Left Behind America

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4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Intimate stories of one Rust Belt city’s struggle to recover in the post-recession economy. FRONTLINE and ProPublica report on the economic and social forces shaping Dayton, Ohio, a once-booming city where nearly 35 percent of people now live in poverty.

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0:00.0	This is an audio cast of the Frontline program left behind America,
0:05.0	premiering September 11th on PBS and PBS.org slash Frontline.
0:10.0	Music
0:26.0	Tonight, our Frontline Pro Public is special.
0:29.0	With midterm elections just around the corner.
0:31.0	On the eve of the midterms.
0:33.0	Our economy is soaring, our jobs are booming.
0:37.0	Correspondent Alec McGillis examines the growing disparities between our cities.
0:42.0	People who are making good, no-class income are now making $10 or $12 an hour.
0:46.0	Once thriving places like Dayton, Ohio.
0:49.0	You think about where wealth lives?
0:51.0	Is it lives on Wall Street or in Silicon Valley?
0:54.0	And you've had no real growth in the underlying economy.
0:58.0	There's no one left to buy stuff and these economies collapse.
1:01.0	Cities that have been left behind.
1:04.0	Struggling to come back.
1:06.0	What makes a society move forward?
1:08.0	The idea that one's hard work is rewarded.
1:11.0	That one has the ability to rise economically and socially and to look to the future
1:17.0	with optimism rather than fear.
1:19.0	A PBS chasing the dream report.
1:22.0	Tonight on Frontline.
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