:00:12. > :00:15.It is election year in the richest country in the world. But tend
:00:16. > :00:21.cities for the homeless are springing up around the nation. Are
:00:21. > :00:25.you sleeping here? There's not a lot of space in there. Tonight,
:00:25. > :00:31.Panorama find out what it means to be poor in America. From the storm
:00:31. > :00:36.drains under Las Vegas. We look up and about 50 yards away from us
:00:36. > :00:41.there is about a foot and a half of water rushing towards us. To the
:00:41. > :00:47.1.5 million homeless children. went to bed hungry because my
:00:47. > :00:53.parents didn't make anything. We have nothing to eat. And the all-
:00:53. > :00:58.night queues to see doctors. You've brought some blankets? In a country
:00:58. > :01:02.where 50 million don't have health insurance. No money, no doctors.
:01:02. > :01:12.The the ask what happened to President Obama's vision for
:01:12. > :01:26.
:01:26. > :01:36.Las Vegas, the capital of capitalism. Home of the dream that
:01:36. > :01:37.
:01:37. > :01:47.with hard work and luck, anyone can But there is another world below.
:01:47. > :01:49.
:01:49. > :01:56.These are storm drains that run and of the city. A vast labyrinth which
:01:56. > :02:01.has become a home for struggling Americans. $16 million a night are
:02:01. > :02:06.frittered away just a few feet above. While some down here have it
:02:06. > :02:10.swapped a bed for what looks like a cardboard coffin. These tunnels
:02:10. > :02:15.criss-cross for 200 miles under Las Vegas, and about 300 to 400 people
:02:15. > :02:18.live down here. There is a fierce debate in America about what now
:02:18. > :02:28.has become a staggering gap between those at the bottom and those on
:02:28. > :02:29.
:02:29. > :02:34.Right under the throb of the casinos lives Ned. He used to live
:02:34. > :02:39.in a nice flat. He was a well paid tiler. But, like 30 million
:02:39. > :02:47.Americans, he is now jobless. His partner, Donielle, tries to make
:02:47. > :02:53.their space look like home. Why did you come to Vegas? Work. To get re-
:02:53. > :03:00.established. It was prior to the economy being heard as it is now.
:03:00. > :03:04.Once we got to Vegas it kind of stumbled. Four months ago they
:03:04. > :03:08.swapped their middle-class life for life in a drain. A world filled
:03:08. > :03:16.with drugs, alcohol and filth. What do you miss about your previous
:03:16. > :03:21.lives? You take for granted the conveniences of power, hot-water, a
:03:21. > :03:30.refrigerator to keep food well. She is a great cook, I love to cook as
:03:30. > :03:33.well. But no fridge is the least of their problems. They live now win
:03:33. > :03:40.their fragile existence can be wiped out at a moment's notice, by
:03:40. > :03:44.flash floods. We look up and about 50 yards away from us they raised
:03:44. > :03:49.about a foot and a half of water rushing towards us. Everything was
:03:49. > :03:58.taken. The water got to about two betide. How often does that happen?
:03:58. > :04:02.As often as it rains in Vegas you will get floods. In the evenings,
:04:02. > :04:07.Ned and Donielle go above ground to hand out flyers for nightclubs.
:04:07. > :04:14.They hustle for review dollars of ticks and commission. Are you guys
:04:14. > :04:18.going out tonight? But America's immense wealth passes them by. How
:04:18. > :04:24.do you cope with it, it must be stressful? A you wake up and
:04:24. > :04:34.breathe and no it's going to keep on. It's going to get better.
:04:34. > :04:35.
:04:35. > :04:41.have to keep your faith about two. -- about you. After dawn, on the
:04:41. > :04:45.other side of town, the local school bus takes a surprising route.
:04:45. > :04:53.Every day it picks up a group of children outside a cheap motel
:04:53. > :04:57.where they live. This is the face of America's massive and employment.
:04:57. > :05:04.-- unemployment. Here, in the richest country on earth, there are
:05:04. > :05:09.more than 1.5 million children without homes. At which the -- at
:05:09. > :05:13.Whitney School, that means about half the children. Joshua, one of
:05:13. > :05:17.the students who lives in the motel, squashes in with his brother,
:05:17. > :05:22.sister and parents. It is a big change. They used to have three
:05:22. > :05:30.bedrooms, a three-car garage and a hot tub. It looks like a big house.
:05:30. > :05:35.It was pretty big. They look really happy. Yeah. They were. They left
:05:35. > :05:39.home unable to afford the rent, after Rick, but Dad, lost his car
:05:39. > :05:44.repair job. There are almost 3 million more unemployed Americans
:05:44. > :05:47.now than when President Obama was first elected. And the ranks of
:05:48. > :05:54.America's poor are being swelled by people like them, he used to be
:05:54. > :06:00.comfortably off. We are really dried up. We couldn't live off what
:06:00. > :06:04.they gave any more, so I tried to find any job and nobody was hiring.
:06:04. > :06:12.Virtually destitute, they squatted for months in an abandoned trailer
:06:12. > :06:14.without water or light. Rake, like many Americans, didn't qualify for
:06:14. > :06:22.unemployment pay. Later, he picked up some part-time work and they
:06:22. > :06:25.moved here. It is much better but it's still very different than home.
:06:25. > :06:28.The only time I thought there was something wrong was about four
:06:29. > :06:33.months ago when they had a gang shoot off over there. What do you
:06:33. > :06:42.think about it? I don't like it here because there's a lot of bad
:06:42. > :06:47.people over here. Gangsters, drug dealers. Lalani, and normally
:06:47. > :06:51.confident 14-year-old, has become reclusive. I had to take her to the
:06:51. > :06:59.hospital because they said she had the starting of an Also. Evidently
:06:59. > :07:04.she was worrying. You don't talk about it? Too painful? I don't want
:07:04. > :07:11.my kids... I don't want them to have to dwell and worry about
:07:11. > :07:17.grown-up stuff. What does the future hold? I hope that we get
:07:17. > :07:24.into a house at some point. Have some freedom and space. Instead of
:07:24. > :07:32.just always having to... The other day my son, he said, can I get a
:07:32. > :07:40.haircut? And we told him that he had to wait. Something as simple as
:07:40. > :07:46.a haircut. I don't want to have to worry about that. It has been hell.
:07:46. > :07:51.A couple of times I really wanted to kill myself. I didn't want to
:07:51. > :07:58.live this life any more. There are now 47 million Americans who
:07:58. > :08:03.qualify as being poor. The most in over half a century. And, across
:08:03. > :08:09.the country, there is anger. Because a fifth of America's income
:08:09. > :08:19.is earned by a very wealthy 1% of the population. America is now
:08:19. > :08:25.
:08:25. > :08:30.deeply divided and it was all meant President Obama was elected on his
:08:30. > :08:34.promise to bring jobs back by putting ordinary Americans' first.
:08:34. > :08:40.Back then, the country blamed corporate excess for the crash and
:08:40. > :08:45.was behind him. Today I say to you that the challenges we face are
:08:45. > :08:55.real. They are serious and they are many, but know this, America, they
:08:55. > :08:57.
:08:57. > :09:01.But a year ago the President lost control of Congress and now has to
:09:01. > :09:05.compromise with the Republicans. They blame his spending policies
:09:05. > :09:11.and the 1.3 trillion dollars budget deficit for bringing the economy
:09:12. > :09:15.down. They say hard work is the answer, not handouts. Really poor
:09:15. > :09:23.children in really poor neighbourhoods have no habits of
:09:23. > :09:27.working. At one extreme Republican President hopeful, Newt Gingrich,
:09:27. > :09:31.suggests bringing back child labour. So what if they became assistant
:09:31. > :09:36.janitors and their job was to mop the floor and clean the bathroom?
:09:37. > :09:40.And you pay them. The debate has polarised America and become
:09:40. > :09:46.increasingly bitter on both sides. This guy is leading in the
:09:46. > :09:53.Republican field. Maybe that is why he is leading. Yeah, make them
:09:53. > :10:02.scrubber up, their kids, make them janitor for our kids. Mop the floor
:10:02. > :10:06.Many of President Obama's conservative opponents say the
:10:06. > :10:12.poverty debate is absurd because so-called poor Americans are not
:10:12. > :10:18.poor at all. Half of poor people have computers, about 40 % of them
:10:18. > :10:21.have widescreen HDTV use. They have totally adequate food to eat. When
:10:21. > :10:26.you interview the poor you ask them, were your children ever hungry at
:10:27. > :10:36.any point in the year? 96 % will say, no, our children were not
:10:36. > :10:40.hungry. They get a double bag, a bottle of water. But back at
:10:40. > :10:44.Whitney School, the teachers see a different reality. Three school
:10:44. > :10:49.meals only get the children here through the week. So on Fridays
:10:49. > :10:55.they pack them food for the weekend, too. We need to make about 150 bags.
:10:55. > :11:01.These are beeforoni. They are pop top because a lot of the kids don't
:11:01. > :11:06.have cooking facilities. They can eat it cold if the need to.
:11:06. > :11:13.fact is that now 20 million Americans, almost half the poor,
:11:13. > :11:18.earn less than $11,000, or �7,000 a year, for a family of four. The
:11:18. > :11:23.numbers living in deeper poverty have exploded under President Obama.
:11:23. > :11:26.I work in the cafeteria for lunch duty. A lot of times I would see
:11:26. > :11:30.children putting ketchup packets in their pockets, lots of them, to
:11:30. > :11:38.take home for what they do, they add a little water to them and make
:11:38. > :11:42.soup. Just noticing that the kids were hungry all the time.
:11:42. > :11:47.teachers told us poor children here eight very bad day at home. But we
:11:47. > :11:50.assumed they had enough food. They got together a group of pupils
:11:50. > :11:58.whose families they know are struggling. We don't have any
:11:58. > :12:06.dinner. How often does that happen? It's already happened five times.
:12:06. > :12:11.How has that felt? It felt kind of weird because it felt like I was
:12:11. > :12:18.getting dizzy one time. Have you ever not been able to have dinner
:12:18. > :12:24.at home? Yeah. I went to bed hungry because my parents didn't make
:12:24. > :12:29.anything. We have nothing to eat, so I just went to bed and waited
:12:29. > :12:37.until I went to school to eat. I was very, very hungry. How did that
:12:37. > :12:43.feel? When I went to bed I tried to ignore it but my tummy kept on
:12:43. > :12:48.growling and growling. Stephen is troubled by a host of worries most
:12:48. > :12:52.eight year-olds don't have. His mother is pregnant. I worry we
:12:52. > :12:58.won't have enough money to have food for the baby. I feel really
:12:58. > :13:05.sad. My mum thinks she is going to give it to adoption, but I'm not
:13:05. > :13:14.sure if it costs money. Lesley is six. She was more withdrawn than
:13:14. > :13:21.the others. My mum at eight wrath. -- was eating rats. Is that
:13:21. > :13:31.something you eat a lot audited just happen once? Ones. Was that
:13:31. > :13:38.
:13:38. > :13:42.because she ran out of food? Yeah. Still, in the debate over poverty,
:13:42. > :13:45.the Conservatives don't accept that food shortages are widespread. And
:13:45. > :13:52.the last thing you do they want is to see more money spent on welfare
:13:52. > :13:55.when America can't afford it. The Department of Agriculture says 6.4
:13:55. > :14:00.million families have very low food security. That means that they do
:14:00. > :14:06.sometimes not have enough food. it does not. It explicitly says
:14:06. > :14:10.that is not the case. It says that what they have is potentially some
:14:11. > :14:14.disruption temporarily... reading the definition. Food intake
:14:14. > :14:18.reduced at least some time during the year because they couldn't
:14:18. > :14:23.afford enough food. Yes. And that would mean at one point in the year
:14:23. > :14:26.they may have shrunk the size of their meals. Again, if you ask the
:14:26. > :14:31.same families, did your children have enough to eat? The
:14:31. > :14:35.overwhelming majority of them will say yes. Lesley's teacher says
:14:35. > :14:38.she's often distracted and is finding it difficult to learn.
:14:38. > :14:44.Stephen Fry's really hard in class and is coping. But most of the
:14:44. > :14:46.children here are a year or two behind. The dream is that these
:14:47. > :14:51.children will be on the same level playing field as every other child
:14:51. > :14:54.in America. We know that doesn't happen because they are in such
:14:54. > :14:58.survival mode. They can't possibly learn because they are not thinking
:14:58. > :15:03.about learning. They are thinking about their shoes hurting, where
:15:03. > :15:07.they are going to sleep at night, or their tummies are crumbling.
:15:07. > :15:09.President himself admits America is more unequal than it's been since
:15:09. > :15:19.the Great Depression. Even many of his own supporters say he has
:15:19. > :15:22.
:15:22. > :15:25.America now has by many standards the lowest social mobility of all
:15:25. > :15:32.of the high-income countries, meaning that a child born into
:15:32. > :15:36.poverty is likely to grow up as a poor adult, and this is stunning
:15:36. > :15:42.for a country that not only prides itself as being a middle class
:15:42. > :15:50.society, but as the society where anyone can make it and where social
:15:50. > :15:55.mobility is so high. President Obama admits it's a long
:15:55. > :15:59.road ahead, but claims one historic policy victory in the battle for
:15:59. > :16:04.more social mobility. Two years ago, he signed a healthcare bill that
:16:04. > :16:09.was meant to ensure more Americans could afford to see doctors, and so
:16:09. > :16:14.what of it? It's really cold. It's 2.00am in
:16:14. > :16:20.the morning. I'm in rural Tennessee. I'm not alone. There are hundreds
:16:20. > :16:27.of people, all camped for the night in their cars - families, children,
:16:27. > :16:30.the lot. Good morning. How may I help you?
:16:30. > :16:34.It's hard to imagine a scene like this anywhere else in the Western
:16:34. > :16:39.world. People had heard that doctors and dentists were coming in
:16:39. > :16:46.the morning, laying on free consultations, and the disabled and
:16:46. > :16:49.sick had come out in their hundreds. I came to an event like this three
:16:49. > :16:54.years ago. It was exactly what the newly elected President Obama had
:16:54. > :16:59.promised to change. But today's scene is almost
:16:59. > :17:06.identical. Tell about your teeth. How are your teeth? Are they
:17:06. > :17:16.hurting you? Which ones are they? Top. The top?
:17:16. > :17:22.They broke off? Yeah, about four of them broke off. Can we see? See?
:17:22. > :17:28.Have you been to see a dentist at all? When you're of single-income,
:17:28. > :17:34.it's hard. It's expensive. So you lost your job. You lost your
:17:34. > :17:40.medical care. No job, no doctor - that's how it is here? No job, no
:17:40. > :17:47.doctor - no job, no money, no doctor, you know? Six, seven, eight.
:17:47. > :17:50.Finally, after four hours, the doors open. 14. Thank you. You bet.
:17:50. > :17:56.Thanks for coming. Stan Brock, born in Britain, started this charity to
:17:56. > :18:00.help people in the Amazon jungle, then he decided America was just as
:18:00. > :18:05.needy. We're going to go 25 at a time, and there are 500 people out
:18:05. > :18:09.there so far, and so it will go pretty quickly.
:18:09. > :18:12.All this is a small glimpse of the fact that 50 million Americans
:18:12. > :18:17.still don't have health insurance. That's almost four million more
:18:17. > :18:22.than when President Obama took office.
:18:22. > :18:28.In a nearby room, Robert has come in to ask about a hernia he's had
:18:28. > :18:33.for ten the years - the bottom line, his intestines are protruding.
:18:33. > :18:38.was the last time it was examined? Never. Really? Robert doesn't have
:18:38. > :18:42.a doctor. Insurance for him and his wife would cost about $5,000
:18:42. > :18:45.annually, and that's almost as much as he earns in a year as a
:18:45. > :18:51.construction worker. The doctor, a volunteer from the National Guard,
:18:51. > :18:56.takes him aside for an examination. I'll wait on you right here.
:18:56. > :19:03.wife Anita is worried. We just don't have the funds, and so he
:19:04. > :19:11.just keeps going, you know? He's not going to complain. He - he just
:19:11. > :19:16.keeps going. He knows he has a family. The doctor here tries to
:19:16. > :19:21.persuade Robert go to the emergency room. I certainly wouldn't put it
:19:21. > :19:29.off. If I go to the emergency room, they're going to send me a bill.
:19:29. > :19:35.The - but the... I know they are. I can't afford to pay no bills.
:19:35. > :19:44.real issue for him is, is this a potential source for infection?
:19:44. > :19:49.Then you get the whole concept of acceptsies, which -- sepsis, which
:19:49. > :19:54.is life threatening. Now Anita is frightened. She tries to persuade
:19:54. > :19:59.him to get medical help. I mean, what they going to do if we can't
:19:59. > :20:07.pay the bill? They can't come and eat us. They can't kill us and eat
:20:07. > :20:13.us. They can't take our home away because we owe a hospital bill.
:20:13. > :20:18.President Obama's new law aims to make health irnshurns cheaper and
:20:18. > :20:21.compulse -- insurance cheaper and compulsory, but many of his reforms
:20:21. > :20:26.don't come into effect for another two years.
:20:26. > :20:32.2009 was a seminal moment for America. Change was promised. It
:20:32. > :20:38.hasn't really happened. Some change has happened. Insurance will start
:20:38. > :20:42.in 2014 if the Republicans don't appeal it. The healthcare bill may
:20:42. > :20:49.not see the light of day. There are now more people uninsured than when
:20:49. > :20:54.President Obama came in. Except if the bill comes in as scheduled -
:20:54. > :21:00.2013, 2014, that'll change, and change sharply. Many Americans may
:21:00. > :21:03.not find what we saw here particularly shocking. Over 40%
:21:03. > :21:07.strongly believe health care is a choice and if you want to see a
:21:07. > :21:11.doctor, you have the pay. The deeply divisive issue hit the stage
:21:11. > :21:15.at a Republican debate recently. The question: what if someone who
:21:15. > :21:20.hadn't bought health insurance went into a coma? Who pays? That's what
:21:20. > :21:23.freedom is about - taking your own risks. This whole idea that you
:21:23. > :21:25.have to prepare and take care of everybody -
:21:25. > :21:30.APPLAUSE Congressman, are you saying society
:21:30. > :21:35.should just let him die? No. CNN debate sparked outrage in some
:21:35. > :21:38.quarters. Yeah, was the response from several audience members about
:21:38. > :21:43.whether society should let the man die. Not a single candidate, it
:21:43. > :21:46.should be pointed out - not a single candidate on the stage
:21:46. > :21:52.stepped forward to say it would be morally wrong to let another
:21:52. > :21:56.American die by withholding medical care.
:21:56. > :22:01.Robert did eventually go to the emergency room. He was told
:22:01. > :22:11.treatment would cost $20,000, and that without it he might get
:22:11. > :22:14.
:22:14. > :22:20.gangrene. But Robert went home. In places now, it's hard to believe
:22:20. > :22:27.that America is the world's economic giant. Detroit looks worse
:22:27. > :22:31.than Beirut. In a day here, we passed only two neighbourhoods that
:22:31. > :22:36.weren't crumbling. President Obama has spent billions on rebuilding
:22:36. > :22:40.Detroit's car industry and America's infrastructure as well as
:22:40. > :22:44.on programmes to fight poverty, but he's up against the historic
:22:44. > :22:47.collapse of the country's manufacturing sector. With little
:22:47. > :22:53.money and half the population now gone, many of Detroit's schools
:22:53. > :22:58.have been shut, like this one. Norbert Kidd used to teach nearby.
:22:58. > :23:03.This used to be the gym, and when the school was operating, there may
:23:03. > :23:07.have been about a thousand kids here. This was a popular place. I
:23:07. > :23:12.was in this many times. It was very active. It was very beautiful.
:23:12. > :23:15.Detroit's become a battleground for the opposing agendas of how to get
:23:15. > :23:19.America back up on its feet. The President still believes the way
:23:19. > :23:23.forward is spending on social services and infrastructure, but
:23:23. > :23:27.there's little to show for it here, and now Republicans have won
:23:27. > :23:31.control of this state and many others. They say overspending and
:23:31. > :23:35.overtaxing is the problem, and they're making cuts, even if it's
:23:35. > :23:41.hard to see what's left to slash. So what have we got? A police
:23:41. > :23:46.station, fire station, courthouse - all in ruins? Yeah, this whole
:23:46. > :23:51.neighbourhood just is crumbled completely. The services in the
:23:51. > :23:55.area are really in trouble. There's not enough money to fund them.
:23:55. > :23:59.They're talking about laying off police officers, fire agents. The
:23:59. > :24:03.libraries are closing. The roads need repair. The lighting is
:24:03. > :24:10.falling apart. We just - my street, for example - the streetlights have
:24:10. > :24:13.been out for like six months. Now Michigan State Government has
:24:13. > :24:17.turned its attention to cutting programmes for the poor. Instead,
:24:17. > :24:22.it's giving tax breaks to business. The Republicans here firmly believe
:24:22. > :24:27.that the market, not a welfare state, will create jobs. We have
:24:27. > :24:32.forgotten where we came from, the spirit of entrepreneurialism, like
:24:32. > :24:37.the idea that it's innovation and technology and hard work that made
:24:37. > :24:46.this country great, and that's what we're really trying to get down to,
:24:46. > :24:50.this concept of economic gardening to lift everybody up. With
:24:50. > :24:57.unemployment - and now cuts too - many homeless shelters here are
:24:57. > :25:02.full. Off a highway 45 minutes from Detroit, we saw how people are now
:25:02. > :25:07.coping. This is one of the many tent cities
:25:07. > :25:11.that have now sprung up all over America. Scattered in these woods,
:25:11. > :25:16.there are 30 tents. People have settled in here for the winter.
:25:16. > :25:22.So this is it? This is it, home sweet home. Anthony and Alena have
:25:22. > :25:27.been here for over a year. Have you had any problems living in
:25:27. > :25:31.the tents? Yeah. The black mould was on our pillows, in our blankets.
:25:31. > :25:36.We were literally rubbing our faces in it sleeping every night, so I
:25:36. > :25:41.have been having coughs for the past, like, four months.
:25:41. > :25:46.The couple are here because Anthony was turned away from the homeless
:25:46. > :25:51.shelter. They referred me to tent city down here. The shelter did?
:25:51. > :26:01.The shelter did. One day they referred 17 people here all at once,
:26:01. > :26:03.
:26:03. > :26:07.and they were overbooked. They weren't ready for that many people.
:26:07. > :26:11.It seems Tent City has become a semi-dumping ground for the
:26:11. > :26:15.homeless here. Last night we got a call saying they had six that
:26:15. > :26:20.couldn't make it into the shelter and if we could place them. We
:26:20. > :26:24.usually get calls around 10.00pm at night the hospital emergency room
:26:24. > :26:29.once called us, other agencies that help people who are trying to find
:26:29. > :26:33.shelter. And it's not just here. Panorama has established that
:26:33. > :26:37.public agencies and overstretched shelters are referring the homeless
:26:37. > :26:41.to tented encampments outside several other cities in America.
:26:41. > :26:47.Do you think it's acceptable that people are living in tents on the
:26:47. > :26:50.side of a highway not far from where we're sitting right now?
:26:50. > :26:54.absolutely not acceptable, and we have to take steps and policies in
:26:54. > :26:56.order to make sure those people have the skills they need to be
:26:56. > :27:00.independent. It won't happen overnight. But that's the problem,
:27:00. > :27:03.isn't it? It's not happening overnight. Here we are in the
:27:03. > :27:07.middle of the crisis, and there's not enough room in the shelter for
:27:07. > :27:11.them, and you're making more cuts. What we could do is the old way -
:27:11. > :27:15.the way of financial collapse of the entire system, and then
:27:15. > :27:20.everybody loses, or we could get our fiscal house in order.
:27:20. > :27:24.America is so deeply divided over its greatest sore - poverty - that
:27:25. > :27:27.it's hard to see how any leader could resolve it. But if anyone had
:27:27. > :27:31.the chance, it was probably President Obama who had so much of
:27:31. > :27:37.the nation behind him when he was first elected. Did his country
:27:37. > :27:42.expect too much of him? That's hard to say because I think he
:27:42. > :27:46.compromised too much too easily. You know, to be fair, President
:27:46. > :27:51.Obama was never a liberal or progressive firebrand. He never
:27:52. > :27:56.claimed to be, you know, a left- wing... But he did promise change.
:27:56. > :28:06.He did promise to tackle poverty. Yes, he did promise change, and he
:28:06. > :28:08.
:28:08. > :28:10.walked into a maelstrom and brought about some real change.
:28:10. > :28:14.Recent unemployment figures have dropped slightly, and the economy
:28:14. > :28:17.is showing some signs of growth, but only some are gaining from it,
:28:17. > :28:24.and this is not the vision of America President Obama's
:28:24. > :28:28.supporters were led to believe in. It's 2012. Almost a million
:28:28. > :28:32.American children sometimes go hungry. And tent cities are
:28:33. > :28:38.springing up across the country. The world's economic powerhouse has
:28:38. > :28:42.a sickness. While both sides blame each other, America can't fully
:28:42. > :28:44.admit its poverty, and it's certainly not dealing with it.
:28:44. > :28:50.Next week on Panorama: Alistair Campbell investigates Britain's