Poverty after the Pandemic: Americans in Corona-Fueled Economic Crisis | Poverty in US Documentary
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- Facing a pandemic, an unprecedented economic and social crisis, the United States seems to be on the brink. We followed middle-class Americans who now find themselves on the poverty line.
Marc and Selene, had to close their restaurant and are struggling to pay the rent when their young son breaks his arm. Now they have to find an additional $11,000 in order to have it treated.
A few months ago, Steven was making $ 70,000 a year as a business executive. Today he lives with his wife in their car. But he refuses to give up his belief in capitalism and the American dream and is sure better days are coming. Meanwhile, Kirin faces deportation after losing her job as a cashier.
This documentary was first released in 2020.
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I am the Chef featured in this documentary. We eventually lost everything including the house. But we didn't just sit back and let things happen to us. We are survivors and kept trying for our dreams. Our son Jesse is fine. I thank all of you who hope and prayed with us that things would get better. And for those who criticize our decision and savings and what we invested. Well you have no clue what we went through hindsight is 20/20 we have ouned every good and bad decision we have made. But we are survivors and are making a comeback. We still have a roof over our heads and food at our table. Our catering company is starting to pick back up. We are still hoping for a better future and pray for those who have not recovered. My children are doing well and they are loved by 2 hard working parents . Blessings
Prayers for you and your family
best wishes mate! Your business will be a big this year.
Good luck to you guys ....👍
Some bad times ,,best of luck
God bless! Keep cooking, and best of luck!
All I can say is that, as a European, (Dutch), this is astonishing. The justaposition of the big expensive cars and being in the food line is just incomprehensible.
Agreed.
Most of them need handouts to maintain their lavish lifestyles
95% of the cars were paid on credit. Something I didn’t know a decade ago about Americans.. I thought they all had money and paid for their big SUVs and fancy cars with cash. Nope. Credit is a huge thing in America and many people live way above their means.
Aren't cars cheaper in America? The second hand ones?
I attribute my Dutch upbringing from both my mother & Oma on how to survive in today's 'Merica. Of course, I've no health insurance but what can I do ?
The US had poverty before the pandemic. I find it funny that a lot of people didn’t recognize the poverty because they were never in it. As for those of us that have experienced poverty over and over again. This is nothing new. Thank you for the documentary 🙏🏽.
In 2019 I was forced to choose between paying bills or paying rent, as there wasn't enough income to do both. I left in my car and still had 18 months of my 60 month contract, I ate meals at $1-2 each, lived at a truckstop, volunteered at a charity because they were old and I still had my youth. Great people who cared for me during hard times, I've since paid those contracts out, work fulltime, and save money each week, hope to pay it forward to other people in need.
So if u were paying for the rented accommodation anyway why did u live in your car? That s kinda stupid, n’est pas?
@@bambinaforever1402 .. Read it again... and if you still don't understand what he was saying.... read it again. The first line he wrote speaks volumes, n’est pas?
He. Chose. To. Pay. His. Bills
Did you? I didn't.
i eat one meal a day to save money
Having lived in my car and pillar to post for five years, I now, and will ALWAYS pay my rent FIRST. Then my gas and electric. Everything else comes AFTER that. I will send those other bills something, but I'll lose my car before I live in it again.
Mercedes, Lexus, Tesla in a queue for free food... America has become a very weird country.
They can’t eat their car and they probably don’t own it outright so they can’t sell it. They still need a vehicle.
@@jossykerflossy915 But dont you think its strange that apparantly one moment you can afford such a car and a moment later you suddently cant? If you have so little financial reserves you need to queue for free food when you are in between jobs, you are living well above your means. Spending so much on a lease of a car without having any money in reserve just seems extremely stupid or there is something very wrong with the system.
My thoughts exactly! New Mercedes and Lexus queueing for the food bank??? Something's messed up.
@@julm7744 well if you're a cheapskate it doesn't make sense to drive a Porsche because of the upkeep. It is a problem because you're draining resources that were meant for people who are in real need and many are looking to get back on their feet while temporarily relying on foodbank. Is what you're doing illegal? No. Is it unethical? Yes.
@@julm7744 Dont know if you are being serious or just trolling here. The problem with your statement is obviously that the food is not free at all, but donated in order to help the people in need. Lets say everybody does what you do and thinks "well, im not poor but $100 is $100 thank you very much". It would probably mean a swift end to this type of charity because they will run out so quickly it will probably never get to the people who need it, which in turn will lead to more people not able to pay their bills, more evictions and homelessness and so forth. Now that im saying this... pretty sure you are trolling because this is of course something so simple a child could easily understand it.
As someone coming from the UK, I have to say America is one really harsh unforgiving country if your at the bottom of the spectrum.
Yes it is
Life is not great in the uk if your are poor. Universal Credit will have you on bended knee.
@@ewanfraser Some people are doing better on UC than when they were working. You haven't got a safety net on minimum wage in London.
@@ewanfraser universal credit was a God-send for my family.
@@deasvail99 Americans aren't in control of the country.
It's obvious some people don't have a budgeting bone in their body. Making 100K a month, and you only had enough savings for 3 months in a motel?, and then needing to live out of the vehicle, shows a total disregard towards the worth of money. Hard to feel sorry for someone like that. We always lived below our means, bought used, saved the difference, and concentrated on building our savings. So thankful for being raised by parents who went through WW2, and knew/understood the meaning of being/living frugal.
Don’t judge people. You never know what can happen to you. You can do everything right in the US and still end up homeless.
Yeah bruh but if you drive quite new Lexus you sell lexus get cheap car and try not just keep car stil pay insurance etc and get free food
@@MMARCINKRUPA The car is probably on lease, so he wouldn’t be able to sell it. And if he did own it, it probably wouldn’t be paid off. He also may have been thinking it’s just short term needing help until he found another job. If he got rid of his car and found a job in a few weeks then it would have been for nothing. I don’t think anyone expected this pandemic to last so long. He probably would have had to eventually anyway. It makes sense to downsize to something that will get you from A-B with money freed up to live off for as long as possible.
@@Buddingrose You're half right, but even if you have a good job if you can't afford to buy something in cash then you can't afford it. The only thing (ideally) you should go into debt for is a home.
Yeah right! 2:30 Give me a Tesla and then I'll drive to the food bank (sarcasm included)..... I worked during the Pandemic in the Supermarket, I was hiring people, we needed them, BUT never saw someone applying for a job at the Supermarket with a Tesla..... My work colleagues don't own a car, far less a property / home, they rent.... These people in their luxury cars are only supporting their lavish life style.... Crocodile tears..... Contrary, much blessings to the Catering Co Family, they are truly genuine victims of this pandemic, no fancy cars, no fancy homes, just renters, all my support to them 🙏
I’m 72, when I was a child in California, I was in the hospital for almost two years. Three operations later and I was released. This impoverished my family for years, even though both my parents worked hard. We even raised chicken’s and sold the eggs. If you get sick in america, you will be treated like you committed a crime, and you will pay. Don’t expect any help from anyone. You see all our wealth goes to war, war with other countries, war on drugs, war on everything. Now, when we reap what we have sown, surprise, surprise.
From Kenya 🇰🇪... I look at America and am like What?
usa: i have money (monopoly money) for bombs but no money for domestic issues.
The thing is wars are big business for the us you need ammo guns and grunts = less jobless people. Making a universal helthcare system and fixing the prices on medicine that some people depend on like insulin would be socialist but you gotta tax people for it and hurr durr thats communism. I pay 50% taxes in Austria but i dont go bankrupt if i get sick if i loose my job i get money from the state so i can survive with a roof about my head and if im unable to work through an accident i get rent paid out and the care costs are also paid. The lobbyists are very strong in the us. I had a talk with a pharma guy and he told me straight that they sell the same pills in the us for more than double the price just because they can and thats free healthcare for you.
When this pandemic is over (and it will be one day) poor folk in the US should consider emigrating to somewhere they get treated better.
If the people who go the crap jobs all leave, the ruling class will have to start to treat them better, including free universal healthcare for all Americans.
I have a chronic medical condition for which the medication costs US$125 per day. Where I live there is free universal healthcare. If I lived in America I'd be dead by now.
@@splinterbyrd FOOD, SHELTER and HEALTHCARE = HUMAN RIGHTS, EVERYTHING ELSE JUST BS! SO EASY FOR USA "TALK" HUMAN RIGHTS!
Health ins attached to employment was one of the biggest mistakes made in America. What a joke.
I dont think most Americans have even realized it.
I work for the State of California
My MANDATORY health insurance is
$900. A month for me only
Actually, it is the gov't's fault. Just like them guaranteeing college loans to the bank, the gov't has screwed over the people with their stupid laws and regulations. Health insurance with employment is the fault of the UNIONS. Gov't pass the laws and regulations, and the company adapts to it.
@@PInk77W1 That bill is pretty disgusting. Blame it on the Gov't........Keep voting for Democrats and see what happens next....Watch it go up.
@@1flash3571 oh yeah. The reason it is so high is because govt makes it mandatory to have free abortions and free sex changes.
Tesla driver: “i lost my job” seconds later “my job is not doing good 11 years and its not looking good” did he lose his job or still working? Why take food from hunger people
It could happen to anyone. I'm 52 and I went back to school to upskill 2 years back. I did my level 2 and 3 in early childhood to finish school and am halfway through my teaching degree. You can do it !! I have faith in you 😊
It just shows how many people are out there living paycheck-to-paycheck no matter the income bracket. Minimum wage workers to $100k/mo workers.... both one job/paycheck away from homeless.
Who earns 100k/month? I think it’s per year.
@@donsdesignideas6952 drug dealers
@@Manuelabor1978 politicians
@@donsdesignideas6952 Did you watch the video? the guy near the very end, they said he works in sales and makes 100k/month in commissions.
@@ronelz999 you watch the video until the end when he said that he was earning 6k/month before the pandemic. It’s the narrator who said 100k/month.
In this order. I lost my job, my wife, my brother, my mother and my home. I live in a converted cargo trailer at a storage unit in a town that nafta destroyed and received not one stimulus check. We all feed off of each other. Take one link out of the chain and we all suffer.
Piss on the American dream is what I say. I worked my ass off over a 20yr period for nothing.
I’ll never pay another tax dollar to a corrupt system that leaves their citizens behind
I'm so sorry.
@@missmodern it’s okay. The lord is my shepherd. I shall not want
You speak the truth
why not get a stim check? you can't do your taxes?????? that's how you can still get them , pretty sure..
@@theCosmicQueen I finally received one stimulus check and am waiting on the other two. Somehow my citizenship status was unknown which is completely ridiculous because I was born and raised here. Nevertheless when I filed my taxes and that was the status the irs should’ve sent me a letter informing me of that but they never did. Typical of people that don’t want to do their job
2020-2021 im a Nurse and working my a** off with positive patients and complaining about me working during this time then watched this. It opened my eyes completely. Im sure lucky enough i have the job and money. Sad for those people here. Hope they are doing well now..
Hi there from down under in New Zealand, hope all is going OK for you all now. This thing is global and it's not just you who have failed, it's everything and everyone, the financial system, lack of work, lack of workers. Good luck for your futures, yours and your children. Myra from New Zealand.
I’m beyond thankful that I haven’t fallen into poverty. My parents both kept their jobs and we’re doing well. It’s heartbreaking to see how other people are suffering during this pandemic.
sana all
Same here. As a fedex ground driver we been non stop working since the pandemic. We are even overworked but I rather be overworked than to have no work.
It’s good to keep that perspective. It’s what keeps you connected to your fellow humans and animals. Life is harder than ever to navigate
Its been even worse for those of us who've been in long term poverty, where the stores would be out of common staple items long before covid. Now the gas stations are running out of gas. Homeless people are making tents out in the woods behind my apartment building. Resources that were already at breaking point before all this are even more bitter when they return your call, that is, if they call back at all. The food pantries are giving you boxes of food but half of it is either expired or inedible. Yay. That's life in good old Middletown Ohio guys. Go ahead and look up my town. It's just been so much fun you guys. Now look up Liberty Township, Ohio. Check the proximity between the two towns. Life in Ohio is just so much fun.
It’s definitely a humbling experience if you’re one of these people they speak of. Don’t give up!
This is America. It’s been like this my whole life. My mom maybe didn’t make the best choices but we use to look for change just to put gas in the car. Praying for the kids and adults out there who are suffering.
move to europe . i did and iam much better then living in shitr hole usa
You can turn it around.. Start off and build... snowball affect. With discipline, you could retire in 15-20 years (possibly sooner with luck).. enjoy the journey as well.
I agree...this is America...it has always been this way. I grew up poor as well. The only reason it's making headlines in the proportions it is now is because it's affecting the upper class as well. I have volunteered in food banks and have ALWAYS seen luxury cars coming through to get assistance...they would come all the from across town so their neighbors would not see them. America is not as fancy as they portray...never has been.
@@truthhurts305 SURPRISED THE US HASNT STRUNG UP THEIR POLITITIANS YET!
Let’s talk about how we give Israel $10.5 Million a day, yet we can’t even help our own!
I been retired for 14 years, am 67. Helped my daughter buy a house in Raleigh in 2018 and since she works from home, she had no issues during this time. She got lucky. Hopefully, their is no depression over the horizon.
What a luxury, retiring at 53.
Did you work for the government?
@@tristan2338 I was in the Navy for 21 years and took an early out from tbe Postal Service. I was an electronic technican for both. Got my pensions so life is good. Took SS at 64. I am single so it makes life even easier
As an old truck driver, I just bought milk yesterday.....and I love cheese 🧀 and eggs and bacon 🥓 dearly! I am a burger, steak, and potatoes 🥔 old timer! My heart ♥ goes out to our farmers. I am trying to do my part my brothers! 👍
It is all PLANNED.
to make us weak so that Russia and china can easily invade us. All SETUP
NEW WORLD ORDER
SEEK THE LORD REPENT
TURN OFF TV
There are people who were making six figures a year who lose their jobs and are now living in their car. People are either spending every penny they make, living beyond their means or not saving at all. I also wonder if the people driving up in a Tesla are really in need or using their food budget to make their car payment. I feel there's a lot of denial going on with people not being realistic about what they can afford or unwilling to downsize.
as a non-american while i'm pretty sure there are real systemic issues to blame, i still have the impression that there is also an astonishing inability to budget income to blame why so many people are effected. if you had a job that made you wealthy enough to have a tesla, there is no way you will fall below the poverty threshhold within two years or less, unless you have absolutely no concept of handling finances. that's just weird.
If you don't have the prestige that comes along with that high income why even bother? I live in WI and own and old car that's paid for but in S. California women won't even look your way if you don't have a penthouse and Tesla.
West survive on loot and being materialistic !!!! Now karma is here to stay
If you were making six figures, how do you end up in your car?? What did you do with all that stimulus and unemployment $$$$! I know millionaires who are the cheapest and most vile human beings. They have no sense of shame and take advantage of every freebie they can get their hands on.
@@truther001
In California making some lower firm if 6 figures is liw income. Especially in San Diego Los Angeles and all of Northern California. Driving a Tesla is the only way to get into the car pool lane if you are a single driver. Traffic in the above towns is horrible. To go 10 miles not in the fast lane takes hours. Its a relative. Before you toss the stone this could happen to you and yours. Most of the people shown survived for a bit on savings. No one expected covid let alone to last so long.
In America we do not deny the needy what ever they drive. At one time those same people were donating to food banks to help others. No need to shame anyone. It's embarrassing waiting in a food line. I appreciate these people telling their situation to the show.
When my job shut down I had no real choice but to go to food banks. I had savings, but was worried the bottom would drop out. My restaurant closed down permanently. When I did try to buy groceries there was no milk, and very little of much else if I could even get in. I was only able to get milk from the food bank. I was very scared. I found a job in healthcare the only safe field I could work in with out the fear of losing my job again. I have been the chef for a large hospital for almost a year now. I am still very scared that I won’t have a job if anything like covid happens again. I do my best to live off of 1/3rd of my income.
Good for you.
The world has changed so much since Y2k. No more job security, always fearful of losing you job and income. We are living in an uncertain environment, very hard to plan ahead. Living pay cheque to pay cheque, living day by day. What a life???
@@martinleung212 My whole thought process has changed. I lol at Jewelry and say oh pretty, but I have no desire to buy any or wear it so pretty little diamonds are worthless to me. I shop for clothing at discount stores on line on clearance with a discount code or coupon. I save, but still worry it’s not enough. Having a savings to last six months is not enough, I even fear only having enough to last a year or two. If it comes down to being homeless or scrubbing toilets and floors to take care of my family those floors will look better than new.
You need to invest in yourself (education) to develop skills needed in today's environment. Otherwise, you'll be unemployed being obsolete or replaced by technology.
@@rspcoach619 Every job will be replaced by technology.
Watching them throw away food and pour milk down into the rivers, I'm so deeply sad, from the very bottom of my being.
I stopped helping and donating food banks years ago. The number of luxury cars that came thru was shocking. I don't zre if they lost a job spend money in the right place.
Life is tough. Depression is real.
Yes it is. We are making a comeback are I actual received help for my depression
Why doesn't the Tesla guy sell his car and buy a three year old Toyota Corolla and he'd still have $30,000 left over , which is enough money to buy food for three years for one person.
who says its paid for? most of us make payments.
Because he ain’t really desperate, dude just wants free stuff even though he doesn’t need it
@@ssim8230 then stop making payments on a TESLA. It’s not rocket science!
Who's gonna buy it. Nobody can afford it.
@@meriammans6302 Car dealers are desperate for something to sell since new cars are in short supply. Used car prices have skyrocketed this year.
I’ve had a cleaning business for over 15 years and have been blessed with wonderful clients. At the beginning of all of this, many of them DID cancel for 2-3 months…but 80% kept paying me regardless!
Some of these people had jobs I could have only dreamed of and many would probably even look down at what I do. Just really reminds a person to always be thankful for what you have and to never look over at the neighbours.
We all have our challenges. Nobody’s exempt from hard times.
Bless these people.
Your clients may not say it as much but I'm sure leaving their houses sparkling clean gets a grateful reaction each time.
I feel so bad for these people. You don't know how close you are to their situation until it happens. I hope everyone in the video is doing better now
Remember. This is the country which spends more on defensive budget than the next 10 countries *COMBINED* ,
yet they have problems with homeless people, poverty and medical care that'll ruin your finances.
It sickens me and i'm happy i don't live in the states.
I'm glad you don't either
True in absolute terms, but as a percentage of GDP the US is not a big spender. Comes far below the likes of say, Pakistan.
The US, like most Western countries, spends most of its money on pensions and welfare benefits
How many billions per day do they spend??????? Why not stopping that by building health care for low budget?
Perhaps you regard Ukraine's defense spending as more beneficial?
This just really shows that you should not make fun of those bellow you because you can join them over night.
Appreciate what you have, stay humble, remember the poor, share, so that when you fall you survive, but what we give out is as we will receive.
FACTS. Also, plan for the future, and budget.
@Maria DC
Amen 🙏🏽
No one whose only source of income is a 9-5 job has any room to look down on anyone else anyway because they are a pink slip away from being in the same situation or worse. And even those with multiple streams of income should spend more time in gratitude rather than looking down their noses.
@@themanifestorsmind
Absolutely!
Well said. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Be humble before you're forced to be humble.
These documentaries are so hard to watch. Its easy to sit back a judge other people but this isnt the time or the place. I hope all these people get an opportunity to move forward and regain their life, a life again for themselves and their families.
Excellent video! from mtw in L.A.
My family would starve if it weren't for the local food banks. Social security isn't enough to pay bills and buy food for 4 on a small farm.
This is only justifying my choice of never having children in a country with an unstable economy
That’s why you learn and invest in a skill set that can translate to multiple industries. If someone limits themselves to a job a high school kid can work at, opportunities are pretty bleak. Ask me how I know.
Boi enjoy America dream
Agree with U! It’s amazing how anybody wants to bring a baby into such a terrifying mess of covid & all it’s uncertainties!
There’s already too many unwanted / neglected children in this world!..with all the serious mental illnesses, crime, poverty.. all around the world ...etc!
True but it wasn't always like this!! 😕 Who would have known, we would be in this predicament 🤔☹️
Thank you
Blessings for all those affected may their situations improve soon.
I manage storage facilities in Kansas City MO and it’s insane the increase of people renting storage units due to homelessness because they have no where to put their stuff. Ive met so many good people from so many different backgrounds and it’s really just so sad to see them go through this and have to put their lives in a storage unit. I just count my blessings that I have been able to keep my job and work for such an amazing caring company. I hope others who have been able to continue to work know how lucky they are.
Wow! You are very pretty😁 Wow
@Lee Hollebon Smokin Hot!👍
Working doesn't make you "lucky" and you're not allowed to live in a storage facility you will lose your job if you continue to let that happen.
In Sweden there was a lot of people who never had to apply for housing allowance before found themselves having to ask for those kind of benefits. Mainly people in the servicesector where both had jobs in branches that shut down.
Crazy also that the farmers were so severely hit, people still have to eat.
I'm doubtful that the recent increase in foodprices will come to the basic producers. It's likely to increased cost of transports, and to some degree to increased cost for the grocery stores, they sell the same amount of food but have had increased personnel cost to pack and have grocerybags ready for customers to pick up and such.
@@jamesbra4410 having a job when so many others lost theirs I do consider lucky and I’m not letting anyone live in the units not sure how you decided that from my comment lol
The Mexican family restaurant dream being shattered like that just breaks my heart…
Mine too.Their son felt bad for having a broken arm. Dad is suffering way too much stress. If medical care was provided like most countries, it would lift a huge burden off them.
@@user-ti3vp9mt3z If they have no work and no income he can walk into any hospital and get treated for free, illegals do it every single day and get 100% FREE medical care while legal tax paying citizens pay their premiums plus the illegals 100% free share. That's a huge reason medical costs are so high here. Expedite the backlog of immigrants applying to get into the US the LEGAL way and kick out the illegal one's. The legal one's will get job's, pay their share of taxes and medical cost's while eliminating 100% free health care for illegals.
@@kbengson9163 you know nothing about the healthcare system if you think illegal immigrants are the reason costs are so high.
I know I was sad 😔 hearing about his thoughts of suicide 😔
Can they do deliveries, cater parties ?
Lunch specials something.
In times like this you have to be innovative 💡
Thank you! We are making a comeback. We eventually lost the house. But we are survivors.
As someone born and rised in a third world country (Mexico) and finally got to move to the US four years ago, America has no darn idea how lucky and blessed they are. They're "poverty" is nothing compared to the poverty that the majority of us mexicans had to face growing up . In my home country you work a lot or you will perish. No welfare, no stimulus, no programs. Never give for granted your first world country. It's a blessing to have some dry grass, when most of the world have none.
It can happen to anyone in a snap. I can’t imagine the heartbreak. I hope they all bounce back soon!
$11k for broken arm. Meanwhile in Australia... 9 months of chemo, radiation, bone marrow transplant with stem cells flown in from overseas,, numerous hospital stays, around 45 pills a day, blood tests, mri, scans, etc etc. Cost? $0. No insurance needed.
Try to open your borders to basically anyone and see how well that systems still holds up after a decade. You guys have a pretty strict immigration policy that ensures no (or very little) moochers get into your country. In such a case yes, the system can work because the overwhelming majority is contributing.
@@MrHellweasel it's not just Australia. It's standard in most countries. Never has been in America has it? Even when you had a much smaller population. Healthcare should be a human right, not only to the rich or those employed.
@@Sammy-il1qf So you should have the right to have access to someone else's resources and labor yes? How does that work? I am not from the US by the way, I am from a small country in central Europe where we have that system. And I see it misused on a regular basis.
@@MrHellweasel Yes. Stop assuming everyone who is unemployed is lazy. They may be temporarily unemployed. Some people are inherently unemployable. Some people are out of work due to a pandemic. Many businesses are shutting as things are going online or overseas. Everyone should have the right to health care. Especially a boy with a broken arm.
@@Sammy-il1qf I never said someone who does not work must be lazy. Like you said, there can be many reasons for that. But many people who don't work are lazy. They don't have to work because especially in Europe, there is a generous social net that even parasites can live of off. I merely pointed out that healthcare is not a human right. It is a service like any other that has to be created and paid for. If it is not you paying, it must be someone else. That's why private medical insurance exists. Unless of course you found a way how to grow hospitals, medicine, or doctors on trees for free.
"Capitalism works... you can't kill the American dream"... while he lives in his car after losing his 6-figure job. My God, the delusion is real.
It blows my mind away how delusional, ridiculous and unhuman US has become.
he made 6 figures but fell victim to the ccp virus. who are you to judge him who was making income in the top 10% of the US population. tell me a communist , dictatorship, or socialist country that’s richer than the US. I’ve lived in all of them.
Yep, guy's a moron. If you make 6 figures and don't have financial independence, I feel no sympathy.
@@dt6750 Norway, Luxembourg, Ireland and Switzerland are all richer.
@@dt6750
What you are trying to express is seriously BADLY written.... And I'm NOT quite sure that you actually comprehend what you are babbling about!!!
I was blessed in many ways. Had my both jobs n I had worked 7 days a week. I never really felt the pandemic hit me. I had worked the whole time. Very blessed
Awesome
How the hell can a country leave a young child with such injuries all because of money .Brutal and immoral.
They fully qualify for Medicaid. This is a Communist propaganda lie above.
Sorry not propaganda. We eventually got Medicaid but at that time we didn't have it. And we were going through so much at one time.
@@markigomez i really hope your son is ok now.i live in England where we are lucky enough to have a free national health services( well,paid through our taxes ) but everyone has equal access to it. God bless you and all the best to your family.x
@@samtaylor6003 yes Jesse is doing well. We were able to get medical insurance for the kids. During the filming of this documentary we were going through a lot but we are doing better. Never give up.
@@markigomez Glad to hear you all our during better seeing you make that food made me hungry I wish I lived around there that looked yummy
If you’re driving a Tesla, you should have had enough intelligence to have saved money from your big salary all along.
People are bad at managing money in this consumer society
Scrounging thieve
This has to be a joke WTF
Tesla, New Mercedes, New Lexus, Mustang getting food from the Food Bank??? Goddamn I drive a shitbox but never had to beg for food or money from anyone. These people are fucked in the head.
Exactly, and why dont they sell their car when they are struggling
Driving a luxury car to a food bank perfectly sums up the american dream. "You have to be asleep to believe it". G. Carlin (R.I.P.)
Married to American but living in Slovakia. We never wanted to live in the US and watching this (and other documentaries) I am happy we stayed in my home country. I hope for all who suffer (pandemic or else) that things get better for everybody. It is sad to see a huge difference...one side the guy with his luxury cars and other side the guy who struggle to provide for his family....the luxury cars will not go with him to other side of the river when his life is finished....
I have lived here in the US for almost 30 years. What I have seen through all these years is how much most people I know waste so much. Wether it’s food, consumables , clothes, toys ( a pre school child can have more toys than my three siblings and I had together and we’re from thr higher middle class), etc. In short, those who earned enough and could have saved didn’t save. They had to have those mini mansions and big SUVs. Back in 2000 my husband lost his job as a computer engineer for almost 2 years. We didn’t have to borrow money and lived frugally but well ( I was a stay at home mom). Ina few months he will retire. Our daughter is in uni in Europe and we will live well . It’s because we lived practically, saved, and invested well. We have been traveling and our daughter went to private school. We never had a luxury car or lived in a mini mansion. Until now I see how much people waste and overspend, even those I know personally who live paycheck to paycheck.
Thank you!!! I agree!! We live in Alaska. My husband not working for 3 years and we were able to live good life, build a house and help my Family in Russia with just $30K a year income because we have healthy mined. 2 (including me)out of 13 my coworkers do not live pay check to paycheck.
I had massive amount of toys for my child. It was crazy as I look back. We got them from neighbours who was tossing as their child was older than mine. Reality is due to travelling to care for my sick parent and going to many mom clubs, library events i feel we didnt stay home a great deal.
true well i was brought up with little and well as im older i believe in spending on crap is not needed a roof over your head is important plus my last car i had it 11 years and just bought another one and its a 2014 modle but a real good make so im sure il be driving it for a really long time .the world we live in there is so so much waste and no call for it .the reason why i hate so much waste is tat it pollutes our world .i know cars do it also but im not well on my feet so i have to drive 6to get places and work
Yup. Over spending
People living above their means.buying things they cannot afford period.
I’m from Western Europe, but have lived in the USA for many years. It’s horrible how there is no social safety net here. My experience is based on largely living in Florida. There are no paid maternity leave laws. The labor laws are totally weak in a lot is states (exceptions are CA and NY). In a lot of states employees can be terminated at will, due to no fault of their own. The healthcare system is a joke. Totally overpriced, the same service cost a lot less in Western Europe. Even if you have good and expensive health insurance you still have to pay a lot out of your own pocket to meet your deductibles and out of pocket. A lot of alternative health treatments that are covered in Western Europe by health insurance like TCM, naturopathic doctors, homeopathic medicine etc. are all not covered even by good health insurance coverage. It’s very expensive to purchase healthy food, even if you just want non-GMO fresh veggies and fruit. What I have also witnessed in Florida is that a lot of people seem to be financially illiterate. Regardless how much people earn, they tend to live way above their means. Everything is on credit, people’s education, their car, the clothes they wear, their furniture and electronics, their engagement & wedding ring, their vacations etc. When I grew up I learned that if you don’t have the money cash (other than for school or a mortgage) you don’t buy it! If seems to be all about showing off your expensive car and house, even though people can’t afford either. So of course they had no or very little financial reserves when Covid hit.
So part of the problem is the total lack of safety net but also the total lack of a lot of people in being financially responsible.
Agreed with you assessment, a lot of financial stupid people here who have very big egos and very little common sense.
I grew up in NY but lived in Florida for several years and you are right that Florida doesn't have much of a safety net compared to NY but the justification is much lower taxes.
Also, at- will employment is the norm even in states with strong labor laws.
As for living on credit and above our means, that's kind of the American way. That may be partly because military conflicts we're involved in generally aren't happening here. It's was also 9 years between the recession in 1990 & the previous recession, 10 years between the 1990 recession & the one in 2000, another 7 years before the Great Recession & another 10 years before Covid.
We're also very optimistic/ narcissistic here
Alternatively, for a many, many people, the salaries versus cost of living math will never add up & using credit to cover necessities is actually necessary.
Dear Denise. You have said what is thr absolute truth
Funny you should say this because I am now arguing with a man on Quora who was saying he knows that Americans are better off than Western Europeans because they have bigger houses and spend more money on cars and eating out - therefore must be more prosperous. He literally said:
"Secondly, as measured by tangible consumables the standards of living in the US are higher that in the other countries you mention. Americans live in large houses, own more (per capita) cars, recreational boats, RVs. Larger share of Americans own secondary/vacation homes. Americans spend larger share of their income on needless luxuries such as pet care and eating out. Some researchers consider those a sign of prosperity."
My response was that I don't see how this can be when 40% of Americans do not have $400 for an emergency expense.
Perfectly said!
Watching this now is something else...
During the pandemic we donated $$ to several food banks on a rotating basis. (We personally have been very lucky and we like to give back.) One volunteer said the numbers of middle/upper-middle class people using them was astounding. What really got to her was the shame many of the first-time clients displayed - they just couldn’t believe what had become of their once-successful lives. It can happen to anyone.
Meanwhile the billionaires in America could prevent evictions, health care costs and the food crisis. But apparently it's more important to fly into space.
I wonder what you might be able to do to help instead of sitting here blaming other people. It's always on somebody else to do something...
Stacy Rarig, They have very important issues to discuss....how to hide their profits EVEN better.
@@ybergik, Perhaps you might be helpful to figure out how to stop billionaires from tax evasions..?...and legislations that give them power to rip people's hard earned miserable wages...???
More like escaping Earth, which is what a reporter asked him upon his return!
@@IIII...... No, let's criticize them for getting rich off low wages, dodged taxes and having the use of all society has to support him and offer him but the rich do not pay their fair share. Yes, I'm criticizing.
Just another example of why everyone needs an emergency fund.
Emergency fund could run out. Most people don’t make enough money to survive.
@John Dyer
Absolutely
I’m married to. 6000 yr old man (lol) who has never learned the concept of planning and saving. Smh. His favorite thing to say is: “let’s wait and see what happen”
Thank God I’m smart enough to tuck away funds for an emergency..
Some people never learn…and he’s one of them. Smh
Even during the economic crisis the world is facing today, he’s blind to reality. Smh
@@schawnettarobinson8584 True, but a decent emergency fund gives you time to react to a situation. Also consider income protection or life assurance
@@juliantheapostate8295 Money can run out. I remember a lot of people losing everything in 2007/2008/2009. Most people don’t make enough to have an emergency fund for a year. Do you? What about 5 years?
@@schawnettarobinson8584 most or many people are fiscally illiterate and spend beyond their means. So dumb they buy stuff they don’t need and carry high interest debt for it.
Steven in sales earnings $100,000 a month and his wife was working too. How on earth did they lose their home and end up living in a car? Surely they could have saved a good nest egg to fall back earning that kind of income. That well over a million a year. This is the thing, people live above their means or on the verge of not thinking they may need it one day or just for piece of mind.
That’s what I’m not understanding
i worked with Feeding San Diego twice now, I will continue to volunteer while I am able to.
if your seeing this i hope your struggle find light at the end don't lose faith 🙏🏽
lol
amen!
“I heard they might cutout the unemployment so we thought we’d be prepared”...
So basically you’re taking the food someone else needs! Maybe they should ask for some kind of proof?
If anyone is giving anything away for free, people will always lineup for it.
You were never worthless. Your family would not be better off without you. Poor guy. Just a bad set of circumstances.
BE STRONG PEOPLE, THIS IS WHAT OUR LIFE IS, NEVER GIVE UP, KEEP FIGHTING and always be happy anytime anywhere.
Poverty is when you haven't a car. These people are scroungers. The real poor are tent street down and outs. Oh how the perception of being poor has changed. We take so much for granted.
yes, i was a little bit baffled when i saw several mercedes in that line in the beginning. i understand that it's kinda vital to have a car when there's no public transportation, but driving to a foodbank in a new mercedes? erm...check your priorities?!
Check your bias before making comments like these...
this is U.S logic 😂
@@latoyah1624 maybe you can explain what you mean with bias bcs i honestly don't get what your point is. do you really think that this is okay? that charitable services can really work well and in the long term in this way? i don't see it. i think some people are heavily exploiting an opportunity and good people. and that seems a bit cheap to me.
That's not true! Most of these people don't own a car. In my case I lease a car rent an apartment work minimum wage and still struggle! Stop assuming shit bro!
USA is a weird country. People cannot afford MASKS, but can afford to buy and maintain LUXURY CARS.
this is U.S logic 😅
They can afford masks. There are some who just choose not to wear them.
@@mikew2610 yes the ones who know the truth !
all the vehicle maintenance goes on their credit cards
Shout out from San Diego,
The guy in the BMW didn’t say he needed the food he said. He was picking it up just in case to be prepared
We’re pensioners and have gotten in line to get free food. Every little bit helps! It’s gotten worse because the cost of living keeps rising.
I lived in the USA and left to raise my children back in my home country, thank goodness they didn’t grow to adulthood in America. The kids father stayed in the USA and lost everything he owned because he was very ill. It’s such a hand to mouth society
It's the most criminally against humanity nation in the world today. It has some of the best propaganda in history, and the elites have a massive military budget...
@@user-gz4ve8mw9l sorry, the US has major human rights issues and is an inhumane society, but it is not the worst on the planet.
China is conducting a genocide in plain sight and violently surpressing its population.
Russia is violently opressing its population and pushing military actions in adjacent nations
Turkey is violently opressing its population, conducting an ethnical clensing and conducting military actions in neighbouring nations
Etc
@@zhufortheimpaler4041 And yet you're in debt to China and about Russia, American propaganda ave learnt. America have lost any moral judgement they "think" they ever had on anything. POLICING the rest the world my a$$!!
Oh 😳 and Turkey too...more propaganda
@@zhufortheimpaler4041 lol USA, a war criminal country illegally invading countries for oil.
This saddens me greatly😞
Buen documental
It amazes me that you need a car to access access the food bank. I can't afford a car therefore no food bank.
Maybe try a local church. Hope you can get help!
No one normal can afford a car any more. I have a theory that the lack of silicon chips etc is a false rumor, the real reason less cars are being made is that no one can afford cars any more, but they don't want to cause a panic by coming out and saying that. So they came up with this fake story about the micro chips.
and from this video seems like you need a luxury car to access the food bank 🙃
I live rural and all the food banks/churches with food giveaways are drive thru.
@@lettuce1305 U.S logic 😂
11,000 dollars to fix the boys' broken arm!! Here in the UK, its free. Yes we pay higher taxes towards health care but not crazy taxes. No wait for emergency care. I find it amazing, you still think you're special, and free! Free to work for slave wages. Free to be evicted from your homes. Free to wait in line for grocery hand outs. The poverty gap in the US is something to be ashamed of.
Lots of corporate greed in the US, Lots of waste and selfishness! We throw away so much food and resources away everyday! I saw this coming for decades! Yes Covid played a part, but the majority of the populations are barely surviving on slave wages etc. The chickens are coming home to roost! Folks are quitting these minimum wage jobs by the millions every month! This is what happens when you treat black, brown and poor whites like second class citizens because of greed!
"лох не мамонт лох не вымрет"
(morons are not mammoths - they will not extinct)
I mean, idiots should pay.
If you break your arm in the USA, you take some over the counter pain killer. Then you just shrug it off, and go back to the fields as a slave. As the alternative is far more painful than a broken arm, or death.
They don’t have any shame at all.
I don't know about California, but Washington State and Arizona have businesses begging for people to apply for work. I have a 17 year old grandson who is going to work for Walmart to fill online orders for $22 an hour because adults don't want to work. There are so so many jobs out there. Jobs that could be filled by anyone in food lines if they wanted to work.
Imagine playing TLC’s “no scrubs” while being a scrub driving on the passenger of his best friend’s ride, tryin to holla at… the corona food bank.
i pray for all of these people and hope they are doing better. i lost my business, two homes and live in a motel room. once i lost all my money, friends and even family wanted nothing to do with me. i understand their pain and shattered dreams. for the people making judgey comments, losing a job or home can happen to anyone. i don't wish this life on my worst enemy
Thank you for your prayers. We are doing much better.
@@markigomez I am SO happy to hear! I am doing well also. Thank you Heavenly Father
Same here. No one knows you when times get tough😭
"I cant afford food but I can afford to upkeep a car."
Only in the US.
Not only a car, but 60K or higher cars, lol. Plus, don't forget the latest and newest iPhone, SMH
@@jeremiahallyn4603 Sure kid .. The 1% - 10% are taking in most of the money supply, however. This is the REAL issue - Not some verbal stuff you're being told. When wages paid, match current pricing .. End of crises. But for that, relentless greed .. has to go
And cars which here in the UK and the rest of Europe would be seen as executive vehicles, No 15 year old Fiat Puntos for that lot.
Spoken like someone who isn't from the US. Having a working vehicle is probably the most important thing you can have in this country because the mobility opens up alot opportunities you otherwise wouldnt have. Also, once you buy the car, keeping it is almost always a better idea than selling it and buying a worse car.
I was thinking exactly this!!!
$9000 worth of milk and they threw it away. y’all aren’t about to convince me that’s okay
Nice
America, where you’ll see poor people with 1000 dollar phones and 60k cars. Priorities
Yes, you don't "fall into poverty overnight"; many of the asset rich began their descent into poverty years ago.
So true!
I still drive the same car I got when I first got my permit over nearly 20 years ago. It's my first, only, and last car, I refuse, nor could I ever afford another one. I will NOT comply with slavery in the USA.
@@user-gz4ve8mw9l If that's characteristic of the way you conduct your financial life, you're rich, regardless of what your bank balance may be.
@@user-gz4ve8mw9l agreed. Loans on cars are slavery.
The problem is "regardless of income". If you don't NEED the help DON'T F'G get in line. There are folks that need it.
The idea is, it's enough of a hassle that you won't bother with it if you don't need it. And, a lot of people live paycheck to paycheck and do NOT save up any kind of an emergency fund, they don't keep a "pantry" of food, it's just amazing.
How you know they need it.
The tesla man pissed his money up the wall and now expects handouts
Americans loves a good free handout.
Totally Agree. Some of those people in one know damn well they shouldn't be in it. Leave it for people who REALLY are in need of it
@@owlman4645 not this American.
I’m active duty and it hit us hard as well. The inflation rate is 8.6 percent and we only got a 4.6 percent pay raise it never went above the inflation rate. Another thing that affects us is the landlords raise the rent to our housing allowance so it’s making us military families really stretch our money.
Blame the Governments reaction to the pandemic…not the pandemic itself…
Exactly! This would not have happened if they never shut everything down. The moment they did, it all went to hell and it is not ever going to return to the way it was. The dumbest decision anybody could make and they made it, and left a trail of absolute misery and destruction.
When the pandemic hit in April last year, I just found out I was pregnant but I couldn't afford health insurance and got Medicare. I think medicare called to verify my work. Not even a week after they laid me off saying 'covid' but I really think it was finding out I was pregnant. I struggled horribly with barely being able to afford food to my husband and I having to work long hours. During pregnancy I was working 50 hour weeks and cried alot. We're financially good now and have a one year old but I still worry for the future and aggressively save money, every cent. I'm so scared of that happening again and being unable to afford basic necessities to the point I have to apply for government assistance. It sucked so bad but I'm glad we all got through it.
Good luck to you and your family.
Blessings to you and your family. I'm glad you all came through this mess too. It just reiterates for me the thing my Mama used to say allot. "And, this too, shall pass." I've struggled all of my life to stay above water since I live on disability; but I still have hope that things will get better for me as well.
You should've gotten an abortion. Why bring a child into poverty? People like you are part of the problem and a tax on other people.
Let me guess you also didn't have maternity leave?
@@nickimillennium if you'd read for five seconds you'd notice we're financially fine now. Everyone was hit hard during the pandemic, doesn't mean you can't get up. Obviously you'd know nothing about that, though.
Super
Food prices and rents are absolutely insane
Tesla dude. Come on, downsize your car and THEN turn up to the food bank man. You could sell that thing within an hour. That’s just an insult to those that are walking up with holes in their shoes.
He'll be obligated to pay for it, he can't sell what he doesn't own
@@GuacamoleyNacho Totally agree
@@GuacamoleyNacho How he was supposed to know a pandemic would cause him to lose his good job?
@@chipbuttytime3396 maybe he could get someone to take over payments other then tell car company to take it back if you cancel your insurance they'll take it back, we'll my neice did that with her leased car
He never said that the car its payoff
I own my car, if hard times come and I am evicted, I'll still have my car as my home.
Poverty is when you own nothing.
Perceptions of poverty have changed over the last 100 years
I will fully agree with you at least one should have small one to live with a strong build and some saving with credit access .
Your luckier than some I would love a car I'm trying to keep my apartment as long as possible but I will be evicted eventually
@@michaeldhondt368 Stay strong ❤️
I would do the same, and i would not change my new car for a cheaper and older (it comming up in value thanks to a lack of chips these days, and the taxes and costs would be many times higher with a old car.)
I would also keep my caravan...
I been homeless for 25 years, and i would still sell my house before my car..
My car would be what brings me to my new life and income..
But i would also take my car and go where the work was, and where i could afford to stay
He earned up to 100k per month but saved nothing for a rainy day? Ok ...
I was grateful for my job as a CNA when I worked at a hospital. I work for one of the best hospitals we were always safe and I always had food to eat and was given benefit I never had to worry about anything. I always thank God for my job
The video with the milk being spilled really got me.... USA is twisted. Imagine, throwing away milk.. wow...In a country where people would rather throw away stuff than give it for free, this happens in the end.
Americans have a habit of throwing food. I worked for a restaurant and we poured out all the milk and food left at the end of the day. So much is wasted in this country you have no idea.
I was shocked....no mercy in the country. Everybody give money a higher priority than basic human rights.
@@donnajoe4442 This is sooo true. My grandson works fast foods like Arby's and other similar restaurants. At the end of the day, the leftover stuff is put in the trash, sometimes tubs of roast beef, a dozen or more of pastry tarts. He was able to bring a lot of it home. The tarts were still delicious but had to be made fresh everyday. The meat was still edible and if It had sat out a bit too long, my dog got a tasty treat.
This is more complicated than you think. You can't just give away milk. Iy needs to be processed. The process costs money. It's really standard in all countries. I saw Chinese ppl said the same thing about Americans then I showed them how Chinese farmers throw away milk lmao. It's cheaper to throw away than donating a lot of the time.
@@candicezhang8619 We are not just talking about the milk. Almost everything in this country is wasted. People buy stuff that they don't need, then their houses get filled up. They end up throwing those things out. My boyfriend told me he used to buy groceries, then he doesn't eat them and he is forced to throw them out. Why buy excess? Just buy what you need and save money. Everytime something new comes out, you find them shopping. Why buy a car for 50k when you could buy one for 25k? Then you worry about debt. No need to keep eating out. People can cook for themselves. Those are some of the reasons people are broke.
I live a frugal life. I never shop for things I dont need, buy always used, and always pay everything off in full. I use my credit card to collect airmile points, but I pay off the entire balance every week. In the past 8 years, I've saved enough money to get me buy for at least 5 years If I didnt work and didnt earn a penny.
Good for you. You likely contribute little to the economy. A nation runs on families and the middle class.
អ្នកពិតជាឆ្លាតដូចគ្រួសារខ្ញុំ👍
This is how I do. Except now that I’ve bought a house, I only have enough savings to not work for 18 months. But I live in a country with a good welfare system, so there’s that.
Nobody likes a bragger
@@michaelhart7282 atleast if it encourages others to do the same its good innit eh?
I had to evict a couple out of one of our rentals in MO during this. It sucked but we as landlords have bills also. I understood they had lost their jobs but when you have a family you do what you have to for them first.
I feel for Mark, my Son broke his ankle he was grown in his 30's but did not have medical insurance. He just had to deal with it, no surgery to fix it. He took off work and let it heal but it didn't heal correctly!!! He's still living with it years later. Sad that in America our citizens can't get reasonable health insurance. He's a Journeyman Electrician now and has great insurance with his job.
I live in Pennsylvania and have my 2 younger daughters in their lower 20's living with me. With the rents in PA and how they've become, I don't see my kids moving out on their own anytime soon. I'm thankful everyday myself and my husband have good paying jobs. It's a shame though because they can't experience the joy of having a place of their own. With what they make at their jobs and and needing to make at least 3/4 of their income in order to even be considered by any rental place is insane. Lucky for my girls, I love them and will never kick them out. I see what's going on in the world. I'm just glad I can help them out when they need it the most.
I can marry your daughter.. I have a mansion here in Afghanistan 🤣😜😜
@@user56gghtf I am like you why have children if you kick them out of the house before they can stand on their feet. My late father May Allah bless his soul never kicked any of his children until they were able to afford paying for their own place or get married
@@souadelamraoui2813 Oh let see... They will be traumatized, that's a thing In America ave noticed
It's especially tough in PA with our $7.25 minimum wage and relatively high cost of living.
@@RedHanded1969 And the cost of living is also dirt cheap. $7.25 in the US is equivalent to about $0.25 in Indonesia. Also ours hasn’t been raised in 15 years.
The couple, with no kids, making six figures a year, living in their car? There are families who live on half that.
the guy says he was a salesman making 6 figures (100,000) a month NOT a year!!!
@@robertm.-certifieddaytrade4939 Thanks for correcting the detail discrepancy I made . Scratching head "Geez, what did he do with all that loot? Certainly not investing in it or saving for a rainy day.
@@Iworkwithnitwits
The guy made over 1 million a year; if the social security administration's data is correct that the average American salary is 34K a year, then that guy made what would take the average American almost 30 years to make!!
He only makes 6-7k a month, check 49:46
@@duc88888 that is still a lot of money. Big Spenders😖😫
How that couple could make $600,000 a month and have bad credit and be homeless is unfathomable.
I am almost cried but the anger took over watching all that milk being dumped when I have hardly any milk or food right now.
If homes weren't so ridiculously and artificially overpriced then people wouldn't need much money to live comfortably in this day and age.
Homes shouldn't be a mere commodity or an investment, or used for money laundering and tax avoidance.
True bro
Ridiculous prices in India too.
Homes have been artificially overpriced thanks to:
1. Wealthy individuals, investment firms, corporations buying up housing as an investment, tax avoidance, ect.
2. House flipping.
3. Greedy landlords raising rent prices in proportion to other overpriced homes.
4. Foreign realestate speculators buying up land and housing.
5. Lack of rent control and regulations on the realestate industry.
Homes are a necessary. People will build, rent, and buy them regardless of profit incentives.
Given how poorly a lot of these home are built, I can't believe people are even rushing to buy them. 1000s of complaints online about big name builders.
About 3 years ago my husband and I downsized from a 2,000 sq feet 4 bedroom home to a 950 sq foot 2 bedroom home. My oldest son sleeps in the converted basement and my youngest son upstairs with us. My dad was diagnosed with cancer last year and he stays with us as well. We have less space but never have had more money in the bank since we’ve been living way below our means. I have a master’s degree and I’m a therapist. My husband is an engineer. We make around 150k a year but only use about 60k.
Smart! :)
Real smart , I'm on a lot less than that but do the same
Good for you? R u a single Mom? No! Come back if u don’t have a hubby income ok lady?
150k is a lot 🤷 upper class money generally
@@back2the80s sounds like someone is salty that their baby daddy didn’t want to support them anymore. Don’t be proud of single motherhood.
Same in UK. This video is shocking.
Your family would definitely not be better with you and you are not worthless. I am so sorry you worked so hard and this happened to you. I hope success comes to you and your family.
This makes me realize how blessed I am to have a job.