Poverty in the USA: Being Poor in the World's Richest Country

Poverty in the USA: Being Poor in the World's Richest Country | Business Documentary from 2019 In 2019, 43 million people in the United States lived below the poverty line, twice as many as it was fifty years before. 1.5 million children were homeless, three times more than during the Great...

52 min - Society & Culture - ENDEVR

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