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Welcome back to the quarter of the day show I'm your host, Sean Croxton, a

Sean Croxton.com. We got a brand new speaker on the show today. His name is

Ty Allen Jackson. And you know, today's talk is really important. You know, when

I was a kid, my parents would buy me books probably before I could even read. My

mom would take us to the library, myself and my brother very frequently. We

check out books. We would go to bookstores, like I still do that to this day. Like

that's that's my idea of a fun day out like going to bookstores. That's because my

mom would take my brother and I to crown books and Walden books in Oakland all the

time we would buy books. And it's just, you know, looking back, that was so important

for my brother and I because it taught us the importance of reading. It taught us, you

know, the power of literacy, you know, pretty much everything I know comes from

books. And you know, I find it so, I don't

it is odd when people don't like to read. I'm just like, oh my God, like books are so fun.

They're so incredible. You learn so much stuff. You get perspectives from other people.

Somebody can take 20 years of experience and put it in a 300 pages. Like that is so cool.

It is so cool to know stuff, right? And I just really wish that more people would have

that same love for reading, but not just that. I wish more parents would promote literacy

to their children and read to their children and do the very same thing that my, my mom

did for myself and my brother back in the day because it makes such a huge difference.

And I'm not just saying that that's a statistical thing, right? Ties going to talk today about

the connection between illiteracy and poverty and incarceration and teen pregnancy and

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