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Child Poverty in America
Cincinnati - Elizabeth Ellman does the family finances as her daughter, Spring Semple, watches. The Ellmans fell two months behind in their mortgage payments due to a delay in receiving workman’s compensation after her second husband suffered…
Child Poverty in America
Michigan City, IN - Fred Holzer worked in the steel industry for 19 years and then was laid off. At two in the morning as his son Michael, 14, watches, Fred is suffering a breakdown. After 30 months out of work, he was called back. “They made…
Child Poverty in America
Cincinnati - Youngsters clown around in lower Price Hill, a poor, white, working neighborhood. Most of the people who live here originally came from Appalachia.
Child Poverty in America
Chicago - Michelle Smith, 10, cries after being hit by an older girl. The older girl’s mother, an alcoholic, is rarely home and in frustration, she often picks on the younger children in the neighborhood. Michelle lives in Uptown.
Child Poverty in America
Garden Grove, CA - Jack Ruelas’ friend carries a real, though unloaded gun to school. The friend says he needs it to scare gang members. Jack’s parents are undocumented workers from Mexico, who came to America to find a better life, and…
Child Poverty in America
New York - Roberto Fortes, 14, catches some sleep on the sidewalk of his Bronx neighborhood. Roberto and some friends live in an abandoned building nearby. Fortes became an orphan at 13 when his grandmother died.
Child Poverty in America
New York - Eddie Padillo, 15, inside an abandoned building in the Bronx where he and some other teenagers live. Economic pressure forces many poor families to turn their chldren loose. These “throwaway†youngsters often band together and…
Child Poverty in America
Chicago - Lolita Coburn dries her son, Michael. Ms. Coburn and her seven children and one grandchild share a two bedroom tenement on the west side of Chicago.
Child Poverty in America
Philadelphia - Gwendolyn Toler, 20, cooks for 13 people including her five children. “Sometimes I get tired,†she says. The house where she lives lacks some windows, has a toilet that does not flush, a sink without a drain, and is often…