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From YouTube: EMPath Disrupting the Poverty Cycle Conference
Description
Mayor Martin J. Walsh and others provide opening remarks at day two of the EMPath Disrupting the Poverty Cycle Conference held at University of Massachusetts Boston.
A
Thank
all
of
you
for
being
here
so
bright
and
shiny.
After
the
way
you
partied
until
seven
o'clock
last
night
with
we,
we
really
are
just
blown
away
by
the
energy
you
all
have.
It
was
a
busy
day
yesterday,
I
think
the
common
response
that
I
got
from
everyone
was
that
they
felt
like
their
heads,
were
going
to
explode,
there's
so
much
new
that
they
were
learning
and
I
kept
being
like
Mayor
Koch.
You
know
going
around
saying:
how
are
we
doing?
How
are
you
doing?
How
are
we
doing
because,
of
course,
the
goal?
A
You
know
we're
we're
data
geeks
here
and
the
measurable
goal
that
we're
gonna
measure
ourselves
on
is:
did
you
get
to
new
ideas
here
that
you
or
more
would
be
happy?
If
you
got
more
that
you
could
take
back
and
apply
to
your
work
to
make
it
stronger
and
so
far
what
I'm
hearing
now,
maybe
people
you
know
we're
just
telling
me
to
my
face,
but
what
I'm
hearing
is
that
those
new
ideas
are
coming.
So
that's!
A
That's
really
good
I'm
Beth
Babcock
I
am
the
head
of
economic
mobility
pathways,
and
it
is
a
pleasure
to
welcome
you
to
what's
going
to
be
a
really
wonderful
wonderful
day.
If
you
thought
yesterday
was
good
I
think,
as
we
say
in
Boston
today,
it's
gonna
be
even
better.
It's
gonna
be
much
better.
It's
gonna
be
friggin.
Awesome
is
what
its
gonna
be.
A
So
we're
we're
really
glad
to
have
you
with
us,
and
you
know
it
is
just
a
real
pleasure
and
an
honor
to
have
starting
our
day
for
us.
Mayor
Martin,
J
Walsh
of
Boston,
mayor
Walsh,
is
a
lifelong
champion
of
working
people
and
a
proud
product
of
the
city
of
Boston.
His
vision
is
of
a
thriving,
healthy
and
innovative
Boston,
a
city
with
a
quality
and
opportunity
for
everyone.
A
Talk
about
a
champion
right
at
the
same
time,
he's
created
powerful
tools
for
low-income
workers,
including
a
learn
and
earn
job
apprentice
program
and
an
office
of
financial
empowerment
in
partnership
with
nonprofit
partners
and
private
employers.
The
mayor
has
created
Boston
hires,
which
is
working
toward
ensuring
20,000,
low-income
boston
residents
are
trained
and
placed
in
good-paying
jobs
by
2022
he's
the
founding
vice
chair
of
the
cities
of
opportunity
task
force
at
the
US
Conference
of
Mayors,
and
in
that
way,
elevating
the
national
conversation
about
income
inequality.
A
The
Walsh
administration
has
also
addressed
the
tremendous
need
for
housing
in
the
city,
with
an
ambitious
plan
for
creating
new,
affordable
and
middle-class
homes.
He's
led
the
city
to
reaching
98
percent
of
its
production
goal
of
53,000
units
of
affordable
housing
by
2030
before
taking
office.
Mayor
Walsh
served
and
messaged
in
the
Massachusetts
House
of
Representatives,
and
also
made
his
mark
as
a
labor
leader
raised
by
immigrant
parents,
mayor
Walsh
is
driven
to
make
sure
that
Boston
is
a
city
where
anyone
can
overcome
their
challenges
and
fulfill
their
dreams.
A
A
We
are
deeply
grateful
to
Mayor
Walsh
for
serving
as
this
year's
honorary
co-chair
of
our
disrupting
the
poverty
cycle
conference.
As
you
can
see,
we
are
fortunate
indeed
to
be
in
Boston
and
to
live
in
a
city
led
by
someone
who
cares
so
deeply
about
our
issues.
It
is
my
honor
to
introduce
mayor
Martin,
J
walls,
mayor
of
Boston.
B
Thank
you
very
much,
Beth
and
I
appreciate
you
being
here
today
and
I
appreciate
having
this
conference
here
today
in
our
city
and
thank
everyone
for
being
here
this
morning.
I
don't
know.
If
anyone
had
a
chance,
we
had
a
little
parade.
Anyone
who's,
not
from
Boston,
with
a
little
parade
yesterday
in
Boston
anybody
from
LA
here
by
the
way
or
Houston
or
New
York,
all
right,
sorry,
Yankee
guys.
But
anyway
we
had
a
little
parade
yesterday
and
it
was
great
in
the
city
was
wicked
awesome.
B
B
Around
America
Beth
talked
about
my
role
in
the
US
Conference
of
Mayors
and
I
work
with
all
the
mayors
and
all
those
people
from
from
all
over
the
country,
I
think
here
and
all
over
the
world,
but
I
work
with
me.
As
all
over
the
country
and
all
over
the
world,
and
one
of
the
biggest
things
we
talk
about
is
poverty
and
inequality,
and
how
do
we
make
our
cities
equal
for
everyone
in
opportunity?
B
So
I
want
to
thank
everyone
here
today
for
the
great
work
that
you
do,
I'm
proud,
that
this
conference
is
being
held
here
in
Boston
and
I'm,
going
to
talk
a
little
bit
about
some
of
the
things
that
we've
done
here
in
the
city,
we're
a
city
that
prides
ourselves
on
a
globe
on
globe,
global
leadership
in
inequality
and
climate
and
a
whole
bunch
of
other
areas.
So
I
want
to.
Thank
you.
Boston
is
a
thriving
City,
as
you
saw
when
you
came
here
today.
B
We
feel
if
you
landed
on
a
plane
and
you
looked
in.
You
saw
cranes.
If
you
look
and
you
drove
here,
you
saw
all
kinds
of
construction,
so
we're
thriving
we're
a
diverse
city,
28%
of
the
people
that
live
in
the
city
of
Boston
were
born
in
another
country.
Like
my
parents,
48%
of
the
people
in
the
city
are
first-generation,
like
I
am
Americans.
B
Fifty-One
percent
of
the
people
live
in
our
city.
Are
people
of
color
52%
of
our
households
are
led
by
women.
So
when
you
think
about
the
numbers
that
we
have
in
the
city,
it's
important
to
understand.
What's
the
breakdown
of
your
city,
because
many
of
those
stats
I
just
gave
you
there
stats
to
have
in
the
city,
but
when
you
think
about
an
inequality,
they're
also
leading
in
inequality,
the
folks
that
I
just
mentioned-
and
it's
important
that
recognize
and
understand
that
and
that
we
have
to
tackle
the
issue.
B
We
have
to
understand
where
the
challenge
is
on,
where
the
problems
are
and
how
do
we
do
better?
Our
population
is
growing,
our
unemployment
rate
is
under
4%.
The
quality
of
life
in
public
health
indicators
are
among
the
best
in
the
nation
here
in
Boston,
in
inequalities
trending
in
the
right
direction
as
well.
It's
something
that
when
I,
when
I
became
the
mayor
in
2014,
the
Brookings
Institute
did
a
study
did
a
did.
B
How
do
we
truly
make
sure
that
Boston
is
a
city
that
everyone
can
thrive,
help
the
innovative
city
that
people
can
thrive
in
so
we
sat
down,
we
understood
the
data
and
the
disparities.
You
know
that
because
of
the
work
you
do
every
single
day
we
have
disparities
in
race,
gender
and
class
in
this
conversation
I'm
giving
it
this
morning
it
could
be
a
conversation
in
almost
any
city
in
America
that
the
mayor
or
some
a
leader
or
anyone
can
get
up
and
have
the
same
conversation
that
I'm
having
today
to
sitt.
B
Disparities
are
in
access
to
both
the
drivers
and
the
benefits
of
our
growth,
so
the
big
economic
picture
is
important,
but
success
has
has
a
means
to
of
a
way
forward.
We
have
to
continue
to
think
about.
How
do
we
take
that
success?
We
need
to
make
sure
that
it's
fair
and
sustainable,
otherwise
that
won't
be
fair
and
it
won't
be
sustainable
as
we
continue
to
move
forward
and
disrupt
disrupting
will
not
be
an
option.
Shared
prosperity
has
stalled
in
the
United
States
of
America.
B
We
need
to
advance
new
ideas.
We
need
to
come
up
with
new
tools.
We
need
new
partnerships
for
reducing
poverty
and
restoring
economic
mobility
in
Boston.
We've
taken
that
role
seriously.
Five
years
ago,
we
didn't
have
a
city
plan.
The
last
plan
that
we
had
was
a
master
plan
from
1965.
It
focused
on
economic
development
and
it
focused
on
downtown.
So
we
look
out
the
window
or
later
on,
you
see
the
downtown
skyline.
That's
what
came
out
of
our
economic
development
plan
in
1965,
so
we
launched
a
new
plan
with
broader
mandates
working
with
residents.
B
We
define
goals
and
set
out
a
vision
of
inclusive
growth
in
our
city.
That
means
growth
that
everyone
can
be
part
of,
and
everyone
should
be
part
of
in
their
education
in
their
work
in
the
quality
of
life.
It's
called
imagine
Boston
2030,
and
you
can
find
it
online.
We
have
it
online
for
you
to
look
at
it
looks
at
more
than
economic
development.
B
It
looks
at
housing,
it
looks
at
education,
it
looks
at
transportation,
it
looks
at
open
space,
looks
at
climate
resilience,
it
looks
at
access
to
arts
and
culture,
everything
that
we
need
to
work
together
to
create
an
inclusive,
sustainable
opportunities.
Here,
it's
not
just
a
long
term
plan.
It's
a
plan
that
informs
us
on
our
work
every
single
day.
It's
a
living,
breathing
document
that
we
can
change.
We
can
bring
new
pieces
in.
We
can
take
new
pieces
out.
B
We
can
constantly
use
that
plan
as
a
guide
of
how
do
we
move
forward
for
the
individual
event
family
living
in
our
city?
Inclusive
growth,
me,
economic
mobility,
so
we've
made
it
a
top
priority
and
out
all
of
our
policy
work.
We've
created
an
economic
mobility
lab
in
my
office,
we're
looking
at
existing
programs
and
we're
piloting
new
ideas
to
see
how
we
can
close
racial
gaps,
promote
mobility
and,
in
the
end
of
the
day,
be
a
stronger
City.
The
goal
is
to
meet
people
right
at
the
right
time.
B
Put
together,
our
programs
touch
every
point
along
the
pathways
from
early
childhood
to
Korea
we're
expanding,
high-quality
pre-kindergarten
seats
in
four
years.
We've
expanded
it
up
to
over
a
thousand
seats.
Our
goal
is
universal
pre-kindergarten
in
the
city
of
Boston,
we're
working
with
nonprofits
I,
know
the
Boys
and
Girls
Clubs
of
Dorchester.
Here
they
were
sitting
on
our
task
force.
Looking
at
how
do
we
grow
pre-kindergarten,
but
not
take
away
from
the
organizations
that
are
doing
it
today
that
I'm
part
of
our
school?
We
came
up
with
a
plan
that
that
works.
B
How
do
we
create
pathways
for
our
pre-kindergarten
that
would
be
going
to
a
private
setting
and
when
they
come
to
first
grade
that
they
have
a
pathway
into
our
school?
It's
important
for
us
to
do
it.
We're
expanding
our
free
child
savings
account.
It's
called
Boston
saves
to
reach
every
five-year-old
ER
in
the
city
of
Boston
because,
as
you
know,
the
studies
show
that
young
people
that
have
child
savings
account
when
they
get
to
college
age,
they're
more
likely
to
go
to
college
and
their
family's
more
likely
to
invest
in
college.
B
So
it's
an
encouragement
to
get
more
young
people
into
college,
we're
expanding
our
private
sector
youth
summer,
jobs
by
18
percent
to
make
sure
that
we
have
our
young
people
have
an
opportunity
and
these
jobs
have
real
impacts
over
11,000
young
people
have
worked
this
summer
and
we've
been
able
to
increase
that
number
every
year
in
private
settings
in
working
for
the
city
to
be
able
to
understand
moving
forward.
We
now
provide
free,
Community,
College
to
low
income
high
school
graduates.
It's
a
program
that
we're
using
mitigation
from
all
of
the
development.
B
That's
happening
in
the
city
of
Boston,
we're
working
with
three
three
junior
colleges
in
Boston,
and
we
have
a
pathway.
Kids
can
actually
go
to
free,
Community,
College
and
we're
working
with
Boston
University
and
we're
working
with
Max,
Maritime
and
UMass
Boston
that
we're
in
today
for
other
opportunities.
So
we
can
get
our
young
people
into
college
to
finish
that
four-year
degree
and
try
not
to
overburden
them
with
tuitions
and
and
have
loans
as
they
move
forward.
B
We
create
a
program
called
Boston
bills,
credit
helping,
25,000
residents
achieve
prime
credit
scores
by
the
year.
2025
was
sitting
down
and
giving
them
the
opportunity
to
understand
what
it
means
to
have
good
credit.
What
it
means
to
have
good
understanding
of
economics
what
it
means
to
move
forward,
because
some
people
can't
access
prop
homes
can't
buy
homes,
can't
buy
things
that
they
need
for
their
family
and
can't
advance
their
family
because
of
damage
to
their
credit
scores.
B
We
created
the
officers
first
office
of
Workforce
Development
settling
a
goal
T
at
20,000
residents
in
good-paying
jobs
by
the
2020
to
not
not
minimum-wage
jobs,
good-paying
jobs
understand
they
can
raise
a
family
and
pay
for
a
family
in
doing
that,
we've
also
expanded
out
small
business
programs
in
the
city
and
made
it
sure
that
worker-owned
companies
get
tailored
support
from
our
office
of
Economic
Development.
All
of
these
programs
that
we
do
are
evidence-based.
All
of
them
operate
through
partnerships
and
all
of
them
reflect
our
citywide
commitment
to
moving
the
people
of
Boston
forward.
B
As
a
result,
as
a
city,
we
are
making
progress.
A
recent
report
by
the
Boston
foundation
from
the
Boston
this
time
for
number
two
among
UX
US
cities
for
economic
mobility
for
african-americans.
We
are
number
one
in
mobility
for
Latinos
were
in
the
top
ten.
So
we
need
to
continue
to
make
sure
as
we
talk
about
our
diverse
city,
making
sure
that
we
as
we
as
our
ship
raises,
everyone
raises
with
that
ship,
unfortunately
being
the
best
in
United
States
right
now,
it's
not
a
high
standard
to
claim
success.
B
That's
one
of
the
things
that
we
can't
lose
sight
of
those
black
and
Latino
incomes
may
be
rising,
but
they're
significantly
lower
than
the
white
counterparts.
So
we're
looking
for
more
bigger
levers
to
move
forward.
Probably
the
greatest
challenge
we
have.
The
mobility
is
in
Boston
as
housing
costs.
B
We
have
a
housing
shortage
built
up
over
many
years,
something
that
in
2014,
when
I
became
the
mayor,
I
quickly
found
that
out
in
god
bless
you
in
response
a
housing
plan,
we
launched
a
housing
plan
to
create
53,000
units
in
new
housing
by
the
year
2030
in
in
five
years,
with
produced
nearly
twenty-eight
thousand
new
homes.
We
have
about
25
thousand
in
the
permitting
process
and
we
raised
our
housing
goal
from
fifty
three
thousand
by
twenty
thirty
to
sixty
nine
thousand
houses
by
2030.
B
By
the
end
of
this
year,
we
will
have
created
more
affordable
homes
than
any
other
four-year
period
on
record
here
in
the
city
of
Boston.
That
allows
us
to
maintain
our
national
leadership
with
twenty
percent
of
our
housing
stock
income
restricted
before
we
need
to
continue
to
move
forward
there.
We've
joined
neighboring
cities
and
towns
and
launched
a
regional
housing
plan,
one
of
the
things
Boston's
about
seven
hundred
thousand
people.
B
We
sat
down
with
the
mayors
from
this
qur'anic
cities
in
towns,
and
we
said
we
need
to
create
more
economic
opportunities
and
more
more
housing
for
folks,
more
middle-class
and
low-income
housing
and
we
sat
down
and
we
talked
about
a
plan
and
we
came
up
with
a
regional
plan
because
we
have
a
regional
housing
shortage
as
well,
and
our
goal
is
a
hundred,
and
eighty-five
thousand
god
bless
you
one
hundred
eighty-five
thousand
new
units
by
the
year
2030.
So
when
you
think
of
what
we
have,
that
includes
our
sixty
nine
thousand.
B
We're
using
funds
from
the
sale
of
city
property.
We
had
a
garage
in
the
downtown
Boston
called
Winthrop
Square.
We
sold
this
for
a
hundred
and
sixty
million
dollars.
It
was
literally
a
garage
that
was
abandoned
and
boarded
up
and
there's
gonna
be
a
development
on
there.
We
got
160
million
dollars,
one
hundred
two
million
dollars
upfront,
sixty
million
dollars
that
the
sale
of
the
condos
and
in
the
when
the
office
gets
full
and
we're
gonna
earn
about.
B
Fourteen
to
fifteen
million
dollars
a
year
on
real
estate
tax
property
tax,
it's
going
to
go
into
our
coffers.
We
took
one
hundred
and
two
million
dollars.
Then
we
invested
that
money.
Twenty
five
million
dollars
into
renovate
Boston
Common,
the
first
public
product
in
the
United
States
of
America
25
million
dollars
into
renovating
Franklin
Park,
25
million
dollars
into
completing
Old
Colony
housing
development
in
South
Boston,
ten
million
dollars
to
completing
the
Orion
Heights
housing
development
in
East
Boston.
B
We're
going
to
put
11
million
dollars
to
close
the
animal
neck
necklace
to
make
sure
that
homesteads
vision
is
gonna,
be
completed,
Emerald
Necklace
and
we
put
five
million
dollars
into
the
Rose
Kennedy
Greenway,
which
used
to
be
the
central
artery
project
and
we're
making
these
one-time
investments
in
our
open
space
and
in
housing.
Making
sure
the
money
from
that
garage
is
going
towards
helping
people
and
that's
something
that's
important
for
us.
But
we
talk
about
mobility.
Subsidized
housing
is
only
part
of
the
answer.
We
want
people
on
a
pathway
to
middle
class.
B
That's
something
that
I
know
that
empath
understands
because
you've
been
working
with
us
as
a
partner
in
2016.
We
want
a
30
million
dollar
federal
grant
to
rebuild
the
Whittier
housing
development
in
Roxbury,
something
that
I
was
just
excited
about.
It
allowed
us
to
rebuild
over
200,
deeply
subsidized
units
and
add
over
two
hundred
moderate
units
of
housing.
It
also
helped
us
integrate
healthcare.
Job
access,
use,
programming,
senior
programming,
open
space,
it's
a
total
neighborhood
vision.
It
was
done
under
the
Obama
administration.
B
I'll,
tell
you
a
quick
Side
Story,
so
President
Obama
awarded
us
late
at
the
end
of
his
term.
It
was
about
November
and
if
you
remember,
in
January,
when
the
new
president
came
in,
he
went
after
immigrants
and
Muslims.
So
we
held
a
press
conference
in
my
office
to
kind
of
fight
back
what
was
coming
out
of
Washington
and
literally
the
next
day
we
were
doing
our
groundbreaking
at
Whittier,
Street
and
I
was
there
and
building
McGonagall
who's.
B
B
But
let
me
just
some
empath
is
an
organization
supporting
our
residents
during
the
renovation
and
you've
been
a
big
partner
there.
So
I
want
to
thank
you
for
that
and
you're
not
just
helping
us
but
you're,
helping
us
get
ready
to
get
in
residence
rates
or
return
to
expanding
their
options.
This
summer,
I
had
the
honor
of
being
with
a
former
Whittier
Street
resident
named
Patricia
brown.
B
She
became
a
homeowner
for
the
first
time,
thanks
to
a
partnership
between
the
Department
of
Neighborhood
Development
and
the
caring
staff
of
empath
I
got
to
visit
Patricia
and
her
family
I
even
played
some
basketball
with
our
nine-year-old
grandson
in
a
nerf
hoop
in
his
bedroom.
He
didn't
have
a
bedroom
before
they
didn't
have
a
safe
place.
They
didn't
have
their
own
keys,
they
didn't
have
their
own
place.
This
was
their
own
house
and
I
was
watching
their
faces
that
day
and
seeing
the
smile
on
their
face.
B
Thinking
to
myself,
we
need
to
do
more
of
this,
so
people
call
it
their
home
they're,
not
renting,
they're,
owning
and
it's
so
important
for
us.
So
we
do
that.
I
get
to
see
the
pride
in
those
young
in
that
family's,
face
and
I
had
a
chance
to
see
the
pride
and
the
people
that
helped
make
that
happen.
B
The
staff
at
DND
and
the
staff
at
empath
and
all
the
other
folks
that
were
there
seeing
people
smiling
understanding
that
that
we,
the
work
that
we're
doing
is
working
and
it's
important
for
us
that
we
do
that
when
I
sat
on
my
second
term
this
year
is
man,
I
said
Boston
is
a
city,
that's
world-class
because
it
works
for
the
middle
class.
Those
can't
be
words
on
a
speech
on
it
on
a
piece
of
paper
given
in
a
speech
that
has
to
be
the
reality.
B
Access
and
mobility
were
fundamental
to
the
concept
of
the
American
middle
class.
It
was
what
my
parents
experienced
when
they
came
from
Ireland.
My
father
came
in
1956
and
my
mother
came
in
1959.
They
came
to
this
country
to
send
money
home
really
and
they
ended
up
staying
here,
because
my
father
was
able
to
become
a
laborer.
He
was
able
to
buy
a
home
in
1967,
my
mother
and
myself.
I
was
born.
We
moved
into
that
the
house
that
we
bought
the
same
day.
My
mother
is
still
in
that
house
today.
B
My
father
died
in
that
house
eight
years
ago,
but
it's
because
of
the
opportunity
that
was
presented
to
them
of
the
American
Dream
in
this
American
Dream
that
we
used
to
think
about.
We
need
to
make
sure
that
it
still
exists,
and
the
people
in
this
room
understand
that
that's
what
we
have
to
get
you
we've
learned
that
we
can
never
take
anything
for
granted.
The
middle
class
didn't
happen
by
accident
and
it
won't
come
back
by
accident.
It's
gonna
take
hard
work.
It's
going
to
take
leadership.
B
It's
gonna
take
leave
the
political
participation
from
people
who
actually
care.
We
need
to
make
sure
that
people
understand
that
on
Tuesday
we
have
an
election
coming
change
is
possible.
It's
important
to
make
sure
that
we
send
a
message
to
people
to
say
you
need
to
speak
to
stand
up
and
speak
up
and
step
up
with
the
people
that
need
to
help.
I
know
that
we
have
big
challenges,
but
I've
seen
us
reverse.
The
trends
here
in
Boston
I
know
that
we
can
do
it
in
every
single
city
in
town
and
cross
all
across
America.
B
Now
we
stop
moving
forward
again
as
a
country,
a
lot
of
leaders
are
gonna,
take
credit,
and
none
of
them
will
remember
to
thank
the
people
who
laid
the
foundation.
The
people
in
this
room
who
laid
that
foundation
so
I
want
to
say.
Thank
you.
Thank
you
to
each
and
every
single
one
of
you
that
are
here
today
for
your
research,
your
innovation,
your
advocacy
and
your
commitment
to
the
people
that
you
serve,
and
even
the
people
that
you
don't
realize
that
you're
helping
I
want
to.
Thank
you
for
the
impact
that
you've
already
made.
B
I
want
to
thank
you
for
advancing
the
work
here
in
the
city
of
Boston
and
I.
Just
want
to
say,
don't
get
down,
because
all
it
takes
is
one
person
to
make
a
difference
and
when
I
look
out
of
this
room,
I
saw
I,
see
a
lot
of
individuals,
but
I
also
see
a
collective
group
of
people
that
love
the
work
that
you
do
so
I
want
to.
Thank
you
for
that
and
thank
you
for
the
even
greater
impact
that
you're
gonna
have
in
the
future.
C
My
name
is
Donna
Jeffers
and
I'm
a
board
member
of
empath
and
have
a
great
job.
This
morning,
I
get
to
introduce
Chuck
Collins
Chuck
Collins
was
born
into
the
1%
he's
the
great-grandson
of
Oscar
Mayer
at
the
age
of
26.
He
gave
away
his
entire
inheritance
and
he
devoted
himself
to
working
for
economic
and
social
justice.
C
Pretty
interesting
story
to
start
with,
is
it
not
I
first
met
Chuck
by
reading
his
book
born
on
third
base.
I
love
the
title,
because
the
title
is
so
classy
about
what
we
do
not
recognize
about
so
many
opportunities
and
advantages
that
many
of
us
have
in
born
on
third
base.
Chuck
challenges
the
wealthy
to
be
part
of
the
solution,
not
part
of
the
problem.
He
doesn't
demonize
the
wealthy.
He
made
me
think
about
that
a
lot.
C
C
C
C
Chuck
is
Chuck
is
currently
director
of
the
program
on
inequality
and
the
common
good
at
the
Institute
for
Policy
Studies,
which
is
based
in
Washington
and
has
a
Boston
office.
Chuck.
Is
an
author
he's
an
advocate.
He's
a
patriot.
He's
an
educator
he's
a
researcher
he's
a
community
organizer
to
me.
He
is
an
inspiration
and
I
trust.
He
will
be
to
you
as
well.
D
Last
night
I
got
home,
I
wasn't
able
to
be
with
you.
Yesterday,
I
was
in
Washington,
I
got
home,
it
was
about
10
o'clock
and
I,
went
out
to
my
garden
and
cut
a
couple
of
marigolds
that
were
still
alive
to
build
our
day
of
the
dead,
alter
our
frienda
and
on
that
altar.
I
have
a
picture
that
I
brought
a
very
important
person
named
Diana,
who
I
want
to
share
as
a
gratitude
story
to
empath,
because
in
1959
at
the
age
of
18
Diana
was
raped.
She
did
not,
she
was
got
pregnant.
D
She
is
my
wife's
mother
and
she's
on
our
altar,
because
she's
no
longer
with
us-
but
she
is
you
know-
has
you
know
as
the
grandmother
to
Caleb
and
Sam.
So
that's
a
gratitude.
I
want
to
thank
Crittenden
Hastings,
the
previous
generations,
that
built
that
institution
that
offered
her
a
sanctuary
in
that
time
and
I
want
to
congratulate
you
all
for
being
here
and
the
and
the
conversation
about
narrative
about
stories,
because,
as
we
know,
it
isn't
just
about
having
a
great
policy
idea.
D
It
isn't
necessarily
about
sort
of
you
know,
being
effective,
advocates
we're
up
against
powerful
stories,
powerful
narratives
that
justify
and
hold
these
poverty,
this
poverty
and
inequality
in
place,
and
so
the
fact
that
you're
spending
this
time
really
sort
of
looking
at
that
practice,
I
think
is
right
on
inspiring
and
I
want
to
add
to
that
conversation
and
part
of
what
I
want
to
bring
to.
This
is
my
belief
that
we
can't
really
challenge
the
mythologies
and
stories
that
justify
our
hold
poverty
in
place,
without
also
looking
at
the
stories
of
advantage.
D
The
stories
that
we
tell
as
a
culture
about
wealth
and
the
realities
of
how
wealth
is
actually
created,
without
disrupting
that
story,
we're
not
going
to
be
able
to
come
together
to
tell
a
true
story
about
poverty,
inequality
and
opportunity.
So
I'm
going
to
talk
a
little
bit
about
what
I
call
the
top
end
of
the
dynamic.
If
you
will
and
as
as
Donna
said,
I
grew
up
in
a
wealthy
family,
my
great-grandfather
was
a
meatpacker
Oscar
Mayer,
so
I
had
a
lot
of
baloney.
D
You
know
growing
up
my
my
father
used
to
say
bringing
home.
The
bacon
had
a
different
meaning
in
our
family,
but
I
grew
up
in
a
suburb
of
Detroit
I
went
to
a
private
boys.
School
Cranbrook
school
happens
to
be
the
same
high
school
where
Mitt
Romney
went.
He
was
a
couple
years
older
than
me.
Our
school
motto
was
aim
high.
Think
of
this
as
a
boys
prep
school
in
the
sort
of
Georgetown
Prep
mold.
D
If
you
will
aim
high
was
the
school
motto
which
today
is
still
depicted
by
an
archer
shooting
an
arrow
straight
up
into
the
air
which,
if
you
think
about
it,
it's
not
anything
we
would
allow
our
children
to
do.
I
grew
up
in
a
bubble,
a
bubble
of
advantage
of
privilege
of
wealth,
and
one
of
the
first
disruptions
to
that
bubble
was
in
1967
at
the
age
of
67.
D
There
was
the
riots
in
Detroit
the
uprising,
if
you
will
in
Detroit
and
I,
was
pestering
my
parents
what's
going
on.
Why
is
this
happening?
And
my
mother,
who
comes
from
a
very
different
background
kind
of
a
working-class
sensibility,
said
she?
This
is
because
things
are
not
fair
in
this
city
and
that
planted
a
seed
in
my
mind,
like
oh
she's,
talking
about
that
gap
between
City
and
suburb,
where
we
live
rich
and
poor,
white
and
black.
D
D
So
that's
tens
of
thousands
of
people
now
who
own
a
modest
home
and
also
control
the
land
under
their
houses.
But
at
that
time
I
was
a
young.
You
know
privileged
wealthy
young
man
working
anonymously.
Doing
this
work
and
I
have
to
tell
you
I
learned
a
lot
about
people
sticking
together
about
people,
organizing
and
solidarity,
and
it
kind
of
disrupted
my
own
understanding
of
the
world,
because
I
had
grown
up
in
a
community
where
people
were
generous
and
charitable,
but
I
had
never
seen
reciprocity,
mutuality,
solidarity
and
I
was
I
wanted.
D
What
those
folks
had
that
I
didn't
have
I
wanted
to
live
in
a
community
where
people
were
all
in
for
each
other
and
I
kind
of
came
to
the
understanding
that
the
wealth
I
had
in
my
name
was
an
impediment
to
my
being
able
to
have
those
kind
of
relationships.
So
I
made
this
decision
to
give
away
this
wealth.
That
Donna
talked
about
and
I'm
not
going
to
say
much
about
that
except
you
can
imagine.
D
I
wrote
my
parents
a
letter
thanking
them
for
the
opportunities
I'd
been
given,
including
being
able
to
go
to
college
without
debt
which,
as
we
know
today,
a
huge
advantage
and
my
father,
you
know
called
me
up
and
he
said
you
haven't
given
away
the
money.
Yet
have
you
and
I
said
no,
he
says
well,
I
really
want
to
talk
to
you
about
about
this
momentous
decision
and
he
came
out
here
to
Boston
and
we
walked
around
and
we
had
a
good
talk
and
he
said
you
know
you're.
You
grew
up
in
a
bubble.
D
D
Won't
you
wish
you
had
that
money
and
or
what,
if
someday
you
have
a
child
and
that
child
has
a
special
need?
Aren't
you
gonna
wish
you
had
that
cushion
of
money
and
I
said
well,
I
have
thought
about
that
and
then
I
think
I
would
be
in
the
same
boat
as
99%
of
the
people.
I
know,
I
would
have
to
get
help.
D
I
would
have
to
lean
on
my
community
in
my
congregation
and
my
and
he
said
yeah,
but
in
the
end
you
would
probably
have
to
depend
on
government
and
that's
a
lousy
and
tattered
safety
net
to
which
I
replied.
Well,
then,
I
would
have
a
real
personal
stake
in
making
sure
that's
a
better
safety
net
to
which
he
wisely
replied
boy,
they're,
giving
me
a
headache,
you're,
so
idealistic,
but
my
father's
turned
eighty
seven
yesterday
remarkable
guy
he
at
that
moment
he
said
I
Love,
You,
Man
I,
get
it
do
what
you
have
to
do.
D
D
Four
generations
of
economic
stability,
a
German.
You
know
growing
up
in
a
white
European
immigrant
family,
where,
when
when
they
opened
up
a
butcher
shop
in
Chicago
and
catered
to
the
German
community,
there
was
no.
There
were
no
pogroms
disrupting
their
business
district
as
there
were
in
african-american
business
districts
growing
up
with
a
family
with
a
family
safety
net.
D
In
the
event
that
somebody
had
a
mental
illness
or
an
addiction
or
a
challenge
that
that
family
safety
net
was
there
being
male
going
to
a
school
with
a
motto,
aim,
high
being
told
that
you
have
I
have
agency
and
that
I'm
expected
to
you
know,
play
a
role
in
society,
all
the
social
networks,
all
the
financial
literacy,
all
the
hundred
and
one
ways
in
which
advantage
just
gets
wired
into
the
life
of
someone.
Like
me,
I
had
no
idea.
D
I,
don't
have
to
worry
about
my
parents,
economically
I
can
worry
about
them,
but
think
about.
You
know
what
an
advantage
that
is,
unlike
so
many
of
my
friends
who
are
trying
to
raise
children
and
care
for
elder
parents
and
I
say
that,
because
part
of
the
narrative
of
poverty,
part
of
how
we're
going
to
challenge
that
is
to
understand
all
the
ways
advantage
works.
D
All
the
ways
in
which
multi-generational
head
starts
work
to
contribute
to
what
I
would
now
call
the
the
new
physics
of
inequality
we're
now
living
in
a
moment
where
there
are
compounding
accelerating
advantages
for
people
in
the
top
10%
and
compounding
disadvantages,
not
just
for
low-income
people,
but
for
about
60%
of
the
population,
and
that
that
is
if
we
don't
understand
that
and
can't
tell
true
stories
about
how
advantage
works.
We're
not
going
to
be
able
to
really
get
at
the
narratives
that
hold
poverty
in
place.
D
I
had
an
intimate
front-row
seat
in
the
1980s
to
these
inequalities
as
they
started
to
open
up.
You
know
what
we
had.
We
saw
low-wage
tenants
trying
to
survive
as
wages
started
to
flatten
out
and
I
also
had
a
front-row
seat
to
wealth,
creating
wealth
coming
from
a
born
on
third
base.
Family
I
could
see
how
wealth
was
compounding
people
would
say
things
like
yeah.
We
just
sold
the
house
that
we
bought
for
X,
450,
X
or
our
investment
fund
is
getting
a
25%
return
on
investment.
D
O
assets
are
booming,
wealth
is
booming,
wages
are
flat.
Well,
where
are
we
today?
What's
the
picture
today,
you
know
the
story:
I'm
not
going
to
dwell
on
it.
Much
I
mean
we're
living
in
a
time
of
extraordinary
extreme
inequality,
we're
now
in
for
the
fourth
decade
of
pretty
much
flat
stagnant
wages.
You
know
you
see
in
the
news
recently
the
median
wage
has
gone
up
two
and
a
half
percent
and
we're
all
happy
about
that.
D
That's
a
good
trend,
but
we're
still
for
half
the
population
trying
to
get
back
to
what
real
wages
were
worth
four
decades
ago
before
the
internet,
half
the
population
has
not
shared
in
the
productivity
gains
since
the
late
70s,
and
that
tells
us
a
lot
about
the
what
we're
living
through
right
now,
but
the
other
piece
of
the
pictures
what's
happening
at
the
top.
You
know
most
people
are
under
stand
that
we're
living
in
an
unequal
times,
but
I
bet,
you
probably
don't
understand.
D
You
know
how
extreme
things
have
become,
that
the
most
of
the
wealth
gains
and
growth
of
income
in
the
last
ten
years
has
gone
not
to
the
top
one
percent,
but
the
top
one-tenth
of
one
percent.
Those
are
households
with
wealth
at
about
20
million
and
up
income
at
about
two
and
a
half
million,
and
up
that's
where
most
of
the
growth
in
income
and
wealth
is
going
and
the
higher
we
go
up
the
economic
ladder,
the
more
concentrated
that
wealth
is
four
hundred
families.
D
D
How
is
that
possible?
It
is
because
of
the
growing
ranks
of
underwater
nation,
one
out
of
five
households,
0
or
negative
net
worth
one
out
of
three
african-american
households,
0
or
negative
worth
27%
of
Latino
households,
0
are
negative
worth
and
then
next
fifth
up
is
precarious,
has
very
little
to
fall
back
on.
So
you
don't
really.
We
don't
even
get
to
a
positive
net
worth
significantly
till
about
the
40th
percentile.
D
That's
how
wealth
and
we're
seeing
what
I
call
dynastic
wealth,
the
growth
of
wealth,
dynasties
families
that,
instead
of
seeing
their
wealth,
dispersed
over
generations,
the
wealth
is
growing.
The
Mars
candy
family,
the
Gallo,
the
the
the
cokes
family
and
the
Walton
family,
the
three
wealthiest
families
in
the
United
States
in
1982
till
the
present
their
wealth
has,
as
a
group
factoring
in
inflation,
increased
6,000
percent.
That's
not
a
typo.
D
We
just
did
the
study
you
can
find
it
at
inequality,
org
three
families
since
1982
a
six
thousand
increase
in
their
wealth.
At
the
same
time
that
the
median
wealth
went
down
three
percent
for
the
rest
of
the
country.
That's
the
moment
we're
living
in
it's
a
period
of
extreme
and
extraordinary
inequality,
and
if
we
put
a
racial
lens
on
it,
it
becomes
more
extreme.
If
we
put
a
gender
lens
on
it,
it
becomes
more
extreme.
D
You
get
the
picture,
though
you
know
the
median
white
wealth
is
thirty
five
times
the
median
african-american
wealth,
so
we're
living
in
a
time
of
hyper
extreme
inequality,
and
isn't
it
interesting
that
the
stories
of
inequality
and
the
story
and
what
I
call
the
myth
of
deserving
that
seemed
to
grow
during
times
of
inequality?
Even
more
we'll
come
back
to
that.
D
That's
the
present,
if
we
don't
intervene
as
the
French
economist,
Thomas
Piketty
says,
if
we
don't
intervene,
we're
going
to
become
a
nation
of
hereditary
wealth
and
power,
we're
the
sons
and
daughters
of
today's
billionaires
will
dominate
our
politics,
culture
and
philanthropy
and
the
economy.
So
we
are
moving
toward
a
sort
of
racial
and
economic
apartheid
Society.
D
We
know
why
this
matters
there's
now
a
mountain
of
research
showing
that
this
imbalance
of
income
and
wealth
and
opportunity
undermines
our
democracy.
It
breaks
leads
to
breakdowns
in
social
cohesion.
It
creates
a
polarized
politics,
it's
bad
for
the
economy,
it's
bad
for
social
mobility
and
opportunity
if
you're
not
born
rich,
if
you're
not
born
in
the
top
fifth-
and
you
want
the
American
dream-
you're
better
off,
moving
to
Canada,
because
the
American
dream,
because
social
mobility
now
is
three
times
higher
in
Canada.
D
We
know
something
about
what
to
do.
We
heard
from
from
Mayor
Walsh
talking
about
the
Golden
Age
of
growing
a
middle-class,
and
we
know
that
there
are
things
that
we
can
do
to
create
a
shared
prosperity
economy,
to
lift
people
out
of
poverty
and
into
the
middle
class.
I
don't
usually
do
imitations,
but
let
me
offer
my
very
best:
Bernie
Sanders,
under
the
socialist
presidency
of
Dwight
Eisenhower,
the
wealthiest
1%
paid
3
times
more
in
income
tax
twice
as
much
inheritance
tax.
D
It
was
invested
in
debt-free
college
first
time,
homebuyer,
low-interest
loans
infrastructure
that
benefited
everyone
right.
So
so,
what's
he
saying
he's
saying
we
used
to
have
a
much
more
progressive
tax
system
and
we
used
to
invest
in
things
that
move
people
forward.
I
have
an
uncle
not
from
the
wealthy
part
of
my
family,
who
bought
a
farm
in
1950
with
a
1%
fixed-rate
40
year
mortgage
through
farmers,
home
pretty
good,
think
of
the
generation
that
could
be
launched.
D
We
put
13
million
people
into
first-time
homebuyer
loans,
Veterans
Administration
loans,
FHA
mortgage
loans,
13
million
people,
almost
all
of
them
white
got
on
the
Express
train
to
the
middle
class
with
deeply
subsidized
private
mortgages
publicly
subsidized
mortgages.
Meanwhile,
blacks,
Latinos,
First,
Nations,
others
were
left
at
the
station
because
of
the
legacy
because
of
the
actual
discrimination
in
mortgage
lending
we're
not
able
to
take
advantage
of
those
same
programs,
but
we
know
something
about
the
kinds
of
investments
we
can.
We
can
apply
since
we
can
apply.
D
We
know
that
there
are
countries
that
have
considerably
less
inequality,
because
they
both
have
a
much
higher
floor
of
decency.
Think
of
the
Nordic
countries
a
floor
through
which
people
don't
fall
all
the
way
to
destitution
where
there's
decent
living
wages
and
universal
education
and
access
to
lifelong
learning.
We
know
the
formulas,
but
we
are
up
against
all
kinds
of
mythologies
and
narratives.
The
reason
it's
hard
to
build
wide
public
support
or
support
among
powerful
people
is
because
of
those
stories.
The
good
news
is
there
is
a
realignment
happening.
D
People
overwhelmingly
believe
we
should
have
much
higher
wages.
We
shouldn't
have
this
scourge
of
college
debt.
We
should
be
investing
in
low-income
families.
We
should
redirect
housing
subsidies
that
mostly
go
to
the
rich
to
help
low
and
middle
income.
People
get
access
to
decent
housing.
We
we
know
overwhelmingly
people
support
having
the
wealthy
pay
a
higher
fair
share
of
their
taxes
and
make
these
kinds
of
investments
it's
wildly
popular
at
the
base
and
that's
part
of
the
work
but
part
of
our
work.
Part
of
the
boulder
is
this.
D
The
stories
I
tell
these
facts
to
some
of
my
friends
and
they
say:
well,
these
inequalities
that's
a
little
troubling,
but
the
people
who
have
that
kind
of
wealth
deserve
to
have
what
they
have.
They
they
work
harder.
They
create
value
for
the
society.
Anybody
ever
heard
that
that's
the
other
side,
the
corollary,
the
of
the
mythology
about
wealth
I,
would
describe
it
in
a
bumper
sticker.
This
way
everyone
is
where
they
deserve
to
be.
D
The
oil
billionaire
Jay
paul
Getty
was
once
asked:
how
do
you
become
wealthy
in
America,
and
he
said
it's
really
simple,
there's
three
things
we
have
to
do
and
we
can
do
a
poll
here.
One
get
up
early
every
morning
how
many
of
you
got
up
early
this
morning
to
work
hard
all
day,
including
going
to
like
a
conference
right
three
find
oil.
D
So
people
hear
these
statistics
about
inequality
and
they
say
us:
some
people
got
up
early.
Some
people
worked
hard
all
day.
Some
people
created
a
new
mousetrap,
some
people
took
risks
and
other
people
didn't
and
the
shadow
corollary.
That
is
what
you're
grappling
with
that
sort
of
like
you
know,
there's
not
that
there's
something
deserving
there's
something
lacking
on
the
other
end
of
the
story.
So
how
do
we
change
that?
How
do
we
disrupt
those
stories?
D
Let
me
offer
an
example.
A
couple
years
ago,
I
was
part
of
an
effort
to
defend
the
federal
estate
tax,
the
tax
on
inherited
wealth
and
that's
where
I
got
to
know
Bill
Gates
his
dad,
and
we
were
very
involved
in
in
doing
press
conferences
around
the
country
and
at
one
of
the
press
conferences
to
defend
this
inheritance
tax.
We
we
got
a
hundred
and
we
have
1500
multimillionaires
and
billionaires
to
publicly
come
out
in
defense
of
the
estate
tax,
so
one
of
them
showed
up
at
this
press
conference.
D
Somebody
I'd
never
met
his
name
was
Martin
and
he
got
up
at
the
press
conference,
and
this
is
what
he
said.
He
says.
I
grew
up
in
a
low-income
community.
My
parents
worked
every
hour
that
they
could
find
work,
but
sometimes
they
didn't
have
work.
We
never
like
took
a
vacation
as
a
family.
We
struggle,
but
I
actually
went
to
a
pretty
good
elementary
school
and
I
went
to
a
library
that
was
open
in
the
evening.
D
Every
evening
till
nine
o'clock
it
was
open
on
the
weekends
and
that
library
was
like
a
sanctuary
for
me
and
there
was
this
librarian
there
who
took
an
interest
in
me
and
she
every
time
I
came
in
there.
She
said
Martin
I
have
a
book
for
you,
here's
a
book
of
experiments.
You
could
do
in
your
apartment
without
burning
it
down.
She
knew
I
was
interested
in
science.
Here's
a
biography
of
a
scientist.
D
Martin
says
my
family
had
no
money,
but
somebody
else
paid
for
me
to
have
access
to
a
good
education
and
I
went
to
a
great
high
school
and
I
had
science
teachers
that
got
me
excited
and
I
was
able
to
go
to
college
for
free
someone
else
paid
for
me
to
be
able
to
go
to
college
and
then
I
went
into
the
field
of
the
emerging
technologies
of
the
internet
and
where
did
I?
You
know,
I
I
know
which
was
largely
built
through
public
investments
and
I
started
a
company.
D
Some
Marten
sort
of
looks
out
at
this.
This
audience
he
says
so.
Last
year,
I
sold
my
company
for
30
million
dollars
and
I
have
several
other
companies
worth
the
same
amount
and
martin
says.
But
you
know,
if
you
abolish
this
tax,
what
you're
essentially
saying
is
I
have
no
responsibility
to
pay
back
the
society
that
made
it
almost
entirely
possible
for
me
to
get
where
I
am,
and
at
this
point
in
the
press
conference
to
everyone's
shock,
he
starts
to
pound
the
podium.
He
says.
D
Actually,
I
have
a
moral
obligation
to
pay
back
in
the
event
that
somebody,
so
that
somebody
else
out
there
born
into
the
same
humble
circumstances
as
me
should
have
the
same
opportunities
I
had
because
what
makes
America
good
is
when
we
recycle
opportunity,
and
if
you
have
ten
million
or
20
million
or
50
billion,
you
didn't
do
it
alone
and
he,
you
know
Martin
was
clear.
He
says
not
taking
away
from
individuals.
D
In
fact,
we
should
celebrate
individuals
who
get
up
early,
take
risks,
work,
hard,
celebrate
reward,
but
let's
not
lose
sight
of
the
web
of
Common
Wealth.
That
makes
it
all
possible,
and
let's
understand
that
you
can't
just
pull
up
the
rug.
You
can't
just
pull
up
the
ladder
once
you
get
to
that
level.
You
have
an
obligation
to
recycle
opportunity
so
that
others
can
have
the
same
opportunities
you
had
and
everybody
was
like
whoa.
D
How
often
do
you
hear
that
story,
but
actually
I
can
tell
you
I
hear
that
story
all
the
time,
because
part
of
the
work
that
we
do
to
disrupt
these
narratives
around
poverty
and
inequality
is
to
develop
messengers.
Who
can
talk
about
the
web
to
talk
about
the
Commonwealth,
the
public
investments
that
make
it
all
possible
for
us
to
be
able
to
move
forward?
D
D
How
many
of
you
got
a
debt
free
college,
education
after
World,
War,
two
3/4
raise
their
hand,
how
many
of
you
were
able
to
get
a
first-time
homebuyer
program
to
become
the
first
person
in
your
family
to
buy
a
home
thanks
to
a
government
mortgage
Veterans,
Administration,
FHA
farmers,
home
3/4
of
the
men
in
the
room
raised
their
hand.
I
said
how
many
of
you
think
that
was
a
waste
of
taxpayer
money.
They
all
laughed
they're
like.
No,
that
was
the
magic
carpet
out
of
poverty.
That
was
the
magic
carpet
to
the
middle
class.
D
I
said
so.
How
many
of
you
are
helping
your
kids
today?
They
all
raise
their
hand
they're
all
helping
their
kids.
Dear
children
understand
that
they're,
the
beneficiary
of
government
subsidies
from
two
generations
ago
that
made
it
possible
for
them
to
be
where
they
are
to
be
able
to
buy
a
home
in
their
area.
One
guy
said:
yeah
I'm
the
parental
down
payment
assistance
program.
It's
the
only
way
my
kids
can
buy
a
house
and
stay
in
the
community.
D
What
my
message
to
them
was
you
have
to
tell
that
story?
You
have
to
go
public
with
that
story.
You
have
to
talk
about
all
the
ways
you
got
help
and
I
think
this
is
sort
of
a
key
to
this
narrative
problem.
There's
something
about
help.
Even
with
that
group
I
said
subsidy,
they
said
Oh
subsidy,
that's
a
dirty
word.
D
We
have
to
talk
about
family
help.
Government
help
the
ways
in
which
an
older
generation
Ben
it's
something
that
anyone
can
do.
It's
something
that
most
white
people
can
find
in
their
own
biographical
narrative,
some
ways
in
which
the
legacy
of
racism
stop
some
people,
but
propelled
others
tell
true
stories
of
how
advantage
works.
That
is
one
of
the
ways
that
we
can
disrupt
these
narratives
and
I.
I
was
sad
that
we're
not
yeah.
Thank
you.
I
was
sad
that
we're
not
voting
on
Tuesday
on
here.
D
It
seems
like
us,
men
in
particular,
have
a
hard
time
with
that
I've.
You
know
my
experiences.
Women
see
the
web.
They
see
the
web
of
supports
that
make
it
possible
and
we
men
like
to
sort
of
feel
like
hey.
We
got
here
on
our
own
and
I'm,
not
like
really.
You
were
born
in
a
state
of
nature
raised
by
wolves.
You
know,
did
you
have
a
mother?
Did
you
have
a
teacher,
a
mentor,
a
coach
anybody
along
the
way
there?
You
know
no
I
got
here
on
my
own
and
I.
D
E
Thank
you
for
being
here,
I'm
a
part-time
student
at
Maxwell
I'm,
a
part-time
student
at
Maxwell's,
school
of
citizenship
and
policy.
In
addition
to
my
work
in
Human
Services.
What
I'm,
finding
as
a
local
political
advocate,
is
that
if
people
have
listened
to
a
particular
media
source
that
Vermont
that
rhymes
with
box,
they
have
a
particular
perspective
that
they
are
chanting
at
me.
And
so
my
question
is:
how
do
we
sort
the
really
well-funded
media
streams
that
are
propelling
this
narrative
forward?
E
D
Mean
I
think
that
the
it's
we're
up
against
as
you're
saying
we're
up
against
sort
of
an
organized
narrative
distribution
network
on
on
one
side.
Part
of
it
is
to
realize
you
know,
there's
some
people
that
are
pretty
locked
up
with
their
narrative,
the
individual,
but
most
people.
If
you
engage
them
with
the
question
with
questions
like
did
you
get
any
help?
Did
you
get
any
help
and
sort
of
tease
that
out?
Well,
what
does
that
mean?
Did
your
family
help
you
in
any
way?
D
Did
you
because
part
of
what
you
know
and
we
now
we
have
it
from
the
top
down?
We
have
a
you
know
a
president
who
says
he's
a
self-made
billionaire
and
then
we
just
realized.
Okay,
you
got
a
300,
413
million
dollar
head
start
or
you
know
you're
you're
running
for
this
you're
on
the
Supreme
Court,
you
say
I,
you
know
how
did
you
get
into
Yale
I
busted,
my
tail,
oh,
and
by
the
way
my
grandfather
went
to
Yale
too.
You
know
we
have
this
lake
almost
purposeful
amnesia
or
mystification.
D
So,
on
the
one
end,
I
think
we
have
to
sort
of
call
that
out.
If
you
will
and
say
what's
happening,
there
is
advantage
people
rewriting
their
own
stories,
leaving
out
some
very
important
narrative
elements
and
therefore,
basically
saying
hey,
anybody
can
do
what
I
did
anybody
can
do
what
I
did
and
that's
where
I
think
there
is
journalism
and
narrative
work
and
investigative
work
to
sort
of
demystify
and
debunk
that
and
then
on
a
more
community
level
or
interactive
level.
D
I
think
it's
engaging
people
around
what
helped
transformed
your
life
and
if
and
because
even
our
business
journalism
is
always
about.
Tell
us
the
story,
Donna
of
of
how
you
built
the
XYZ
company
through
your
own
character
and
grit,
and
actually
there
might
be
some
character
and
grit
involved
in
that
we
don't
want
to
diminish
that.
But
let's
talk
about
the
fertile
ground
that
we
created
together
that
made
that
possible
and
named
it
describe
it,
talk
about
all
the
components.
I
think
that
will
help
us
in
this.
In
this
contested
narrative
space.
C
F
Hi
I'm
curious,
so
yesterday
a
lot
of
the
conversation
focused
on
asset
building
and
helping
people
build
up
some
savings.
For
example,
one
of
the
panelists
who
works
with
empath.
You
know
part
of
that
work
includes
saving
up.
You
know
more
than
three
thousand
dollars,
which
is
great.
That's
already
a
household
that's
doing
better
than
the
20%
of
negative
or
no
net
worth
that
you
mentioned
so
I'm
curious.
What
would
you
say
to
someone
who
says
the
solution
is
just
let's
help
build
people's
assets?
F
D
D
I
don't
have
the
time
to
go
through
the
research,
but
let
me
just
assure
you
there
is
a
mountain
of
research
that
basically
shows
how
concentrations
of
wealth
and
power
are
disrupting
our
ability
to
address
all
the
key
problems
so
yeah
we
might
be
able
to
say,
let's
design
a
bottom-up
asset
building
program,
but
that
is
not
going
to
be
a
substitute.
This
is
the
bad
news
or
the
or
the
challenge.
D
D
You
know,
mayor
Welsh
talked
about
the
building
boom
in
Boston,
but
there
is
a
huge
luxury
real
estate
boom
that
is
actually
disrupting
our
city's
ability
to
address
the
affordable
housing
crisis.
We're
not
going
to
be
able
to
you
know
we
can
I,
think
the
city
we're
lucky
to
have
the
mayor
and
the
city.
Oh,
we
have
because
they're
doing
yeoman's
work
to
kind
of
pull
out.
D
You
know
a
piece
of
that
subsidy
taxing
you
know,
or
you
know,
negotiating
linkage,
fees
and
the
like,
but
we're
really
actually
not
going
to
solve
the
problem
by
just
letting
things
go
on
autopilot
at
the
top.
So
we
are
gonna
have
to
intervene
in
the
cycles
of
inequality
at
the
concentrated
wealth
level.