Poor Kids

This 2017 documentary explores what poverty means to children in America through the stories of three families. Travel to the Quad Cities, a great American crossroads along the border of Iowa and Illinois, to explore the lives of children living in the suburbs of the nation’s heartland and growing...

53 min - Society & Culture - FRONTLINE PBS

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