Be thankful for everything you have got. If you have a house mortgage that you’re paying off, food in the fridge, light, warmth, entertainment appliances, car and disposable income you are doing very very well.
No you are rich . I keep reminding my husband of this. He was blessed to find a good job that pays our mortgage and bills and food and he keeps getting into accidents because he can’t stay off the cellphone . I’m so angry with him. He lost his business because he had so many accidents from being on the phone . If we end up homeless it’s gonna be his fault for being fired. He just doesn’t get it. He will not make even a quarter of the money anywhere else that he makes at this job. I lost my job of 7 yrs due to business closing. I can’t find a job that pays even half what I made . All that’s out there are min wage jobs . Nobody wants to pay a decent living wage. We had to keep my husbands life insurance coz if he dies in an accident, I’m not gonna be able to support myself . I’ll lose the house . And we just bought this house back in 2017, no money down. We still have 20 yrs left. Hubby will be 80. We both expect if we live long enough that whoever is left will lose everything to a nursing home. That’s what happens . They take all of your assets . They go back five years. So if u trust someone to put the house in their name so it won’t be taken but most ppl can not be trusted. I have one sister that I trust . But she’s in even worse health condition than I am. And she will end up in a nursing home way before me . She has a condo . That’s gonna get taken . None of us trust her children . And I have no kids . I was in a nursing home to visit my mother in law with hubby. And there was a lovely woman of 101, she told me she has 11 children. None come to visit or wanted to take her in . That made me so sad. They put her in there. I fear the future is to just kill off anyone over 75. They see the elderly as a burden to the system and they don’t want to be paying SS to anyone who’s living to 100. You know ? They expect u to expire before 90.
I am so grateful, thankful. I have all of those things. My condo is paid off. My car is paid off. I have food, clothes, heat. Don't have much disposable income. Retired. I just don't want to be an old lady living on the street.
Multi-million dollar hotel and they pay this guy $11.00 an hour AND expect him to stay looking good by buying his own suits and ties, shoes, etc??? The least they can do is provide him with 5 suits to wear
Yes this is so bad what they are doing to this guy. How are they forcing him to work for so little? Are they holding a gun to his head forcing him to work there? Or threatening his family?
When I was in my twenties....a long time ago, I worked for an audiovisual company that serviced a big hotel. They expected me to wear a three-piece suit as I crawled on the floor connecting cords, etc...for a hair above minimum wage. They lied that I'd be full-time.....I only had ten hours on the schedule! I worked there for half a day and walked out. The owner called me and bitched.....I told him to shove it. Still annoys me to think of this and other jobs that I started and quit immediately that would have been sheer exploitation.
The black woman is a legend she did it ! She put the work in and is improving life for her family and teaching her children how important higher education is, she will make it and succeed I felt her tears and pray for her family .
My brother and his wife did the same, encouraging their children to attend college, unlike my parents that wanted me to be a janitor, making minimum wage at a university where students and falculty treated us custodial workers like crap.
1:36-1:41 = " I'd love to move my kids into that big beautiful gigantic mansion with a pool and luxury but that's more of a dream than reality." It broke my heart into a million pieces. A LION! a REAL mommy.
Jerry is a good guy. Works full time and does voluntary work, Paying for his children that he hasn’t seen in 9 years. Sober. Such a positive attitude. America is a tough tough place for low income earners.
that is a bunch of crap, opportunities are everywhere in america for low income earners. wanna see poor go to indonesia, phillipines, cambodia, ghana, nigeria......people live in complete squallor there....or check out beautiful india cmon you must be joking
A lot of times we encounter people who are doing their jobs at the hotel, restaurant, hospital, etc., and we do not realize the hell they are going through.
I worked in a restaurant last year and the owner was so rude. He made me get napkins and wipe some mayo a customer dropped on the floor. I wanted to use the mop and he said to use "common sense" and use a napkin first so on my knees I went and then used a mop. I quit necause he was horrible
@@fabulouslifeinchrist1349 I worked in a nursing home and we overheard the director of nurses asking the charge nurses if there were enough shit wipers on the schedule.
I’m not an emotional person but the black lady brought a tear to my eye, she is a FIGHTER, she’s looking to progress for her family and God is looking over her, God Bless her and her whole family!
@@dinkdankdoo3035 you know what he is talking about. That all supreme being that created everything and send his only son to suffer and die for the sins of the world so that whoever believes in him (Jesus) and turns from their wicked nature and follows God's laws can have everlasting life. Faith + repentance = salvation
@@dinkdankdoo3035 now dink, I'm not the one being silly here. Are you going to tell me you believe in the scientific impossibility that nothing made everything. I have to admit that regardless of what you believe in all of it sounds crazy, but there are plenty of non-biblical documents of pagans and agnostics who have written about jesus and his good works and that he was crucified. God is only trying to make you into the best person you can be. I can guarantee you it will not hurt one bit.
@Cheri Merchant you are the one coming with the bull. There has to be a big shift in the mentality of poor folks, for them to escape poverty. Now, I think , not you, but your way of thinking is ignorant. You seem not to accept , that the statistics show , poor struggling single women, raising children on there own are most likely to live in poverty. This is one of the things that creates generational poverty, because what do you have to give to help your kids , get a step up in the world? I commend this woman, because she did not get defeated by her environment. Only, if you have the drive , will, resolve, and determination can you escape poverty of this type.
Man, I remember being a full-time CNA making 7.25/hr in 2006, going to nursing night school full-time as a single mother on my own because my husband left me. That crap was hard. I eventually made it through school, thank God, but I will never forget where I came from. The rich just keep getting richer on the poor's backs.
All those children, no extra money, no time and a daughter with cancer ... my goodness she has a lot on her shoulders. I truly hope life turned around for her. I honestly feel for this lady and her family. 🦋
Exactly, a daughter with cancer, an ex-wife earning a lowly salary and an ex-husband who despite their hardships is still refusing to provide for his children. Why she hasn't taken him to court I do not know, but she really shouldn't have to. I'm a divorced father of two teenagers and I give my ex-wife whatever she needs and she earns more than me, but we do both have very good careers tbf. We're both very lucky in that sense, esp with Covid and Lock down. I'd never see my kids or my ex-wife going without, ever.
@@deloramorena8216 You have a point. Why have so many kids if you can’t afford to properly look after just one? Even with the extra money they receive from the govt it’s hardly a comfortable living.
Bad thing about this is, i hadnt realised it had gotten this bad. You use to be called lazy if you were poor. Now you can work your ass of ,and still not make ends meet.
so the people working taking care of our sick and elderly should not be paid well? if every person with decent intelligence and work ethic gets more education or learns a different skill, who is left to take care of our most vulberable? Do you really think that is acceptable? Even nurses make much less in long-term care than any other work setting. Nursing homes are known for being awful. Is it any surprise when people able to get out do in order to get more money?
a l - Only the rich, with money in the bank, liquid assets should have children. Marriage sucks. Jobs suck. Poverty sucks even more. You can divorce. You can quit a job. Poverty tends to stalk us.
a The nurse is fighting the good fight. Other nurses stay in school working on RN degrees, administrative education, etc to get the income a nurse deserves. Still others leave the field because it’s crazy stressful. I became a chemist. Traditionally men’s fields pay well and you can go home after 8 or 9 hours of work
I only shop at used Clothing Stores when shopping for clothing. I make $80k a year and will continue buying used. Just because you have money, doesn't mean you have to waste it. Thanks to my Frugal ways of living, not eating out, and not buying things I don't need, I've saved in the last 9 years close to $150k in my bank, and I support a family of 3 on top of that.
I’m a nurse anesthetist making $230K and I live at home with my parents at 26yo. I shop at Clothes Less Traveled thrift store. I ride a bike to work. I’m secretly saving up to retire my parents. I’m basic, no fancy nails, purses or shoes. I dress out in scrubs provided and laundered by job. I don’t waste money either.
My mom was a single mom with 4 girls. My dad left us when my oldest sister was 14. My mom was one of the hardest working people I have known. These stories are like reliving my childhood.
God bless your mother and God bless your family.. What discussed me and makes me sad. Is when a man brings children into this world with a woman and he refuses to pay child support to Support his own children!! 💯 I am a man I could never do that to my children. ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
ItsFlawlesss from what I got out of this it was filmed in 2002. I started out as a CNA in 2000 and was making $6.65 an hour and was probably making a couple dollars more in 2002. Now they start CNAs at $12.50 and you work your way up. Times have changed, nursing wages have gotten better.
I vaguely remember watching this doc before and the second I saw Bridget I remembered that awful thing Mom said, “She doesn’t fight like I would.” And her whispering “I’m tired.” It’s so hard to not only hear a mother imply their child has failed in some way by suffering and dying, but for that mother to be in healthcare. My god that’s so hard to hear.
That disgust me hearing that and then to tell her daughter shes gonna be left with her kids!! ffs, I bet its killing her daughter knowing shes not going to live long and will never get to see her kids grow, so sad.
Jerry seems like a good man. He talks about his kids and what he wants for them. He pays child support. He's a hard worker. I wish I could help him out. I hope he and all of them are doing better these days.
Laura Bland I’m his daughter . He is doing ok . He is still in California and we are still in NC . We are suppose to be seeing each other next month . It has been 7 years since we saw each other .
Coppington Farnham I worked for them almost 9-10 years ago and worked a few years until we moved. I had to do the work of at least 8 people and made $8-$10,000/year 🤬😭
@@momentsformoms9467 I got a ticket for driving a 1966 Oldsmobile to work at K-Mart (in 1983) with frosted-up windows in the winter since the heater wasn't working properly. I felt like bashing in the back windshield out of sheer frustration, in front of the cop so as to improve my visibility to his liking. My dad had to subsidize my pathetic finances while I was in school because the K-Mart wages for a 25-hr. week were hopelessly inadequate.
i feel for jerry..a man out here working living in a very small room paying 530.00 for rent..and still sending childsupport 200.00 of each month making 12 an hour that's rare these days in the USA! my hat goes off to you!!!👒👌
Are you serious? Since he thrifts, you can teach him how to sell a few things like cute suits on ebay for extra cash. I do that when something gets too small for me.
When I was a kid, my family and I used to go to this diner near our home and there was a waitress we loved. Years later when my brother and I were in our early twenties, we happened to go to another restaurant and saw her there. She was still waitressing and she remembered us. We talked about money and how hard things were and she said to us that people always say that we don't work hard enough in this country if we have to struggle so hard, and that she says back to them that we work just as hard or harder and have less to show for it. Docs like this make this point. These people aren't lazy. They work FT, most days a week and still can't survive. They are the people she was referring to who work hard and have less to show for it. What do they have to show for working every single day of their lives? Not even the bare minimum of contentment and being able to know all of their bills are paid each month. That is criminal.
My mom raised us on her nurses salary in the 70's for about $9-10 an hour....we lived in a nice low income complex in Long Beach, CA for about $300 a month. I had everything I wanted and we went to Disneyland and all the theme parks 4 times a year. She even bought a house later on. But it is all the fees and other costs that makes it not possible today. Food, car, bus, gas, etc. Rents are skyrocketing while salaries remain the same.
Exactly, real wages have not stayed the same as the cost of living so it is impossible for anybody to live on the same wages. You say your mother was earning $10 an hour 40 years ago, the security guy in the video is only earning $11 an hour yet rent, food, utilities, gas, healthcare, education have all tripled if not more. The system is in error not these people my only question is when are Americans going to start doing something about it instead of blaming the poor for their situation?
@ Scott Carmichael According to the statistical data the average wage for 1976 was $4.76 per hour, the highest rates per hour were in the construction industry @ $7.49 per hour. The basic minimum wage in the US as of 2017 is $7.25 per hour....there is something very wrong with what is happening in America and it has nothing to do with how hard a person works. babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015021301612;view=1up;seq=406
+73. Well Americans do (generally speaking) have running water piped into their homes & sanitation systems - its just this egregious tax scheme we have to pay into & the wars we go to die in...plus what been called by media - "collateral damage".
We pay taxes...we are owed a return on our money. Other developed nations have socialized medicine, better schools, better roads, better pensions, longer parental leave, longer vacations, better services. We want better police, reliable firefighters and emt's. I believe we all have a right to clean air and drinkable water.
It’s also true that we shouldn’t be paying rich people for us to be able to live???? No one owns earth!!!! Nobody owes us poor people???? Seriously. A poor man can pick and peel a potato just like everyone else. The rich that we pay into don’t want us to live. Slaves!!!! Grow up and educate yourself on economics fgs!!!! These people wouldn’t be rich without slaves- they wouldn’t be alive without someone feeding them or doing doing it for them. If all the slaves poor or not stopped working then we’d all still survive we’d just have less house, less food, less clothes, less handbags and less selfish fucks who think the poor are worthless and that there is a system to help them. There isn’t!!!!
@@staceykersting705 "We" have most of those things in the US already, assuming you are trashing the US in your comment, that is. You don't actually come out and say it. Why don't you leave your smelly, nasty city and move to a better (i.e. more rural) area of the US that has nice roads, good schools, reliable emergency services, not to mention practically no crime, nice affordable housing, and secure jobs? You're free to. Move, I mean. Anywhere you like. Truly. Send out resumes and see where it takes you. You see, I live here. It does exist. And it's wonderful. Out here, you can work hard at your job and earn benefits, like great healthcare, a fat pension, and longer paid leave. There's no need for the government to hold your hand when it comes to your personal wellbeing, is there? Or is there? Do you feel you aren't capable enough, hon? Because I believe in you. On second thought, maybe you should stay where you are. Your ideals really aren't welcome here. We like to take care of each other and ourselves rather than rely on Uncle Sam to do it for us. Sorry. I wouldn't worry tho. About $1 trillion your tax dollars go to help the poor through welfare and social security programs each year. I hear you guys believe abortion cures poverty. So just wait. It'll sort itself out.
For anyone going through poverty I salute you. Finding a moment in every day to remember that you're a human being is golden. May every tomorrow bring you a new day and keep the woes of yesterday behind you. God bless us all.
True...and they won't pay up until their asses are thrown in jail. They will chase skirt until the cows come home, buy an XBox before they will pay one red cent of child support. I've seen it.
I don't know, maybe part of it's the fact that you're in a hurry. You've grown up on instant orange juice. Flip a dial - instant entertainment. Dial seven digits - instant communication. Turn a key - push a pedal - instant transportation. Flash a card - instant money. Shove in a problem - push a few buttons - instant answers. But some problems you can't get quick answers for, no matter how much you want them. We took a little boy into Central Receiving Hospital yesterday; he's four years old. He weighs eight-and-a-half pounds. His parents just hadn't bothered to feed him. Now give me a fast answer to that one; one that'll stop that from ever happening again. And if you can't settle that one, how about the 55,000 Americans who'll die on the highway this year? That's nearly six or seven times the number that'll get killed in Vietnam. Why aren't you up in arms about that? Or is dying in a car somehow moral? Show me how to wipe out prejudice. I'll settle for the prejudices you have inside yourselves. Show me how to get rid of the unlimited capacity for human beings to make themselves believe they're somehow right - and justified - in stealing from somebody, or hurting somebody, and you'll just about put this place here out of business!
moongirl shining and so many woman foolishly and stupidly have and continue to have kids with men before marriage or men who are worthless. Then barely raise the kids which is why the kids repeat the same thing more often than not and continue to live in the same place just reproducing continuing the cycle. So woman are def to blame as well. And yes this is coming from a single woman, who only dated one guy, is still a virgin, is currently in college without kids cause I ain’t crazy lol...js.
When we lived in my country we were middle class ,we never wore used clothing and when we came to America everything changed .My mom talked to my brother and me and said "well, here we are now we are safe but things are going to be different we will have to wear used clothing and we are going to public school and there will be less money for toys and food .She had become a single mom and she did it we never lacked anything we needed.So great full for the care our mom did for us !Hurray for single moms !!!!
I have studied many documentaries on poverty, and this is the very best IMO, extremely well produced, and from the POV of the people featured over a long period of time. They tell their own stories, which makes this film unique in that they are the narrators. Exceptional production all around.
As someone who has had cancer twice, I was pretty upset by what she said to Bridget. It’s not about ‘fighting’- as a nurse I’ve seen patients fight incredibly hard, but sometimes it’s not within your power. When you are debilitated by cancer treatments it’s also incredibly hard to appear as though you are fighting - some days all you can do is put one foot in front of another! As a ‘motivatiinal’ speech mum- B minus- could do far better!
Excellent documentary. My heart goes out to these incredibly hard-working people. My life is so easy. I couldn't possibly do what they're doing. Sure wish them the best.
He only sends his kids $200 a month and doesn't see them for years at a time yet is a good man for helping the homeless? Sounds like if it weren't for the children's mother they'd be the homeless.
My ex never paid child support. I was fortunate that I only had 1 child and having a degree helped me to be able to support us. My parents helped me by caring for my daughter at times. They are right about getting an education before having kids.
Your situation is all the more reason we need free education in our country! And competent child care, and the necessary time to care for them. The wealthiest get the middle-class and working poor to pay for them. These rich gets millions & millions back in taxes. Do you? USA has become a 3rd world country started with Raygunism, aka: conservatives hero, Reagan. He declared war on the middle-class and poor with destroying unions. We never got off that train. Thanks to Wall Street and Walmart, Amazon, Facebook, defense contractors CEOs, etc... Now they call the shots.
Yea, gives the kid throwing the shoe a good male role model to look up to as well. Seems as though his real dad kinda checked out on him. I hope it all works out. That kid will end up very thankful he walked into their lives.
@@jacobjacob4139 Jacob what an amazing, smart man you are! I'm sure it was hard growing up being hated by your own mommy, but you seem to have adjusted really well my friend! Go get 'em, Alpha Boi
CONGRATS MS. BARBARA, So happy you Graduated, Stay Strong My Sister! Your Heart is Bigger than Life, I Love you and I don't even know you, but you have shown me that Anybody can make It with determination and hard work.
👏👏👏 Standing Ovation for *_Barbara Brooks_** !!!* This woman's name should be *P E R S E V E R E N C E* OMG... the CRAP she went through as a kid/teen!? She could've _easily_ became a statistic. Geezus! 5 kids... Full Time School... Full Time Work! I cried tears of joy for her outcome. There's no one more deserving. I wish all the people well, but WOW, Barbara, what a woman! I hope she's a speaker to inspire others & what an incredible role model she is to her kids 👏👏👏
The lady who went from daycare to recreational therapy is smart and tough. She just need to believe in herself and be more confident. She did a wonderful job with her new job. She’s got the right ideas... just don’t loose sight of that focus. Your awesome!
@@mobutter2879A large number of single mothers became poor upon divorce, because the courts say that the non-custodial spouse takes precedence in their salaries over their families, still after decades of anti-poverty struggles by activists!!
Had to pause this just to say I raised 4 children on my own after their father passed away. Never once did any of my kids throw a thing at me!! That boy that kept throwing things at his mother should have had a belt to his bottom!!! I don't care what you go through there's a thing called respect. And that kid has none.
My dads sister did that to all her kids and one tried to kill her with a power tool and is now in prison for sexual assault. And her three daughters “respect” her by being high school drop outs with multiple baby daddy’s and love to beat their kids infront of people. So....that didn’t seem to work for her. Do you think she should have beat them harder? 😂
You should never physically abuse your children - the trauma that results in may look like 'respect' but it isn't. It's fear and it's going to backfire sooner or later.
Did you hear her swearing at the poor boy though? He's going through his parents' divorce (not to mention the boyfriend...) and is trying to voice his frustration but frankly she doesn't seem able to see his hurt or frustration. This is a future potential offender and it's both his parents' fault.
I don't think it's really that funny in reality, but yeah, she has a sense of humor. Hard to keep one when you are being kicked and held down because our society and govt aren't supportive. BUT, we are if you are rich!
I use to work in nursing home care. It's hard work, and you need to be a very caring and loving person to do it. God bless these woman,mall of them and the man in this looked awesome dressing for his job.
I understand how some of these jobs want you to dress to kill but won't fork over a uniform allowance. If they had to pay for your clothing you would look like hell warmed over! At the last nursing home I worked they said they were going to provide uniforms for us. Boy they didn't do us any favors. Those damn dark green tops and khaki pants looked like a some kind of pool maintenance uniform. I flat out said I wasn't going to wear that damn thing, and I didn't! I wore my powder blue and white scrubs as I always did! Sick people don't want that pukey green shit!
M Paxton Lol. I have worked in a nursing home for the past 16 years. They used to provide us with uniforml allowances, but stopped. I usually wear scrubs, but sometimes I will slap on a pair of jeans and no one says shit.
It was amazing to watch the mother get another awesome job after graduating. She was a happier person arouns her kids and everything. So awesome to watch!!
wow she was making 11 bucks an hour in nursing home almost 15 years ago. it is now 2017 and I'm only getting 11.25/hr taking care of elderly and mentally ill. I have to work full time at two different homes to make ends meet. I have had one day off in last three months. Things haven't changed much
I am a CNA (we call them HCAs here) in Canada and I make about $22 an hour (with an evening shift premium). $11 an hour is shameful, especially considering you take care of people's loved ones.
I am 71 years old. I have a BS DEGREE AND A MASTER'S degree. I taught public school for 18 years and then became a CPS worker until I retired in 2003. The most salary that I have ever received was a little more than 32 thousand a year. I feel like this was poverty salary also.
@@criticalthinker8374 whatever. Poet. Sorry to realign youe chakras but. Its the truth though. How much money you need really depends on what state you live in.
I am just disgusted with all the "men" who do their 20 second pump and dump and leave a trail of kids, ex wives and girlfriends and skip out on paying their OBLIGATION.
@@Sharolynn10 some women disappear with the baby and after a 32 year old young man spends $28,000 to find his baby he doesn't even want to live anymore!
I hope Barbara and her lovely Children are doing well. Bless her for furthering her Education to advance herself. Being a Mother and having to work and go to School is so stressful but I feel this Woman handled it very well! May she and her Children be blessed!
Seriously? Barbara is being helped with food, housing, childcare, utilities and medical care. Another welfare queen with a deadbeat father as a husband.
Erica Berry WelfareQueen=someone who lives off the government, depends on the taxpayers to help with every expense, has 5 children she can't afford to take care of.
I pray for this awesome mother. She is going to make it. Stay encouraged and don't give up!!! Her life is going in the right direction. God bless you and your family 👼
I work 40hrs per week as a Dish Washer and do side jobs, contracting, 20hrs per week, I own my own house. Most of these people are fat lazy Karens grunting for cream when they don't deserve slop.
Tommy O Donovan how many times have you been divorced and how many kids do you have? How much do you pay in student loans? How do you juggle two full time jobs and earning your degree? Oh..no...that’s why you’ll always be a dishwasher
By 13 I was cleaning and babysitting for neighbors and at 15 I went to work full time along with going to school. That work history got me an assistant bookkeeping job which led to full bookkeeping/payroll jobs. I made sure no babies were made and didn't marry until I was 25 and knew for sure about my man. That was almost 38 years ago. I'm blessed!
Blaming the hard working mothers? Seriously? They reported that only 37% of the fathers pay child support -- THAT is why these families can't make ends meet. She said she is working overtime. Pay attention and get off your high horse. These mothers are stretched to the breaking point.
The women are not any better at paying support. I get $66 a month if she pays it. And no government help. She's not seen the child in almost 7 year's. Women can be just as much a dead beat as men.
tipperary links So are many of the fathers. The problem is that Congress refuses to increase the minimum wage or take any other measures to ensure that people have an adequate minimum standard of living. Instead, they give tax breaks to the wealthiest. A working man or woman should never have to go without food, shelter, clothing, medical care, or the means to live with dignity.
@Captain ZeroF's Americans who claim they are in a nightmare should go live in the third world. The third world would LOVE to trade places with any American.
@Captain ZeroF's You sound like you have been eating out a dirty ASSHOLE with a mouth like that. Sorry we don't have a perfect life like you. Careful what you say shit can get real for you real quick. Ignorant ASSHOLE
My ex husband owes over $20,000 in back child support for our 21 yr old son. He went on to marry and have more children. He doesn't work consistently so I received maybe three payments per year of $65($55 for support and $10 for arrears). The only time I receive money is when they threaten to suspend his license or it is suspended. I can truly relate to the mothers in this video.
These beautiful hardworking people are an inspiration. The security guard is hardworking and dedicated. The nurse is amazing and determined. Thank you all for such an informative documentary.
This brings back some hard memories. But having reconnected with a long lost love really brought me out of bad times, financially and emotionally. It does really help to find a good partner in life.
This is the result of 40 years of Reaganism aka: Raygunism. Reaganism is all about screwing the middle-class workers and poor to give more tax giveaways (taxes paid by struggling middle-class and poor workers) to the richest sociopathic/narcissistic people, ie; Think CEO Amazon, Facebook, Walmart, etc. And who by the way, get millions of money BACK when then do their taxes. They are paying 0 every year in taxes AND! even get millions from taxpayers in refunds!! USA= 3rd world country.
@@andreah6379 Yeah, all on Reagan. Let's not pretend that dems are any different and they also precipitated this. You can't be that naïve or stupid, can you?
You portrayed some pretty amazing people in this segment. My heart just broke for all the hurdles they all has to jump over just to survive. My God in heaven.
This was filmed in 2004, no new cell phone and that guy worked as a security having a whole stack of VHS tapes in his room. I wonder where they are, how they and their children are doing.
My thrift store sells videos for a dime a piece and that is where he said he shopped. If you are there for clothes, you get a chance at picking up other things. A cheap video when you live in a room the size of a jail cell will help you not go mad/crazy. I loved seeing him out of his little giving to those less fortunate as well.
If families stuck together and couples stayed together & strived together things would be a lot better. Not perfect but better. Men are slipping, honestly.
alice dodge: Because the U.S. has been importing the world's poor (who often have low IQs, rarely can progress, and often make poor choices) for about 140 years.
Carol Hutchinson actually, many people who come to the US are with very high IQ. Many scientists, doctors, and researchers in the US are immigrants from china, Japan, India etc... I remember one of my math teachers who was a genius and was able to solve mathematical equations no one ever did before was offered to come to the US because of his talents. I don't know why u can be judgmental about people u never met.
Yes, she really was. Honest and no b*llsh*t. She had a great attitude and understood why the lady (sorry, dont remember her name) needed to go get her education. Loved her!
mascara1888 - I have a lot of compassion for these people , especially the children but it does nothing for them. They all dug deep holes that will take them a lifetime, or generations even, to overcome. None of them earn enough to raise even a single child but they all have multiple. Financial literacy needs to be mandatory in schools.
BenzoB The biggest question is why isn’t taught already. Honestly our education system is a failure from sex education, to health, and financial literacy. All of these who are left up to parents who barely know anything either or don’t want it being taught in schools bc it’s “personal.” Wealth is passed down and so is poverty. After 13-15 years you really realize how crappy it is. Right out of highschool straight into student loan debt. Personal responsibility is very important but I we have to hold the “people” who are in charge of allocating these resources accountable too . It’s is really easy to blame people but when you find out so many are set up to fail and struggle it’s sickening. Thank goodness I have the resources to educate myself. I’ve seen the same problem play over and over from decade to decade, people are still facing the same problems that were shown in this documentary, today! LIKE WTF have our representatives, governors,Congress men/women ,local officials, presidents BEEN DOING. Answer: serving the interest of corporations. Lastly I believe if they seriously taught citizens about finance, enomics, politics, health etc you create a society where people are more inclined to ask about the structures put in place than just blindly participate and vouch for it . “We wouldn’t want people to actually hold our officials accountable and questions such systems would we” 🧐🤔
BenzoB in life situations happen that are out of our control one minute every thing can be going good the next every thing can fall apart no matter how prepared you are you shouldn’t judge someone for what their going through because it could be you at any moment if you are doing ok in life be thankful and pray for those who are struggling instead of being judgmental
The older woman story broke my heart she is having to take care of so many grandkids when she should be able sit back and enjoy life instead of worrying about feeding and raising kids.
Ladies.. books before babies.. SHOULD BE YOUR NUMBER ONE PRIORITY!!! I'm so glad I listened to my father and got an education and a career before I had kids.. two young children and a divorce after 29 years... I could've been in huge trouble and lost my kids ( I have no family support) had I not listened to him!
Amen Diana Dundidit- my Dad insisted that I go to college and have a career. He said, " you can't rely on some man to take care of you. He was right . My husband left me and our 5 year old, after 15 yrs.of marriage . Thank Goodness I had a good job and good income to take care of us.
somehow a clip about a $20 million NYC apartment brought me here. High life, greed on the one hand and crippling poverty on the other. there's just no fairness and justice in this world anymore...
Somebody has to do those jobs they should be paid better. Health insurance should be free.birth control should be free. Middle class currently shoulders all the tax debt in Regis country too 1% needs to pay more.
@Robert Freisler Unfortunately most liberals aren’t rich. I feel you are mistaken in that belief but we are each allowed to have our own opinion and I still respect yours.
There’s a lot going on there that we don’t know though. He’s dealing with his parents divorce and from the sounds of the phone conversation, his dad can’t give him a healthy environment. He has to make sense of the barriers they face because of their financial status. His mom can’t be there as much because she’s working her ass off. Not to mention it’s possible he has undiagnosed disabilities like autism or a behavioral disorder. Not saying it’s okay for the mom to get hit like that but blame the system that will only give wealthy families access to good quality mental health resources.
@@BlueBirdMasquerade9 I was thinking the same, he might have some NPD that affect his behaviour, impulsecontrol. Though she seem very good and respectful with her kids. I mean she talks to her daughter about her partner, so they don't get to feel he's an intruder.
this is so hard to watch- these are such beautiful people people that are making the best of what they have. I'm sure some, if not all of them, are doing better. *bless them in power and strength*
I dunno- aussie born & bred here, and this country is going the way of the USA; like, all those "Covid" payments everyone on Centerlink got, pushed them up above the poverty line (until the payments dropped)
You are right! Lucky you. 40 years of Reaganism aka:Raygunism has destroyed unions and the middle-class!! 3rd world America, the richest country in the world.
I think it's great the red head mullet lady is dating a new man and what not... However, you won't catch me letting some dude babysit my kids after we've been dating for only 6 months to save $50...............
This program is more than 15 years old. But I agree, I think the blond woman was just desperate for a partner. Mistake a lot of women make unfortunately.
I guess you have never been desperate enough. Some days the majority of her paycheck was being spent on child care. $50 is a lot for someone on such a low income with a family to support and a house to run. You can't really blame her for wanting to trust someone who has offered to help. I don't understand why the blame and the burden always has to fall on women when men do sh1tty things. Try not to judge.
Logical1 ou are soo right ....San Fran is one of THE most expensive major city to live. I mean u can rent a broom closet for under $2000/mo. and I'm sorry if he spent all that extra time working a 2nd job instead of volunteering all over the place , he may have a little left over
Parts of NC are very expensive. He should come to Florida. Everyone down here can get a job and a cheap place to live. The beaches are great, too. CA is so expensive it is unreal. I am from San Diego.
Wow..way to make your dying daughter feel like shit for being sick.."I'm the one that's gonna have to pick up the pieces when you go", " it's just not fair", "I wish shed fight harder, like I would"...as daughter mumbles "I'm tired".
Carrie Sims I have been diagnosed with stage 4 liver and stage one kidney and my mom is the same way. Very painful. And due to being a single mother of three I have no choice but to keep working full time which only makes me sicker but that is living paycheck to paycheck. Hope you are well!
Capitalism wins, killing off the middle class It is all your money. every penny of a billionaires wealth is a penny of another persons labor DEMOCRACY FOR ALL IN THE USA A thousand years ago, if you were a marauding gang and you wanted to take over a country’s land and its natural resources and public sector, you’d have to invade it with military troops. Now you use finance to take over countries. So it leads us into a realm where everything that the classical economists saw and argued for - public investment, bringing costs in line with the actual cost of production - that’s all rejected in favor of a rentier class evolving into an oligarchy. Basically, financiers - the 1% - are going to pry away the public domain from the government. Pry away and privatize the public enterprises, land, natural resources, so that bondholders and privatizers get all of the revenue for themselves. It’s all sucked up to the top of the pyramid, impoverishing the 99%.
I am jealous of their furniture, clothes, jewelry, homes. They all have a higher standard of living than I do. Well, except poor Jerry in that little room.
Pieshifter Egbert......you don't have to have fancy furniture or jewellery. I have a few bits of jewellery (necklaces) and each item cost me $3.50 to $5 and I only really wear them to a wedding. They look way nicer than really expensive jewellery. Actually I think they did cost $3.50.
People do have lives. They did work, were married ... your envy is pitiful. Your presumptions are worse in that you use them to judge others. Shame on you.
Carolyn Campbell I am not judging them, nor do I doubt their genuine plight. I am just bemoaning my own situation. I worked hard, I got shit and shoved in it because I tried to help people all my life and trusted them when I guess I should not have. Why is it fine for other people to be complaining about need and not me? Shame on you for shaming me.
Everybody judges including you judging Pieshifter. Esp on YT. They put it out there so we can judge and comment. So stop shaming people. That's hypocritical.
Although we go through periods in our life when we feel like God doesn't see what we're going through, we need to keep seeking and read the promises of God in the Bible. We need to help each other and that is one of the purpose of the church is to help one another like the example in Acts, don't give up, God bless you.
I retired from teaching in Kansas and receive only $500 a month. Too late I learned one needs to pay attention to retirement benefits with any job you take. When you're young, you don't think about that.
Road Runner So true. Most school systems do not participate in Social Security, instead they opt for their own pension system. I recommend that all Teachers who participate in a private pension system take a side job that participate in Social Security so that they would have both at retirement. Some private pensions are going bankrupt or reducing benefits.
Road Runner If you are only receiving $500 a month in pension, you are probably be eligible for SSI Social Security Retirement Benefits and other benefits for Seniors. Call your local Eldercare Office.
@@conjurerwoman9726 I know someone who let her teaching position at a private Catholic school after 18 years. At 20 she could have gotten pension and she is just in her 40s. She had to start all over and go teach at another middle school.
The woman on assistance with the son that has breathing problems is such a good Mom and hard worker! I hope things got better for her. In the end her evaluation and raise! Going back to school! Ma'am, you're inspiring! Your testimony is amazing!
Employers are crafty and unscrupulous. They disrespect their long time adult employees by cutting their hours down so they can pay dirt wages to kids. It's dishonest and cruel.
These people all deserve a medal for surviving in such empoverished conditions. I particularly admire Jerry and his attitude in the face of such an unfair system. He really is a good man.
what is unfair? people get paid according to the skills and assets they bring to an employer. If they bring next to nothing they get paid next to nothing. That is just reality.
This is so sad. It's not just the hourly non-college graduates. I know some college graduates that can't even make ends meet. Things are not the same as they were before. The rich are getting richer and the poor still suffer. My family and I moved to the US with $100 cash and nothing else years ago (legally). My mom was making $4 an hour at a manufacturer. We were dirt poor. We were not on any assisting programs whatsoever. We found a tiny trailer that we paid $180 a month. All of us lived together. Most of the times, I would just starve and ate only once a day. School provided lunches but I was not qualified due to my mom making "too much" money. 😐 I stuck with it and studied my behind off. I worked full time during high school and college. My mom wasn't able to help other than providing a roof over our heads and food on the table. I took out student loan and kept studying. Now I'm "someone" in a huge corporation and making great money. Im married to a wonderful guy. He's also "someone" in an even bigger company. I'm able to spend on whatever I want, big house, vacation home, luxury cars, designer clothing and luxury vacations. My husband and I maxed out our 401k contributions and always put money away for rainy days. Just recently I decided that we needed a bigger/better house and a condo in Hawaii. We were so close to closing the deals and I saw this. My heart sank and I pulled out of the deals. For a moment, I forgot all those hard times. I'm ashamed of myself. I kept wanting more and more. Even we can afford it, we're not going to. By all means, we're going to keep enjoying our lives but I will not be going crazy. My heart goes out to everyone that cannot make ends meet. I've been donating but will increase it now. This is an eye opener for me.
Sounds like you feel guilty---don't!! The people depicted in these stories have all made very foolish life choices. That's why they're in their own predicament.
Ok I’m in tears. I worked in the activity department at a nursing home for 17 years. My first 6 years I didn’t miss one day until I was pregnant. I was raised by my grandparents and I do believe you have to be a special person to be an good employee at a nursing home.
@@dhrgkbqxtjr2743 bro you have some serious issues with women. The women you call "bitch" that can also be your mom or daughter or sister. I have found that men who have such deep hatred for women uses lack a good relationship with their own mothers or have been let down by a woman in the past. Stop living in the past and live in the moment. With that toxic useless mentality you'll never get a woman to love you.
There is a lot of misery in the world, people cannot expect the world to provide them with what they need to survive in this day and age, people are having too many kids, kids need support, five kids and no man, impossible situation.
Yup, I worked my ass off to get an education and get a decent wage, why should i give it to someone who didn't, and who chose to have kids they couldn't afford!
Living with economic uncertainty, when you were 'promised' a good life, is so emotionally traumatic! It can scar you to the point that when things get better, you literally fall apart inside. I still have panic attacks about NOTHING. I found good counselors, who told me PTSD is something that can happen to anyone.
You can be comfortably middle class one moment and struggling the next. Don't think it could never happen to you.
@@ALCAN52 Not everyone has parents they can rely on. People often have to leave the family home before they are established at all.
@@ALCAN52 Absolutely, that's my path currently. It allowed me to get thru the pandemic completely unscathed
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Hey, U got that "shit" right. 😯 For Real 🤮 Gor Real.
More people will be really feeling the struggle Jan 1st, 2021
Happened to me
Be thankful for everything you have got. If you have a house mortgage that you’re paying off, food in the fridge, light, warmth, entertainment appliances, car and disposable income you are doing very very well.
Agree. And help others whenever you can. Life is hard without money.
This is so true !
No you are rich . I keep reminding my husband of this. He was blessed to find a good job that pays our mortgage and bills and food and he keeps getting into accidents because he can’t stay off the cellphone . I’m so angry with him. He lost his business because he had so many accidents from being on the phone . If we end up homeless it’s gonna be his fault for being fired. He just doesn’t get it. He will not make even a quarter of the money anywhere else that he makes at this job. I lost my job of 7 yrs due to business closing. I can’t find a job that pays even half what I made . All that’s out there are min wage jobs . Nobody wants to pay a decent living wage. We had to keep my husbands life insurance coz if he dies in an accident, I’m not gonna be able to support myself . I’ll lose the house . And we just bought this house back in 2017, no money down. We still have 20 yrs left. Hubby will be 80. We both expect if we live long enough that whoever is left will lose everything to a nursing home. That’s what happens . They take all of your assets . They go back five years.
So if u trust someone to put the house in their name so it won’t be taken but most ppl can not be trusted.
I have one sister that I trust . But she’s in even worse health condition than I am. And she will end up in a nursing home way before me . She has a condo . That’s gonna get taken . None of us trust her children . And I have no kids . I was in a nursing home to visit my mother in law with hubby. And there was a lovely woman of 101, she told me she has 11 children. None come to visit or wanted to take her in . That made me so sad. They put her in there. I fear the future is to just kill off anyone over 75. They see the elderly as a burden to the system and they don’t want to be paying SS to anyone who’s living to 100. You know ? They expect u to expire before 90.
not having a car one would do even better, and the planet would benefit too
I am so grateful, thankful. I have all of those things. My condo is paid off. My car is paid off. I have food, clothes, heat. Don't have much disposable income. Retired.
I just don't want to be an old lady living on the street.
Multi-million dollar hotel and they pay this guy $11.00 an hour AND expect him to stay looking good by buying his own suits and ties, shoes, etc??? The least they can do is provide him with 5 suits to wear
i said the same thing. They should give uniforms
@@queen.kristal8395 it totally hurt me..💔 but none the less hes a champion. Employers do better
Yes this is so bad what they are doing to this guy. How are they forcing him to work for so little? Are they holding a gun to his head forcing him to work there? Or threatening his family?
When I was in my twenties....a long time ago, I worked for an audiovisual company that serviced a big hotel. They expected me to wear a three-piece suit as I crawled on the floor connecting cords, etc...for a hair above minimum wage. They lied that I'd be full-time.....I only had ten hours on the schedule! I worked there for half a day and walked out. The owner called me and bitched.....I told him to shove it. Still annoys me to think of this and other jobs that I started and quit immediately that would have been sheer exploitation.
@@queen.kristal8395 "tight-gits"etc. thats why they make a "profit" etc. (u.k.)
The black woman is a legend she did it ! She put the work in and is improving life for her family and teaching her children how important higher education is, she will make it and succeed I felt her tears and pray for her family .
My brother and his wife did the same, encouraging their children to attend college, unlike my parents that wanted me to be a janitor, making minimum wage at a university where students and falculty treated us custodial workers like crap.
So true Tiffany
1:36-1:41 = " I'd love to move my kids into that big beautiful gigantic mansion with a pool and luxury but that's more of a dream than reality." It broke my heart into a million pieces. A LION! a REAL mommy.
Most universities let their help and the helps' children attend classes for free.@@patricksaxon3983
That's racist you can't say black!
Jerry is a good guy. Works full time and does voluntary work, Paying for his children that he hasn’t seen in 9 years. Sober. Such a positive attitude. America is a tough tough place for low income earners.
Low income earners have it tough everywhere in the world. Nowhere in the world do poor people have a good life.
@Trump is Still President sit there and be judgmental ...Karma will show you life lessons.
that is a bunch of crap, opportunities are everywhere in america for low income earners. wanna see poor go to indonesia, phillipines, cambodia, ghana, nigeria......people live in complete squallor there....or check out beautiful india cmon you must be joking
@@brendamcintyre1277 I agree
@@brendamcintyre1277 but America boasts of being first world. So the levels of poverty is equal
A lot of times we encounter people who are doing their jobs at the hotel, restaurant, hospital, etc., and we do not realize the hell they are going through.
I worked in a restaurant last year and the owner was so rude. He made me get napkins and wipe some mayo a customer dropped on the floor. I wanted to use the mop and he said to use "common sense" and use a napkin first so on my knees I went and then used a mop. I quit necause he was horrible
I think security people should get a tip too.
fabulous life ...not sure where you reside, but in America using a mop while customers are dining can be lawful and rude.
CNA is hard work. I did it 20 years and have the back to show for it.
@@fabulouslifeinchrist1349 I worked in a nursing home and we overheard the director of nurses asking the charge nurses if there were enough shit wipers on the schedule.
No one that work this hard should have to struggle like this !!!
I say that ALLLLLLL the time!
happens every day,
@Captain ZeroF's Sympathize, friend. Not "supersize". But I feel ya.
exactly! Lord have mercy smh
That is the truth about life, go get an education and you will not have to work so hard for less money.
The hotel worker seeing his kids for the first time in 9 years. That made me tear up. Very sweet. The hotel is really ripping him off.
I’m not an emotional person but the black lady brought a tear to my eye, she is a FIGHTER, she’s looking to progress for her family and God is looking over her, God Bless her and her whole family!
God?
@@dinkdankdoo3035 you know what he is talking about. That all supreme being that created everything and send his only son to suffer and die for the sins of the world so that whoever believes in him (Jesus) and turns from their wicked nature and follows God's laws can have everlasting life. Faith + repentance = salvation
@@bigboy21123 don't be silly now.
@@dinkdankdoo3035 now dink, I'm not the one being silly here. Are you going to tell me you believe in the scientific impossibility that nothing made everything. I have to admit that regardless of what you believe in all of it sounds crazy, but there are plenty of non-biblical documents of pagans and agnostics who have written about jesus and his good works and that he was crucified. God is only trying to make you into the best person you can be. I can guarantee you it will not hurt one bit.
@@bigboy21123 You don't get eternal life by following God's laws. You get eternal life from experience regeneration ie being born again.
Bless the family and mother who is working full-time and going to school. I am so proud of her. I pray for God to help and strengthen her every day.
@Cheri Merchant God doesn't exist - stop listening to the voices in your head and get professional help!
I hope she's got to where she wants to go, she deserves a break.
how about God bless all these families .
@Cheri Merchant you are the one coming with the bull. There has to be a big shift in the mentality of poor folks, for them to escape poverty. Now, I think , not you, but your way of thinking is ignorant. You seem not to accept , that the statistics show , poor struggling single women, raising children on there own are most likely to live in poverty. This is one of the things that creates generational poverty, because what do you have to give to help your kids , get a step up in the world? I commend this woman, because she did not get defeated by her environment. Only, if you have the drive , will, resolve, and determination can you escape poverty of this type.
Kaden Smike Let people believe what they want to, edgelord.
Man, I remember being a full-time CNA making 7.25/hr in 2006, going to nursing night school full-time as a single mother on my own because my husband left me. That crap was hard. I eventually made it through school, thank God, but I will never forget where I came from. The rich just keep getting richer on the poor's backs.
@Brother Andrew 444 18, 13, and 7
Congrats!
Why did he leave?
Man that’s good money I remember getting 5.35 an hour working at a nursing home in South Texas
@@cowboyjoe2005 in West Texas where the cost of living is stupid high for the dirt hole it is lol
I’m watching this in the middle of pandemic and I can see that pandemic just surfaced the crisis that America has been facing for a long time.
All those children, no extra money, no time and a daughter with cancer ... my goodness she has a lot on her shoulders. I truly hope life turned around for her. I honestly feel for this lady and her family. 🦋
Exactly, a daughter with cancer, an ex-wife earning a lowly salary and an ex-husband who despite their hardships is still refusing to provide for his children. Why she hasn't taken him to court I do not know, but she really shouldn't have to. I'm a divorced father of two teenagers and I give my ex-wife whatever she needs and she earns more than me, but we do both have very good careers tbf. We're both very lucky in that sense, esp with Covid and Lock down. I'd never see my kids or my ex-wife going without, ever.
I feel for her children because they have parents who made bad life decisions and selfishly birthed them into poverty
@@deloramorena8216 You have a point. Why have so many kids if you can’t afford to properly look after just one? Even with the extra money they receive from the govt it’s hardly a comfortable living.
@@1972dsrai they are lonely and gov't programs incentivize them to have more
@@deloramorena8216 How and why are they lonely?
Bad thing about this is, i hadnt realised it had gotten this bad. You use to be called lazy if you were poor. Now you can work your ass of ,and still not make ends meet.
Now you can work your ass off, not make ends meet, and be called lazy by other working class Americans. The American Dream? Ha.
Andrew McIsaac , and this is EXACTLY what other working class people do.
so the people working taking care of our sick and elderly should not be paid well? if every person with decent intelligence and work ethic gets more education or learns a different skill, who is left to take care of our most vulberable? Do you really think that is acceptable? Even nurses make much less in long-term care than any other work setting. Nursing homes are known for being awful. Is it any surprise when people able to get out do in order to get more money?
a l - Only the rich, with money in the bank, liquid assets should have children. Marriage sucks. Jobs suck. Poverty sucks even more. You can divorce. You can quit a job. Poverty tends to stalk us.
a The nurse is fighting the good fight. Other nurses stay in school working on RN degrees, administrative education, etc to get the income a nurse deserves. Still others leave the field because it’s crazy stressful. I became a chemist. Traditionally men’s fields pay well and you can go home after 8 or 9 hours of work
The people that do the most important jobs get paid the least, while celebrities and sports stars and ceos make the most.
Yeah, very backwards of what should be....just so wrong!
They're all idiots...I learned along time ago most rich ppl are idiots...they make money by who they know
Only in America....
Only in America really? That's celebrities in all countries. No matter what country you're in celebrities are rich for doing something less important.
Sadly the market is what determines pay... And people will really drop cash for entertainment.
I only shop at used Clothing Stores when shopping for clothing. I make $80k a year and will continue buying used. Just because you have money, doesn't mean you have to waste it. Thanks to my Frugal ways of living, not eating out, and not buying things I don't need, I've saved in the last 9 years close to $150k in my bank, and I support a family of 3 on top of that.
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I’m a nurse anesthetist making $230K and I live at home with my parents at 26yo. I shop at Clothes Less Traveled thrift store. I ride a bike to work. I’m secretly saving up to retire my parents. I’m basic, no fancy nails, purses or shoes. I dress out in scrubs provided and laundered by job. I don’t waste money either.
@@femf8tal Your a good son/daughter. Your parents brought you up right. Congrats on your career.
good job man. that is strength
@@femf8tal Buy gold. Buy real estate with low price/rent ratio. Negotiate for higher pay
My mom was a single mom with 4 girls. My dad left us when my oldest sister was 14. My mom was one of the hardest working people I have known. These stories are like reliving my childhood.
God bless your mother and God bless your family.. What discussed me and makes me sad. Is when a man brings children into this world with a woman and he refuses to pay child support to Support his own children!! 💯 I am a man I could never do that to my children. ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
Was your father black?
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I can't believe someone working in a nursing home earns only 11 dollars an hour. It's obscene!
ItsFlawlesss from what I got out of this it was filmed in 2002. I started out as a CNA in 2000 and was making $6.65 an hour and was probably making a couple dollars more in 2002. Now they start CNAs at $12.50 and you work your way up. Times have changed, nursing wages have gotten better.
i make about 16.60 an hour as a cna if you add in shift differential.id never work as a cna for 11 an hour.
ItsFlawlesss they might as well work for free.
ItsFlawlesss not sure if it matters as I am sure there are a lot of underpaid people out there, but this documentary is nearly 15 years old.
ItsFlawlesss
I just have one thing to say. The smallest decisions we make have the greatest impact in our lives.
Preeeeeeeach!
Eli Parker. That is so true!
Eli Parker absolutely so true...
Derp
I vaguely remember watching this doc before and the second I saw Bridget I remembered that awful thing Mom said, “She doesn’t fight like I would.” And her whispering “I’m tired.” It’s so hard to not only hear a mother imply their child has failed in some way by suffering and dying, but for that mother to be in healthcare. My god that’s so hard to hear.
That disgust me hearing that and then to tell her daughter shes gonna be left with her kids!! ffs, I bet its killing her daughter knowing shes not going to live long and will never get to see her kids grow, so sad.
Jerry seems like a good man. He talks about his kids and what he wants for them. He pays child support. He's a hard worker. I wish I could help him out.
I hope he and all of them are doing better these days.
Laura Bland I’m his daughter . He is doing ok . He is still in California and we are still in NC . We are suppose to be seeing each other next month . It has been 7 years since we saw each other .
Thank you for taking the time to reply. I'm so glad to hear he is doing well.
A whopping $0.25 raise!!! For $500 a year! That's a little over $40 a month raise. And people are supposed to be excited for that? What an insult!
When I worked at K-Mart, I got a 5-cents/hr raise. So I got 25-cents for a five hour shift, before taxes. I was a very poor college student.
I was lucky to get that when I worked for a road construction corporate company.
Don't forget the 36.00 of tax that's being taken out...so she gets a whole 4.00 of her raise
Coppington Farnham I worked for them almost 9-10 years ago and worked a few years until we moved. I had to do the work of at least 8 people and made $8-$10,000/year 🤬😭
@@momentsformoms9467 I got a ticket for driving a 1966 Oldsmobile to work at K-Mart (in 1983) with frosted-up windows in the winter since the heater wasn't working properly. I felt like bashing in the back windshield out of sheer frustration, in front of the cop so as to improve my visibility to his liking.
My dad had to subsidize my pathetic finances while I was in school because the K-Mart wages for a 25-hr. week were hopelessly inadequate.
i feel for jerry..a man out here working living in a very small room paying 530.00 for rent..and still sending childsupport 200.00 of each month making 12 an hour that's rare these days in the USA! my hat goes off to you!!!👒👌
Shaunice Snowden that’s my dad
@@lauralongoria3132 He seems like a really great guy.
Are you serious? Since he thrifts, you can teach him how to sell a few things like cute suits on ebay for extra cash. I do that when something gets too small for me.
Paying money to take care of your own kids is not rare. He helped to create the kids. That is his job.
In SF rent is more like $4000. 1 bedroom. It's an old documentary. Here in SJ 1 bedroom apt is $2,200. plus utilities.
When I was a kid, my family and I used to go to this diner near our home and there was a waitress we loved. Years later when my brother and I were in our early twenties, we happened to go to another restaurant and saw her there. She was still waitressing and she remembered us. We talked about money and how hard things were and she said to us that people always say that we don't work hard enough in this country if we have to struggle so hard, and that she says back to them that we work just as hard or harder and have less to show for it. Docs like this make this point. These people aren't lazy. They work FT, most days a week and still can't survive. They are the people she was referring to who work hard and have less to show for it. What do they have to show for working every single day of their lives? Not even the bare minimum of contentment and being able to know all of their bills are paid each month. That is criminal.
My mom raised us on her nurses salary in the 70's for about $9-10 an hour....we lived in a nice low income complex in Long Beach, CA for about $300 a month. I had everything I wanted and we went to Disneyland and all the theme parks 4 times a year. She even bought a house later on. But it is all the fees and other costs that makes it not possible today. Food, car, bus, gas, etc. Rents are skyrocketing while salaries remain the same.
OldskolFan you got lucky. One would need many times that now to afford all that
Exactly, real wages have not stayed the same as the cost of living so it is impossible for anybody to live on the same wages. You say your mother was earning $10 an hour 40 years ago, the security guy in the video is only earning $11 an hour yet rent, food, utilities, gas, healthcare, education have all tripled if not more. The system is in error not these people my only question is when are Americans going to start doing something about it instead of blaming the poor for their situation?
@ Scott Carmichael
According to the statistical data the average wage for 1976 was $4.76 per hour, the highest rates per hour were in the construction industry @ $7.49 per hour. The basic minimum wage in the US as of 2017 is $7.25 per hour....there is something very wrong with what is happening in America and it has nothing to do with how hard a person works.
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+73. Well Americans do (generally speaking) have running water piped into their homes & sanitation systems - its just this egregious tax scheme we have to pay into & the wars we go to die in...plus what been called by media - "collateral damage".
OldskolFan- That was nice money in the 70's.
This truly broke my heart and brought tears to my eyes. I will not complain about what I make again
yep....I feel lucky...
It is very true that nobody owes us poor people anyting. But it is also true that the system shouldn't try to keep us poor!
exactly! no one should live in poverty and I'm not impoverished and I UNDERSTAND that without going through it.
We pay taxes...we are owed a return on our money. Other developed nations have socialized medicine, better schools, better roads, better pensions, longer parental leave, longer vacations, better services. We want better police, reliable firefighters and emt's. I believe we all have a right to clean air and drinkable water.
It’s also true that we shouldn’t be paying rich people for us to be able to live???? No one owns earth!!!! Nobody owes us poor people???? Seriously. A poor man can pick and peel a potato just like everyone else. The rich that we pay into don’t want us to live. Slaves!!!! Grow up and educate yourself on economics fgs!!!! These people wouldn’t be rich without slaves- they wouldn’t be alive without someone feeding them or doing doing it for them. If all the slaves poor or not stopped working then we’d all still survive we’d just have less house, less food, less clothes, less handbags and less selfish fucks who think the poor are worthless and that there is a system to help them. There isn’t!!!!
The system owes poor people equality. It is a basic human right.
@@staceykersting705 "We" have most of those things in the US already, assuming you are trashing the US in your comment, that is. You don't actually come out and say it. Why don't you leave your smelly, nasty city and move to a better (i.e. more rural) area of the US that has nice roads, good schools, reliable emergency services, not to mention practically no crime, nice affordable housing, and secure jobs? You're free to. Move, I mean. Anywhere you like. Truly. Send out resumes and see where it takes you.
You see, I live here. It does exist. And it's wonderful. Out here, you can work hard at your job and earn benefits, like great healthcare, a fat pension, and longer paid leave. There's no need for the government to hold your hand when it comes to your personal wellbeing, is there? Or is there? Do you feel you aren't capable enough, hon? Because I believe in you.
On second thought, maybe you should stay where you are. Your ideals really aren't welcome here. We like to take care of each other and ourselves rather than rely on Uncle Sam to do it for us. Sorry. I wouldn't worry tho. About $1 trillion your tax dollars go to help the poor through welfare and social security programs each year. I hear you guys believe abortion cures poverty. So just wait. It'll sort itself out.
For anyone going through poverty I salute you. Finding a moment in every day to remember that you're a human being is golden. May every tomorrow bring you a new day and keep the woes of yesterday behind you. God bless us all.
Another thing is wrong is the fatherless nation we have become with so many men who don't want to take care of their kids.
It's the woman's fault for falling for these MORON men !
True...and they won't pay up until their asses are thrown in jail. They will chase skirt until the cows come home, buy an XBox before they will pay one red cent of child support. I've seen it.
moongirl shining Because they're bastards.
I don't know, maybe part of it's the fact that you're in a hurry. You've grown up on instant orange juice. Flip a dial - instant entertainment. Dial seven digits - instant communication. Turn a key - push a pedal - instant transportation. Flash a card - instant money. Shove in a problem - push a few buttons - instant answers. But some problems you can't get quick answers for, no matter how much you want them. We took a little boy into Central Receiving Hospital yesterday; he's four years old. He weighs eight-and-a-half pounds. His parents just hadn't bothered to feed him. Now give me a fast answer to that one; one that'll stop that from ever happening again. And if you can't settle that one, how about the 55,000 Americans who'll die on the highway this year? That's nearly six or seven times the number that'll get killed in Vietnam. Why aren't you up in arms about that? Or is dying in a car somehow moral? Show me how to wipe out prejudice. I'll settle for the prejudices you have inside yourselves. Show me how to get rid of the unlimited capacity for human beings to make themselves believe they're somehow right - and justified - in stealing from somebody, or hurting somebody, and you'll just about put this place here out of business!
moongirl shining and so many woman foolishly and stupidly have and continue to have kids with men before marriage or men who are worthless. Then barely raise the kids which is why the kids repeat the same thing more often than not and continue to live in the same place just reproducing continuing the cycle. So woman are def to blame as well. And yes this is coming from a single woman, who only dated one guy, is still a virgin, is currently in college without kids cause I ain’t crazy lol...js.
I take my hat off to the women who care for so many others. The guy who lifted himself is really amazing.I hope to take inspiration from all of them.
When we lived in my country we were middle class ,we never wore used clothing and when we came to America everything changed .My mom talked to my brother and me and said "well, here we are now we are safe but things are going to be different we will have to wear used clothing and we are going to public school and there will be less money for toys and food .She had become a single mom and she did it we never lacked anything we needed.So great full for the care our mom did for us !Hurray for single moms !!!!
amen!!
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your mom was good but does your father not count? I am a father, am I worthless? I celebrate married moms and dads, the best for children.
fathers are worth everything!but he did not raise me but there are great single dads.
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I have studied many documentaries on poverty, and this is the very best IMO, extremely well produced, and from the POV of the people featured over a long period of time. They tell their own stories, which makes this film unique in that they are the narrators. Exceptional production all around.
Any other documentaries you can recommend to watch ?
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What good moms, being a single mom must be so very hard, what real hero's look like!
Kate Nicole single mom's and Dad's for
Yes they are great mums
I love how the black woman is determined to get her education. Says so much about her drive.
I really hope she made it too
Exactly, they are wasting energy and time whining about it when they should be improving themselves through education!! They want it handed to them!
She’s going to make it. Determination over anything will make miracles happen! Good for her. I hope people follow in her footsteps. I know I will!
@@bettysmith4527 Education does not promise you shit
But she seems to have more services and help than the others.
Nicely done.
Thanks to the people who shared their lives in this documentary.
I wish you all the best.
As someone who has had cancer twice, I was pretty upset by what she said to Bridget. It’s not about ‘fighting’- as a nurse I’ve seen patients fight incredibly hard, but sometimes it’s not within your power. When you are debilitated by cancer treatments it’s also incredibly hard to appear as though you are fighting - some days all you can do is put one foot in front of another! As a ‘motivatiinal’ speech mum- B minus- could do far better!
It's not about you.
I felt the same way watching her make those comments to her daughter.
Excellent documentary. My heart goes out to these incredibly hard-working people. My life is so easy. I couldn't possibly do what they're doing. Sure wish them the best.
Jerry is a good man,he even gives to the homeless
He is a good man.
Jerry is making the right moves step by step. That is the recipe for success. I hope his life improves exponentially.❤💯💥
He only sends his kids $200 a month and doesn't see them for years at a time yet is a good man for helping the homeless? Sounds like if it weren't for the children's mother they'd be the homeless.
@@ohioitis200 society has a very low bar set for men.
He needs to see his kids more often
This is quite an old documentary- I wish I knew how these people are doing today in 2020.
good point
Me too!
It's worse
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@@econdude3811 probably
I am so sorry. My Mother was in a nursing home. You folks work so hard doing such difficult work. You deserve SOOOO much more
My ex never paid child support. I was fortunate that I only had 1 child and having a degree helped me to be able to support us. My parents helped me by caring for my daughter at times. They are right about getting an education before having kids.
Your situation is all the more reason we need free education in our country! And competent child care, and the necessary time to care for them. The wealthiest get the middle-class and working poor to pay for them. These rich gets millions & millions back in taxes. Do you?
USA has become a 3rd world country started with Raygunism, aka: conservatives hero, Reagan. He declared war on the middle-class and poor with destroying unions.
We never got off that train. Thanks to Wall Street and Walmart, Amazon, Facebook, defense contractors CEOs, etc... Now they call the shots.
Still beating up Ronnie I see.
Lol
glad to be childfree by choice, kids are expensive and stressful and daddies run off leaving the woman lumbered. kids are not essential in life
So,so happy for the divorced mother and her children having this generous and helpful man come into their lives..
God bless them!
Yea, gives the kid throwing the shoe a good male role model to look up to as well. Seems as though his real dad kinda checked out on him. I hope it all works out. That kid will end up very thankful he walked into their lives.
Beta male, a simp taking care of another man's seed, he'll regret it.
@@jacobjacob4139 nobody wants to be exposed to the venom you spew
@@jacobjacob4139 Jacob what an amazing, smart man you are! I'm sure it was hard growing up being hated by your own mommy, but you seem to have adjusted really well my friend! Go get 'em, Alpha Boi
@@yourfriendlyneighborhoodsc167 Thank you so much I'm really honoured!
CONGRATS MS. BARBARA, So happy you Graduated, Stay Strong My Sister! Your Heart is Bigger than Life, I Love you and I don't even know you, but you have shown me that Anybody can make It with determination and hard work.
👏👏👏 Standing Ovation for *_Barbara Brooks_** !!!* This woman's name should be *P E R S E V E R E N C E*
OMG... the CRAP she went through as a kid/teen!? She could've _easily_ became a statistic. Geezus! 5 kids... Full Time School... Full Time Work!
I cried tears of joy for her outcome. There's no one more deserving.
I wish all the people well, but WOW, Barbara, what a woman! I hope she's a speaker to inspire others & what an incredible role model she is to her kids 👏👏👏
The lady who went from daycare to recreational therapy is smart and tough. She just need to believe in herself and be more confident. She did a wonderful job with her new job. She’s got the right ideas... just don’t loose sight of that focus. Your awesome!
LANA AVA Exactly! And stop having children!
@@mobutter2879A large number of single mothers became poor upon divorce, because the courts say that the non-custodial spouse takes precedence in their salaries over their families, still after decades of anti-poverty struggles by activists!!
I really hope these people are doing better now, god bless them all.
BaltimoreKid1996 You're a good kid, Baltimore.
We are doing ok
Had to pause this just to say I raised 4 children on my own after their father passed away. Never once did any of my kids throw a thing at me!! That boy that kept throwing things at his mother should have had a belt to his bottom!!! I don't care what you go through there's a thing called respect. And that kid has none.
My dads sister did that to all her kids and one tried to kill her with a power tool and is now in prison for sexual assault. And her three daughters “respect” her by being high school drop outs with multiple baby daddy’s and love to beat their kids infront of people. So....that didn’t seem to work for her. Do you think she should have beat them harder? 😂
@@phookiephook1043 should have dropped them off at foster care at that point. Sometimes kids are just to much for one woman to handle.
You should never physically abuse your children - the trauma that results in may look like 'respect' but it isn't. It's fear and it's going to backfire sooner or later.
Did you hear her swearing at the poor boy though? He's going through his parents' divorce (not to mention the boyfriend...) and is trying to voice his frustration but frankly she doesn't seem able to see his hurt or frustration. This is a future potential offender and it's both his parents' fault.
That kid deserves an ass whooping.
I love the waitress! What a badass. "what are they gonna do, steal my identity? Please do!" lol
She's got a healthy dose of sarcasm.
Her little boy though....yikes....
I don't think it's really that funny in reality, but yeah, she has a sense of humor. Hard to keep one when you are being kicked and held down because our society and govt aren't supportive. BUT, we are if you are rich!
I know I love that too, that is hilarious
@@alicekranyk4173 yeah if that was my kid, I’d leave his ass in a ditch.
I use to work in nursing home care. It's hard work, and you need to be a very caring and loving person to do it. God bless these woman,mall of them and the man in this looked awesome dressing for his job.
I understand how some of these jobs want you to dress to kill but won't fork over a uniform allowance. If they had to pay for your clothing you would look like hell warmed over! At the last nursing home I worked they said they were going to provide uniforms for us. Boy they didn't do us any favors. Those damn dark green tops and khaki pants looked like a some kind of pool maintenance uniform. I flat out said I wasn't going to wear that damn thing, and I didn't! I wore my powder blue and white scrubs as I always did! Sick people don't want that pukey green shit!
M Paxton Lol. I have worked in a nursing home for the past 16 years. They used to provide us with uniforml allowances, but stopped. I usually wear scrubs, but sometimes I will slap on a pair of jeans and no one says shit.
It was amazing to watch the mother get another awesome job after graduating. She was a happier person arouns her kids and everything. So awesome to watch!!
wow she was making 11 bucks an hour in nursing home almost 15 years ago. it is now 2017 and I'm only getting 11.25/hr taking care of elderly and mentally ill. I have to work full time at two different homes to make ends meet. I have had one day off in last three months. Things haven't changed much
Gabby Girl damn shame
Christ...I work at Olive Garden and make 15 an hour...fuck I'm so sorry.
I am a CNA (we call them HCAs here) in Canada and I make about $22 an hour (with an evening shift premium). $11 an hour is shameful, especially considering you take care of people's loved ones.
stop complaining about it and find another career
@@scottw6375 its not always that easy dude wake up to the real world
I am 71 years old. I have a BS DEGREE AND A MASTER'S degree. I taught public school for 18 years and then became a CPS worker until I retired in 2003. The most salary that I have ever received was a little more than 32 thousand a year. I feel like this was poverty salary also.
Dependa on what state you live in.
Comparison is the thief of joy.....
@@criticalthinker8374 whatever. Poet.
Sorry to realign youe chakras but.
Its the truth though.
How much money you need really depends on what state you live in.
maybe you should have considered how much teachers make before choosing that career path??
@@royharper2003 it's a calling!
I am just disgusted with all the "men" who do their 20 second pump and dump and leave a trail of kids, ex wives and girlfriends and skip out on paying their OBLIGATION.
They need to be sterilized.
There are also women who take the child away leaving a father grieving for years and never seeing their child grow up
The women allow it
@@Sharolynn10 some women disappear with the baby and after a 32 year old young man spends $28,000 to find his baby he doesn't even want to live anymore!
Perhaps women need to use proper birth control and be more discriminating about who they have sex with.
I hope Barbara and her lovely Children are doing well. Bless her for furthering her Education to advance herself. Being a Mother and having to work and go to School is so stressful but I feel this Woman handled it very well! May she and her Children be blessed!
blessed by what? The flying spaghetti monster and his delicious noodly appendage and side of meatballs...? I can get behind that...
Seriously? Barbara is being helped with food, housing, childcare, utilities and medical care. Another welfare queen with a deadbeat father as a husband.
Erica Berry WelfareQueen=someone who lives off the government, depends on the taxpayers to help with every expense, has 5 children she can't afford to take care of.
I pray for this awesome mother. She is going to make it. Stay encouraged and don't give up!!! Her life is going in the right direction. God bless you and your family 👼
@@susiq4857 Your stupidity is profound.
The older i get the scareder I get. I'm 50 now wish I would of thought more when I was younger.
I work 40hrs per week as a Dish Washer and do side jobs, contracting, 20hrs per week, I own my own house.
Most of these people are fat lazy Karens grunting for cream when they don't deserve slop.
Tommy O Donovan how many times have you been divorced and how many kids do you have? How much do you pay in student loans? How do you juggle two full time jobs and earning your degree? Oh..no...that’s why you’ll always be a dishwasher
Jen Ruth he’s not a retarded fuck with student loans and useless other shit. Get your fucking mind right and stop bitching
@@jenruth792, I'm 55yro never married no kids, that's why I own my $320k house with zero debt.
@@tommyodonovan3883 so you don't have a sex life?
By 13 I was cleaning and babysitting for neighbors and at 15 I went to work full time along with going to school. That work history got me an assistant bookkeeping job which led to full bookkeeping/payroll jobs. I made sure no babies were made and didn't marry until I was 25 and knew for sure about my man. That was almost 38 years ago. I'm blessed!
Blaming the hard working mothers? Seriously? They reported that only 37% of the fathers pay child support -- THAT is why these families can't make ends meet. She said she is working overtime. Pay attention and get off your high horse. These mothers are stretched to the breaking point.
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The women are not any better at paying support. I get $66 a month if she pays it. And no government help. She's not seen the child in almost 7 year's. Women can be just as much a dead beat as men.
tipperary links Spot on
tipperary links So are many of the fathers. The problem is that Congress refuses to increase the minimum wage or take any other measures to ensure that people have an adequate minimum standard of living. Instead, they give tax breaks to the wealthiest. A working man or woman should never have to go without food, shelter, clothing, medical care, or the means to live with dignity.
They also do not pay fair wages
The American dream Is when your sleeping, wake up to the American nightmare.
@Captain ZeroF's Americans who claim they are in a nightmare should go live in the third world.
The third world would LOVE to trade places with any American.
@Captain ZeroF's If you represent most Americans, then the end of civilization is near.
@Captain ZeroF's You sound like you have been eating out a dirty ASSHOLE with a mouth like that. Sorry we don't have a perfect life like you. Careful what you say shit can get real for you real quick. Ignorant ASSHOLE
@Cheri Merchant So true I LOVE YOU SENDING LOVE friend
@Captain ZeroF's YOU sound like a real great guy. Better hope life stays perfect for YOU friend LOL
Interesting the IRS will ensure these men pay their taxes every year but somehow the government can't ensure they pay towards raising their children.
Child support is STATE while Department of the Treasury is Federal.
Now if a man files his taxes and owes back child support, they will take ALLLLLL of the man's refund.
@@charmagneq I'm still waiting...
@Billy Ray Valentine Yeah and these women are living the high life. Goddamn you are such a troll.
My ex husband owes over $20,000 in back child support for our 21 yr old son. He went on to marry and have more children. He doesn't work consistently so I received maybe three payments per year of $65($55 for support and $10 for arrears). The only time I receive money is when they threaten to suspend his license or it is suspended. I can truly relate to the mothers in this video.
These beautiful hardworking people are an inspiration. The security guard is hardworking and dedicated. The nurse is amazing and determined. Thank you all for such an informative documentary.
In addition to your wonderful comment, may I add that they hold themselves with dignity.
The one lady has been working at the children's home for all those years, and is only making $8.25 per hour? That is a travesty.
Why don't you hire her and pay her $20 an hour?
Yup!
This had me in tears ,I been thru it ,the less you make the more you struggle ,the more you make the more they take..
This brings back some hard memories. But having reconnected with a long lost love really brought me out of bad times, financially and emotionally. It does really help to find a good partner in life.
This is usually how women define success. Through a man
@@bigpicturethinking5620 no its about a partnership
Thats a stupid statement
Dec 2nd 2020- Nothing Has Changed, People still Struggling to Make Ends Meet.
This is the result of 40 years of Reaganism aka: Raygunism. Reaganism is all about screwing the middle-class workers and poor to give more tax giveaways (taxes paid by struggling middle-class and poor workers) to the richest sociopathic/narcissistic people, ie; Think CEO Amazon, Facebook, Walmart, etc. And who by the way, get millions of money BACK when then do their taxes. They are paying 0 every year in taxes AND! even get millions from taxpayers in refunds!!
USA= 3rd world country.
@@andreah6379 Yeah, all on Reagan. Let's not pretend that dems are any different and they also precipitated this. You can't be that naïve or stupid, can you?
Your right. Everything just keeps getting more expensive. So if the money isnt going to the workers then who is getting rich?
@Charlene Anderson Well jesus didn't help these hard working battlers!
@@edj3377 people are paid based on the skills, education, and value, etc., they add to an employer. That's life.
Poverty is painful it shouldn't exist especially in this country.
Agree
Why is everybody obsessing about the woman's nails? She needed to look nice for her job. Maybe she did her own nails.
Patricia Hawks So true!!! I do my own nails with products my mom gave me as birthday gifts.
You portrayed some pretty amazing people in this segment. My heart just broke for all the hurdles they all has to jump over just to survive. My God in heaven.
I cried when Barbara got her raise. And I applaud her decision to further her education.
This was filmed in 2004, no new cell phone and that guy worked as a security having a whole stack of VHS tapes in his room. I wonder where they are, how they and their children are doing.
thank you for that...I was trying to find the year. 10/28/20
The security guard's calendar is 200, unless he was looking at an old one. But then there was John Kerry, so it could be 2004.
@@RichV20 most likely it was filmed over a couple of years
@Swimming Dolphins were you able to find Mary on fb?! I wonder how her and her kids are doing
My thrift store sells videos for a dime a piece and that is where he said he shopped. If you are there for clothes, you get a chance at picking up other things. A cheap video when you live in a room the size of a jail cell will help you not go mad/crazy. I loved seeing him out of his little giving to those less fortunate as well.
The girl who got her associates degree had me crying 😭💖
She will still struggle. 40 years of Reaganism will see to that.
@@andreah6379 lol salty leftist
If families stuck together and couples stayed together & strived together things would be a lot better. Not perfect but better. Men are slipping, honestly.
I agree about families but women are just as much to blame .
Why does it seem worse in America?
alice dodge: Because the U.S. has been importing the world's poor (who often have low IQs, rarely can progress, and often make poor choices) for about 140 years.
Carol Hutchinson actually, many people who come to the US are with very high IQ. Many scientists, doctors, and researchers in the US are immigrants from china, Japan, India etc... I remember one of my math teachers who was a genius and was able to solve mathematical equations no one ever did before was offered to come to the US because of his talents. I don't know why u can be judgmental about people u never met.
Sparkle LaBelle I agree
That waitress mom seems to have met a good man. And she reminds me of Julia Roberts. God Bless all these single moms & their families.
The black lady's boss is a gem..They don't talk to you like this in Las Vegas.
Yes, she really was. Honest and no b*llsh*t. She had a great attitude and understood why the lady (sorry, dont remember her name) needed to go get her education. Loved her!
Dave Ramsey Total Money Makeover has changed my life. I grew up poor but little by little I'm digging out. Please read it.
They don't "read" they "breed" and blame the rich for their choices.
@@cindyjohnson1025 one of the women is caring for her grandchildren and her dying daughter! Have some compassion.
mascara1888 - I have a lot of compassion for these people , especially the children but it does nothing for them. They all dug deep holes that will take them a lifetime, or generations even, to overcome. None of them earn enough to raise even a single child but they all have multiple. Financial literacy needs to be mandatory in schools.
BenzoB
The biggest question is why isn’t taught already. Honestly our education system is a failure from sex education, to health, and financial literacy. All of these who are left up to parents who barely know anything either or don’t want it being taught in schools bc it’s “personal.” Wealth is passed down and so is poverty.
After 13-15 years you really realize how crappy it is. Right out of highschool straight into student loan debt.
Personal responsibility is very important but I we have to hold the “people” who are in charge of allocating these resources accountable too . It’s is really easy to blame people but when you find out so many are set up to fail and struggle it’s sickening. Thank goodness I have the resources to educate myself. I’ve seen the same problem play over and over from decade to decade, people are still facing the same problems that were shown in this documentary, today!
LIKE WTF have our representatives, governors,Congress men/women ,local officials, presidents BEEN DOING. Answer: serving the interest of corporations.
Lastly I believe if they seriously taught citizens about finance, enomics, politics, health etc you create a society where people are more inclined to ask about the structures put in place than just blindly participate and vouch for it .
“We wouldn’t want people to actually hold our officials accountable and questions such systems would we” 🧐🤔
BenzoB in life situations happen that are out of our control one minute every thing can be going good the next every thing can fall apart no matter how prepared you are you shouldn’t judge someone for what their going through because it could be you at any moment if you are doing ok in life be thankful and pray for those who are struggling instead of being judgmental
The older woman story broke my heart she is having to take care of so many grandkids when she should be able sit back and enjoy life instead of worrying about feeding and raising kids.
Unfortunately that is a risk you take when you have kids; that they will also mate and you will become responsible for the offspring.
well said, it was her choice to be trapped with kids, and now grandkids @@eringittins6032
Ladies.. books before babies.. SHOULD BE YOUR NUMBER ONE PRIORITY!!!
I'm so glad I listened to my father and got an education and a career before I had kids.. two young children and a divorce after 29 years... I could've been in huge trouble and lost my kids ( I have no family support) had I not listened to him!
Amen Diana Dundidit- my Dad insisted that I go to college and have a career. He said, " you can't rely on some man to take care of you. He was right . My husband left me and our 5 year old, after 15 yrs.of marriage . Thank Goodness I had a good job and good income to take care of us.
Men need to follow that rule too. In case you did not know, men are usually in the room when a child is created.
you should direct this to men also
somehow a clip about a $20 million NYC apartment brought me here. High life, greed on the one hand and crippling poverty on the other. there's just no fairness and justice in this world anymore...
There never was any "fairness and justice" in this world.
But ... as a single mum I can tell you neither one of my sons would even think about throwing something at my head ! My goodness
Somebody has to do those jobs they should be paid better. Health insurance should be free.birth control should be free. Middle class currently shoulders all the tax debt in Regis country too 1% needs to pay more.
@Robert Freisler Unfortunately most liberals aren’t rich. I feel you are mistaken in that belief but we are each allowed to have our own opinion and I still respect yours.
@Robert Freisler lol most liberals aren’t rich.. you have it backwards
There’s a lot going on there that we don’t know though. He’s dealing with his parents divorce and from the sounds of the phone conversation, his dad can’t give him a healthy environment. He has to make sense of the barriers they face because of their financial status. His mom can’t be there as much because she’s working her ass off. Not to mention it’s possible he has undiagnosed disabilities like autism or a behavioral disorder. Not saying it’s okay for the mom to get hit like that but blame the system that will only give wealthy families access to good quality mental health resources.
@@BlueBirdMasquerade9 I was thinking the same, he might have some NPD that affect his behaviour, impulsecontrol. Though she seem very good and respectful with her kids. I mean she talks to her daughter about her partner, so they don't get to feel he's an intruder.
this is so hard to watch-
these are such beautiful people people that are making the best of what they have.
I'm sure some, if not all of them, are doing better.
*bless them in power and strength*
Thank you to my parents, ( now deceased) for migrating to Australia we are truly blessed to live in the land down under.🙏🏻😇
I thank God that I was born and live here in Australia when I see these programmes .
Bugger that! Too many things that can kill me, and it's full of Australians! That's just too much for me...
I dunno- aussie born & bred here, and this country is going the way of the USA; like, all those "Covid" payments everyone on Centerlink got, pushed them up above the poverty line (until the payments dropped)
You are right! Lucky you. 40 years of Reaganism aka:Raygunism has destroyed unions and the middle-class!! 3rd world America, the richest country in the world.
I think it's great the red head mullet lady is dating a new man and what not... However, you won't catch me letting some dude babysit my kids after we've been dating for only 6 months to save $50...............
Exactly, she barely knows that dude!
If I were her no way would I get married again. He might be a good guy but I think she is taking a risk. Hope all works out for her and her children.
This program is more than 15 years old. But I agree, I think the blond woman was just desperate for a partner. Mistake a lot of women make unfortunately.
And this is why so many kids are molested.
I guess you have never been desperate enough. Some days the majority of her paycheck was being spent on child care. $50 is a lot for someone on such a low income with a family to support and a house to run. You can't really blame her for wanting to trust someone who has offered to help. I don't understand why the blame and the burden always has to fall on women when men do sh1tty things. Try not to judge.
Jerry needs to move out of San Fransisco and go to North Carolina.
Logical1 ou are soo right ....San Fran is one of THE most expensive major city to live. I mean u can rent a broom closet for under $2000/mo. and I'm sorry if he spent all that extra time working a 2nd job instead of volunteering all over the place , he may have a little left over
Parts of NC are very expensive. He should come to Florida. Everyone down here can get a job and a cheap place to live. The beaches are great, too. CA is so expensive it is unreal. I am from San Diego.
Anything's less expensive than CA but that doesn't mean Florida is affordable. Auto insurance is double what it is in NC. Food costs more, etc., etc.
North Carolina isn’t really any better . I’m his daughter and I live pay check to pay check in NC
I mean he’d loose his job lol
Wow..way to make your dying daughter feel like shit for being sick.."I'm the one that's gonna have to pick up the pieces when you go", " it's just not fair", "I wish shed fight harder, like I would"...as daughter mumbles "I'm tired".
I thought the same thing. What a way to reflect on your life during the last moments you have to live!
Carrie Sims I have been diagnosed with stage 4 liver and stage one kidney and my mom is the same way. Very painful. And due to being a single mother of three I have no choice but to keep working full time which only makes me sicker but that is living paycheck to paycheck. Hope you are well!
@@lmweinst I pray you recover soon. What about starting a GoFundMe account to help with expenses?
Tiara E. I agree, start a GoFundMe account.
She was saying it's not fair her daughter will die before her since she is the parent
September 2020- Nothing still has Changed. Everyone still struggling and not earning enough to Survive.
Capitalism wins, killing off the middle class
It is all your money. every penny of a billionaires wealth is a penny of another persons labor
DEMOCRACY FOR ALL IN THE USA
A thousand years ago, if you were a marauding gang and you wanted to take over a country’s land and its natural resources and public sector, you’d have to invade it with military troops. Now you use finance to take over countries. So it leads us into a realm where everything that the classical economists saw and argued for - public investment, bringing costs in line with the actual cost of production - that’s all rejected in favor of a rentier class evolving into an oligarchy. Basically, financiers - the 1% - are going to pry away the public domain from the government. Pry away and privatize the public enterprises, land, natural resources, so that bondholders and privatizers get all of the revenue for themselves. It’s all sucked up to the top of the pyramid, impoverishing the 99%.
But how do we fix it? Socialism is worse. There’s no answer to it except every man for himself. It’s clear that we’re on our own.
I wonder how they are all doing, after the onslaught of Covid and shutdowns. I really hope they are all ok, what a heart wrenching story!
Awesome job for going to school woman! You will get out of poverty
When I was a kid the economy and jobs were sweet in the 60's!
I am jealous of their furniture, clothes, jewelry, homes. They all have a higher standard of living than I do. Well, except poor Jerry in that little room.
Pieshifter Egbert......you don't have to have fancy furniture or jewellery. I have a few bits of jewellery (necklaces)
and each item cost me $3.50 to $5 and I only really wear them to a wedding. They look way nicer
than really expensive jewellery. Actually I think they did cost $3.50.
Pieshifter Egbert: They're losing their homes.
People do have lives. They did work, were married ... your envy is pitiful. Your presumptions are worse in that you use them to judge others. Shame on you.
Carolyn Campbell I am not judging them, nor do I doubt their genuine plight. I am just bemoaning my own situation. I worked hard, I got shit and shoved in it because I tried to help people all my life and trusted them when I guess I should not have. Why is it fine for other people to be complaining about need and not me? Shame on you for shaming me.
Everybody judges including you judging Pieshifter. Esp on YT. They put it out there so we can judge and comment. So stop shaming people. That's hypocritical.
IVE BEEN HOMELESS FIVE TIMES AND I SURVIVED. YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN HELP YOU!!!
I wish we could have an updated documentary on where these people are now!
Vannah K. They’re probably doing exactly the same or, worse; that is most people’s new reality!
Sadly the poverty trap in generational. How do you get out of poverty? Sadly most can’t.
Although we go through periods in our life when we feel like God doesn't see what we're going through, we need to keep seeking and read the promises of God in the Bible. We need to help each other and that is one of the purpose of the church is to help one another like the example in Acts, don't give up, God bless you.
I retired from teaching in Kansas and receive only $500 a month. Too late I learned one needs to pay attention to retirement benefits with any job you take. When you're young, you don't think about that.
Road Runner
So true. Most school systems do not participate in Social Security, instead they opt for their own pension system. I recommend that all Teachers who participate in a private pension system take a side job that participate in Social Security so that they would have both at retirement. Some private pensions are going bankrupt or reducing benefits.
Road Runner
If you are only receiving $500 a month in pension, you are probably be eligible for SSI Social Security Retirement Benefits and other benefits for Seniors. Call your local Eldercare Office.
My grandma worked at a bank. She gets $90.00 a month retirement. Its a monthly insult.
You RETIRED from teaching? Meaning you probably worked at least 15 years and your retirement is only 500 a month??? Insane...
@@conjurerwoman9726 I know someone who let her teaching position at a private Catholic school after 18 years. At 20 she could have gotten pension and she is just in her 40s. She had to start all over and go teach at another middle school.
The woman on assistance with the son that has breathing problems is such a good Mom and hard worker! I hope things got better for her.
In the end her evaluation and raise! Going back to school! Ma'am, you're inspiring! Your testimony is amazing!
Employers are crafty and unscrupulous. They disrespect their long time adult employees by cutting their hours down so they can pay dirt wages to kids. It's dishonest and cruel.
* Some
Definitely, my contract is only 12 hours. I want to do over time im willing. They are a joke :(. Thank god for the NHS hear in the u.k
It should be criminal!
These people all deserve a medal for surviving in such empoverished conditions. I particularly admire Jerry and his attitude in the face of such an unfair system. He really is a good man.
It's hardly "poverty" when someone has electricity and indoor plumbing. Most of the world doesn't have a big luxury like that.
what is unfair? people get paid according to the skills and assets they bring to an employer. If they bring next to nothing they get paid next to nothing. That is just reality.
This is so sad. It's not just the hourly non-college graduates. I know some college graduates that can't even make ends meet. Things are not the same as they were before. The rich are getting richer and the poor still suffer.
My family and I moved to the US with $100 cash and nothing else years ago (legally). My mom was making $4 an hour at a manufacturer. We were dirt poor. We were not on any assisting programs whatsoever. We found a tiny trailer that we paid $180 a month. All of us lived together. Most of the times, I would just starve and ate only once a day. School provided lunches but I was not qualified due to my mom making "too much" money. 😐 I stuck with it and studied my behind off. I worked full time during high school and college. My mom wasn't able to help other than providing a roof over our heads and food on the table. I took out student loan and kept studying.
Now I'm "someone" in a huge corporation and making great money. Im married to a wonderful guy. He's also "someone" in an even bigger company. I'm able to spend on whatever I want, big house, vacation home, luxury cars, designer clothing and luxury vacations. My husband and I maxed out our 401k contributions and always put money away for rainy days.
Just recently I decided that we needed a bigger/better house and a condo in Hawaii. We were so close to closing the deals and I saw this. My heart sank and I pulled out of the deals. For a moment, I forgot all those hard times. I'm ashamed of myself. I kept wanting more and more. Even we can afford it, we're not going to. By all means, we're going to keep enjoying our lives but I will not be going crazy. My heart goes out to everyone that cannot make ends meet. I've been donating but will increase it now. This is an eye opener for me.
NQ L This was deep! Thanks for sharing.
Sounds like you feel guilty---don't!! The people depicted in these stories have all made very foolish life choices. That's why they're in their own predicament.
She is showing sympathy and compassion for them, even from a place of good life choices and privilege.
Not everyone cares about luxury cars and designer clothing though. Those are mind programming scams.
So all these people are nobody's? You are now somebody? FUCK OFF
Ok I’m in tears. I worked in the activity department at a nursing home for 17 years. My first 6 years I didn’t miss one day until I was pregnant. I was raised by my grandparents and I do believe you have to be a special person to be an good employee at a nursing home.
its messed up when the husbands leave the mothers n kids to pick up the tab
Maybe the women and children should stop spending his money then. The best way to stay rich is to not waste your money on some useless bitch.
@@dhrgkbqxtjr2743 Ooooooohhhhhhh. Spoken like a REAL "MAN".
Crystal Roderick And that’s exactly what poverty is, women and children. And now tu know why women delay having children.
@@mobutter2879 it sounds like you're a gold digger
@@dhrgkbqxtjr2743 bro you have some serious issues with women. The women you call "bitch" that can also be your mom or daughter or sister. I have found that men who have such deep hatred for women uses lack a good relationship with their own mothers or have been let down by a woman in the past. Stop living in the past and live in the moment. With that toxic useless mentality you'll never get a woman to love you.
i think most of us are living wage to wage,
@Bow Down welfare muts worked it out free money fuck all stress
There is a lot of misery in the world, people cannot expect the world to provide them with what they need to survive in this day and age, people are having too many kids, kids need support, five kids and no man, impossible situation.
Yup, I worked my ass off to get an education and get a decent wage, why should i give it to someone who didn't, and who chose to have kids they couldn't afford!
Living with economic uncertainty, when you were 'promised' a good life, is so emotionally traumatic! It can scar you to the point that when things get better, you literally fall apart inside. I still have panic attacks about NOTHING. I found good counselors, who told me PTSD is something that can happen to anyone.