Robin Hood CEO Wes Moore: A Champion for Fighting Poverty

Boss Files with Poppy Harlow

CNN

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.6 • 538 Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Wes Moore, CEO of Robin Hood, a poverty-fighting nonprofit organization in New York City, says we need to create a "battle plan" to eradicate poverty. He sees both political parties in Washington failing the American people on this issue, and calls to revise policies. He says this is a personal mission for him and shares how his childhood inspired his work today, and why he is focused on creating opportunities for the less fortunate. Produced by Haley Draznin, CNN.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	In this episode of Boss Files.
0:02.0	11 years old was my first fellow handcuffs.
0:04.4	Wes Moore, a kid from Baltimore, who's become a champion for fighting poverty.
0:09.1	An author, a veteran and entrepreneur, he's the new CEO of the Robin Hood Foundation,
0:14.9	a nonprofit with the sole focus of eradicating poverty.
0:19.1	He says we need to create a battle plan to fight poverty.
0:22.7	We have kids, we have people who are living in a state of chaos and for many of them
0:28.8	it's to no fault at their own. This is what they were born into. This is what they're being
0:33.4	raised in. They are living in communities and communities that I know very well that have been
0:38.4	chronically and intentionally neglected. Chaos. Have Republican Democratic administrations
0:45.2	taken this seriously enough since the war on poverty was launched? No.
0:50.3	Why he says both political parties are failing the American people on this front.
0:55.7	Plus, the other Westmore, his remarkable account of his life,
1:00.3	and why another Westmore who grew up in Baltimore at the same time as him,
1:05.2	landed in prison for life.
1:07.5	Why did two boys with the same name from similar circumstances take such different paths?
1:13.6	How his childhood inspired his mission today.
1:16.6	Here's my conversation with Wes Moore.
1:19.6	Wes Moore, it is so nice to be sitting with you.
1:22.6	It is such a pleasure to see you, Poppy. Thank you.
1:24.6	I'm excited to talk about what you're doing now at the Robin Hood Foundation
1:28.5	dedicated to alleviating poverty in New York City, in our great city. But before that, let's just talk about you and your life. And let's start with Baltimore. So U.S. Moore, raised in Baltimore by a single mom after your father passed away when you were young. What was your childhood like?
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