1. Fighting Poverty In Urban America
• Schools
• Jobs Training
• A promising program that is making a
difference

2. The Poverty Cycle
Small or zero
income
Underprovided
Education
Inadequate
skills
Under or
unemployed

3. Poverty
• Poverty is defined as the state of one who
lacks a usual or socially acceptable amount of
money or material possessions.

4. What would it take?
• Job skills
• Education

5. Job Training

6. The Bad News
The people in these programs had big problems. self-control, the ability to
read the news paper. Doing basic math. Get to work on time
if you don't learn these basic skills early it becomes harder and harder after
that

7. Public schools

8. Funding for Public schools
• Local funding

9. Jeffrey Canada

10. Having his second Child

11. His big idea

12. Harlem Children’s Zone

13. Poor kids vs Middle class kids

14. Baby College

17. Why should the middle class care?
• Prison (37,000 per year)
• Paying taxing
• Contributing to society

18. The results
642 HCZ after-school program participants are
enrolled in college
242 students were accepted into college for the
2010-2011 year, representing 90% of our high-
school seniors.
This incoming freshman class obtained over $6.4
million in scholarships and grants

19. In conclusion
http://www.hcz.org/

20. "Its not like we don't know what it
takes for kids to succeed. We do it all
the time in middle class
neighborhoods. " Paul Tough

21. Questions