Sentences with phrase «out of generational poverty»

He carefully articulated that he wanted a good education because he knew it was his «ticket» out of generational poverty (he even used this term).

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«Research shows the best thing you can do to overcome bad parents or no parents or stressed out overworked parents who often come in these generational poverty school districts is four years in a row of an empathetic, well - trained, dedicated teacher,» said longtime education advocate Andy Mullins, who now works as chief of staff to the chancellor at the University of Mississippi.

Not far from Tikal, in garbage dumps across the country, are the descendants of the Mayan kings who built these pyramids, young boys and girls working 12 hours a day to salvage recyclables that will pay for a meal, that will allow them to survive for another day, that will do nothing to break them out of the cycle of generational poverty.