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  Add Value by Serving Others

 90% of all people

 who add-value to others,

 DO SO intentionally.

 

*Being an adder requires thinking about adding-value to others.

Adding Value, Changing Lives – four guidelines for adding value to others.

1) Truly Value Others– effective leaders go beyond not harming others, they intentionally help others. They must value people and demonstrate they care in such a way that their followers know it.

2) Make Yourself More Valuable To Others– the more intentionally you have been in growing personally, the more you have to offer your followers.

3) Know and Relate to What Others Value– this can only come by listening to your people’s stories, their hopes and dreams. Learn what is valuable to them and then lead based on what you’ve learned.

4) Do Things That God Values– God desires us not only to treat people with respect, but also to actively reach out to them and serve them.

THE PROJECT

 The News & Record, June 26, 2015 (Editorial) 

 

"Taking care of the kids“

 

     More North Carolina children are growing up in homes whose parents lack secure employment. More children are part of single-parent families. There are more teen dropouts who don’t have jobs. Most disturbing of all, one fourth of North Carolina’s children are growing up in poverty — 26 percent, to be exact. It’s a sobering figure, one that should concern all North Carolinians.”

Poverty by demographic

  •  Child poverty rate: 26%Senior poverty rate: 14%

  • Women in poverty: 17.6%

  • Percent of single-parent families with related children that are below poverty: 41%

  • Number of Black and Hispanic children below 200% poverty: 616,000

 

Economic well-being

  • Poverty rate: 18%

  • Extreme poverty rate: 7.9%

  • Unemployment rate: 8.6%

  • Food insecurity: 17%

  • Low-income families that work: 36.2%

  • Minimum Wage: $7.25

  • Percent of jobs that are low-wage: 24.4%

  • Percent of individuals who are uninsured: 17%

  • Number of Black and Hispanic children living in families where no parent has full-time, year-round employment: 422,000

 

 

Family

  • Teen birth rate per 1,000: 38.2

  • Children living in single parent families: 37%

  • Children in foster care: 8,828

  • Percent of children in immigrant families: 17%

  • Number of grandparents raising grandchildren: 185,171

 

 Assets

  • Asset poverty rate: 25.1%

  • Unbanked households: 9.3%

  • Average college graduate debt: $23,893

Education

  • Individuals with a high school degree: 84.7%

  • Individuals with a four year college degree: 27.9%

  • Teens ages 16 to 19 not attending school and not working: 10%

  • Percent of college students with debt: 59%

  • High school graduation rate: 76.9%

  • Housing Total households: 3,664,119Renters: 32%

  • Households paying more than 30% of income on housing: 562,127

  • Homeless people: 13,524

  • Home foreclosure rate: 2.13%

Justice System

  • Number of youth residing in juvenile justice and correctional facilities: 1,014Total incarcerated (prison and jail): 37,136

THE HARD TRUTH

Impact of Dropouts on North Carolina

 

  • $128,000 lower earnings per NC dropout1over a career compared to high school graduates ($5.1 billion lower earnings statewide from the students who did not graduate with the NC Classes of 2012 and 20132)

 

  •  $48 million per year in lost NC state and local revenues due to lower incomes earned by the students who did not graduate with the Classes of 2012 and 20133

 

  •  $121 million per year in increased social services expenditures for food stamps, Medicaid and other social program costs to support nongraduates4

 

  •  17,000 NC prison inmates (46%) are high school dropouts5and cost $27,820 per prisoner per year6

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