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In the United States, child poverty has reached record levels | 0:00:13 | 0:00:17 | |
with over 16 million children now affected. | 0:00:17 | 0:00:20 | |
To us, it's just how we live. | 0:00:22 | 0:00:24 | |
You don't get to make choices in how you live. | 0:00:24 | 0:00:28 | |
One in 12 Americans are now jobless | 0:00:30 | 0:00:32 | |
and many children are growing up | 0:00:32 | 0:00:35 | |
with little hope of long-term employment. | 0:00:35 | 0:00:37 | |
The president says he's trying to make jobs, | 0:00:37 | 0:00:41 | |
but I don't think there is a job out there for me yet. | 0:00:41 | 0:00:45 | |
We're going to start with numbers one through 20. | 0:00:48 | 0:00:52 | |
Food banks and homeless shelters are facing unprecedented demand, | 0:00:52 | 0:00:56 | |
as even middle-income families sometimes lose their homes | 0:00:56 | 0:00:59 | |
with just a few days' notice. | 0:00:59 | 0:01:01 | |
If the TV could fit in your school bag, you could take it. | 0:01:04 | 0:01:07 | |
If it didn't fit, you couldn't take it. | 0:01:07 | 0:01:09 | |
We asked three children | 0:01:11 | 0:01:13 | |
what life in modern America really looks like through their eyes. | 0:01:13 | 0:01:17 | |
My name is Kaylie Haywood and I live in Stockton, Iowa. | 0:01:35 | 0:01:41 | |
I'm ten years old and I live with my mother | 0:01:41 | 0:01:45 | |
'and my brother Tyler and he is 12 years old. | 0:01:45 | 0:01:49 | |
'I don't think we're a rich family, | 0:01:51 | 0:01:54 | |
'but, like, I think we're kind of a poor family.' | 0:01:54 | 0:01:56 | |
Oh, yay! | 0:02:04 | 0:02:05 | |
That one was good, that one was good! | 0:02:05 | 0:02:08 | |
SHE CHUCKLES | 0:02:08 | 0:02:10 | |
-Uhhh! -Sorry, sis. | 0:02:26 | 0:02:28 | |
-Stop pulling. -I'm sorry. | 0:02:28 | 0:02:31 | |
How do you think you have customers? | 0:02:31 | 0:02:32 | |
SHE LAUGHS | 0:02:32 | 0:02:34 | |
Customers... You can't pull at Mom when I'm doing this. | 0:02:34 | 0:02:37 | |
Uhhh! | 0:02:37 | 0:02:38 | |
Kaylie's mum Barbara used to work in a factory, | 0:02:40 | 0:02:43 | |
but lost that job nine months ago. | 0:02:43 | 0:02:46 | |
After struggling to find another, | 0:02:46 | 0:02:48 | |
she's decided to retrain as a hairdresser. | 0:02:48 | 0:02:51 | |
I don't want you to fricking cut me. | 0:02:51 | 0:02:53 | |
-I'm not going to cut you. -You better not. | 0:02:53 | 0:02:55 | |
I've been in school long enough, I won't cut you. | 0:02:55 | 0:02:57 | |
Or you're dead. | 0:02:57 | 0:02:59 | |
I mean it. | 0:02:59 | 0:03:00 | |
Kaylie's never met her father | 0:03:00 | 0:03:02 | |
and, though her grandma lives nearby and helps out when she can, | 0:03:02 | 0:03:06 | |
the family is struggling to get by, | 0:03:06 | 0:03:08 | |
on just 320-a-week unemployment benefit plus food stamps. | 0:03:08 | 0:03:12 | |
I'm hungry. | 0:03:13 | 0:03:15 | |
SHE LAUGHS | 0:03:15 | 0:03:16 | |
I knew you were going to say that as soon as you... | 0:03:16 | 0:03:19 | |
you're going to have to wait now, sis. | 0:03:19 | 0:03:21 | |
I'm just starving. | 0:03:21 | 0:03:24 | |
'We don't get that three meals a day, | 0:03:24 | 0:03:28 | |
'like, breakfast, lunch and then dinner.' | 0:03:28 | 0:03:32 | |
When I feel just like hungry, I'll just like, I'll feel like, | 0:03:32 | 0:03:36 | |
like I'm so, like, sad and all droopy | 0:03:36 | 0:03:39 | |
and then, I'll be feel like weak | 0:03:39 | 0:03:41 | |
and then, some in the mornings I'll be like so starving, | 0:03:41 | 0:03:45 | |
but then, I'll like, be like, "Ahh! I need some food!" | 0:03:45 | 0:03:48 | |
But then, like, I'll get like...but then, I don't think of food | 0:03:48 | 0:03:52 | |
and then, I'll just think of something else | 0:03:52 | 0:03:54 | |
and then, I'll not be hungry any more. | 0:03:54 | 0:03:57 | |
There's good days and bad days. | 0:03:57 | 0:04:01 | |
Sometimes, when we have cereal, we don't have milk, | 0:04:01 | 0:04:03 | |
we have to eat it dry. | 0:04:03 | 0:04:05 | |
Sometimes, we don't have cereal and we have milk, | 0:04:05 | 0:04:09 | |
it's often like...switch and swap. | 0:04:09 | 0:04:13 | |
Sometimes, like when I switch the channel | 0:04:13 | 0:04:16 | |
and there's a cooking show on, I get a little more hungry. | 0:04:16 | 0:04:20 | |
And I want to vanish into the screen | 0:04:20 | 0:04:22 | |
and start eating the food. | 0:04:22 | 0:04:24 | |
Iowa is one of the breadbaskets of the world, | 0:04:28 | 0:04:31 | |
but this is no land of plenty for Kaylie. | 0:04:31 | 0:04:33 | |
Needing every cent, | 0:04:33 | 0:04:34 | |
she and her friend often walk along the railway track, | 0:04:34 | 0:04:37 | |
despite the danger, to look for old cans. | 0:04:37 | 0:04:41 | |
My best friend is Jordan and we grew up together. | 0:04:41 | 0:04:44 | |
We like to go canning to make money. | 0:04:44 | 0:04:47 | |
-A lot of people throw their cans away. -Yeah. | 0:04:47 | 0:04:50 | |
You know that garbage is recyclable. | 0:04:50 | 0:04:53 | |
Cans! | 0:04:54 | 0:04:55 | |
With canning, I just walk around, look for cans | 0:04:58 | 0:05:02 | |
and I walk, I walk like around the whole town. | 0:05:02 | 0:05:06 | |
The not squished ones are five cents. | 0:05:06 | 0:05:10 | |
-And the squished are two. -Yeah. | 0:05:10 | 0:05:12 | |
Over 60,000 bankruptcies were declared in Iowa last year alone. | 0:05:13 | 0:05:18 | |
Over Kaylie's lifetime, | 0:05:18 | 0:05:19 | |
the economy in her town has seen a sharp decline. | 0:05:19 | 0:05:22 | |
In 2004 was when this shut down... | 0:05:24 | 0:05:27 | |
And now, look at it. It's crappy. | 0:05:27 | 0:05:29 | |
It used to be SO special. | 0:05:29 | 0:05:33 | |
Didn't that used to be a movie theatre? | 0:05:33 | 0:05:35 | |
-What? -That. | 0:05:35 | 0:05:37 | |
-No... -What did it used to be? -It was the old bank. | 0:05:37 | 0:05:41 | |
I bet there's old money in there. | 0:05:44 | 0:05:46 | |
I'm not going in there. The floor fell in. | 0:05:46 | 0:05:49 | |
That would be awesome | 0:05:51 | 0:05:52 | |
if there were like...thousands and thousands of dollars. | 0:05:52 | 0:05:56 | |
Tyler! | 0:05:57 | 0:05:59 | |
Those were ours! | 0:05:59 | 0:06:01 | |
-Fricking drop them! -Kaylie! | 0:06:02 | 0:06:05 | |
Drop em! | 0:06:05 | 0:06:07 | |
Kaylie? | 0:06:16 | 0:06:18 | |
When we can't afford to pay our bills, | 0:06:18 | 0:06:21 | |
like our house bills and stuff, | 0:06:21 | 0:06:23 | |
I'm afraid, like, we'll get homeless | 0:06:23 | 0:06:25 | |
and me and my brother will starve. | 0:06:25 | 0:06:29 | |
You never know what will happen in your life, so...yeah. | 0:06:29 | 0:06:33 | |
The homelessness that Kaylie fears is already a reality | 0:06:50 | 0:06:54 | |
for over 1.5 million children across the US. | 0:06:54 | 0:06:56 | |
My name is Jasmine and I am nine years old, | 0:06:58 | 0:07:01 | |
and I live with my brothers Joshua, Jaylan and Jonny. | 0:07:01 | 0:07:04 | |
My name is Jonny Davis, | 0:07:07 | 0:07:09 | |
I am 13 years old, | 0:07:09 | 0:07:11 | |
going to be 14 in three months. | 0:07:11 | 0:07:13 | |
Jonny and Jasmine have been living in a Salvation Army shelter | 0:07:15 | 0:07:19 | |
for homeless families in Davenport, Iowa, for the last three months. | 0:07:19 | 0:07:22 | |
My dad had got a business | 0:07:24 | 0:07:26 | |
and he was making about a good 5,000 a month. | 0:07:26 | 0:07:30 | |
We had good and fancy things then. | 0:07:30 | 0:07:33 | |
We had a, like, a three-bedroom house, | 0:07:33 | 0:07:36 | |
our living room had a 32-inch flatscreen TV in there. | 0:07:36 | 0:07:40 | |
My mom's and dad room had a 42-inch flatscreen TV in their room. | 0:07:40 | 0:07:46 | |
And that's what TV we'd watch the Super Bowl on. | 0:07:46 | 0:07:49 | |
When the recession hit, | 0:07:50 | 0:07:51 | |
the family's home improvement business folded | 0:07:51 | 0:07:54 | |
and they soon struggled to pay their rent. | 0:07:54 | 0:07:56 | |
They clung onto their house for as long as possible, | 0:07:56 | 0:07:59 | |
but that meant that, when the time finally came, | 0:07:59 | 0:08:02 | |
the kids had just a few days to pack up everything and leave. | 0:08:02 | 0:08:05 | |
Anything that could fit in a bag or a suitcase, you could take it. | 0:08:05 | 0:08:09 | |
Whatever, dude, like this TV, the yellow one in the living room, | 0:08:09 | 0:08:13 | |
that only made it because it could fit in my bag. | 0:08:13 | 0:08:16 | |
If it couldn't fit in my bad, then it would have been left behind too. | 0:08:16 | 0:08:19 | |
CHILDREN SHOUT | 0:08:19 | 0:08:23 | |
No, he didn't, all right. | 0:08:23 | 0:08:25 | |
I won't say, um...I hide the fact that I'm homeless, | 0:08:25 | 0:08:28 | |
but it's not something once again | 0:08:28 | 0:08:30 | |
that you just want to come out and broadcast | 0:08:30 | 0:08:32 | |
and say, "Well, hey, you know, I'm homeless." | 0:08:32 | 0:08:35 | |
That's the same as somebody with er...let's say HIV or AIDS. | 0:08:35 | 0:08:39 | |
They don't come out and tell you, "Hey, you know, I'm sick." | 0:08:39 | 0:08:41 | |
You know, because you will be treated differently | 0:08:41 | 0:08:44 | |
and it's the same as somebody that's homeless. | 0:08:44 | 0:08:46 | |
Hey, that's enough, that's enough. | 0:08:48 | 0:08:51 | |
Didn't I say stop? | 0:08:51 | 0:08:53 | |
Didn't I? | 0:08:53 | 0:08:55 | |
All right, it's time for shower and bed. | 0:08:55 | 0:08:59 | |
I'm embarrassed because I'm poor | 0:08:59 | 0:09:03 | |
and because I live in a shelter. | 0:09:03 | 0:09:06 | |
You don't want a lot of people to find out that you live here, | 0:09:10 | 0:09:13 | |
cos people will make fun of you. | 0:09:13 | 0:09:15 | |
You know, it can really hunt you after a while. | 0:09:15 | 0:09:19 | |
It starts, you start to have no friends, | 0:09:19 | 0:09:22 | |
people will tease you about it and stuff like that. | 0:09:22 | 0:09:26 | |
It makes me feel like I just... | 0:09:27 | 0:09:30 | |
..wish I never lived here. | 0:09:32 | 0:09:34 | |
We ask you, Father, today for good homes | 0:09:37 | 0:09:40 | |
and good futures for everybody staying here. | 0:09:40 | 0:09:43 | |
Good incomes so that they can have security in their home. | 0:09:43 | 0:09:47 | |
There's a kid at the school | 0:09:47 | 0:09:49 | |
who looks...dresses worser than me. | 0:09:49 | 0:09:52 | |
But he has his own house though, | 0:09:52 | 0:09:54 | |
he's got a house to call home. | 0:09:54 | 0:09:56 | |
He don't have to go sit down with thousands of people to eat dinner. | 0:09:56 | 0:10:00 | |
He can run to his refrigerator and open it up. | 0:10:00 | 0:10:03 | |
And I can't do that. | 0:10:03 | 0:10:05 | |
I have to wait till a certain time. | 0:10:05 | 0:10:07 | |
And I have to eat, because if I don't eat, | 0:10:07 | 0:10:09 | |
I will starve all night until the next morning. | 0:10:09 | 0:10:13 | |
Make sure you stay in line so you can get your plate, OK? | 0:10:15 | 0:10:18 | |
Yes, sir. | 0:10:18 | 0:10:20 | |
Stand right here. | 0:10:20 | 0:10:21 | |
And as soon as she goes, Jonny, you go after Jasmine. | 0:10:21 | 0:10:26 | |
I feel like I desperately miss... | 0:10:26 | 0:10:27 | |
is just being able to cook for my own family. | 0:10:27 | 0:10:31 | |
To buy food and put it inside. Put our groceries up. | 0:10:31 | 0:10:36 | |
Just the stuff that you used to be like, "Oh, grocery shopping..." | 0:10:36 | 0:10:40 | |
And I took it for granted. | 0:10:40 | 0:10:42 | |
And now, I just, I miss it, I miss it. | 0:10:42 | 0:10:45 | |
Why don't you just lay them out right there? Chill, Jasmine. | 0:10:49 | 0:10:52 | |
-Why would you do that? -It's to open up the boxes. | 0:10:52 | 0:10:54 | |
Open them with your hands. | 0:10:54 | 0:10:56 | |
No, it's taped. That's taped hard. | 0:10:56 | 0:10:57 | |
Jasmine, no. | 0:10:57 | 0:10:59 | |
I told you... | 0:10:59 | 0:11:00 | |
'When you live in a shelter,' | 0:11:00 | 0:11:02 | |
you have to obey by the rules | 0:11:02 | 0:11:05 | |
and do your chores. | 0:11:05 | 0:11:07 | |
If you don't, you get a write-up. | 0:11:07 | 0:11:08 | |
Some of the chores are sweeping, mopping, doing dishes, | 0:11:08 | 0:11:15 | |
putting away hot and cold food. | 0:11:15 | 0:11:17 | |
And...doing the trash. | 0:11:17 | 0:11:21 | |
If you don't, you get a write-up. | 0:11:22 | 0:11:24 | |
You get a write-up for staying out too long at night-time. | 0:11:26 | 0:11:29 | |
You get a write-up for having problems | 0:11:29 | 0:11:34 | |
with the front...front, the ladies at the front desk. | 0:11:34 | 0:11:38 | |
If you have more than eight or something, you get put out. | 0:11:38 | 0:11:43 | |
What type of animal is the North American roadrunner? | 0:11:44 | 0:11:49 | |
D, a bird. | 0:11:49 | 0:11:50 | |
-Correct. -You should know that off the cartoons. -Yeah. | 0:11:50 | 0:11:54 | |
With over 200 families waiting for a place in this shelter alone, | 0:11:54 | 0:11:59 | |
Jasmine's family know that if they are kicked out, | 0:11:59 | 0:12:01 | |
there's nowhere else to go. | 0:12:01 | 0:12:03 | |
Delivery is here! | 0:12:05 | 0:12:07 | |
Don't smash. | 0:12:07 | 0:12:09 | |
You want a delivery? | 0:12:09 | 0:12:11 | |
Take those off, don't have any movies. | 0:12:11 | 0:12:15 | |
Kaylie, what are you looking at? | 0:12:30 | 0:12:32 | |
It's loud! | 0:12:34 | 0:12:36 | |
Homelessness threatens Kaylie too. | 0:12:40 | 0:12:42 | |
The family's electricity is going to be cut off | 0:12:42 | 0:12:45 | |
unless their gran can pay the bill, | 0:12:45 | 0:12:47 | |
so money is tighter than ever. | 0:12:47 | 0:12:49 | |
This is embarrassing, Mom. | 0:12:50 | 0:12:52 | |
'We go to Salvation Army and get 60-cent shirts.' | 0:12:52 | 0:12:56 | |
Two dollars, wow, but that's too much. | 0:12:56 | 0:13:00 | |
Here, Kaylie. | 0:13:00 | 0:13:03 | |
Blue tag, that's 45 cents. | 0:13:03 | 0:13:07 | |
'We can't get nothing at the mall. | 0:13:07 | 0:13:09 | |
'Like I've been when I was about like seven. | 0:13:09 | 0:13:12 | |
'When my mom, like, had money. | 0:13:12 | 0:13:15 | |
'Like lots of money.' | 0:13:15 | 0:13:17 | |
75 cents. | 0:13:18 | 0:13:20 | |
DOG BARKS | 0:13:24 | 0:13:26 | |
Can I eat now? | 0:13:29 | 0:13:31 | |
-THEY WHISPER: I'm hungry. -I know. So am I. | 0:13:31 | 0:13:34 | |
Get me something to eat. | 0:13:34 | 0:13:36 | |
You're going to have to wait till Grandma comes home anyway. | 0:13:36 | 0:13:38 | |
-Give me something to eat! -OK. | 0:13:38 | 0:13:40 | |
-What do you have in the house at the moment? -Nothing. | 0:13:44 | 0:13:46 | |
We have to wait till Grandma comes home. She doesn't get it. | 0:13:46 | 0:13:49 | |
SHE CHUCKLES | 0:13:49 | 0:13:50 | |
'My mom is having a hard time on economy.' | 0:13:50 | 0:13:53 | |
She has very little in her bank. | 0:13:53 | 0:13:56 | |
And like, she can't pay all of her bills at the same time. | 0:13:58 | 0:14:03 | |
The bills here at the house, it's just too much for me to handle. | 0:14:03 | 0:14:07 | |
I've never seen it this bad. | 0:14:09 | 0:14:11 | |
To get jobs, it's very hard, it's very, very hard. | 0:14:13 | 0:14:16 | |
My mom has got a masters in accounting | 0:14:16 | 0:14:19 | |
and has been looking for another job for a year. | 0:14:19 | 0:14:22 | |
And she still hasn't found anything. | 0:14:22 | 0:14:24 | |
And she has a lot of education. | 0:14:26 | 0:14:29 | |
More than 49 million Americans are now living below the poverty line, | 0:14:33 | 0:14:37 | |
many as a result of unemployment. | 0:14:37 | 0:14:40 | |
Things haven't been this bad since the Great Depression. | 0:14:40 | 0:14:44 | |
THEY SCREAM | 0:14:48 | 0:14:50 | |
Woohoo! | 0:14:50 | 0:14:52 | |
My income is 1,480 | 0:14:54 | 0:14:58 | |
and the total of my bills is 1,326. | 0:14:58 | 0:15:03 | |
And that does not leave me money for food or gas. | 0:15:03 | 0:15:07 | |
A lot of times, I have to give my money up to buy groceries | 0:15:11 | 0:15:16 | |
and buy gas for the car and lawnmower. | 0:15:16 | 0:15:20 | |
For mowing other people's lawns and... | 0:15:24 | 0:15:28 | |
I got 10 and I put in six of it for the gas. | 0:15:28 | 0:15:34 | |
And gave the rest to my mom for some food. | 0:15:35 | 0:15:39 | |
And... | 0:15:39 | 0:15:40 | |
It's kind of what I do with my money. | 0:15:44 | 0:15:46 | |
I don't think I'm going to do mowing for a living. | 0:15:46 | 0:15:49 | |
I watched this one show where it said they're raising the gas prices. | 0:15:51 | 0:15:55 | |
And my mom can't even afford gas. | 0:15:55 | 0:15:58 | |
We have to be careful how we use our gas. | 0:15:58 | 0:16:01 | |
How we use everything, mostly. | 0:16:01 | 0:16:02 | |
Because these days everything is expensive. | 0:16:02 | 0:16:06 | |
There's now a real danger that this month's rent won't be found | 0:16:09 | 0:16:12 | |
and the family will have to leave their home. | 0:16:12 | 0:16:16 | |
I don't want to move. | 0:16:16 | 0:16:18 | |
I like living here because my friends are nice to me. | 0:16:19 | 0:16:24 | |
Like, I want to just stay put here. | 0:16:24 | 0:16:27 | |
Rent and bills means it costs over 1,000 a month | 0:16:28 | 0:16:31 | |
to stay in the family home. | 0:16:31 | 0:16:33 | |
But a single room in a motel could cost less than 700 a month all in. | 0:16:33 | 0:16:39 | |
Right now, there doesn't seem to be a way out. | 0:16:39 | 0:16:42 | |
So my only options are to give up my house | 0:16:42 | 0:16:46 | |
and move into the motel room. | 0:16:46 | 0:16:49 | |
And move my stuff into storage. | 0:16:49 | 0:16:51 | |
And keep going to school. | 0:16:52 | 0:16:55 | |
And I seen a doctor last week for depression. | 0:16:55 | 0:16:59 | |
And she put me on some antidepressants | 0:16:59 | 0:17:04 | |
and Xanax for my panic attacks. | 0:17:04 | 0:17:07 | |
I mean, I don't even know if I can find a job when I get out of school. | 0:17:09 | 0:17:13 | |
Or if it'll ever get any better. | 0:17:16 | 0:17:18 | |
SHE SOBS | 0:17:25 | 0:17:26 | |
I'll have to find day care for Kaylie. | 0:17:31 | 0:17:34 | |
I mean, she's ten, but still... | 0:17:36 | 0:17:38 | |
..her and Tyler, they're brother and sister. They fight. | 0:17:40 | 0:17:43 | |
SHE LAUGHS | 0:17:43 | 0:17:44 | |
I'll come home and one will be hanging from the ceiling fan | 0:17:44 | 0:17:48 | |
and the other one will be God knows where. | 0:17:48 | 0:17:51 | |
Scared. | 0:17:55 | 0:17:57 | |
The house isn't the only thing under threat, | 0:18:05 | 0:18:08 | |
one of the family's dogs may also have to go. | 0:18:08 | 0:18:11 | |
We won't get to keep our dog Nala. | 0:18:11 | 0:18:14 | |
It's extra money | 0:18:14 | 0:18:17 | |
and we're going to get rid of her. | 0:18:17 | 0:18:20 | |
Nala, like, I want to spend as much time with her, | 0:18:20 | 0:18:25 | |
but, then again, I want to spend time with my friends. | 0:18:25 | 0:18:28 | |
Let's go, Wildcats! | 0:18:33 | 0:18:35 | |
I'm an epic failure! | 0:18:35 | 0:18:37 | |
BOTH: Go, go! Fight, fight! | 0:18:39 | 0:18:43 | |
Win, win! | 0:18:43 | 0:18:45 | |
You'll go fight, fight, win. | 0:18:45 | 0:18:47 | |
Go, go! Fight, fight! | 0:18:47 | 0:18:51 | |
Win, win! Go, go, fight, fight! Win. | 0:18:51 | 0:18:54 | |
Come on, you got this! You, you got this! | 0:18:54 | 0:18:57 | |
'When I'm dancing, I'm mostly happy. | 0:18:57 | 0:19:01 | |
'It's like I'm in a different world.' | 0:19:01 | 0:19:04 | |
I'm always dancing nonstop. | 0:19:04 | 0:19:06 | |
Erm...I just love dancing, I'm just truly in love with dancing. | 0:19:06 | 0:19:11 | |
It's like my destiny to become like a famous dancer | 0:19:11 | 0:19:15 | |
or a famous cheerleader. | 0:19:15 | 0:19:18 | |
I feel like it's my destiny. | 0:19:18 | 0:19:20 | |
The search for a new life with a job and a home | 0:19:34 | 0:19:38 | |
brings 400,000 people a year to San Francisco Bay Area, | 0:19:38 | 0:19:42 | |
but rents here are the highest in America | 0:19:42 | 0:19:44 | |
and work can be hard to find. | 0:19:44 | 0:19:46 | |
11-year-old Sera, her sister and her mum moved here in 2009, | 0:19:47 | 0:19:52 | |
but when the economy collapsed, | 0:19:52 | 0:19:54 | |
her mum lost her job | 0:19:54 | 0:19:55 | |
and the family now have to survive | 0:19:55 | 0:19:57 | |
on just 600-a-month unemployment. | 0:19:57 | 0:20:00 | |
They're living in a one-room, rent-subsidized apartment. | 0:20:00 | 0:20:04 | |
It's kind of hard because you don't have your own room. | 0:20:04 | 0:20:09 | |
You just have your little area and then... | 0:20:09 | 0:20:14 | |
Like, this is my mom's area, over there is my area | 0:20:14 | 0:20:18 | |
and over there, is my sister's area. | 0:20:18 | 0:20:20 | |
This runs incredibly slow. | 0:20:20 | 0:20:22 | |
'It's very small. I do not like small spaces. At all.' | 0:20:22 | 0:20:26 | |
Don't be mean to my computer. | 0:20:26 | 0:20:29 | |
I'm not being mean to your computer. It just runs really fricking slow. | 0:20:29 | 0:20:32 | |
'My mom's got a fold-out bed. | 0:20:32 | 0:20:34 | |
'My sister's got a blow-up bed that she's too lazy to blow up. | 0:20:34 | 0:20:37 | |
'And I've got floor pillows, they are really quite comfortable.' | 0:20:37 | 0:20:41 | |
It's messy, but look how much stuff we have. | 0:20:42 | 0:20:46 | |
And then, look at how small of a room this is. | 0:20:46 | 0:20:49 | |
You wouldn't be able to keep it very contained either | 0:20:51 | 0:20:57 | |
if you've got three people living in a really small room | 0:20:57 | 0:21:01 | |
with one small bathroom and one small kitchen. | 0:21:01 | 0:21:04 | |
It's not that easy. | 0:21:04 | 0:21:06 | |
And plus, we've got a lot of stuff and a lot of books. | 0:21:06 | 0:21:10 | |
So it's really, really hard. | 0:21:10 | 0:21:13 | |
SHE LAUGHS | 0:21:16 | 0:21:20 | |
Throw it at her, ha-ha-ha! | 0:21:21 | 0:21:23 | |
SHE LAUGHS | 0:21:23 | 0:21:25 | |
I win! | 0:21:26 | 0:21:28 | |
You do not win. | 0:21:28 | 0:21:29 | |
When we take a shower and when we cook, the windows fog up | 0:21:32 | 0:21:36 | |
and like it gets all drippy and stuff. | 0:21:36 | 0:21:40 | |
The mildew it, umm...it's annoying. | 0:21:40 | 0:21:46 | |
You wash the walls and you think it you dry it all, | 0:21:46 | 0:21:51 | |
couple days later, there's more mildew on it, on it. | 0:21:51 | 0:21:56 | |
So it's like, "Oh, my God..." | 0:21:56 | 0:22:00 | |
Because these walls are bumpy, | 0:22:00 | 0:22:03 | |
so it's hard to clean it all. | 0:22:03 | 0:22:06 | |
Aah! | 0:22:08 | 0:22:09 | |
Not all you need right now, right? | 0:22:11 | 0:22:13 | |
'I don't think it's a good way to be growing up.' | 0:22:13 | 0:22:17 | |
I guess it was just the family I was put into. | 0:22:17 | 0:22:21 | |
It was all for some reason. | 0:22:21 | 0:22:23 | |
Maybe it was because we're strong? | 0:22:25 | 0:22:27 | |
I don't know. | 0:22:27 | 0:22:28 | |
Sera used to live in a homeless shelter, | 0:22:31 | 0:22:33 | |
so even one small room is a step up. | 0:22:33 | 0:22:36 | |
But what the family really wants is to get long-term subsidized housing | 0:22:36 | 0:22:41 | |
before the help they get with the rent here runs out. | 0:22:41 | 0:22:44 | |
We're trying to get into this bigger place called Thomas Payne. | 0:22:44 | 0:22:48 | |
And they said anytime between early February and late February | 0:22:48 | 0:22:55 | |
and it's April. | 0:22:55 | 0:22:57 | |
And we haven't gotten in yet. | 0:22:59 | 0:23:02 | |
I know one thing, | 0:23:04 | 0:23:05 | |
if we don't get Thomas Payne, we go back to a place called the shelter. | 0:23:05 | 0:23:10 | |
I don't want to go back. That's how I feel. | 0:23:10 | 0:23:13 | |
I do not want to go back. I've already been there once. | 0:23:13 | 0:23:16 | |
Once is enough for me. | 0:23:16 | 0:23:18 | |
I think we all don't want to go back. | 0:23:20 | 0:23:22 | |
'If we go back there, we'd be sharing a big room | 0:23:24 | 0:23:28 | |
'with a dozen or so more people.' | 0:23:28 | 0:23:31 | |
That's the shelter right there. | 0:23:33 | 0:23:37 | |
There are four floors. | 0:23:37 | 0:23:39 | |
We lived on the second floor. | 0:23:39 | 0:23:43 | |
I don't want to go back because I can cook for myself here. | 0:23:43 | 0:23:48 | |
And I can go to the bathroom on my own here. | 0:23:48 | 0:23:52 | |
I don't have to have my mom and my sister take me to the bathroom | 0:23:52 | 0:23:56 | |
in the middle of the night. | 0:23:56 | 0:23:58 | |
But this apartment is only temporary and they will have to move soon. | 0:23:58 | 0:24:03 | |
I think it's kind of scary that... | 0:24:03 | 0:24:06 | |
really, we don't have much of a choice | 0:24:06 | 0:24:09 | |
if we lose this place. | 0:24:09 | 0:24:11 | |
This is NOT the great American dream. | 0:24:13 | 0:24:16 | |
In Iowa, the moment Kaylie has been dreading has arrived. | 0:24:25 | 0:24:29 | |
Bitch! | 0:24:29 | 0:24:31 | |
Nala, she's like my favourite dog | 0:24:31 | 0:24:33 | |
and now, we have to take her to the pound. | 0:24:33 | 0:24:36 | |
We have to get rid of Nala, but not Tanner. | 0:24:38 | 0:24:40 | |
'Nala's so adorable. | 0:24:43 | 0:24:46 | |
'Like if you, if you had her, | 0:24:46 | 0:24:49 | |
'she would sleep on your bed | 0:24:49 | 0:24:51 | |
'and she would sleep on you. | 0:24:51 | 0:24:53 | |
'She's like your little guard dog. | 0:24:53 | 0:24:56 | |
'We're getting rid of my perfect little, lovely dog.' | 0:24:56 | 0:25:00 | |
Yes, Nala, I hear you're stressing out. | 0:25:02 | 0:25:05 | |
I love you, Nala. | 0:25:17 | 0:25:19 | |
Does she have any favourite toys or games? | 0:25:31 | 0:25:33 | |
-She needs lots and lots of bones. -OK. | 0:25:33 | 0:25:36 | |
She'll chew one in like an hour. | 0:25:36 | 0:25:39 | |
OK. | 0:25:40 | 0:25:41 | |
SHE WHISPERS: She hates baths. | 0:25:41 | 0:25:43 | |
Oh, yeah, doesn't like baths. No. | 0:25:43 | 0:25:46 | |
This is my animal lover. | 0:25:46 | 0:25:47 | |
She'll have to go into our isolation rooms | 0:25:47 | 0:25:50 | |
since she hasn't got any vaccinations yet. | 0:25:50 | 0:25:53 | |
So she'll be in an isolated area right now. All right, sweetie. | 0:25:53 | 0:25:56 | |
Do you want the leash and collar back at all? | 0:26:00 | 0:26:02 | |
-Just the leash. -OK. | 0:26:02 | 0:26:04 | |
And the collar! | 0:26:04 | 0:26:05 | |
Why the collar? She can have it. | 0:26:05 | 0:26:07 | |
Cos...Mom! | 0:26:07 | 0:26:10 | |
Fine! Meanie... | 0:26:10 | 0:26:12 | |
SHE SOBS | 0:26:17 | 0:26:18 | |
SHE CRIES | 0:26:24 | 0:26:27 | |
SHE BARKS | 0:26:40 | 0:26:41 | |
With Nala gone, the time has come to leave the house | 0:26:57 | 0:27:00 | |
and move into a motel room. | 0:27:00 | 0:27:02 | |
This will be the family's home from now on | 0:27:03 | 0:27:06 | |
unless Mum can get them all a place in a homeless shelter. | 0:27:06 | 0:27:09 | |
I thought we were getting a double bed. | 0:27:09 | 0:27:11 | |
And there's no mini fridge. | 0:27:11 | 0:27:14 | |
-That was with the double bed. -No. | 0:27:14 | 0:27:17 | |
Dang it! | 0:27:17 | 0:27:20 | |
And there's no microwave. | 0:27:20 | 0:27:22 | |
OK, we have to ask them about that. | 0:27:24 | 0:27:27 | |
God. | 0:27:27 | 0:27:29 | |
I thought we were getting a double bed. | 0:27:29 | 0:27:31 | |
Well, we're going to have to ask them about the mini fridge. | 0:27:31 | 0:27:35 | |
It's so small. | 0:27:35 | 0:27:36 | |
It's going to be small. | 0:27:36 | 0:27:38 | |
Plain and simple, it's going to be small. | 0:27:40 | 0:27:43 | |
This is as big as my room. | 0:27:43 | 0:27:45 | |
Yeah. | 0:27:45 | 0:27:46 | |
-OK, one each. -We'll go back round. | 0:27:53 | 0:27:55 | |
One of the many downsides of life in a shelter | 0:27:57 | 0:28:00 | |
is that sickness spreads between families all too easily. | 0:28:00 | 0:28:04 | |
Jasmine? | 0:28:04 | 0:28:05 | |
Everybody's been having the runs, stomach aches, the whole nine yards. | 0:28:05 | 0:28:10 | |
She just, we were going out to take her out to school this morning | 0:28:10 | 0:28:13 | |
and she just threw up all in the hallway. | 0:28:13 | 0:28:15 | |
Although Jasmine's dad has now managed to get a job at minimum wage, | 0:28:15 | 0:28:19 | |
his employer does not cover the family for medical insurance. | 0:28:19 | 0:28:22 | |
Almost one in seven Americans are now without health insurance, | 0:28:22 | 0:28:26 | |
more than ever before. | 0:28:26 | 0:28:28 | |
Without cover, the family has to find clinics and pharmacies | 0:28:28 | 0:28:32 | |
that will treat people on basic state Medicaid. | 0:28:32 | 0:28:35 | |
A lot of places don't take Iowa Medicaid. | 0:28:35 | 0:28:38 | |
Cos they know it's from public aid, it's public assistance, low income. | 0:28:38 | 0:28:42 | |
No income. | 0:28:42 | 0:28:44 | |
So a lot of places won't take you. | 0:28:45 | 0:28:47 | |
And then, a lot of them say they don't take new patients. | 0:28:47 | 0:28:50 | |
So then, what do you do? Go to the emergency room. | 0:28:50 | 0:28:54 | |
Then, you end up with another bill. | 0:28:54 | 0:28:56 | |
The latest problem is that Jonny has caught | 0:28:59 | 0:29:02 | |
a highly contagious skin infection, | 0:29:02 | 0:29:04 | |
so the family's room has to be completely disinfected. | 0:29:04 | 0:29:08 | |
He was getting even worser, | 0:29:08 | 0:29:10 | |
so he said, "We have to go to the hospital." | 0:29:10 | 0:29:13 | |
And that's when Josh got sick, so we really had to go to the hospital. | 0:29:13 | 0:29:16 | |
So now, he has to be quarantined off from the rest of the family. | 0:29:16 | 0:29:19 | |
Now, you've got to sleep on the fire escape! | 0:29:19 | 0:29:22 | |
HE LAUGHS | 0:29:22 | 0:29:24 | |
But you just make sure you just don't touch anybody. | 0:29:24 | 0:29:29 | |
I'm watching you. | 0:29:29 | 0:29:31 | |
When he was first infected, there was no choice | 0:29:31 | 0:29:34 | |
but go to the emergency room of the local hospital. | 0:29:34 | 0:29:37 | |
Don't touch it. | 0:29:37 | 0:29:38 | |
The discharge lady came in asking questions | 0:29:38 | 0:29:41 | |
about the Medicaid or whatever | 0:29:41 | 0:29:42 | |
and she was like, "Oh, I guess I'll have to look it up. | 0:29:42 | 0:29:45 | |
"If I can't find it, we'll have to bill you." | 0:29:45 | 0:29:48 | |
Yeah, so there's another bill coming. | 0:29:50 | 0:29:53 | |
That's life though, what can you do? | 0:29:54 | 0:29:56 | |
Roll with the punches, right? | 0:29:56 | 0:29:58 | |
The mice...because he's stuck, he's stuck, he just got stuck! | 0:30:01 | 0:30:04 | |
It's not big at all. So small. | 0:30:04 | 0:30:06 | |
Mice only coming in here. | 0:30:06 | 0:30:08 | |
Because they're coming from under there or under there. | 0:30:08 | 0:30:11 | |
All those Reese's Pieces and all of that stuff you be having all over. | 0:30:11 | 0:30:14 | |
It's not me! | 0:30:14 | 0:30:16 | |
Exactly! Why he always coming from in this corner? | 0:30:16 | 0:30:18 | |
Because Jaylan got all that crap underneath his bed. | 0:30:18 | 0:30:22 | |
-Every single time I saw him... -That same crap! -Mom... | 0:30:22 | 0:30:25 | |
Both of them, I saw them from this corner. | 0:30:25 | 0:30:27 | |
'This building is kind of old,' | 0:30:27 | 0:30:29 | |
mice have been here for a long time before we've been here. | 0:30:29 | 0:30:33 | |
Of course they're going to get in here. | 0:30:33 | 0:30:36 | |
We just, we...my dad just said, "Any mouse that comes in here, | 0:30:36 | 0:30:40 | |
"we're taking them out." | 0:30:40 | 0:30:42 | |
They're not going to stay for long. | 0:30:42 | 0:30:44 | |
They're going to know not to come in this room. | 0:30:44 | 0:30:46 | |
Look at this, look at this, look at this. | 0:30:49 | 0:30:51 | |
-Tell me that wasn't you. -That was Jaylan. | 0:30:51 | 0:30:54 | |
-No! -That was the err...Cheesies. | 0:30:54 | 0:30:57 | |
Jaylan you see this? That's why the mice keep coming in here. | 0:30:57 | 0:31:02 | |
Don't bring nothing else in here, you hear me? | 0:31:02 | 0:31:04 | |
Or you'll be in trouble. | 0:31:04 | 0:31:05 | |
That's all going to be on you. | 0:31:05 | 0:31:08 | |
As a mother, you always got different thoughts | 0:31:12 | 0:31:15 | |
in your head and mind and... | 0:31:15 | 0:31:17 | |
Wishing that you could change things and wishing things were different, | 0:31:17 | 0:31:20 | |
but what are you to do? You can't keep beating yourself up about it, | 0:31:20 | 0:31:23 | |
but, at the same time... | 0:31:23 | 0:31:24 | |
..it's just hard. | 0:31:27 | 0:31:28 | |
Having a family is hard, maintaining a family is hard. | 0:31:30 | 0:31:35 | |
Keeping us indoors is hard. | 0:31:37 | 0:31:39 | |
THEY LAUGH | 0:31:52 | 0:31:54 | |
Guess what I got in my grades? | 0:31:58 | 0:32:00 | |
What? | 0:32:00 | 0:32:01 | |
-Ooh, ooh! -That's good. | 0:32:04 | 0:32:07 | |
One for the Willis team! | 0:32:07 | 0:32:09 | |
That saved you from 70 lashes, didn't it? | 0:32:09 | 0:32:12 | |
THEY LAUGH | 0:32:12 | 0:32:14 | |
So did you do good? | 0:32:14 | 0:32:17 | |
I got two A's, two B's and two C's. | 0:32:17 | 0:32:19 | |
That's what's up, Jonny. | 0:32:19 | 0:32:21 | |
Oh, wow! I'll have to get you a skateboard. | 0:32:21 | 0:32:23 | |
Grades is my only way out of here. | 0:32:23 | 0:32:25 | |
If my grade's not good, I know I can't go to universities, | 0:32:25 | 0:32:29 | |
like my dream is to go. | 0:32:29 | 0:32:31 | |
I know if my grade's not good, | 0:32:31 | 0:32:32 | |
I can't play football like I want to. | 0:32:32 | 0:32:34 | |
If I don't succeed doing what I have to do in school | 0:32:34 | 0:32:38 | |
and making good grades, I will fail. | 0:32:38 | 0:32:41 | |
I'm going to live this life, | 0:32:41 | 0:32:42 | |
life of shelters, going through hard times, can't feed my kids, | 0:32:42 | 0:32:46 | |
trying to figure out what I'm going to lay over my head every night. | 0:32:46 | 0:32:50 | |
SHE YELLS | 0:33:01 | 0:33:02 | |
Homeless kids are eight times more likely that other children | 0:33:02 | 0:33:05 | |
to be put back a year at school. | 0:33:05 | 0:33:07 | |
Kaylie and her family have been living in the motel for four weeks. | 0:33:07 | 0:33:12 | |
It's the summer holidays at the moment, | 0:33:12 | 0:33:14 | |
but if their mum can't find a permanent home soon, | 0:33:14 | 0:33:17 | |
Kaylie and Tyler will have to face the next term in school | 0:33:17 | 0:33:20 | |
as homeless children. | 0:33:20 | 0:33:21 | |
Living in the motel is like, like it's cool but then not so cool. | 0:33:23 | 0:33:29 | |
I'm always cleaning. | 0:33:29 | 0:33:30 | |
Tyler barely ever helps. | 0:33:32 | 0:33:35 | |
He cleaned once, twice, three times. I've cleaned... | 0:33:35 | 0:33:39 | |
..kind of a lot. | 0:33:42 | 0:33:44 | |
Now then, you come hold this. | 0:33:46 | 0:33:48 | |
No, let it go. | 0:33:48 | 0:33:50 | |
It's not fitting, look. | 0:33:50 | 0:33:53 | |
Well, then, frigging stop using your foot and be a man. | 0:33:53 | 0:33:57 | |
It's not fitting! | 0:33:57 | 0:33:59 | |
And don't smack me. | 0:33:59 | 0:34:01 | |
It's not fitting. | 0:34:01 | 0:34:03 | |
Yes, it is. | 0:34:08 | 0:34:09 | |
Be right back. | 0:34:12 | 0:34:14 | |
The cold stuff that needs to be freezed is in the sink. | 0:34:15 | 0:34:18 | |
'We don't have a fridge, just this sink is our fridge. | 0:34:22 | 0:34:26 | |
'We have to get ice mostly every day because it melts during night.' | 0:34:30 | 0:34:36 | |
It's all crunched up and there's not much space. See? | 0:34:36 | 0:34:41 | |
TYLER MOANS | 0:34:43 | 0:34:45 | |
He takes up the hallway to go to the bathroom. | 0:34:45 | 0:34:48 | |
SHE CHUCKLES | 0:34:48 | 0:34:50 | |
We had much more space in the house. | 0:34:50 | 0:34:53 | |
There's no friends, no-one to play with. | 0:34:54 | 0:34:58 | |
I miss Jordan. | 0:34:58 | 0:35:00 | |
I pass the time by watching TV or talking to Alex. | 0:35:02 | 0:35:07 | |
Helping him do the laundry and then putting stickers on the cards. | 0:35:07 | 0:35:12 | |
How are you doing today? | 0:35:17 | 0:35:19 | |
Erm...good. | 0:35:19 | 0:35:20 | |
Ooh, it's hot in here. | 0:35:20 | 0:35:22 | |
There's new people came in in room number 124. Like you. | 0:35:22 | 0:35:27 | |
And they have kids about your age. | 0:35:27 | 0:35:29 | |
Are you sure? | 0:35:31 | 0:35:32 | |
Yeah, you check them out. | 0:35:32 | 0:35:34 | |
SHE CHUCKLES | 0:35:34 | 0:35:35 | |
-126? -124. | 0:35:35 | 0:35:37 | |
This motel is one of the few in the area | 0:35:39 | 0:35:41 | |
that allows homeless families to stay long term. | 0:35:41 | 0:35:44 | |
Most insist they book in one night at a time, | 0:35:44 | 0:35:47 | |
so they can be forced to leave at a day's notice. | 0:35:47 | 0:35:50 | |
How many families live here? | 0:35:51 | 0:35:54 | |
Here, it depends, sometimes people come for our weekly stays, | 0:35:54 | 0:35:59 | |
sometimes for you guys, like, longer. | 0:35:59 | 0:36:04 | |
So in summer, there is...in winter, there is more people | 0:36:04 | 0:36:08 | |
for their extended stays who are homeless. | 0:36:08 | 0:36:12 | |
And, in the winter, the shelters them are all, you know, filled up, | 0:36:12 | 0:36:17 | |
so people can't sleep outside. | 0:36:17 | 0:36:20 | |
'When I struggle for money, there's nothing to eat.' | 0:36:27 | 0:36:29 | |
All there is is cans of vegetables. | 0:36:31 | 0:36:35 | |
So I've been eating vegetables. | 0:36:36 | 0:36:39 | |
There's really not enough food. | 0:36:39 | 0:36:43 | |
Kaylie has also joined the 37 million Americans | 0:36:46 | 0:36:49 | |
who now depend on food banks. | 0:36:49 | 0:36:52 | |
One in five children across America now receive food aid. | 0:36:52 | 0:36:56 | |
We get 15 items, right? | 0:36:56 | 0:36:58 | |
-..Mix... -Beef stew. | 0:36:58 | 0:37:01 | |
No, No. | 0:37:01 | 0:37:02 | |
Apple sauce, you can have apple sauce. With cinnamon. | 0:37:03 | 0:37:07 | |
OK, we need veggies... Oh, here, SpaghettiOs, | 0:37:07 | 0:37:10 | |
meat balls, or ravioli. | 0:37:10 | 0:37:14 | |
We need more canned goods. | 0:37:14 | 0:37:15 | |
So potatoes for the vegetable soup. | 0:37:15 | 0:37:17 | |
Thank you. | 0:37:19 | 0:37:21 | |
Oh, Mom, did we get ground beef? | 0:37:21 | 0:37:23 | |
You keep saying that, | 0:37:23 | 0:37:24 | |
but we don't have a fridge to put it in right now. | 0:37:24 | 0:37:28 | |
That's why I didn't get it. | 0:37:28 | 0:37:29 | |
If I could change anything, | 0:37:32 | 0:37:35 | |
it would be being poor. | 0:37:35 | 0:37:39 | |
I really don't want to be poor cos then, you can't get, | 0:37:40 | 0:37:44 | |
cos then, how can you pay your rent, how can you get food, | 0:37:44 | 0:37:48 | |
how can you get a roof over you head... | 0:37:48 | 0:37:50 | |
..if you're going to be poor? | 0:37:52 | 0:37:54 | |
We're still in the same itty bitty apartment we were in before. | 0:38:05 | 0:38:10 | |
And we haven't gotten into Thomas Payne. | 0:38:10 | 0:38:13 | |
They said one month. | 0:38:15 | 0:38:17 | |
-SHE WHISPERS: -We've been waiting two, almost three! | 0:38:18 | 0:38:21 | |
Thomas Payne is long-term subsidized housing | 0:38:23 | 0:38:26 | |
the family could stay in for good. | 0:38:26 | 0:38:29 | |
But they're running out of time for a place to come up, | 0:38:29 | 0:38:31 | |
so they're back at the shelter | 0:38:31 | 0:38:33 | |
to sign up on the waiting list here as well. | 0:38:33 | 0:38:36 | |
No kid should ever have to go through two homeless shelters | 0:38:36 | 0:38:39 | |
just to get into a sustainable apartment or a house. | 0:38:39 | 0:38:43 | |
This form that I'm going to have you sign | 0:38:43 | 0:38:46 | |
is just the family shelter intake policy. | 0:38:46 | 0:38:48 | |
The intake policy says you need to limit your belongings | 0:38:48 | 0:38:51 | |
-to one bag per person. -Uh-huh. | 0:38:51 | 0:38:53 | |
I know it might be hard if you have a lot of stuff... | 0:38:53 | 0:38:55 | |
Wait! Can it be like a bag of clothes and stuff | 0:38:55 | 0:39:00 | |
and then a computer? | 0:39:00 | 0:39:02 | |
-Probably. -..Cos the computer doesn't really count as a bag. | 0:39:02 | 0:39:05 | |
It's an electronic. | 0:39:05 | 0:39:08 | |
Is that going to be a problem? You seem nervous. | 0:39:08 | 0:39:10 | |
-Sad. -Sad? -Yeah. | 0:39:10 | 0:39:12 | |
Well, you can look into putting some of your stuff in storage while you're in the shelter | 0:39:12 | 0:39:16 | |
and then, when you get out, you can have your stuff back. | 0:39:16 | 0:39:19 | |
As they probably told you on the phone, | 0:39:19 | 0:39:20 | |
it is unfortunately about a six-month wait | 0:39:20 | 0:39:23 | |
-to get into shelter right now, which is really long. -Uh-huh. | 0:39:23 | 0:39:26 | |
It's one of the longest waits that we've ever had | 0:39:26 | 0:39:28 | |
and, unfortunately, we don't have much shelter space | 0:39:28 | 0:39:30 | |
to accommodate at the moment. | 0:39:30 | 0:39:32 | |
But, during that time on the waiting list, | 0:39:32 | 0:39:34 | |
the most important thing is to be calling and checking in once a week | 0:39:34 | 0:39:37 | |
-in order to stay on the list. -Right. | 0:39:37 | 0:39:39 | |
So that's definitely the most important thing. | 0:39:39 | 0:39:41 | |
So how is everything else going in the apartment right now? | 0:39:41 | 0:39:44 | |
Um... Things are going OK. | 0:39:44 | 0:39:46 | |
I'm just looking for food banks right now, | 0:39:46 | 0:39:48 | |
because food's really expensive right now. | 0:39:48 | 0:39:50 | |
-We have enough rice to feed us tonight and tomorrow, that's it. -Yeah. | 0:39:50 | 0:39:54 | |
OK. Well, we can definitely get you a bag of food before you leave here. | 0:39:54 | 0:39:57 | |
So we have a choice of canned food right now. | 0:39:57 | 0:39:59 | |
We have beans and franks...and tuna and Spam, | 0:39:59 | 0:40:02 | |
so you can take your pick. | 0:40:02 | 0:40:04 | |
-Spam! -You said the magic word, she loves Spam. | 0:40:04 | 0:40:06 | |
OK, Spam. I'll get you some Spam, then. | 0:40:06 | 0:40:09 | |
OK, great. Thank you. | 0:40:09 | 0:40:10 | |
Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam! | 0:40:10 | 0:40:13 | |
Yes, I know, you love Spam. | 0:40:13 | 0:40:14 | |
SHE LAUGHS | 0:40:14 | 0:40:16 | |
OK, so here is a bag of food. | 0:40:18 | 0:40:20 | |
-Some canned foods, some mac and cheese... -Mac and cheese! | 0:40:20 | 0:40:23 | |
..and some cereal and then there's two bus tokens | 0:40:23 | 0:40:25 | |
and those are good for one fare and transfer each on a bus. | 0:40:25 | 0:40:28 | |
-OK, great, thank you so much! -Oh, wow! -No problem. | 0:40:28 | 0:40:31 | |
'The people who cut budgets are the ones that are making it hard' | 0:40:31 | 0:40:36 | |
for my mom to get by in today's world. | 0:40:36 | 0:40:40 | |
Sera lives in a part of San Francisco known as the Tenderloin. | 0:40:44 | 0:40:48 | |
It's a neighbourhood synonymous with drugs, violence and homelessness. | 0:40:48 | 0:40:53 | |
The reason why I wouldn't go on the street very much | 0:40:53 | 0:40:55 | |
is because, well, I live in the Tenderloin | 0:40:55 | 0:40:57 | |
and that pretty much talks for itself. | 0:40:57 | 0:41:00 | |
There are people on drugs out there | 0:41:03 | 0:41:07 | |
and I don't think an 11-year-old, | 0:41:07 | 0:41:10 | |
or anyone older or younger, should be around this stuff. | 0:41:10 | 0:41:15 | |
Especially the drug dealers. | 0:41:15 | 0:41:17 | |
Because it makes your brain squish. | 0:41:17 | 0:41:19 | |
It basically makes your brain go like pudding. | 0:41:21 | 0:41:25 | |
What do I do on the weekend? | 0:41:28 | 0:41:30 | |
Look out the window, watching the people on the streets. And um... | 0:41:30 | 0:41:37 | |
I call it spying on the people down on the street. | 0:41:37 | 0:41:42 | |
Cos I have these little binoculars | 0:41:44 | 0:41:47 | |
and I look out the window. | 0:41:47 | 0:41:49 | |
And it's funny, because one person actually looked up | 0:41:50 | 0:41:53 | |
and saw me looking out. | 0:41:53 | 0:41:55 | |
I'm like, "I'm not doing nothing..." | 0:41:55 | 0:41:57 | |
My sister has taught me | 0:41:59 | 0:42:00 | |
if a man throws the first punch and misses, | 0:42:00 | 0:42:05 | |
you throw a second punch and not miss. | 0:42:05 | 0:42:08 | |
And I know where to hit a man where it hurts. | 0:42:12 | 0:42:15 | |
I do. | 0:42:15 | 0:42:16 | |
From my mom and my sister. | 0:42:18 | 0:42:21 | |
Kaylie, you want to move stuff to the other house? | 0:42:34 | 0:42:37 | |
Hey! | 0:42:40 | 0:42:41 | |
OK, I know I said yes. | 0:42:42 | 0:42:45 | |
With help from a charity, | 0:42:45 | 0:42:47 | |
Kaylie's family has been able to find a house to rent | 0:42:47 | 0:42:50 | |
and today they are leaving the motel. | 0:42:50 | 0:42:53 | |
But moving house is one of the most stressful things a family can do. | 0:42:53 | 0:42:57 | |
Even more so when it's the second time in just a couple of months. | 0:42:57 | 0:43:01 | |
I'm looking forward to moving away from here, | 0:43:04 | 0:43:07 | |
because I really do not want to live here because we don't have space. | 0:43:07 | 0:43:12 | |
Kaylie! | 0:43:12 | 0:43:14 | |
Kaylie! | 0:43:14 | 0:43:15 | |
Kylie, just wait, I'll do it! | 0:43:20 | 0:43:22 | |
Start by going to pick up all that stuff by the sink over there. | 0:43:24 | 0:43:27 | |
Oh, my God! I got to pack my toys. | 0:43:27 | 0:43:31 | |
Bad enough we left my toys at the fricking other house. | 0:43:33 | 0:43:38 | |
Aaargh! | 0:43:47 | 0:43:48 | |
Kaylie, you're picking, I want that sink cleaned out. | 0:43:51 | 0:43:54 | |
Kaylie! Sink, underneath of it! | 0:43:54 | 0:43:57 | |
I want all that stuff cleaned out the sink. | 0:43:57 | 0:44:00 | |
Well, you're standing in my way, | 0:44:00 | 0:44:02 | |
you see me over there cleaning it! | 0:44:02 | 0:44:04 | |
Trash. You going to take it to the dumpster? | 0:44:06 | 0:44:08 | |
Go, Jesus! | 0:44:08 | 0:44:10 | |
'She is one crazy mom.' | 0:44:10 | 0:44:12 | |
She's tiring, but I still love her. | 0:44:12 | 0:44:15 | |
She really needs to work on the yelling. | 0:44:15 | 0:44:18 | |
I don't care if she hears this, sister, | 0:44:20 | 0:44:22 | |
she needs to work on her yelling. | 0:44:22 | 0:44:24 | |
Cos I do not want to get yelled at when we're moving. | 0:44:25 | 0:44:27 | |
She does this all the time. | 0:44:27 | 0:44:29 | |
The only stressful moment | 0:44:30 | 0:44:34 | |
is now when we're moving | 0:44:34 | 0:44:36 | |
and she says she was going to do it happily. | 0:44:36 | 0:44:38 | |
MOM YELLS | 0:44:40 | 0:44:43 | |
What part of "You shut up" do you not get? | 0:44:44 | 0:44:47 | |
Fricking...arrgh! | 0:44:49 | 0:44:51 | |
I want to scream. | 0:44:55 | 0:44:57 | |
I'm going to explode. | 0:45:00 | 0:45:02 | |
The family can barely afford the rent for the new house. | 0:45:08 | 0:45:11 | |
In fact, they are depending on their gran to pay the first month | 0:45:11 | 0:45:15 | |
and hoping the charity will help them after that. | 0:45:15 | 0:45:18 | |
There's no money left over for furniture. | 0:45:18 | 0:45:20 | |
Hey, Tanner, let's go and look at our new house. Come on! | 0:45:20 | 0:45:23 | |
This is our living room, | 0:45:23 | 0:45:25 | |
this is the kitchen. | 0:45:25 | 0:45:27 | |
Come on, let's go upstairs! | 0:45:27 | 0:45:30 | |
There's Mom's room. | 0:45:30 | 0:45:32 | |
Oh! | 0:45:32 | 0:45:34 | |
How can you do this up all these stairs? Come on, Tanner. | 0:45:34 | 0:45:38 | |
SHE LAUGHS | 0:45:40 | 0:45:41 | |
And here's my room! | 0:45:41 | 0:45:43 | |
What are you doing? | 0:45:44 | 0:45:46 | |
Now, I'm going to have to put a rug over that. Come on, Tanner! | 0:45:46 | 0:45:49 | |
At my new home, I kind of like it and I kind of don't. | 0:45:51 | 0:45:55 | |
I mostly sleep on the floor. | 0:45:55 | 0:45:58 | |
It would be more comfortable with a bed. | 0:45:58 | 0:46:00 | |
SHE LAUGHS | 0:46:00 | 0:46:03 | |
Winter. | 0:46:04 | 0:46:05 | |
There's really nothing to do, just fold my clothes, | 0:46:05 | 0:46:09 | |
mess them all up, fold them, mess them all up, fold them. | 0:46:09 | 0:46:13 | |
Or clean. | 0:46:13 | 0:46:14 | |
But there's not much to clean, but the kitchen. | 0:46:15 | 0:46:19 | |
So... | 0:46:19 | 0:46:20 | |
Some kids have large houses. | 0:46:22 | 0:46:24 | |
They can have whatever they want. | 0:46:24 | 0:46:28 | |
But I think my mom, | 0:46:28 | 0:46:32 | |
she kind of made a wrong turn or something. | 0:46:32 | 0:46:36 | |
So that's what all started this. | 0:46:36 | 0:46:38 | |
The good news for Jonny's family is that they have finally moved | 0:46:43 | 0:46:47 | |
to a self-contained apartment in the Salvation Army shelter. | 0:46:47 | 0:46:50 | |
They can now lock their own front door. | 0:46:50 | 0:46:53 | |
But this also means they no longer qualify | 0:46:53 | 0:46:55 | |
for free meals in the shelter canteen. | 0:46:55 | 0:46:58 | |
We are in our new apartment in transitional housing. | 0:47:02 | 0:47:07 | |
My mom says it's harder, | 0:47:07 | 0:47:08 | |
because she has to spend a lot of money to feed us. | 0:47:08 | 0:47:12 | |
And to spend a lot of money to get the house together and buy stuff. | 0:47:12 | 0:47:15 | |
You getting too big. | 0:47:16 | 0:47:18 | |
You always want something extra. | 0:47:18 | 0:47:20 | |
I don't want nothing extra. | 0:47:20 | 0:47:21 | |
-Yes, you do - you want a phone, you want shoes... -I got a phone. | 0:47:21 | 0:47:25 | |
I'm not wearing no Earthwalkers outside. No, sir. | 0:47:25 | 0:47:28 | |
Jordans and Nikes. | 0:47:28 | 0:47:30 | |
-Jonny, Nikes and Jordans are expensive, just for a name. -I know. | 0:47:30 | 0:47:34 | |
That makes no sense. | 0:47:34 | 0:47:36 | |
You need a job. | 0:47:36 | 0:47:37 | |
Nikes are not expensive. | 0:47:38 | 0:47:40 | |
Look, I've been buying Josh shoes after shoes after shoes. | 0:47:40 | 0:47:43 | |
I can't afford it. Now, what? | 0:47:43 | 0:47:45 | |
Walmart? You got to take Walmart. | 0:47:45 | 0:47:48 | |
What else can I do? At least his feet not dragging the ground. | 0:47:50 | 0:47:52 | |
There were some Jordan flip-flops in there for 30 bucks. | 0:47:52 | 0:47:56 | |
Now, that's a great deal, you cannot find no Jordan flip-flops, | 0:47:56 | 0:47:59 | |
the brand new kind, for 30 bucks. | 0:47:59 | 0:48:01 | |
-They're probably not real, but... -Is that a great deal? | 0:48:01 | 0:48:04 | |
When I can go to Walmart and buy... | 0:48:04 | 0:48:07 | |
The shoes I'm wearing I got from Walmart for 5. | 0:48:07 | 0:48:11 | |
I'm talking about name brand stuff. That's a good deal, Mamma. | 0:48:11 | 0:48:15 | |
-My sandals are nice, right? 5. You want some of those, right? -Ma! | 0:48:15 | 0:48:19 | |
See, that's why I like you all when you all small. | 0:48:19 | 0:48:22 | |
They like, they accept stuff. You getting too big. | 0:48:22 | 0:48:25 | |
Your feet growing, you need grown people's shoes now. | 0:48:27 | 0:48:32 | |
Oooh, please stop growing! | 0:48:32 | 0:48:34 | |
SHE LAUGHS | 0:48:34 | 0:48:36 | |
We had more money in the shelter part than we have here, | 0:48:38 | 0:48:40 | |
because now, everything is all on our own now. | 0:48:40 | 0:48:43 | |
Down there, we took everything for granted. | 0:48:44 | 0:48:48 | |
You get free food every day, | 0:48:48 | 0:48:51 | |
you get a free place to live. | 0:48:51 | 0:48:53 | |
MOTHER LAUGHS | 0:48:54 | 0:48:56 | |
Here's one of Tom's old business cards. | 0:48:56 | 0:49:00 | |
Oh, yeah, I remember T&C! | 0:49:00 | 0:49:02 | |
-T&C, Tom and Classy. -Yeah. | 0:49:02 | 0:49:05 | |
SHE LAUGHS | 0:49:05 | 0:49:06 | |
It was me and him all the time. | 0:49:06 | 0:49:08 | |
Until the recession, the family had their own business. | 0:49:08 | 0:49:12 | |
The plan now is for Tom to do odd jobs in his spare time | 0:49:12 | 0:49:15 | |
to raise some extra cash. | 0:49:15 | 0:49:17 | |
I know we lost a lot with the business. | 0:49:17 | 0:49:19 | |
Me and Tom every day putting our heads together | 0:49:19 | 0:49:22 | |
trying to think about what else can we do | 0:49:22 | 0:49:25 | |
to get ourselves out of this? | 0:49:25 | 0:49:28 | |
See what we can come up with to make some extra money. | 0:49:28 | 0:49:33 | |
So we wouldn't be in a hole all the time | 0:49:33 | 0:49:35 | |
or just barely trying to find food. | 0:49:35 | 0:49:38 | |
I mean, I would think at least everybody in America | 0:49:38 | 0:49:41 | |
can have some food and housing. | 0:49:41 | 0:49:44 | |
The poorest man, a place to sleep and food. | 0:49:44 | 0:49:47 | |
And it's not that way. | 0:49:47 | 0:49:49 | |
It's a little rough. | 0:49:49 | 0:49:51 | |
A lot rough. | 0:49:51 | 0:49:53 | |
'All I want is to play football, but football is expensive. | 0:49:56 | 0:50:01 | |
'I can name a few of the items I need and want for my sports, | 0:50:01 | 0:50:06 | |
'but I've just got to wait until the next time my mamma can afford it.' | 0:50:06 | 0:50:11 | |
Ooh, good one, good one! | 0:50:11 | 0:50:13 | |
'I'm 14.' | 0:50:13 | 0:50:14 | |
My life is... | 0:50:16 | 0:50:18 | |
..almost over until I'm a grown man. | 0:50:20 | 0:50:23 | |
And if I don't have an opportunity to show somebody to play football, | 0:50:23 | 0:50:27 | |
football won't exist in four years from now. | 0:50:27 | 0:50:31 | |
If I don't get to play on the team this year, | 0:50:31 | 0:50:33 | |
that dream is going to slowly start fading away. | 0:50:33 | 0:50:36 | |
That's what happens to some of the dreams of kids. | 0:50:36 | 0:50:40 | |
They pretend it's something | 0:50:40 | 0:50:42 | |
and they can't afford it or can't do it. | 0:50:42 | 0:50:45 | |
MUSIC PLAYS | 0:50:53 | 0:50:56 | |
# ..Has it gone as we'd expected? | 0:50:56 | 0:51:00 | |
# But will we be better off | 0:51:00 | 0:51:02 | |
# If Romney gets elected? | 0:51:02 | 0:51:05 | |
# Then, we'll really get | 0:51:05 | 0:51:09 | |
# What we deserve! # | 0:51:09 | 0:51:12 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 0:51:12 | 0:51:19 | |
Today, the San Francisco Mime Troupe is performing political satire. | 0:51:19 | 0:51:25 | |
My mother, she's desperately poor! | 0:51:25 | 0:51:29 | |
-Poor? In America? -Yes! | 0:51:29 | 0:51:32 | |
The good news is we got Thomas Payne | 0:51:32 | 0:51:38 | |
and they're just doing maintenancing. | 0:51:38 | 0:51:42 | |
Next week, we're going to sign the lease. | 0:51:42 | 0:51:45 | |
My house! | 0:51:48 | 0:51:50 | |
I've counted how many stairs there are - there's 15. | 0:51:50 | 0:51:53 | |
'When I saw this house for the first time, | 0:51:53 | 0:51:55 | |
'I was speechless, I couldn't talk.' | 0:51:55 | 0:51:58 | |
This is our large bathroom, mine and my sister's. | 0:51:58 | 0:52:02 | |
I love it. | 0:52:02 | 0:52:03 | |
This is my room. | 0:52:03 | 0:52:05 | |
I like it cos it's got my bells on the door. | 0:52:05 | 0:52:07 | |
This house is ours. | 0:52:07 | 0:52:10 | |
No room mates, no, um... | 0:52:10 | 0:52:12 | |
..probably no eviction notices. | 0:52:15 | 0:52:18 | |
I won't forget this experience, because it's... | 0:52:20 | 0:52:24 | |
it's a life-changer, you know. | 0:52:24 | 0:52:27 | |
SHE CHUCKLES | 0:52:27 | 0:52:28 | |
No kid should have to go through this. | 0:52:30 | 0:52:33 | |
Um... Yet, every day, kids do. | 0:52:34 | 0:52:38 | |
And... | 0:52:39 | 0:52:40 | |
..it's just crazy. | 0:52:42 | 0:52:44 | |
We're going to a tea party. Ooh, tea... | 0:52:44 | 0:52:47 | |
'It's not a fun experience, | 0:52:47 | 0:52:49 | |
'it's just annoying that people say, "Oh, it doesn't matter, | 0:52:49 | 0:52:53 | |
'"it's just a little problem, it's over now, get over it." | 0:52:53 | 0:52:57 | |
'No. | 0:52:57 | 0:52:59 | |
'It's not over, | 0:52:59 | 0:53:02 | |
'it changes you.' | 0:53:02 | 0:53:03 | |
I may be still the same old obnoxious Sera, | 0:53:05 | 0:53:09 | |
but, deep down, I'm a whole new person. | 0:53:09 | 0:53:14 | |
Well, I'm a whole different person. | 0:53:14 | 0:53:16 | |
'We're back in this motel again | 0:53:36 | 0:53:37 | |
'because we got kicked out of the duplex. | 0:53:37 | 0:53:40 | |
'My mom didn't pay the rent. | 0:53:40 | 0:53:43 | |
'And so, then, we went to Motel Six | 0:53:43 | 0:53:48 | |
'and then, we went to this Twin Bridges Hotel | 0:53:48 | 0:53:53 | |
'and then, we went to here. | 0:53:53 | 0:53:54 | |
'Oh, God, we went to so many places' | 0:53:56 | 0:53:58 | |
even talking about it is making me dizzy. | 0:53:58 | 0:54:00 | |
SHE LAUGHS | 0:54:00 | 0:54:02 | |
Come on, it's over filled, Kaylie. | 0:54:02 | 0:54:04 | |
Look, it's not going in. | 0:54:04 | 0:54:06 | |
Oh, well, move, I can make it work. | 0:54:06 | 0:54:09 | |
Yes, it will! | 0:54:09 | 0:54:12 | |
Mom's latest plan is to get a trailer | 0:54:12 | 0:54:15 | |
so the family can have a more stable home. | 0:54:15 | 0:54:17 | |
But, in the meantime, Kaylie's education is suffering. | 0:54:17 | 0:54:22 | |
Why can't I go to school? | 0:54:22 | 0:54:24 | |
I will get you in school, but we've got to wait till we get a trailer, | 0:54:24 | 0:54:28 | |
which is only, like, a few days away. | 0:54:28 | 0:54:31 | |
So there's no sense of putting you in school over here | 0:54:31 | 0:54:34 | |
if we're going to be switching to Iowa over there. | 0:54:34 | 0:54:37 | |
OK. | 0:54:37 | 0:54:39 | |
We've been moving around a lot between Iowa and Moline | 0:54:39 | 0:54:43 | |
that my mom can't sign us up for school. | 0:54:43 | 0:54:47 | |
I wouldn't want to go to school | 0:54:47 | 0:54:49 | |
and then going to a different school, like, one or two weeks later. | 0:54:49 | 0:54:54 | |
If you go to school and then, like, one or two weeks, | 0:54:54 | 0:54:59 | |
you're going to have to move, | 0:54:59 | 0:55:01 | |
but then, you have to move from all your new friends, all your teachers | 0:55:01 | 0:55:04 | |
when you have such a good time. | 0:55:04 | 0:55:07 | |
And so, my mom says we're going to get in school | 0:55:07 | 0:55:13 | |
when we move into the trailer that we are getting. | 0:55:13 | 0:55:18 | |
The trailer is very liveable, it has floors, | 0:55:18 | 0:55:22 | |
we're going to be re-doing it. | 0:55:22 | 0:55:24 | |
Am I going to have to crawl in with the snakes | 0:55:24 | 0:55:26 | |
-to get the pipes unfrozen? -No. | 0:55:26 | 0:55:28 | |
No, it's all, that's all taken care of. | 0:55:28 | 0:55:30 | |
-The best thing to do is put hay bales around it. -I know. | 0:55:30 | 0:55:33 | |
We're going to get some of those. | 0:55:33 | 0:55:34 | |
We're going to be moving the trailer probably in a couple of summers. | 0:55:34 | 0:55:39 | |
But that'll be two years away. | 0:55:39 | 0:55:41 | |
Cos we have to have a two-year lease. | 0:55:41 | 0:55:44 | |
If we stay there two years. | 0:55:44 | 0:55:46 | |
'I really want to be in school.' | 0:55:46 | 0:55:48 | |
Because if you don't get a good education, | 0:55:48 | 0:55:52 | |
then...you don't get much money, | 0:55:52 | 0:55:58 | |
you don't get a good job, | 0:55:58 | 0:56:01 | |
you end up sleeping at your mom's. | 0:56:01 | 0:56:05 | |
You end up, you end up being behind a lot of rent | 0:56:05 | 0:56:09 | |
'and then, you get kicked out. | 0:56:09 | 0:56:11 | |
'You end up being homeless and then, with no food.' | 0:56:11 | 0:56:14 | |
Attack. | 0:56:14 | 0:56:15 | |
If I keep missing school, | 0:56:17 | 0:56:19 | |
then, I see my future poor, | 0:56:19 | 0:56:21 | |
on the streets, in a box. | 0:56:21 | 0:56:24 | |
Not even. And...asking for money. | 0:56:24 | 0:56:29 | |
Everywhere... | 0:56:29 | 0:56:31 | |
..everybody. And then, stealing stuff from stores. | 0:56:32 | 0:56:36 | |
And, yeah... | 0:56:36 | 0:56:38 | |
..I don't want to steal stuff. | 0:56:39 | 0:56:42 | |
I don't want to do any of that stuff. | 0:56:42 | 0:56:44 | |
I want to get an education and a good job. | 0:56:44 | 0:56:47 | |
Poverty affects every aspect of a child's life. | 0:56:56 | 0:57:00 | |
Their education, health and future prospects all suffer. | 0:57:00 | 0:57:04 | |
Since 2007, the number of homeless children across the US | 0:57:05 | 0:57:09 | |
has increased by almost half a million. | 0:57:09 | 0:57:12 | |
Unless the world's wealthiest nation can build more effective safety nets | 0:57:12 | 0:57:16 | |
for its most vulnerable, young citizens, | 0:57:16 | 0:57:19 | |
millions more could follow. | 0:57:19 | 0:57:21 | |
People who come in a homeless shelter, | 0:57:22 | 0:57:26 | |
they can just be somebody | 0:57:26 | 0:57:28 | |
who was living good at one time and had it all | 0:57:28 | 0:57:31 | |
to a bill that didn't get paid. | 0:57:31 | 0:57:34 | |
Off a utility bill, a payment, a foreclose, anything. | 0:57:34 | 0:57:39 | |
Anything can easily take them straight down to the floor | 0:57:39 | 0:57:42 | |
and into ground zero. | 0:57:42 | 0:57:43 | |
Life is a lot of a maze. | 0:57:47 | 0:57:49 | |
SHE CHUCKLES | 0:57:49 | 0:57:51 | |
There is ALWAYS dead ends | 0:57:51 | 0:57:55 | |
and you've got to turn around, | 0:57:55 | 0:57:57 | |
pick yourself up and turn around and go the other way. | 0:57:57 | 0:58:00 | |
But, in the end, you always get out of a maze. | 0:58:00 | 0:58:05 | |
The way I live... | 0:58:08 | 0:58:10 | |
..it's a lesson. | 0:58:11 | 0:58:13 | |
I believe that I'm going to get a perfect job that I like | 0:58:15 | 0:58:20 | |
and that I want to do. | 0:58:20 | 0:58:22 | |
People can't stop you from believing in your own dreams. | 0:58:22 | 0:58:25 | |
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