break the only blue collar protection,,, Union's.
This propelled lower income and already existence, Poverty
4:06 "Too often we focus on the immediate human needs without addressing the issues that create them"
That sounds like how we deal with all our problems in this country. We don't want to do the hard work to fix the root causes, we'd much rather slap a bandaid on and let someone else figure it out in the future.
That's not completely our fault as citizens, that's the money in politics and the class war waged against us by the bourgeois (elite ruling class/ owners of the means of production). Where we do have the most fault is letting corporate power and rich elites fully capture our government. We have to get the money out 1st before we can ever accomplish anything else.
@Public Guy
Here’s the thing-no one has to lose money to erase poverty, we need to copy Finland’s education system. It wouldn’t cost a dime more than current spending. We spend the same amount per student. And from what Ive seen the better education gets the higher the median income goes-slowly but surely. We don’t need to rob the 1 percent we just need to restructure education system, it’s a fairly simple concept, and sure the transition and planning might take a little funding but not much... And there are plenty added benefits to a restructure of education including but not limited to, cheaper healthcare (obesity is linked with poverty), less crime, and less police interaction which leads to less cases of police brutality. Look, the point I’m trying to make is that it isn’t a question of money, but a question of how you spend the money you have...
Edit I’m not saying it is the fault of the “common folk”
@@publicguy1664 I’m just making this comment in hopes that you see my comment above it because I accidentally forgot to reply to the first time to you and now I’m not sure you will see it...
Some people believe in the just world theory, hard to debate a belief.
Ferrando Davis: that's also called "blame the victim."
You really want to END poverty???
First off, realize that Congress SHALL HAVE the ability to collect taxes, but it DOES NOT MEAN that it MUST.
And that all debt crisis management implies fiat currency. Which btw, by the intent of the US Constitution, which btw, is The Law, is expressly forbidden. To use, not just to look at once and then put in file cabinets for 7 years.
You’d think that someone from a not for profit would understand this…wouldn’t you?
Among people who, (1) Finish High School, (2) Do not get married before age 21, and (3) Do not have children until they are married, Long term chronic poverty is virtually statistically ZERO. Poor decisions have poor outcomes, who knew?
Omg 90% of these comments 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
I know, right?
Definitely great work, and a necessary aspect of the solution, but the root cause is a system that requires a pool of poverty to force compliance among workers so that a few can become obscenely wealthy and rule over the many.
so society is working well then
What do you do with the billion people on this earth that have an IQ less than 90?
Treat them well? Seems obvious.
I assume you're talking about Republicans.
@Billy Jackson My point was referring to their ability to conform as you want all human to conform to by gun point. For this extreme control of the people you will need to make this socialism to work. Guns will not work on these people. Even if they wanted to comply. They could not.
@Billy Jackson Take their kids away when they have them so they can be atomatonized into your socialist regime?
It"s no surprise that many Americans, if it promotes their utopian agenda, will rationalize the legal killing of inconvenient people. After all, many Americans already support and celebrate the legal right of a pregnant woman to abort an nconvenient baby if it suits her personal agenda.
Jesus is coming, and boy, is He pissed!
sry, but you need to learn speeking to people before going on a tedx. This was literally the most boring and wrong talk ever.... "Systemic poverty"
This is the most economically illiterate comment section I think I’ve ever seen
Nin Shade I didn’t say that
I hope that this talk is simply using the "Single Mothers" examples and almost entire absence of the word "Father" (instead using "Parents") intentionally to avoid people thinking "Why aren't the MEN taking responsibility for this?" as a way to try to avoid doing anything to "fix" the problem of poverty.
But I worry that the lack of mention of "Fathers" in this is an indication that they're more concerned with a current Ideology than with actually ending Poverty. One of the quickest ways out of poverty is having two parents - and generally, if we're looking at a single-mother, that's a straight woman, so having the father of the child(ren) in her life is an option. And the mention of "Community" and "Community coming together" only feeds that particular worry that this is ideologically driven, as it's indicating that we aren't bringing a family together but a community of families all working together - and the example given indicates a community of Single Mothers coming together to fight for a playground and rent protection.
I worry that this might actually make the problem WORSE; it may perpetuate the growing problem of Men not feeling like they need to stick around AND Women not feeling that they need Men to stick around. Essentially, it is helping to perpetuate a gender-segregation at a time when bringing them together is more effective and important.
Shes not mentioning fathers because they don't really exist in this case.
Because men are a tiny number of the people who need support services. It is women who overwhelmingly bear the economic brunt of poverty. Please do some work and educate yourself about your privilege.
@@sacrificetosotec So women are a net cost to society - interesting
I’ve been hooked on TED Talks since college. Love these so much!!
Universal access to birth control would be a good start to combating poverty.
Finish high school. Don't have a kid out of wedlock. Get a job. You solved poverty for 90% of people. This talk is vague, misleading and irresponsible, taking the responsibility out of the hands of the individual which is extremely dangerous and cancerous to society. I like her sentiment but the approach will never work at scale.
So why catch up ? Don’t take this wrong. Being in a country should guarantee every citizen a certain quality of life in regards to basic needs.
I just don't like this program any more it's all blah blah
Summary: A long-winding emotional charade which revolves around having a strong goal - to end poverty - without any explicit steps or empirical data to back that up.
Yeah. She said that McDonalds worker should be paid a living wage. She would’ve been laid off if workers at fast food restaurants were paid living wages. The education thing I agree with though. But public spending has increased in the educations system but no real results. Wasted money.
Wanna end poverty. Drop regulations in businesses, lower taxes and cut useless spending,
well, the speaker gets their own poverty ended by political means via the academia community that is totally on the dole of the taxpayers and a major contributor to poverty instead away from poverty...see, i can be long winded too!
yikes, most of these comments are heartless and sickening.
i am not sure which are the 'these' comments but i wanting more good feel comments but not sure that will heal the sickness
Maybe you guys should visit Europe some time. We have this problem solved. But I guess we're to socialistic for your taste ?!
The minimum wage is now way up. Up so high that some people will be let go. E.g. pandemic restaurant with few customers in tow while paying 1-2 waitresses on duty. If you mark up the food even more, then the customers won't come. The better angle is to bring back all jobs from China.
I became a divorced non tertiary educated single parent of one at 28 years old. I stopped at 1 child. Worked 2 jobs. Paid my mortgage and bills.
No social life, no dating, I’m a non drinker, non smoker, no holidays, no new furniture or clothes until I was 42. Any incidental money went on extra lessons etc for my daughter. I’m now 57 still work - but now I am mortgage free, travelled.
Sacrifice. Delay gratification. Work ethic, focus, purpose., the ability to save. Stop consuming. Self responsibility.
My now 28 year old daughter was like me and not academic - she started a Saturday dishwashing job at 15. From 16 she worked weekends and school holidays. Left school at 16 with no qualifications but only after she had a fullt8me job. She has worked full time ever since. She is a good saver , non drinker. This year she bought her first home alone in the hot Auckland market.
Life skills and stubborn focus and not education is what solves poverty.
People don't really want to be told how to succeed. They just want free stuff and they don't care how it's paid for
How to not be poor:
1. finish High School
2. get a full-time job
3. Don't have kids before you get married.
Ben shapiro
I think the possibility of that model continuing to work is changing rapidly.
Lol this guy has the mind of a slug 🐌. . But yet I still don’t doubt you because you don’t have to keep that sluggish mentality. You clearly haven’t matured enough yet love others unconditionally as you do for your family. But you probably won’t understand where I’m speaking from yet because your still have too MUCH Pride I assume. Good luck man and watch out for those stairs and potholes.
Not everyone finishes high school. Many that do still can only find minimum wage jobs. 30% of americans struggle all the time. Thats ok with you? We can do better
Did anyone ever explain to Jackie that getting pregnant in High School is a very bad idea both to yourself and the baby? Is Jackie's "baby daddy" supporting the child? It doesn't sound like it. Was Jackie's father involved? Is Jackie, a high school drop out, skilled enough, to make the big box store money if they were to pay her a living wage? Now that everyone is mad at me, let me say the following:
It sounds like the program is doing good. It is getting parents more involved in their children's lives. This alone should help reduce teen pregnancy, which will lead to fewer drop outs, both of which will go a long way to ending poverty. It sounds like the programs. A hand out is not what people need; it is direction that will end poverty.
Keep up the good work.
:) Not everyone is mad at you. My wife knows a co worker who has 6 children from two different fathers, neither of whom provide support. She has been on welfare continually since before her first child. She works only part-time because her welfare checks are reduced dramatically the more hours she works. Her oldest daughter is now pregnant in her junior year in high school. The system is perpetuating the problem.
Ok, hold on... i grew up in poverty and the only thing i got from it was a focused desire to get OUT of poverty by getting an education and a good job. This lady has NO idea what she's talking about.
Actually it is the moral decline of our society which is the cause of intergenerational poverty. I too work at a homeless shelter where it became clear to me that poverty could not be solved by food shelter and clothing, but by fundamental changes in HOW people are educated. Today, and growing rapidly in the last 50 years, the moral fabric of our country has declined and the cultural, political and intellectual leaders and role models of our society perpetuate a godless, victim mentality of entitlement. It occurred primarily by social programs that were based on a secular, material, psychosocial, educational and political attitudes of moral and cultural relativism. This was primarily executed by the media for sensationalism that profits by selling stories as entertainment, by government selling programs to secure votes, and by academia where government funding is required to perpetuate a monopoly over the youngest most impressionable adults by subcultural, socialistic activist professors in the humanities.Stop blaming Jackie? OK, but don't forget to hold her accountable for her own life, and that means some very basic truths: hard work, honesty and respect. And if she can avoid getting herself knocked up, aborting her child, addicted to drugs, and free of criminal behavior, you have made a very strong moral step in the right direction. There are no guarantees. But in the US, if you work hard, are honest, and respectful you have a 90% chance to be a successful person.Basically Teva ideas remain as much a part of the problem as the solution.
All poor people have to do is live flawless, monastic lives of unrelenting discipline, never get sick, not form families, never spend more than the absolute living minimum, and work three jobs.
HAHA...America sucks
This guy gets it.
If only famous people did that
thats me.
BrownHawk2
Only in America do we believe that if you work hard, you can climb your way out of poverty no matter what. Sure, it’s possible, if you’re given the opportunity to do so. That’s always the caveat. Many people in this country have never been and never will be given that opportunity (people of color, disabled, mentally ill, etc).
So when you say people should wait until they can afford child rearing, it’s a fallacy. It will never happen for many. And that in itself is a classist way of thinking about reproduction. The right to have offspring should not be contingent on a certain income level, otherwise you imply that the systems of power that keep people poor should also prevent them from rearing children. I don’t know about you, but I certainly don’t have a problem with tax dollars helping someone raise children when their job amounts to charity work for corporate America. As long as corporate America is paying their fair share of taxes...
3 words will sum up the source of persistent, generational poverty: Systemic Institutionalized Racism.
Far too many prosperous indigenous communities were decimated because of jealousy and hate. Certain people (the ruling class) can’t bare to see others (so-called minorities) prosper and thrive.
Poverty is a two-prong problem. To end it requires personal responsibility of a poor person. ALSO, it requires outward opportunity to pull that poor person out. It's about the inner and outer. A poor person needs the discipline it requires to received an education, BUT they also must be provided with a quality education to begin with. To stay in good health a poor person must develop nutritious eating habits, BUT a poor person must have ready access to nutritious food. A poor person has to stay off of drugs, BUT they also need affordable housing. Do you see where I'm going here? If we do nothing but point fingers this problem will never be solved.
BLAH BLAH BLAH "I don't want to get involved"
And you know this how?
Intuition and guesswork. I could be wrong. Hopefully I am.
I volunteered last month helping with a homeless shower truck where I live.
We spend too much time telling the poor how they should live and not enough time listening to them talk and trying to understand what their life is really like. We are all talk and no listening.
Single mothers create single mothers. Poverty is taught by the habits passed down to children. I'm not even religious but people keep making poor choices, having children too young, having children out of wedlock, picking undesirable men to have children with, then putting all of the burden on the tax payers. It's easy to get ahead, live below your means, don't have children before you can afford them, if you want to go to college pay for it in cash, if I could do it all over again I would have gone to trade school when I was young and retired by 40, I'm doing well but not as good as I could have done.
Free markets, though not perfect, yet have created the most wealth in human history and lifted more people out of poverty. Individual effort in a free market is the best system. With the least amount of "regulation" or government intervention as possible equals the best chance for the individual to pull him self up out of poverty. It's not over night though. Forcing people to "give" is immoral and ultimately will fail to produce what those utopian's "feel" is the "right" thing to do and will use force to achieve it. Socialism defined oh and BTW unsuccessful...
There's this crazy idea of not having kids you can't afford to raise. Don't get married or have kids before getting a full time job and don't go to jail. Make sure there is a father to take responsibility also. Simple, problem solved.
You are ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. Yes, so true. There is no reinforcement of INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY. Not once has taking responsibility, preventing unwanted pregnancies and education about family size mentioned in this talk. How about empowering young women to truly VALUE themselves so they won't accept a man who is not invested in them and who has nothing to offer long-term? Could that possibly become part of this poverty prevention program?
Spoiler:
unfortunately it didnt work out.
andik70 explain?
@@tijnblub6221 when I posted the comment I researched the project and if I remember correctly it didnt turn out as envisioned. (The talk is a couple of years old, so one can cross check ambition with reality)
andik70 thats a shame, can you link it for me?
The Visions of the Anointed rarely work out. Thomas Sowell explains this well
You can't buy a decent house with an entry-level job, but you can have three children who are even more expensive.
@Usha It's the lack of 'judging' that gets people into such harsh circumstances in the first place
Your kind of cute in your naivete. Thousands of people and trillions of dollars over decades have not solved the problem but you know how.
Personal effort and personal responsibility is whats missing. Poverty has as much to do with whats between a persons ears and their work ethic as anything else. A good first step is learning to keep your legs closed. If your already struggling to survive, how do you think your going to survive with extra mouths to feed? Further your education with extra mouths to feed? Self control and common sense is whats missing. It's also something that's not in the liberal wheelhouse. They believe other peoples money solves all problems.
It is delusional, even preposterous for someone to fault the person in poverty for their circumstances. I remember us having to live without heat for a year with a newborn daughter due to affordability. There were even times when we had to choose between food or paying the electricity bill. I listened to your story about the young lady losing her home. It reminds me of us trying to find someplace to stay when we had no place to stay. I am a witness that poverty does mess with your heart, mind, body, soul, and spirit. I agree with her points and when we are on one accord, change takes place. Even though this video is from 2016, it is still relevant today. Thank you Teva, God bless you, and may your journey continue in a lifetime of success!
Abstain until marriage, Stop eating out, live within your means, learn a skilled trade. Welding, HVAC, Plummer, Electrician, etc. Low tuition, high pay.
Ok, boomer
So, please explain to me, how does this create jobs?
I don't have children, I don't eat out, I can't live within my means unless I become homeless, I am well educated (Electronic Engineer, Civil Engineer, Teacher, Tradesman, Veteran) but there are no jobs.
The big issue is inability for people to find a job with adequate hours and pay, or even a job at all. How you live has no bearing on this.
And what is a plummer? Someone who picks plums?
If everybody were able to get a good job, then who would do all the work?
robots. DUUHHHH
LeopoldMidas A.I artificial intelligence the robots are coming. As the American Workforce will all be losing their jobs in the next 10-15 years,truck drivers will no longer have a job sooner than that, change more than one can imagine but think of the Industrial Revolution soon in our future! The Paradigm of quantum computing!
Then you would have to redefine "good job". If you see a good job as a hob people look forward to , then okay. But the free market (capitalist) is built in a way that there will always be lower paying jobs. There will always be a high podium if you allow people to work at different paces. That is the American dream.
vip1ooo ! They don't call it the American dream for nothing, cause you have to be asleep to believe in it!
And you're forgetting one every important aspect of capitalism, it's doesn't care whether or not it's a person or robot increasing the efficiency of productively and decreasing overhead by removing the human resource department in the equation. I mean look where all the jobs, Asia.The phone that i have in your hand right now was designed in San Francisco well Palo Alto South Bay by Apple computer and built-in China. It only took how many years for over what 2 billion people to have cellular phones? Yes things are going to be moving a lot faster more so than the Industrial Revolution that's how technology works, we're not ready for it we are in a paradigm shift. Most human are conditioned to live each day filled with stress to accomplish his/her daily task of work! So what do you do when you no longer have to work? Self refect that's going to be the hard, as our dogma is the worship of comfort and consumer goods! Its no longer religion or so called traditional American values; Honor, Pride, integrity that's out the window long gone. AI comes into play we will not know what to do because our brains are programmed just like a robot us we're going to get way more lazy! All the information is there go on TED Talks on UA-cam the scientists and program developers and CEOs of all the tech companies explain it all!
I deal with the poor all the time. The average IQ of a poor person is less than 90 and that explains most of the problem. Giving excuses to those who choose to be irresponsible isn't the answer. She wants government to go around and hold everyone's hand and keep throwing money at them. A poor person in America is better off than a middle class person in South America, China, or India.
Your poverty isnt my fault, it's your fault. Dont blame me for your choices and your mistakes, I have plenty of my own that I dont blame on you.
No-one was blaming you.
There’s this crazy idea of not having kids you can’t afford.
So we should actually fund planned parenthood and abortion clinics then!
All of the organizations that exist are giving men fish rather than teaching them to fish,
anything given freely is creating a pattern that will continue to exist they will begin to become more and more dependent on free handouts the more you give them
Did you not see the video?
Ok... Between this video and the one that says I need to be more accepting of child molesters, I think I'm done with Ted talks ... SMH! These used to be good and insightful, but they've just gotten more liberal and insane. This lady (despite the experience her profession should've given her) completely missed the boat.
She speaks well, but i did not hear any tangible actions that can be implemented that can fix these problems. If you increase the minimum wage then prices for everyone rise. If you mandate job benefits like maturity leave or a living wage then you increase the incentive for employers to seek automation for low skilled workers.
I think she has good intentions but unfortunately it is clearly she doesn't know about economics. The system is not designed to keep the "poverty loop", people stay there because of bad decisions.
That was both progressively inspirational and terribly naive...
How to be rich faster
Be single
Be antisocial
Be independent
Be a workaholic
Finish school
Get a degree
And ignore all of your constant psychological traumas and disorders due to your desperate need of succeeding
And that's pretty much it.
Now go and make some money my friend. Best of luck.
TheSimsCovers how can you Finnish school when you don't even have what to eat ?
*It's not about money, it's about finding ur passion and money is a result, you give meaning to life or other will for u !!!*
So true! But you forgot to mention; Go out and make lots of money so you can pay a shitload of taxes so that the woman who made this video can redistribute your money to the poor people which is really codename for people with a low IQ.
Marc Stephan Nkouly You don't have enough to eat because you wasted time being in the statetheist brainwashing camps they call school instead of doing real work, learning real skills.
Schools keep people unskilled and useless, and deluded into entitlement mentality. And it gets people deep into debt.
Now if only making a lot of money equated with happiness
Talks about how we cant help the symptoms of poverty to fix it. Says its more complex. The only solutions she gives not solutions. Just vague inspirational ideas.
Not impressed at all with this presentation. The way to get out of poverty is to not have kids unless you are married in a stable relationship. That doesn't solve every problem, but it does solve most of them.
No, I do not blame Jackie for being born into a single mother household. Nothing she could do about that.
But I absolutely DO blame her for having kids at a young age without having a father around for them. That is all on her.
This video was a lot of bland, left-wing socialist pap. Let's take away the fruits of the labors of those who chose to live responsibly and hand it over to those who chose not to. Not interested.
One rule - can't afford a kid don't have any.
Step one: have a community meeting on whether or not 'Jackie' should have a kid.
I also want to make awareness of public transportation. People are often choosing between cars or homes because of the price. Cars are very expensive. Some people don't even have car insurance, maybe due to history of driving. Enhancing public transportation can eliminate a lot of those issues. It can make it more affordable to live in a home.
She is absolutely wrong about the not putting any honest on the people that is wrong. I live in the hood I am the hood I'm actually moving out because I got a better house but the point is personal responsibility is a good thing for all people. These people are people they need it just as much as everyone else. That idea that they are just victims of circumstance is as toxic as anything else. Fight the Power with truth
War causes poverty,greed causes poverty. If you can't take care of yourself and your family, don't have them quit being selfish.
I admire the work described here. And I agree with almost everything she’s said. But here’s why we as a nation will always have appallingly high poverty: Because as a nation, we don’t care. I’ve heard the rhetorical question ‘How can the wealthiest nation on the planet have 20% of its children live in poverty?’ raised many times. And it should be raised over and over again because this fact is shameful. It’s when you talk about state and federal government that it breaks down. Why? The answer lies in our history. Look at how we have become the wealthiest country on Earth. It’s not through compassion or through wanting to take on poverty head on. Not a few national initiatives have tried and failed. Poverty in this country can only really be addressed at the local level, one block at a time. The US is too cruel a country to allow for any other way.
Stephen Jenkins true but that ‘reality ‘ does not make it justifiable. The US is a cruel country. Again if you look at history, we endure cycles of extreme depression in pursuit of this appallingly high inequality (wealth and social mobility). On your point about other countries, I think it’s time we stop thinking ‘either-or’, either Che communista or robber barren capitalist. Look at for example the platform of Andrew Yang.
"stop being born poor, growing up poor and ending up poor."
perfectly said
Haha
easier said than done...but said so poorfectly i can hardly stand it
😂😂😂
All those failed poor persons. We must bla bla bla bla.
It's been proven time and time again that rule of law is the best solution to improve a nation's economy. A country needs to let industry flourish and get out of its way by streamlining and standardising their bureaucracy.
A huge reason why a lot of African countries are poor is because they are either controlled by a monarch, a crazy dictator or worse their own military. To truly let them flourish, these countries need to establish free market capitalism in their country and also implement democracy.
Is U.S. a country of rule of law? Doesn't U.S. have flourishing industries? So, why is Teva talking about poverty in the U.S.? Did you miss the summary part of her talk?
@@tfshao Just because a country has rule of law doesn't mean that there will not be a single poor person in that country.
All you guys like to do is talk and yet we see no results. how about we stop taking and start doing something instead of standing on a stage in front of a bunch of privileged people
We agree on the problem, but I do not agree with her solution.
It is easy to see if having a higher minimum wage eliminates poverty by looking at cities with very high minimum wage and see if raising minimum wages will reduce poverty in those cities. It is a fact that cities with high minimum wages also have high poverty.
It would be better to create more jobs than to raise wages. When there are a lot of jobs open, then there is more choice for people on where they want to work. When the demand for hiring outweighs the demand for jobs, the companies will naturally raise their wages in order to attract more workers. This means lower unemployment, more tax revenue for the government, higher wages, and more career opportunities.
Creating jobs > raising wages. We should be focused on the first, not the latter. The latter kills jobs. Let's not kill jobs. Let's create jobs.
Poverty is what you get when wealth can be hoarded and stolen and hidden and human needs like food and water and medicine can be capitalized on in order to acquire wealth. We need a hybrid economic system where capitalism is a privilege one must earn the right to participate in and not just inherit that privilege.
Who's hiding it? The majority of wealthy people's money is invested in companies, which provide jobs
Even if you raise the minimum wage to $25/hr, the 19-year-old single mother with 3 toddlers won't get the job.
Raising the minimum wage makes stepping stone jobs harder to get. It discourages self improvement.
Ken Marriott there really isn't anything like a stepping stone job anymore.
Oh my ! "Getting the Job" whoa, that's a whole other story, isn't it ? A lot of employers these days conduct real B.S. interviews, good luck !
لعلي الى من هويت أطير where r the fathers remember it takes 2
Limitless Nothingness Not enough! You should be giving 90% you capitalist swine :p
Having been raised in poverty myself (stealing food, sleeping under bridges, ....) upon graduation, I spent two years working for the poor in Alabama (USA). Most of the middle class community did their BEST FOR the poor - but the less fortunates had an incentive to remain in a state of dependency:
1- More kids out-of-wedlock (i.e. without a father) were born - the state was paying, they were not using birth control as it would prevent them from having children (child=federal/state money),
2- Kids were not completing high-school - "it is hard/boring to study" - they repeated the same mistakes as their absent fathers/elders,
3- Many young adults did not want to work the jobs available (jobs were available, they were physical or required some training which my "clients" did not want to invest in, and did PAY). They made more by living at the expense of the tax payers/state/federal government and being free considering than "being boxed-in a regular job".
Lets us stop blaming the system! Our society can help but poor people have to really want to get themselves out of misery (see three issues above); take their responsibilities, society cannot do that for them. Ciao, L (former Public Health official)
ah, the old "pick your up by the bootstraps" adage. ok boomer
the fathers were and are not absent...they are in prison or killed in the military death cult
My only issue, is that families that cannot support children, should NOT have them! Why is this so hard to understand?!
Poverty is more a mindset than an economic status. If a person wants to change they have to change the way they think.