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Poor Kids: an intimate portrait of America's economic crisis / produced by Jezza Neumann, Lauren Mucciolo ; directed by Jezza Neumann ; a True Vision production for WGBH/Frontline in association with BBC Television ; WGBH Educational Foundation.
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- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Frontline (Television program). Season 30.
- Frontline (Television program) ; Season 30 \ Episode 24.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poor children--Quad Cities (Ill. and Iowa)--Biography.
- Poor children.
- Poor families--Quad Cities (Ill. and Iowa)--Case studies.
- Poor families.
- Poverty--Quad Cities (Ill. and Iowa)--Case studies.
- Poverty.
- Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009--Social aspects--United States--Case studies.
- Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.
- Quad Cities (Ill. and Iowa)--Economic conditions--21st century.
- Quad Cities (Ill. and Iowa).
- Economic history.
- Social aspects.
- United States.
- United States--Quad Cities.
- Child.
- Medical Subjects:
- Poverty.
- Child.
- Genre:
- Television programs -- United States.
- Documentary television programs.
- Television series.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Biographies.
- Case studies.
- Nonfiction television programs.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- 4 3/4 in.
- Edition:
- Widescreen version.
- Distribution:
- [Arlington, Va.] : PBS Distribution, [2013]
- Other Title:
- Title on disc : Poor kids
- Language Note:
- Open-captioned for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1; widescreen (1.85:1 aspect ratio) presentation; Dolby Digital stereo.
- digital optical stereo Dolby Digital 2.0
- wide screen
- NTSC
- video file DVD video region 1
- Summary:
- Profiles three young girls and their families living in poverty in the Quad Cities of Illinois and Iowa, a part of the U.S. hard hit by the economic downturn that began in the late '00s.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Meet the families
- Struggling to get by
- Losing your home
- Survive and keep going.
- Participant:
- Narrator, Will Lyman.
- Credits:
- Filmed and edited by Jezza Neumann; original music, Jamie Pereira; research, Sharon Thompson, Lisa Colles.
- Notes:
- Videodisc release of one episode of the PBS television series Frontline on November 20, 2012.
- ISBN:
- 9781608838325
- 1608838323
- 9786314924768
- 6314924766
- OCLC:
- 822979089
- Publisher Number:
- 841887018357
- 00841887018357 gtin-14
- FRL63024 PBS
- Online:
- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/poor-kids/
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