Making it in America Promo Clip
Clip: Season 6 Episode 1 | 59sVideo has Closed Captions
Kelly Corrigan explains the meaning behind this season’s theme: making it in America.
Kelly Corrigan explains the meaning behind this season’s theme: making it in America. To her, this means not only that everyone feels allowed here, but that they feel a sense of belonging in the country. In order to achieve that, she touches on the importance of access to education, safe working conditions and health care.
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Making it in America Promo Clip
Clip: Season 6 Episode 1 | 59sVideo has Closed Captions
Kelly Corrigan explains the meaning behind this season’s theme: making it in America. To her, this means not only that everyone feels allowed here, but that they feel a sense of belonging in the country. In order to achieve that, she touches on the importance of access to education, safe working conditions and health care.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- When we approached this season, we were thinking about what does it take to make it in America today?
I live very close to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island.
I see them every day on my walk, and when I look at them, I think about this progression of feeling where you look at this country and you think you're allowed here.
You're welcome here.
You belong here.
This is yours.
And that's what I've been wondering about, is how do we get to a feeling where everyone here feels like this belongs to them, that they have rights, that they can pursue a life of some satisfaction?
There's some very simple things that you would like to see everybody in America have.
You'd like everybody to have a great education in a clean, safe place with people who are trained and caring.
You'd like everybody to have a job where they're valued, and that value is obvious, because they have benefits and they have a path forward, and they have some professional development, and they have some time off.
You'd like everybody in America to have three meals a day, a clean bed to sleep in, and someone to love.
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