In 'Live to See the Day: Coming of Age in American Poverty,' author Nikhil Goyal focuses on young people growing up in one of Philadelphia's poorest neighborhoods.
. This was back in 2015, and I was just about to go to grad school. I thought I was going to write a story and that would be it, but after spending time at the school, I realized that to look at the high school dropout crisis and educational inequality in a more systematic way, we really needed to account for economic and social systems to genuinely understand the lives of these young people and their families.I conducted hundreds of interviews, and not just with the kids.
deliberate, systematic policy choices. And so I thought it was important for me to marry these young people’s stories with the social structures that undergird their lives. Without that, it seems we can’t do anything about it — and we can. But it didn’t end there, right? You took your experiences in Kensington with you when you worked for Sen. Sanders.
I worked for Sen. Sanders for two years, and my experiences in Kensington were at the core when I was working on policy because I knew people who were deeply underserved by policy, and I believed there could be better policies that could transform their lives. I didn’t just want to report and write a book; I also wanted to try to make their lives somewhat better.
You talk in the book about policies and legislation that didn’t go far enough, but can you give an example of something you worked on that had a direct impact on young people and families like those you met in Kensington?, one of the things I knew from my reporting was that there are millions of people in this country who don’t file taxes. And so the IRS and other government agencies have almost no way to reach them to get social benefits to them.
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