Cover image for FRONTLINE - Poor Kids [digital video]
Title:
FRONTLINE - Poor Kids [digital video]
Publication Date:
2012

2016
Publication Information:
PBS, 2012.

[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2016.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (streaming video file) (56 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Abstract:
FRONTLINE spent months following three young girls who are growing up against the backdrop of their families’ struggles against financial ruin. At a time when one in five American kids lives below the poverty line, Poor Kids is an is an intimate portrait of the economic crisis as it’s rarely seen, through the eyes of children.. Kaylie, Jasmin and Brittany don’t live in families that choose to relax and collect welfare, food stamps and charity. They have parents who desperately want to work and provide.The fact they can’t find a way to do that tears away at them, and more subtly at their children. Kaylie, who is 9, lives in a cheap motel because her mother couldn’t afford rent on a house. Brittany belongs to the school “nutrition club,” which gives children a packet of food every Friday. It has to last until Monday. Kaylie talks about feeling hungry all the time, and how most of their stuff was auctioned off when they couldn’t pay the storage rental fee.The encouraging part is these kids haven’t lost all their dreams. But they’re haunted, by poverty, in ways no kid should have to be..
General Note:
In Process Record.

Title from title frames.

Film
Technical Details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Language:
English
Additional Language:
In English
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Electronic Access:
Access immediately on Kanopy
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