024| BREAKING THE CYCLE OF POVERTY WITH BETH BABCOCK
Breaking the cycle takes both science and love, lots of love.
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IH024 - Breaking the Cycle of Poverty with Beth Babcock
Beth Babcock is the President and CEO of Economic Mobility Pathways (EMPath), a Boston based charitable organization with a network of 145 non-profit organizations and government entities deploying strategies to improve the pathways out of poverty. Beth is a non-profit leader with years of practical experience helping people achieve economic mobility. She was previously the CEO of Hearth and Lynn Community Health Center, and the Vice President of Strategy for Northeast Health Systems. She has served as an advisor to organizations such as the World Bank, European Commission, and Gates Foundation’s US Partnership for Mobility from Poverty. Beth has a Master’s in Non-Profit Strategy from Harvard Kennedy School and a Ph.D. in Non-Profit Strategy from Harvard University.
Beth joins me today to discuss breaking the cycle of poverty with science and love. She reveals the problems people have when attempting to bring themselves or their families out of poverty and shares how stress, discrimination, and trauma affect human beings' behaviors. She shares the research EMPath is conducting and how sharing these insights is helping organizations aid learning. Beth also discusses the divisions brought into the spotlight by the coronavirus pandemic and shares why it’s important to focus our energy on the things we can change as opposed to the things we can’t.
“One of the great things about the way the world is changing is it has allowed us to learn things we didn’t know before about how human beings tick.” - Beth Babcock
This week on Insert:Human
The present-day difficulties of getting out of poverty
The pre-COVID jobs that will not exist after the pandemic
How poverty, discrimination, stress, and trauma affect the way people develop, think, and behave
How tunneling and swamping affect people living in poverty
How in-person coaching, virtual coaching, and peer support affect learning
How EMPath is helping homeless families in the Boston area
The divisions and inequalities exasperated by COVID
Why it is vital to focus your energies on the things you can change and making a long-term impact in a moment of crisis
Beth's favorite book and the action of looping
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