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Narrator food banks struggle to keep up with demand, and homeless shelters have long waiting lists, as even middleincome families sometimes lose their homes with just a few days notice. If your tv can fit in your school bag, you can take it. If it didnt fit, you couldnt take it. Narrator we asked these children what a life being poor in america really looks like through their eyes. Frontlinis made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. And by the corporation for public broadcasting. Major support for frontliis provided by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information is available at macfound. Org. Additional support is provided by the park foundation, dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The ford foundation, working with visionaries on the front lines of social change worldwide. At fordfoundation. Org. The wyncote foundation. And by the frontline journalism fund, with major support from jon and jo ann hagler. And Additional Support from scott nathan and laura debonis. My name is brittany smith, and im nine years old. Its tough because my mom and dad are poor. My dad just lost his job. Its kind of hard for us. Monday i tried getting in the shower, and it was cold. I put the hot on all the way and no cold, and it was freezing. It felt like shoving your face in a bunch of snow. It was freezing the hot water shut off because we didnt pay the bill in time. It was overdue. So whats the next bill due . Electricity. Its going to be 318. We just need to put rogers ass to work. Yeah. When you see the flatscreen tv and the computers and our ps3 and stuff, thats just things weve acquired over the years, stuff that weve had before all this happened, like when we were not this poor. Sinks broke. I dont know how or why, but it broke. And the cheapest plumber is, like, 65 an hour. I cant even afford 20. We lived in a farmhouse. My dad lost his job from picture perfect. He got laid off, and we got kicked out of there. We moved here. Its not very big. We didnt have enough room, so we had to put stuff in storage, and we lost it all because we couldnt pay it. How storage works is, like, you put all your stuff in there when you move, but you have to pay the bill or else they throw it out in the street, because they have a spare key. I dont think its right, because people shouldnt throw other peoples stuff in the street, because thats just plain up rude. I got a big makeup thing, and i lost it in storage. I got a barrette stall, i lost it in storage. I lost my favorite teddy bear. I lost my ds. It was great, it was awesome. Im bummed out because, like, that was my favorite thing in the world besides my family. Yeah, calipers shot. Got to get new pistons at least on it. My dads brakes on the truck isnt working. One time we almost got in a wreck. It sounded like nails on a chalkboard. I hate that sound. When is the cable being shut off . Soon. We owe them almost 200. Cable, internet, all that, we dont have the money to pay it. What are you doing . Applying for a job. Have you applied to many places . Thisll be the third menards store ive applied at. Walmart, the anchor place, quite a few. I hope that my dad will somehow miracley get his truck working and get a good job and so well be able to get money to keep this house, hopefully, and not get kicked out. My name is kaylie hegwood, and i live in stockton, iowa. Oh, yay that one was good, that one was good and i am ten years old, and i live with my mother and my brother, tyler, and he is 12 years old. I dont think were a rich family, but i think, like, were kind of a poor family. Im hungry. laughing i knew you were going to say that as soon as you. Youre going to have to wait now, sis. Im just starving. We dont get the three meals a day, like breakfast, lunch and then dinner. When i feel just, like, hungry, i just like feel like im so, like, sad and all droopy, and then ill feel, like, weak, and then some in the mornings ill be, like, so starving, but then ill be like, i need some food but then, like, ill get, like, but then i dont think of food and then ill just think of Something Else and then ill not be hungry anymore. Theres good days and bad days. Sometimes when we have cereal, we dont have milk. We have to eat it dry. Sometimes we dont have cereal and we have milk. Its often, like, switch and swap. Sometimes, like, when i switch the channel and theres a cooking show on, i get a little more hungry, and i want to vanish into the screen and start eating the food. You cant pull it, mom, when im doing this. Stop pulling. Im sorry. How do you think you have customers . laughing customers. I dont want you to freakin cut me. Im not gonna cut you. You better not. Ive been in school long enough, i wont cut you. Or youre dead. I mean it. My mom, she has very little in her bank. And, like, she cant pay all of our bills at the same time. My income is 480. Or 1,480, and the total of my bills is 1,326, and that does not leave me money for food or gas. Ive never seen it this bad. My best friend is jordan, and we grew up together. We like to go canning to make money. Cans with canning, i just walk ound, look for cans, and i walk, like, around the whole town. The nonsquished ones are five cents. And the squished are two cents. Yeah. Some people come over here for gas, and its not here anymore. The dance hall, thats broken. Train station, thats still up, but its all rotted and stuff. Ill do it nice and slow for you. Oh, another crushed can in 2004 is when this shut down. And now look at it. Its crappy. It used to be so. Special. Didnt that used to be a Movie Theater . What . That. No. What did it used to be . It was the old bank. Huh. I bet theres old money in there. Im not going in there. The floor fell in. Well, that would be awesome if there was, like, thousands and thousands of dollars. Tyler those are ours drop em kaylie drop em kaylie when we cant afford to pay our bills, like our house bills and stuff, im afraid, like, well get homeless. Me and my brother will starve. You never know whatll happen in your life. So, yeah. My name is jasmine, and i am nine years old, and i live with my brothers joshua, jaylen and jonny. My name is jonny davis. Im 13 years old, going to be 14 in three months. We are in the Salvation Army homeless shelter. My dad had got a business, and he was making about a good 5,000 a month. We had good and fancy things then. We had, like, a threebedroom house. Our living room had a 32inch flatscreen tv in there. My moms and dads room had a 42inch flatscreen tv in their room. And thats what tv you watched the super bowl on. screaming playfully yall cant come in here. Those are eggs. Are you serious . Yeah. Why would you bring that out here . Because. Whoa when it was good, it was good. I can remember having five or six jobs a month that were lined up back to back, and i mean decent paying jobs 4,000, 5,000, 7,000, whatever it was. And all of a sudden, just right about the time when everybody was saying, you know, the recession is coming about, the recession is coming about, people just plain old stopped fixing on their houses, stopped making repairs. The payment on the house was due in two weeks, and i guess my parents just didnt have the money at the time, because he was explaining to us business was slow. And we lost our whole house and everything. So were just back to ground zero. Then we moved to a homeless shelter. Anything that can fit in a book bag or a suitcase, you can take it. Whatever you. Like this tv, the yellow one in the living room, that only made it because it could fit in my bag. If it couldnt fit in my bag, that wouldve been left behind, too. We have to go. Hurry up, lets go. Hurry, hurry, hurry. My dad works at a factory, and we drive him there every day. Come on, in the car, in the car. In, in, in. Assigned seats, assigned seats, lets go. The journey takes about two hours there and back. We have to go with our mom because the rules say that we couldnt be left in the shelter by ourself because we werent old enough. I thank god that he still has a chance and an ability to still go out and get different jobs. Its not a career, something that i want to spend the rest of my working years doing, but its something that will provide for us to have some food. Road again. Always driving, always. I know this is tough, driving out here every day, there and back, there an back, there and back, you know. Itd be so much easier if you could go ahead and just grab us a place out here so you dont have to make the trip back and forth. I look at that little house every time i ride past. Thats a nice one there. Sometimes when i watch people who, like, walk into their house when were driving, i wish that sometimes, like, i had a house like those people. Is it me or does it seem like it gets further away every day . Kaylie, what are you looking at . Its loud. I just like to go explore the world. But im never going to be able to do that, because these days everything is expensive. I watched this one show where it said theyre raising the gas prices, and my mom cant even afford gas. We have to be careful how we use our gas, how we use everything. A lot of times i have to give my money up to buy groceries and buy gas for the car and lawnmower. For mowing other peoples lawns and. I got ten dollars, and i put in six of it for the gas and gave the rest to my mom for some food and. Its kind of what i do with my money. I dont think im going to do mowing for a living. The bills here at the house is just too much for me to handle. And i seen a doctor last week for depression, and she put me on some antidepressants and xanax for my panic attacks. Right now there doesnt seem to be a way out. So my only options are to give up my house and move my stuff into storage and move into the motel room. Whoo i mean, i dont know if i can find a job when i get out of school. Or if itll ever get any better. dog barking ill have to find day care for kaylie. I mean, shes ten, but still. Her and tyler, theyre brother and sister. They fight. Ill come home and one will be hanging from the ceiling fan and the other one will be godknowswhere. Im scared. I dont want to move. I like living here, because my friends are nice to me. Like, i just want to stay put here. We wont get to keep our dog nala. Itss extra money, and were going to get rid of her. Like, i want to spend much time with her. But then again i want to spend time with my friends. Go, go fight, fight win, win, gogo, fightfight. Win. Go, go fight, fight win, win, gogo, fightfight. Win. Come on, youve got this. You, you got this. When im dancing, im mostly happy. Its like im in a different world. Im always dancing, nonstop. I just love dancing. Im just truly in love with dancing. Its like my destiny to become, um, like a famous dancer or a famous cheerleader. I feel like its my destiny. And there might be a question about whether you get food stamps or not. Were going to ask you for your name and your phone number. I think theres a lot of people in america that need help with food. Because theyre poor or theyre either homeless, or theyre both. We need food for our family. Im hitting my growth spurt, and im really hungry. My favorite food is chinese food. Im craving that right now. Know what makes me mad . We cant afford it. I think were probably pretty good for fourth grade. Ooh, we got a variety here now. Oh, they just flip them. They flip the cereal. It gets them all excited. I want that one laughing why did she change the plot . She first changed the plot, she makes the wolf wear a tutu. Wolves arent ballerinas. Ive seen a lot of things in my life. over intercom mr. Caiglin . Yes . Is this a good time for you . Would you like to send your students down to the Nutrition Club . Ill have them down there shortly. Thank you. Thank you very much. Hey, what i need you to do, my Nutrition Club students, go ahead and stand up, push your chairs up, line up. Ill send you down there in just a moment. Put your chairs up . Put your chairs up, yeah, push your chairs in. Okay. Nutrition club is a bag of food that you get every friday and you have to make last the whole weekend. They announce in class that you have to go down for Nutrition Club if youre in it. You have to go to the office and you have to sign your name in for it. And then, um, you go put it in your locker and then you go back to class. Poor people get Nutrition Club because they cant afford to get other food. They should be down pretty soon. Okay. Shouldnt take them long. Hey, good morning, brittany. How you doing . Um, is monica in the Nutrition Club yet . Not yet, honey. Shes on our list, though. Shes on our waiting. Shes towards the top, but shes there. Well work on it, okay . Hey, make sure you put it in your lockers right away. Im surprised by how things can change so fast. You can go from doing okay, not having to go hungry, to this going hungry and having to pay all your bills and not being able to, on the verge of being homeless again. What are you doing . Yuck trying to win something. You got to match the coupons with the pictures. Theyll probably give you just enough to where you think youre going to win, and then you dont. Eightyfour. Hey, josh, how much did the pizzas cost . Uh, i think it was five of them for ten bucks. They taste like it, too. Mom, i found a match instead of eating fruits and vegetables, we eat pizzas and stuff, because thats all we can afford. Fruits and vegetables are more expensive than pizzas. We last had fruits and vegetables a few weeks ago, because we had the money then. Instant winner . Oh, i got a free donut. Its true. If you have a bad diet, then it makes you look fatter. Sometimes i yell at myself. Because im disappointed in myself because people tease me for the way i look. Pizza again . No, im just joking. Id love if it was a steak or shrimp or lobster. Oh, dont bring that up. Do you know what . If you use your imagination, it almost tastes like it. Take a bite of a big, fat piece of juicy steak. Didnt work. laughing my mom cant work and my mom cant drive. And my moms sick. When i get really stressed out, i go into episodes that are like seizures, and i end up in the hospital, and they said my body tries to shut down, because i cant handle stress. It gets worse every time. And they said that it would eventually end up killing me. I worry about her a lot. It is hard feeling like youre going to lose your mother. If i wasnt like this, things would be different. If i could work or drive, wed have more money. Them seeing the way that i am with stress and everything doesnt really help them, because i dont want them to grow up not knowing how to deal with it either. And it scares me to even have to think about that, because i dont want them to be like me at all. clears throat i want my kids to be better than me. train whistle blowing grr nala, she was, like, my dog. She was like my favorite dog. And now we have to take her to the pound. We have to get rid of nala but not tanner. Nalas so adorable. Like if you had her, she would sleep on your bed and she would sleep on you. Shes like your little guard dog. Were getting rid of my Perfect Little lovey dog. Yes, nala, i hear you stressing out. I love you, nala. Does she have any favorite toys or games . She needs lots and lots of bones. Shell chew one in, like, an hour, so. whispering she hates baths. Oh, yeah, doesnt like baths. This is my animal lover. Shell have to go into our isolation room, since she hasnt gotten any vaccinationyet. So shell be in an isolated area right now. All right, sweetie. Do you want the leash and collar back at all . Just the leash. Okay. Andhe collar why the collar . Collar, mom. Fine. Meanie. crying barking wind rustling i thought we were getting a double bed. And theres no mini fridge. Dang it. And theres no microwave. Okay, we have to ask them about that. Darn. I thought we were getting a dole bed. Damn. Well, were going to have to ask them about the mini fridge. This is small. Its going to be small. Plain and simple, its going to be small. This is as big as my room. Yeah. kids shouting playfully you took half of all my tapes. Hah what type of animal is the north america roadrunner . D, a bird. Correct. You should know that off the cartoons. Yeah. We missing lunch. Miss saigon. We missed lunch. You dont want a lot of people to find out that you live here. People will make fun of it and it can really haunt you after a while. It starts. You start to have no friends, people will tease you about it and stuff like that. Im embarrassed because im poor and because i live in a shelter. It makes me feel like i just. Wish i never lived here. Theres a kid at the school who looks. Dress worser than me. But he has his own house, though. He got a house to call home. He dont have to go sit down with thousands of people to eat dinner. He can run to his refrigerator and open it up. And i cant do that. I have to wait until a certain time and have to eat, because if i dont eat, i will starve all night, until the next morning. Make sure you stay in line so you get your plate, okay . Yes, sir. Stand right here, and as soon as she goes, jonny, you go after jasmine. As a mother, you always got different thoughts going through your head and mind and wishing that you could change things and wishing things was different. But what are you to do . You cant keep beating yourself up about it, but at the same time. Its just hard. Having a family is hard. Maintaining a family is hard. Keeping us indoors is hard. Just lay them out right there. Chill, jasmine. Why did you do that . Its to open up the boxes. Open it with your hands. No, its tape. That tape hard. Jasmine, no. When you live in a shelter, you have to obey by the rules and do your chore, and if you dont you get a writeup, and if you get over eight writeups, you get put out. Hey, mom and dad. Guess what i got on my grades . What . Oh, oh thats good. One for the willis team. That saved you from 70 lashes, didnt it . everyone laughs so did you do good . I got two as, two bs and two cs. Ooh, wow. Thats whats up, jon. I have to get you a skateboard. Grades is my only way out of here. If my grades are not good, i know i cant go to universities like my dream is to go. I know if my grades are not good, i cant play football like i want to. If i dont succeed doing what i have to do in school and making good grades, i will fail im going to live this life, a life of shelters, going through hard times, cant feed my kids, trying to figure out where im going to lay my head every night. Look. Ah living in a motel is like. Like its cool, but then not so cool. Theres no friends, no one to play with. I pass the time by watching tv or talking to alex, helping him do the laundry and then putting stickers on the cards. Ooh, its hot in here. There is new people came in room number 124, like you, and they have kids about your age. Are you sure . Yeah, you check them out. 126 . 124. 124. How many families live here . Here . It depends. Sometime peoples come for weekly stays, sometimes for you guys, like, right. Yeah. So in summer. In winter, theres more people for standard stays who are homeless. And in the winter, the shelters, theyre all filled up, so people cant sleep outside. Its all crunched up and theres not much space. See . groans he takes up the whole way to go to the bathroom. We had much more space in the house. Be right back. The cold stuff that needs to be freezed is in the sink. We dont have a fridge. Just this sink is our fridge. We have to get ice mostly every day because it melts during night. When i struggle for money, theres nothing to eat. All there is is cans of vegetables. So ive been eating vegetables. Theres really not enough food. If i could change anything, it would be being poor. I really dont want to be poor because then you cant get. Because then how can you pay rent, how can you get food, how can you get a roof over your head if youre gonna be poor . Thatll fit you, and its cute. Nah. We just found out my mom is pregnant. Shes like a whale. My dads been working. Hes been working for a week and he has 64 total. Definitely not a good time to have a baby, but i dont believe in abortion and. Or adoption. Financially, were going to be in a lot more trouble. Financially, well be strapped. Good lord. Are you okay, mom . Is the baby hurting you . Are you going to be alive in ten seconds . Oh, my god, im having a hot flash. Its just fanning you, logan. I think it would be difficult for the baby to grow up here because we dont have a lot of money. Toasted oats, cheerios, apple sauce, some fruit. Milk. Beef stew. Beef lasagna. We dont have the money to buy diapers for it and food for it. And the good part is that my moms happy, like my familys happy. I dont really care if im happy or not. I just care if my familys happy. We always manage, dont we . Mmhmm. You know why . Why . Were survivors. Struggle, survive and smile. How come we smile when we struggle and survive . Because it helps us from going insane. No, that makes us insane. Makes you insane when you give up. Youre never going to give up, are you . Nope. No, maam. Keep going, keep going. When you feel like youve had enough and you want to quit, thats when you push yourself more and make yourself do it. I think the think i miss the most from having all this happen is the internet. I mean, people dont realize what they have until its gone. F warcraft withdrawals, man. cause in world of warcraft, im awesome. Im a level 85 paladin. Tank and healer. And in real life, im a 14yearold boy with nothing going for him. chuckles kaylie, want to move stuff to the other house . Hey okay, i know, i said yes. Come on, give me a minute. Im looking forward to moving away from here, because we need to move because we dont have space. Kaylie ow kaylie gross. Kaylie, just wait. Ill do it. Go in there and pick up all the stuff by that sink over there. Oh, my god, i gotta pack my toys. Bad enough we left my toys at the frickin other house. Kaylie im getting claustrophobic, cant do this. Its 11 15 trash you going to take it to the dumpster . Go, jesus. She is one crazy mom. Shes tiring. But she really needs work on the yelling. I dont care if she hears this. She needs to work on her yelling. When we were moving, she says shes going to do it happily. Freakin. Grr. I want to scream. Im gonna explode. Hey, tanner, lets go look at our new house. Come on, lets go upstairs. Theres moms room. How can you do this, up on these stairs . Come on, tanner chuckles and heres my room. What are you doing . Im going to have to put a rug over that. Come on, tanner. At my new home, i kind of like it and i kind of dont. I mostly sleep on the floor. I hope it will be more comfortable on the bed. Winter. Theres really nothing to do, just fold my clothes, mess them all up, fold them, mess them all up, fold them. Or clean. But theres not much to clean but the kitchen, so. Some kids have large houses. They can have whatever they want. But i think my mom, she kind of made a wrong turn or something, so thats what all started this. chirping its a family of six. Do you have your i. D. And a piece of mail . Yes, maam. Have you been here . No, maam, never. Im staying in a shelter at the Salvation Army, on the secon floor, and when you move out and go to transitional housing, which is upstairs, you have to get everything on your own. Mmhmm. So food and household needs and everything else. And thats what led you here. Yes, maam. Okay. We are in our new apartment, transitional housing. My mom says its harder because she has to spend a lot of money to feed us and to spend a lot of money to get the house together and, like, buy stuff. You getting too big. You always want something extra. I dont want nothing extra. Yes, you do. You want a phone, you want shoes. I got a phone. I aint wearing no earth walkers outside. No, sir. Jordans and nikes. Jonny, nikes and jordans are expensive. I know. Just for a name, that makes no sense. Now you need a job. Nikes not expensive. Look, ive been buying josh shoes after shoes after shoes. I cant affo it. Now what walmart . He gotta take walmart. What else can i do . At least his feet not dragging the ground. There were some jordan flipflops in there for 30 bucks. Now, thats a great deal. You cannot find no jordan flipflops, the brandnew kind, for no 30 bucks. Theyre probably not real, but guess what . Is that a great deal when i can go to walmart and buy my. The shoes im wearing i got from walmart for five dollars. Im talking about name brand stuff. Thats a good deal, mama. My sandals are nice, right . If you listen to it, its a good deal. You want some of those, right . See, thats why i like yall when yall small. They accept stuff. You getting too big. Your feet growing. You in grown peoples shoes now. groans please stop growing chuckles we had more money in the shelter part than we had here, because now everything is all on our own now. Down there, we took everything for granted. You could get free food every day. You got a free place to live. For josh birthday. I saw you, mom. Heres one of toms old business cards. Oh, yeah, i remember t c t c, tom and classy. Yeah. It was me and him all the time. I know we lost a lot with the business, and me and tom every day putting our heads together, trying to think about what else can we do to get ourselves out of this . See what we can come up with to make some extra money. So we wouldnt be in a hole all the time or just barely trying to find food. I mean, i would think at least everybody in america can have some food and housing. The poorest man, a place to sleep and food. And its not that way. Its a little rough. A lot rough. All i want is to play football, but football is expensive. I can name a few items i need and want for my sports, but i just got to wait on it till next time mama can afford it. Im 14. My life is almost over. Until im a grown man. And if i dont have the opportunity to show somebody to play football, football wont exist in four years from now. If i dont get to play on a team this year, that dream is going to slowly start fading away. Thats what happens to some of the dreams of kids. They pertain to something and they ct afford it. saw buzzing my dad is trying to make a room in the garage for my mom and dad, for him and my mom, so we have room for the baby. laughing theres your little chin thing. Its a boy. He wants his bottle. I was really hoping for a little sister, but, you know, you get what you get. saw buzzing went back to work for the company that i used to work for, and theyre not doing the greatest either. Id say i got maybe a weeks worth of work, and then theyre going to be closing up shop from this local office and only keeping one of the three branches open, you know. So its just temporary, but its something. Temporary fix to a longterm problem. No more babies. I got my tubes tied after i had him. I love him and i wouldnt mind having more, but we cant afford it. The babies futures are going to be weird and messed up. Life is going to be hard because theres hardly gonna be any jobs left in the future, or any money. Rich people will be poor, like this. Like you. You might get poor in the last few months. You never know. Were back in this motel again because we got kicked out of the duplex. My mom didnt pay the rent, and so then we went to motel 6, and then we nt to this twin bridges hotel, and then we went to here. Oh, god, we went to so many places. Even talking about it is making me dizzy. Come on, its overflowing. Look, its not going in. Move i can make it work. Yes. It. Will weve been moving around a lot between iowa and moline, that my mom cant sign us up for school. Why cant i go to school . I will get you in school, but we gotta wait till we get the trailer, which is only, like, a few days away, so theres no sense in putting you in school over here if youre going to be switching to iowa over there. Okay. If you go to school and then, like, one or two weeks youre going to have to move, but then you have to move from all your new friends, all your teachers, when you have such a good time. And so my mom says that were going to go, were going to get in school when we move into the trailer that we are getting. The trailer is very livable, it has floors. Were going to be redoing it. Am i going to have to crawl in with the snakes to get the pipes unfrozen . No, no. Its all. The best thing to do is put hay bales around it. I know, were going to get some of those and do that. But were going to be moving the trailer probably in a couple of summers, but thatll be two years away, so, because we have to have a twoyear lease. What . If we stay there two years. If i keep missing school, then i see my future poor, on the streets, in a box, not even. And. Asking for money everywhere, everybody, and then stealing stuff from stores and, you know. I dont want to steal stuff. I dont want to do any of that stuff. I want to get an education and a good job. I believe th im going to get a perfect job that i like and that i want to do. People cant stop you from believing in your own dreams. Go to pbs. Org frontline for an update on the kids featured in this film. Watch an extra video feature on what its like to be a poor kid growing up in san francisco. Its kind of hard, because you dont have your own room, you just have your little area. Learn more about poverty in america today. We need food for our family. 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