Sentences with phrase «poor kids grow up»

Poor kids grow up to make better entrepreneurs than rich kids.

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Her backstory of growing up in an African - American family of 10 children in inner - city Detroit is remarkably aligned with the foundation's mission of helping kids and families succeed in some of the poorest corners of the U.S. Among other things, under Tabron's leadership at Kellogg, the foundation has doubled down on its prescient — and bold — racial equity work.

Poor kid has to grow up with Gopher telling it what to believer and how to live it's life to be just like Gopher.

Researchers found that kids who grew up poor tended to have smaller hippocampus and amygdala volumes.

This poor kid may be receiving mixed messages on what his parents want him to be when he grows up.

Growing up it was a struggle to put food on our table, to pay the rent... I am a working poor kid from the Bronx and I could have easily been one of those young men except that I had a single mom who taught me well and I had mentors.»

Meanwhile there are flashbacks of young Louis (C.J. Valleroy) as a poor Italian immigrant growing up in Torrance, Southern California, where he was a juvenile delinquent and faced bigoted taunts from the local kids.

Dennis Quaid is the abusive husband and dad who bullies and poor - mouths the kid who grew up to write MercyMe's «I Can Only Imagine.»

Jaclyn Jose picked up best actress for playing the mother of four grown kids running a small store in a poor area of Manila and dealing a little meth on the side.

There's been a lot of talk lately about whether the American Dream is still alive, and whether kids who grow up poor still have a shot at making it.

A depressing batch of data on how poor kids don't perform as well, or achieve as much, as kids who grow up financially secure.

Today, Burton is driven by thoughts of kids like him: kids who grow up poor and without the appropriate guidance, then get lost in the system, never to meet their full potential.

It's important I don't lose perspective after growing up in many poor countries as a kid.

Studies have revealed that kids who grow up under a permissive parenting style could have high self - esteem and initiative, but also poor self - control or destructive activities when they reach their teens or young adulthood, according to Parenting Science.

He was no miracle kid but for a guy who lived his whole life in assisted housing blocks with a poor single mom, you had to give him credit for not getting involved with crime or the drug trade or the many great misguided lives that seemed to evolve right outside the front door as he grew up.

Donia said he goes to such lengths because «I grew up poor and I thought: what could someone do for me as a kid to make my place brighter?»