In this interview with the Stand for Children Executive Director on a New England morning show, both the journalist and the director seem to dance around the causes of rising childhood poverty to get to the SFC mantra of "access to great schools". Both overreach in their attempt to reconcile rising poverty with another poll of public school parents who express satisfaction for their local schools.
on your unemployment insurance system comment...a friend made a suggestion which i thought was good that if people collected unemployment they also had to do community service work in return for the benefit. I like the idea as it would be good for the community...as long as the person was doing community service work they would collect unemployment. Of course, need to figure out time for them to do job searches but it seems a doable solution to extending the benefits...community service work included infrastructure work, too. Seems like a win-win solution...system doesn't get abused and people are productive working to improve their community and maintaining a sense of pride while being productive...
ReplyDeletethanks for the link to the interview...I wonder about stand for children...
You misconstrued the comments made in the video.
ReplyDeleteSchools are not being blamed for poverty; they are being held up as "the great equalizer" that can help lift people out of poverty.