Being Poor in the Richest Nation in the World: The USA - ENDEVR Documentary

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In 2019, 43 million Americans, or twice as many as fifty years earlier, were below the poverty level. Three times as many children were homeless in the 1930s as there were during the Great Depression: 1.5 million. Families in their entirety are dispersed from one location to another to perform precarious jobs that barely allow them to make ends meet. Those who live in the traditionally underdeveloped mining region of the Appalachians depend on food stamps. The number of homeless persons in Los Angeles has substantially increased. Associations provide tiny wooden houses to people without a roof in the poorest neighbourhoods.

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