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Showing Original Post only (View all)Tonight on FRONTLINE: "Poor Kids" "...the economic crisis through the eyes of children..." [View all]
New tonight, already posted to their website too, if you can't get it now.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/poor-kids/
Watching now.
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Tonight on FRONTLINE: "Poor Kids" "...the economic crisis through the eyes of children..." [View all]
Up2Late
Nov 2012
OP
I think a lot here are still pissed off at FRONTLINE for the show from a few weeks ago...
Up2Late
Nov 2012
#6
The kid talking about his short window to play football brought it home for me too.
Up2Late
Nov 2012
#15
Those children were so clear-eyed and direct. The overwhelming feeling I got
coalition_unwilling
Nov 2012
#24
Just finished watching it on PBSSoCal (Ch. 50). I can say with near
coalition_unwilling
Nov 2012
#10
You are not only preaching to the choir, but to one raised just like that.
Lady Freedom Returns
Nov 2012
#14
Here's a Web Only Extra that is hard to watch, but this girl is something else.
Up2Late
Nov 2012
#18
Shit, I wish she were President right now. The world would be a fuck
coalition_unwilling
Nov 2012
#19
Julie, I hope at some point in your busy life you get a chance to take a college-level
coalition_unwilling
Nov 2012
#26
I grew up poor (on a farm) and the only way to describe it is that it sucks. There's
coalition_unwilling
Nov 2012
#25
You know it really ticks me off that the "Moral Right" cares so much for the unborn, then
Lady Freedom Returns
Nov 2012
#32