Poor No More (15:39)

Peter Cove is a nationally-acclaimed advocate for private solutions to welfare dependency, and author of the new book, POOR NO MORE: Rethinking Dependency and the War on Poverty. Peter Cove is the founder of America Works, the first for-profit, welfare-to-work company. He has created more than 1 million jobs for welfare recipients through America Works and other private sector endeavors. In the 1960s, America set out to end poverty.  All initiatives on the War Against Poverty have since failed.  All except one, the welfare reform in 1996.  What made this reform different from all the others?  Peter Cover, the author of Rethinking Dependency and the War on Poverty and the founder of America Works shares his ideas on how jobs can fix poverty.

 

Steps to Decrease Anxiety in Parenting (1:00:32)

Shaunna Reynolds is a behavioral and family therapist, as well as a leadership consultant. For the past seven years, she has had the opportunity to work in the education community. She’s enjoyed coaching administrations, teachers, students and parents in a variety of different venues. Her emphasis is prevention, focused specifically in leadership and skill training. We live in a world that craves the immediate.  We want it now and have very little patience with ourselves and others when things do not happen automatically. In fact, if a process takes time it’s often viewed as a waste of time, this included parenting.  Parenting a child is a long-term process and a huge investment of time, energy and money. Parenting isn’t easy and there is not an instruction manual, everyone parents differently. Shaunna Reynolds shares a few tips to help take some of the anxiety out of parenting.

 

Caitlin Thomas - Best of Moments (1:29:54)

Caitlin Thomas has been with us here on the Matt Townsend Show since March of 2015. She has recently graduated and is now looking for a full-time job. Today is our final segment with her and so today we are going to talk about some of her favorite memories on this show. 

 

Why Some People Are Jerks (1:48:24)

Adam Bear is a Ph.D. student in the psychology department at Yale University. His research combines approaches from cognitive psychology, philosophy, and evolutionary game theory to study the relationship between conscious and unconscious processes in the mind. Adam Bear shares his research into what makes a person a Jerk and what lead to kindness.