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Poverty |
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| RON JENSEN: Why can't poor people just work hard and get ahead? | DR. DONNA BEEGLE: Feel the struggles of poverty with someone who's been there. | LARRY SALWAY: The Medicine Wheel symbolizes a balanced life. | LARRY SALWAY: The Sun Dance is traditionally part of the process of connecting with Creator. |
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| DR. RUBY PAYNE:: Every economic class has its own "hidden rules". When the poor don't know the rules, they don't get the middle class jobs. |
Job Creation
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| Life Initiatives has launched a new business to create jobs for Native Americans | |||
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Background
● South Dakota’s Native Americans struggle with an unemployment rate as high as 80%, and a high school dropout rate in Rapid City of 60%.
● Poverty is a lack of many resources (financial, mental, relationship networks, etc). Even if one resource is acquired, it will be deflated by the lack of other resources.
● Resources are disjointed in the poverty culture, so that employment, social resources, and personal networks cannot reinforce each other, allowing the grip of poverty to continue.
Values
● Poverty is overcome as Core Resources are acquired: Financial, Emotional, Mental (education and skills), Spiritual, Physical, and Networks of productive Relationships.
● Every culture has positive elements to embrace and negative elements to rise above.
● Issues of Culture must not be confused with issues of Poverty. Cultural values must be embraced. Poverty values must be identified and overcome.
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