Poor Kids

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🗓️ 30 November 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Through the stories of three families told over the course of half a decade, FRONTLINE explores what poverty means to children in America. Originally broadcast Nov. 20, 2012. Updated Nov. 22, 2017.

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0:00.0	This is an audio cast of the Frontline Program Poor Kids,
0:04.5	originally broadcast in November 2012,
0:07.0	and updated for air on November 22, 2017.
0:12.0	Music
0:29.0	People don't realize what they have until it's gone.
0:33.0	Tonight on Frontline.
0:35.0	We lost our whole house and everything.
0:38.0	Growing up poor.
0:41.0	And we're going to start with numbers 1 through 20.
0:46.0	I think there's a lot of people in America
0:49.0	that need help with food.
0:52.0	Through the eyes of children.
0:55.0	Sometimes when I watch people who walk into their house
0:59.0	when we were driving, I wish that sometimes I had a house
1:03.0	like those people.
1:04.0	We first met them five years ago.
1:07.0	If I could change anything, it would be being cold.
1:14.0	I'm Kayleigh, and I'm 15.
1:18.0	Now we catch up with them as teenagers
1:21.0	and see the America they're growing up in today.
1:27.0	Frontline is made possible by contributions to your PBS station
1:31.0	from viewers like you.
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