Growing Up Poor in America

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4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Their families were already struggling to make ends meet. Then came the coronavirus. Director Jezza Neumann, who made 2012’s Poor Kids, once again delves into how poverty impacts children. With the 2020 election approaching, Growing Up Poor in America follows three children and their families in the battleground state of Ohio as the COVID-19 pandemic amplifies their struggle to stay afloat. As the country also reckons with issues of race and racism, the children share their worries and hopes about their futures.

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to the Frontline Audio Cast, the enhanced audio version of our documentaries.
0:06.0	We also produce a podcast, The Frontline Dispatch, including an episode with growing up poor in America director, Jezannouman.
0:14.0	The Frontline Dispatch is available wherever you get your podcasts.
0:18.0	Right now, here's the audio cast of Growing Up Poor in America.
0:30.0	Music
0:46.0	Millions more Americans have filed unemployment claims.
0:50.0	Many Americans face the new challenge of putting food on the table.
0:54.0	Even before the pandemic.
0:56.0	I haven't had any income coming in since before COVID started.
1:00.0	Deepened the country's economic divide.
1:02.0	What is it going to be stronger?
1:04.0	Millions of children will live in poverty.
1:07.0	Thank you.
1:08.0	I have a good one.
1:10.0	We have a lot of kids that come to school and they rely on us to... they come hungry.
1:17.0	In places like Ohio.
1:18.0	Sometimes it's probably only in the middle of the kid.
1:20.0	I don't think any baby will stop when you go on this, you know?
1:24.0	Home to some of the poorest communities in the country.
1:28.0	Being a single mom is hard.
1:30.0	You know, if I could feed my kids without having assistance, you'd best bet you I would.
1:34.0	But I can't.
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