“Born Poor” documentary: In-depth look at child poverty in America

“Born Poor” is a documentary that follows three characters from childhood to adulthood and provides a longitudinal look at the realities of growing up poor in America. More than a decade ago, in the Emmy-nominated documentary Poor Kids, the acclaimed PBS series FRONTLINE explored poverty in America as it’s rarely seen: through the eyes of children. Now with Born Poor it tells the stories of the now-grown children at the heart of Poor Kids — chronicling their lives from childhood to the present day, and offering a powerful, personal, and longitudinal look at the realities of growing up in poverty in the U.S.

Filmed across 14 years, it follows Kaylie, Johnny, and Brittany. When we were first introduced to them in 2011, these three kids from three families were living in the Quad Cities, a crossroads along the border of Iowa and Illinois on the Mississippi River that had been hit hard by the recession.

Lauren Mucciolo, Producer of FRONTLINE: Born Poor, joined “Arizona Horizon” to talk about the “Born Poor” documentary and her work on it.

Click on the link here to watch Frontline: Born Poor: https://www.pbs.org/video/born-poor-op34mo