The Reality of Poverty in America Today

Poverty in America doesn’t always look poor anymore. A hundred years ago, it showed in hunger and worn-out clothes. Today, it hides in plain sight — behind smartphones, cars, and clean clothes.
The real struggle is different now: rent, healthcare, childcare, and education. Essentials that shape opportunity — and reveal a new face of poverty in America.
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Credits
Library of Congress (Public Domain)
Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged thirty-two. Father is native Californian. Nipomo, California.
Photo shows Florence Thompson with several of her children in a tent shelter as part of the "Migrant Mother" series. For background information, see Library of Congress – Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother photographs.
Photo by Dorothea Lange, March 1936. Public domain.
On highway no. 1 of the "OK" state near Webbers Falls, Muskogee County, Oklahoma. Seven children and eldest son's family. Father was a blacksmith in Paris, Arkansas. Son was a tenant farmer. "We're bound for Kingfisher (Oklahoma wheat) and Lubbock (Texas cotton). We're not trying to but we'll be in California yet. We're not going back to Arkansas; believe I can better myself."
Photo by Dorothea Lange, June 1938. Public domain.
The twins and small daughter of the Stromberg family. Gibbs City, Michigan.
Photo by Russell Lee, May 1937. Public domain.
People living in miserable poverty, Elm Grove, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma.
Photo by Dorothea Lange, August 1936. Public domain.
Untitled photo, possibly related to: People living in miserable poverty, Elm Grove, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma.
Photo by Dorothea Lange, August 1936. Public domain.

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Walking, pedestrian legs. — Video by Coverr-Free-Footage
Shoes walking. — Video by Coverr-Free-Footage
Market street blurred. — Video by Coverr-Free-Footage
Rain street “you belong”. — Video by Danish Siddiqui
Train window rain. — Video by u_1n0fyfzdff
Supermarket floor shot. — Video by Milan Wulf
B-roll market walking. — Video by FlorenceCdeM
Aerial Central Park, NYC. — Video by Tung Lam
Weather snow city. — Video by Filip Filipović
Drone up skyscrapers. — Video by Tung Lam

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Daytime cityscape. — Video by Laura Tancredi
Doctor operating on a patient. — Video by Anna Shvets
Ultrasound. — Video by MART PRODUCTION
Cars driving in city rain. — Video by George Morina
Subway arriving. — Video by Evgenij Mikhailov

Music
Music by Johannes Bornlöf from Epidemic Sound

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