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♪ >> channel 2 this is Houston
newsmakers with khambrel
Marshall.
Marshall. >> Good morning welcome to the
first to Houston newsmakers of
2020 this will be a very
important year for all
of us. The presidential race
looms large and will impact
everyone in some way or another
and there will be many
other issue along the way that
I want to talk about on this
program and hope that one of
your New
your New Year’s resolutions will be to
weigh in often with your
thoughts and ideas about topics
you think I need to explore
always look forward to it.
This morning as you think about
the many wonderful things you
want to do in the coming year
want to call your attention to
some harsh facts that thousands
in our community are dealing
with every day. One in 7 people
in the Houston area live in
poverty what does that mean
well the income of 20 SEP
$25,750 for a family of 4 is
considered poverty. A recent
United way report indicates
that in Harris County that
family for means more than
$61,000
$61,000 to survive. Well the reality is
that an annual income for
someone working 40 hours a week
at a minimum wage job would
earn less than $15,000.
A year. That’s a tough reality
being faced by 10’s of
thousands of your neighbor
there’s talking about it,
Catholic charities of the
Archdiocese of Galveston
Houston is taking a stab at it
with a par money summit
scheduled for next Thursday,
January 16th, I’m here to talk
about what that something is
all about and how you can get
involved is Natalie Wood, the
senior vice president of
programs at Catholic charities.
Thank you for being here
no thank you to some and so
what was it that brought
Catholic charities want to do
something like this is a
national thing that we’re doing
locally or how that
come about.
come about. >> So if again, the know
poverty for several years
we really wanted to make a
difference and Park
community and we saw that in
order for us to have the D that
we had to really bring people
of
of faith together. So you put
together the know poverty
summit so that we would be able
to reach out to people of all
faiths and bring them together
along with X experts from
around the country to be
able to to share innovative
ideas and strategies so that we
would be able to really create
an impact in the lives that we
work with. >> As you’ve been organizing
this what are some of the
statistics didn’t really call
attention to the fact that we
really need to have a summit to
try to solve some of
these issues.
these issues. >> Well if you think about it
about 40 million people live in
poverty and the United States.
One in 5 of our children live in poverty here and Houston and
when you
when you think that poverty for Tom
means being hungry but going
without food going to bet on in
the stem at when you think that
90 more than 90 per that
probably about 92% of the
people that we work West come
in at under $25,000 a year that
they’re living off of and
we’re not by any
means different from any of the
other faith based
organizations or. Nonprofits
that work in the
Houston area. So we really felt
that it was our responsibility
to do something to make a
difference in to be
a leader.
a leader. >> It’s very some of the
research I’ve written maybe you
have as well as that people
find themselves in poverty is
not something a solvable by
just throwing money at it
that poverty can be a cycle
that that sometimes it’s really
difficult for people to get out
of absolutely so that’s why we
brought in
brought in doctor beegle so I’m doctor
beegle is going to be our main
speaker at the know poverty
summit and Doc 2 people
actually was raised in
a migrant family which means
that she you know
her family moved from place to
place based
place based on crops. She actually the only
person in her family that was
not incarcerated or has not
been incarcerated and so she
was able to
get hurt GED finally they did
25 she’s married at 15 which I
think is yet
but she and now within 10 years
GD she’d secured a phd so she
has
has made it her were to be able
to provide information on what
it takes to help people move
our transition. Out
of poverty into economic
mobility
mobility and sustainability.
and sustainability. >> What do you hope will happen
from this summit we have all
the people it’s open to anybody
wants to come correct me but he
wants to can you have.
>> Things that are going to be
going we’ll talk a bit more
about the structure of the day
but when they leave there what
would you want them to leave
with in terms of the ability to
go out and actually make a
difference in the community.
Well, the first thing we want
to do to want to make sure that
people really did leave with an
understanding that poverty can
happen to anyone and and that
poverty take a lot of
moving pieces and it is not a
self-selected last stop right
that’s one thing we want to
make sure people understand and
then we want to make sure that
people leave with new
innovative ideas and practices
just like you would any
medical right summit that you
would have had that they would
be able to take back to their
communities in
communities in plum at and collaborate with
one another so that we can all
be able to do more together
Reich together. Poverty is such
a large issue that we are going
to have to come together to
solve it as you’re talking
about any Mike this town is a
question as you’re talking
about and thinking about the
class system that we have in
our country and that people who
are the ruling class to making
decisions really have very
little understanding about
what it used to be in poverty,
some of them have made their
way out a property right but a
lot of times that causes some
issues in terms of what kind
of.
of. Programs are in place to help
those who are popping out
your ride I Mets like I would
never ask someone who
would never made cake make cake
for me for a wedding right.
I definitely with something has
huge
huge has poverty need to bring in
and the stakeholders to people
who are living because as they
know
know their stories. They know what
they need to move out and 9
times out of 10 we talked to
the people they know what they
need
need to do. It’s all
the barriers and I have in
place and that’s where some of
these innovative strategies
on how do you help them with a
spare parts are you going to
start on
start on the 16th in the morning.
So what’s the day going to be
structured life so we started
08:30AM in the morning
with wreck the sun registration
and from then doctor beegle
will be coming in and she will
be doing a presentation on
poverty and how.
>> What her life with
5 what her I think with like
how her perspective of the
world with 5 when she was
living in how she was able to
check thanks that move that to
be able to move out
of that and as someone she
finishes that she’s going to do
an interactive with people so
that they’re better able to
really comprehend that
then we move into what we call
discovery discussions with to
say about 5 or 6 different
talks by some experts with
the myth feels that are
looking at some of the
innovative strategies and
approaches that are being done
so
so we’re having someone from the
night away come and talk about
the Alice report and how there
it’s changing the whole mind of
poverty and what it looks like.
We’re also talking to kimber go
from 6, you
say Nash, no I’m looking
at disasters and how these at
constant flooding and
hurricanes are impacting
people. So those kinds of
things then after that we’re
going to have a we’re going to
have lunch and then we’re also
going to have a
panel discussion.
panel discussion. >> Well it’s a very full day
and it’s going to be till 3
o’clock I hope people can do
that we put the information up
on the screen. We’re also going
to put it on our website
as well, good luck to you on
the cement it says so much