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house, he takes on that role.w?? , don't affect my opportunities in t get paid as much as she should,y future. like, if i want to get a it's a white person that don'tet she... d laythose type things that fathe) sopportunities in the future. more. >> i want you guys to experience >> being a single mom is hard. whatt's like tomor i mean, i can't... people come together and when i mean, there's days i'm, like, "how am i even gonna pay my you stand up for what you electric bill?" believe in. i dot want you to be afraid to >> (babbling tor do that. kids without having asstance, you best betcha i would. >> (blows raspberry) when i turned 18, i moved into but i can't, you know. >> o especially when i'm doing an area where it was predominantly black, and when i everything alone. thank god i own ou my family was, like, my role first mod toha"oh, my filed unemployment claims... mo wouldn't be able to make it, >> many americans fa n challenge of putting food the i mean, there's no way i could now i'm older, now i have to bd. table. afford rent right now.know how . gosh, there's black people, roll >> narrator: even before the up-- roll up your windows." pandemic... i mean, it's a lot of pressureo. meths sced because ias >> i haven't had any income no insurance on my home. coming in since before covid started. >> narrator: deepened the the risk i have to take every countries economic divide. day waking up and hoping to hell it don't burn down to the >> please let there be ground. strawberries. >> how many in youfamily? for me to fear. children were living in um, i ended up meeting edward poverty. >> three. >> thank you. >> any verans? have a good one. >> no. and shawn's dad 1ud led ve somet >> some weeks i'm paycheck payc. >> we have a lot of kids that st weeks i'm paycheck till the if to...o school and they rely on nextay. i have a counselor to talk t wasn't of my skin color.
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they come hungry. >> how many children in your i told my mom that i needed one it just made me feel like what >> two. because there, there aren'as >> narrator: in places like >> two? are you a single parent? ohio... >> sometimes this is probably much people, like, my skin color the only meal ey get. ather taught, taught me wasignod >> is there anyone disabled? down here.i just keep bungthat k i don't think anybody thought we'd be doing this you know, >> no. yeah. stupid. >> narrator: home to some of tht down the see i'm just glad that, uh, i didn't >> how we doing? come on in. >> good. i first ha>> what i like about s >> being a single mom is hard. fo >> got some flour, salt. you knf without having assistance, you a chicn... wouldn't have shawn, edward, best betcha i would, >> beef. iyou have beef. loca rainn can't. >> yeah, we got beef. i have to? >> flour, salt? meet here if or dior. (chuckles) chicken or? >> mm-hmm, okay. >> beef! if you have beef. their active part jesse my counselor. >> yeah, we have... arrator: from the art of ine followed food pantry is, like, um, what since this virum, i haven't seea in their life. three children and their miss candy does, and she helps i was with him 11 years, but, families. people that needs help. >> when we say we don't like have money, like, we really she can give you food if you month.d we start?>> um... don't. >> i have no home, i can't provide a home for my children need it.(gasps): miss candy! no justice, alk to mcdonalds becausethey har >> we got finishin >> my thsc no peace! oh... oh, laikyen, i love you.v. school aged kids. >> we're here lunch. >> dealing with coronavirus, no racist police... and all of the things that's >> black lives mter! >> narrator: as they navigated hate in oufe sad or somethg, black lives matter! months of uncertainty. >> if we can't finishhe rest >> i love you, too! >> i love you, too. black lives matter! the year, we may get held ack lives matter! >> well, how was school for you before youuys had to, um, back again. >> my boys prove that i broke >> if theyeep these schools take a break? the chains. i ca if i feel sad or something, i just sort of keep it to >> oh, myself. >> you're what? anger keeps building it's a scary world f them to >> oh, my. yeah? live in right now, because that and i expressed to my mom, tha would make her feel sad and so i >> i have all ds. >> get 'em up a little bit. want them to know that, that just keep it to myself. >> mm-hmm. do somhit would somebody and, l, >> apply yourself. >> i couldn't imagine living yeah, don't stress about it, like this forever and i don'tth.
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they can stick up for themselves. when i was their age, i wouldn't >> narrator: now, the experience of growing up poor in america bit each time. releasing nd just, like... even be allowed at a place like through the eyes of children. ia >> okay, i will. >> jusrktime, okay? this.it was a very, very differt >> mm-hmm. we are, being homeless. >> okay. and it's, like... p after the d. world that i live in today. >> when ge >> i'll let yoget back to... want to live here. >> cruisin' around. >> i can't breathe! i want to get a good stable job. >> yep. on your new-- what's the >> i can't breathe! >> i just can't, i can't. >> i can't breathe! word? >> it's alright. >> no, i can' (gasps): wheels. >> i can't breathe! >> yh. >> it's way more kids like this that's going through the same i love you. >> demonstrations have popped up >> i can feel why people are thing as we are. >> i love you. in cities small and large, sad, especially when they said, because something life dthings g >> don't you forget. >> it isoteing off including places like "i can't breathe."he last cleveland jud columbus. school this long at all. >> protests are happening way.h ossibl during a pandemic, so they are woth but we possibly may not even go advising people to wear back to school.ry died. >> oka y'all good? (voice trembling): how cru contributions to your pbswers l that is. depressed about that, 'cause now n i wear those?orable.ally does she probab won't have prom. it makes me feel good that i and by the corporation foradcasa broke, broken that cycle. help us sometimes. that's my sister's prom dress, i think if i can do it, anybody thla. she's been more of a help than can do it. >> i g i macar uilding a more just, verdn anyo uh, she wo ias a bridesmaid my grandma doesn't have lots of dress,. nd she only wore ite. money, but she can do what she can. she does aot in the community. @htheal change this is my first, like, actual she actually gives back a lot. >> (laughing)(]ç prom. through her work, i've watched i also have a date. worldwe. i'm looking forward to having a her be an advocate for people at fordfoundation.org.upport ipr date. (laughs) who don't have voices. 'cause i've never had a, you td excellence injournalism.n,i know, date to a dance before,l. >> back in our days, there weret >> my mom, she says my a.d.d. go want to see me walk?
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♪ e. >> like, don't wrinkle your see anyone. sister's dress up, now. >> yeah. my a.d.d., agghd, same potato- >> back then, itasboys. hto. >> oh, i actually look pretty >> but now we have to tell our fund, with major support from a.d. jon d in it. confrontation with the police, support for "growing upo just, you know, keep your hands america"s tive on up and don't get smart. (cter's cats and boots, cats and boots, of racism and saw... poverty and opportunity in the b prom dre. cats and boots. just listen, okay?everything win ♪ in fo if you feel... oh, that's my... >> i haven't done schoolwork >> ow! dringing, um, a baby alive doll i worry about her. yet. my mom got a message by someone, i really hope she gets she rks at the school. te.by doll sew, little africaamd everything done and grows to be today the school's planning on, like, delivering chromebooks. a little bit more responsible. ♪ >> he's gonna be getting his she's gonna be behind, 'cause she hasn't done he chromebook, and it's gonna be his homework and studies. end thool year.iends could be r >> want to put some of her >>state to close f t animal crackeron the tray? >> not right now li,icanican doll." shawn, slow yourl. other y. >> governor ordering schoolsthro and that's, li extended spring break.>> we havg aware of the dfend how ppl because my mom don't have a car, my mommy, i need food. that we ca because hers broke down. treat you. (yawns) >> y have to get i uh, the spread, uh, of, of this >> i was told that they think you know, you got to encourage that it's a blown head gasket. your friends and your older i do virus. friends to vote. drink today. decision, what exactly is this it's, basically, my car is dead. >> hopefully she grows up alizeu kalia, you got to >> you think we n vote at 18? three-week break gonna look when you have a vehicle, youack know, i have t like? >> you're 18. well, that really depends on for that, and... you're gonna vote. where your kid goes to school. you registered? get you startedt toake it through.
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it's not always easy. >> i'm hungry! ♪ right now. >> my name is shawn, i'm 13 >> a yd, becky? >> i get phone calls now all for that is no way i c p d i live in the plains, ohio. the time from friends who are asking, how do they activate child, not even tutoring. so... i have received extra coronavirus scares me. st i know it's really dangerous.ll. we are gonna have to just go...r uh, change or bewareness of whas um, that stimulus, that paidhall like, have it come in here.ing o cars." getting down to the nittyin. all right, we're just gonna get i think that this grew i get discúnects every month. wipe dn he lig in line here.wanna... you hold different because of, you know, switches, and a lot of things that we touch a lot. just being on lockdown, electric today. your sister, you just hold your i don't like cleaning, but, sister back there. intold what to do. get a disconnect, you either pay it or it gets shut off.5 i mean, it's a "ha to do" i, i think y'all probably thing, really. experienced that black life,m that ain't getting paid right um, mom, do you want me to >> are you guys here to pick up now. ra computers? you know, that we do every day. this is our new normal. >> um, sure, i'll let you take >> yes, ma'am. over aft ituff >> do you have a vehicle? at the knee on the neck is (machine whirring) in here and you can... >> i don't have a vehicle. (machine thuds, stops) i live across the street, and also the pandemic locking downy >> ctain. i might need a washer w.(laughs. >> spray the curtain and the rod >> okay. who are you picking up and we're good. for? hey, dior. >> shawn (no audio) and edward you kn, how did you get there? (no audio). we're, we're done. >> i live in a trailer withmy mo you know what i'm saying? at do you want to move >> eighth. both of them.an spea) that, that helplessness. away from me for? >> because. sorry, my car's broke down, so you're a registered voter. >> because why? there's not enough room in the house for my brother to stay, so een unfortunate. high-five. >> i want to leave here, thpower of one, you're now explore the world. he lives with my grandparents, (chuckles): especially during the-- part of the team. an comes over to visit as you are going to be a, uh, law much a >> no. >> you can make it. >> thanks.ime without my changer, and you're-- you get to thank you so much. god bless you. tates.or the president of the my mother.
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>> this is my firstime living >> you're welcome. you, too. mom, i, i need time to be free, be myself. the wall l >> well, you're yourself now. >> no, awafrom you. they'r >> let's put these under here vote foromebody else. the reason we moved into a >> thanks. so they don't get wet. >> if this is still going on, i'm not having no kids. i've lived here my whole life. >> mm-hmm.ebooks. i mean, you can only get up out ler is 'cause it's, like,somethn >>part of the bigger heart. of it if you want up out of it, >> ready to start your education. want a better fe for yourself, t me to push? and th is something miracle >> (babbling) does. she does want a better life for i belis generation >> (laughs)esponse) i am so, so glad... is a generation of change. oing the biggest barrier >> i'm not. and they have more answers than >> ...that you get to startlwor. they t y first year ever doing >> why? then we'd be asking if a first generation. you're homeschooling me. "yup, yup." out the windows and stuff. >> it was an antique shop, too. had a kidney parent mother.i'vep we'll figure it out together. amer grocery, yes, yes, it was. stuff like this, so i just think >> stuff. sease and s told by my> what's important about school hould get al can. is, like, that i have support by a perfect picture of my future my tchers, counseling, and, we shouldn't havto do all this would be to live in a doctor that they didn't want me stuff. to work. we shouldn't have to riot or >> she couldt really g abeuswhm mm, some of my friends. ot suburb-type area and b hey, really? us. teaching at an elementyou know,h your color doesn't define one of the m >> because of the fact that i t was mrs. anything. matters, and i haven't seen her well, it shouldn't.>> it' family. couldn't keep working, i do get since lockdown. (chuckles) if it all wentro but i know that she does have bene cancer, which really wries me. it's easier to give up. i'd probably be poor. >> (babbles) is there anything that i have to it's harder f. >> don't shoot. >> 'cause miracle-- i know doli? miracl >> that's not a phone, missy.et, dot shoot. she'll become a teacher, not >> is there somethm don't shoot-- don't shoot. even think about her mom, maybe ed to do yet?>> um, i don't knoe call her once in a while.
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move to new york or california. that helps us out a lot 'cause to read-- let me see my phone,a. >> i think that them having an educion, going to college, um,uo she only has to pay, like, because racl or two bills. let's check the emails. live t life that, so she has oer, likeype ofm getg statistically, they we so when moneeds me, i'll be >> (crying loudly) there. fail at, y k i'll be the good daughter. because i want to live a very so, yeah, this, this affects good life with my very good every dynamic of where we go in children i hope to have one day. life. um, because of the color of our but yeah skin. assistan until i get back itust-- all... is always meow. into the workforce.do have to w. been an issue. >> the, the email saidave to >> i think it does make it d about theust wants toworryt e >> breaking tonight, signs theos consumeronfidence is up. working off hours are basically businesses are reopening across mrs. matters pd hours that i'm assigned to be. fe >> nuh-uh! next thing or how we're gonna >> the hope is, though, that th. i just want us to be all right. salvation army, this is crystal. >> receny, my mom just startedgs surrounded by her fami >> i, i haveope, though. how n i help you? friends." i have hope that, um, this is come here, it. and e' >> she works at a place called where the struggle stops for my. so what services they get the salvation army. they give out, like, free food, 'cause i'm a female, maybe i'm dermine how much money she not as-- ion't feel as scared makes.hings we c free clothes to other people. >> it's okay. >> uh, we have sliced potaeswha, but i think the males have it ol saysorry that yours) way, way, way harder than black. and i ge$400 opened back up, right?called a e be making every attemptport you. >> what about that? that's awesome. looking for a naec justke
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so i take $885 times 12 equals >> i think being black could i've been or about, and if youant, we can request whatre a phone cacounselo able toking, making a little $10,620, forhr my mom stretchesy ay bit of money. >> she is really gooat il yowant to ve him a hug? shs doing good. shs you want to give bubby aug? that s g i can't get that i want. remething, was she ill?>> cance. >> like, nervous and hope, hoping and running ies and like, um, toilet paper, >> she's been battling cancer.., praying that we dot get shut of this bread, meats, i don't-- a ing it oneime, and just saving, few things. honey. you know, as much my mom, she does still work, >> the loss of her is, like, >> there's way more kids like o something edscares me. really big to me, and, like, i this that's going throth don't think anyone else can take because sometimes, life just her spot.for me when i happen and things gohe wrong needed her. she taught me how to read. way, and maybe you end up losint >> okay, we have edner and like, she'd just brighten up my edinger right here. mot, like, simpl >> she goes up to people's c doesn't go right and puts the food box in the saying, "good moing." i just want us to be good, you guys have a wonderful y.r ♪ and, and in a house. >> thanks a lot, guys. >> stay safe.$ just, just happy. >> if i had my choice, i >> coronavirus has had a big >> ten count. >> ten, nine, eight, seven, probably wouldn't want my mom impact o, because there's still any chance six, five, four, three, two... of her getting sick from contact o
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cars, like, they, they coulden a tight space, and people. >> two, one. sometimes we'll go to my mom's i don't know, the' friend's house, like, to get that could-- that she could >> still get the virul required tok rgical tech. >> well, that's one of my options. >> of what? >> well, you keep chewing your >> surgical tech. fingernails, you're gonna getth. >> as a career? my hours for my assistance that >> uh-huh. >> really? you didn't tell >> i hope i don't get it. me that. i hope so, too, but... i'm geing.tj >> yes, huh. i did. >> 'cause if i gett, you'll be emotional, and if i die, you'll long-term, i don't know howx(hae you just feel like you have more be emotional. freedom. >> i'll be a mes this is what i wld i'e it than you have@ th. it. if we're not allowed to work, >> ...farmer's cottage with >> when i geolder, i wouldn'twa. then that means i can't colete sauna, steam, massage area... i'd want to get a good, stable >> hmm. b.omewhere where us there's a beach. h my could get shut down.i don. the time. climb out of poverty, it's >> $40,500,000-- let a look. probably a really hard struggle, >> $40e a but i thino try my i guess that's something that's $40 million house, kalia? all coming >> what? >> ♪ you arem but as of right now, we're at a >> can you imagine40 house? owing what's thom like looking at houseson tn my only sunshine ♪ >> my fellow ohioans, we have >> i don't think nobody would not faced an enemy like we are thve is getting a choosometimes itay facing today in 2 yes. u have to go back to the 1918, saving and then we can... it.
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we can apartment-hunt, because i have to have the application fee choose to be poor. uh, infla and the procsi i don't have another $185 for first it's okay >> dang. >> uh, we are certainly at war. every plac apply for.with your et i don't know any other way tohit so, ah we are at war.of war, we hto >> it's not gonna be easy at foot sll there, though. all, trying to make my dreams. now just turn.ere we finhousinae i feel like i'm gonna have to make sacrifices. rk dr. acton just signed a stayt-home order for all and be d ohioans. k and ti ther stay in her scistrict.hool distp and that kind of ds ke the sear for housing harder. >> well, i would choose not toci >> i'm kyah, and i am 14 years old. not like going to school because and and i live with my sister d my i would say we were a poor i us to get bullied a lo i usedy home a i don't think it willgh family, because we really don'ta alagain and messing up my nn. i just think that education i'm bored. >>o to pbs.ontline for >> so every time i call, she pwe've been homeless basically for a year or something like say she's going call me .cck.
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that. morem every time i call her, she say we had moved into a apartmenande this film, jezza neumann. >> okay.a call me back. >> what happens whenhe because when the virus is over, when was going through getting bullied, it made me, these families we are following so we've just been living with like, i don't know, it just made today will s b me rlly sad and, like, self-ous. situation. they won't be getting jobs that >> i'm homeless, i'm just not it can affect people more than >> and find out the latest data your typical what it looks like because i know people who have on child poverty in america. here for the free but i have no home. actually, like, cut their self i can't provide a home for my and stuff ke lunch. >> connect to the frontline children right now. bullying, and, like, a lot o communiton facebook and twitter and watch any time on we neea dentist appointment bad.avities. but luckil i wwthe pbs video app or younger.inet >> lately, they've been rting i was just,, for some rea >> the country is on fire suicidal stuff.just, likenot wao r and their anger is dirted at law enforcement officers. >> narrator: a national oury. candy.een eating a whole lot of >> (chanting) george floyd >> narrato a >> can this be done in a way that still respects people's we're homeless because when i'm dancing, i feel like i otions out, and, like, just,havo rights?iter we're not financially stable. jelani cobb investigates. >> the war on our police must worry about anything else, like, struggling bec9use she's a end. >> what pee murded single par and it's really that you know you're going harder than people think through. running from aa traffic stop, or their necstood on bause prior to losing her house, she of a twenty dollar bill.they do. e bills anymore.rd, um, paying >> first, ohio children were to stay out of the classroom and she il hefe >>ntribus
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like, temp jobs.she c a april 6. now it's may 1. statn state leaders say it was a an difficult decision, and what you can do to make sure your carthur foundaonust, verdant child does f i haven't had any income coming o in since beforcovid started, because i had just ended a >> come on. positi into a new rd foundation: workidwide. ed tn you got this. and and then i got a call saying we're not gonna be able to move forward with your job. school for the rt of next so i have had no incco month and we'll go back to in, no child support. school on may 1, but we poibly so, i've tried other programs, may not even go back to school. the park foundatio you know, a to get through this >> there you go-- good job! if you was gonna s work and line journalism covid-19 interrupted that, >> i got a twitter notification. poverty and portuny merica" iov and/or if you had a child in the governor tweeted about it. bummed out because it meant that your he whose schooling was interrupted by covid-19, this... this unemployment is, um, i don't get to see my friends o, foundation. media acssgbh.org just specifically for that.to bg annew was gone bycementth anything yet. every ttle bit will help thenece
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30, april 30 being in toothpaste, toothbrush, stuff at >> "during this time of mandated ucts or summer clothes, for school closure that our students keep thend cow >> for more on this and other example, since our stuff was "frontline" programs, visit our frickin' taken away throughe, a. as learners. website at pbsrg pb helpful tips for parents-- >> we had it in a storage unit. remain calm.vision and viewing and we didn't have enough money on social media." ♪ >> (laughs) f out.mportant things like le and makele."a frontline's,ng up poor in ameris some of our clothes were available on amazon actually in there, and ahole >> if we c't finisthe rest prime video. of the year, we might get held lot of other stuff. back again. i was held back inergarten. >> i live in a and all my stuff is in therei jt i was held back because, um, i th p it all packed. so, th- i've gotten used to it., fifth grade assignment packet! seven timetable target ♪ rely black a we have not even learned any of! not anymore. >> this the first layer. like, i think there's, like, this teacher thing. and i think it, like, help then i put this on there... >> there might be something. >>an >> yeah. like this. >> oh, lord, i hate these things. i just lay these out and then in >> i do worry about the mornin i'll put them away, laikyen a lot. child, i and then when i go to sleep itow, i got my head on my
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again, i'll take them out. i really make this look like, like a little twin-sized shoulderand there's always bed. that one. >> that's too ch white. i have to sleep on the floor, >> ...inllials are and my, um, my sister and my mom ohgod, more reading. expected to be face to face... >> don't say that.mes two is 15? >> all we hear about... >> but iwe ask the sleep on the bed. hard questions... >> ...russiait hunt. i feel like i should, because my >> no. >> check the facts. mama's back is more fragile than ne >> if they keep these schoolszy. >> we face a number of important issues around i go like this. i cannot teaer. >> dig a little deeper i i don't have houses-- i wish we had our own. >> boom! >> like, it's really hard for any >> and take a i couldn't imagine living like of them to do their work truth is and i don't want tove like thi. because they're younger, and think. 50j ma adcasting. naties, strue ter, ei at home, t pe at work or just dt >> i have never appreciate having a h so today, they have, u enforce it how they should, of lettuce, and sweet potatoe how ey work. >> democracy is... >> it's not only a house that >> they ve me a packet. we need support or help with. and i go down to the gospel it's also, like, gettili mission and miss candy helps me. food, because just, like, more than forot having money for a house, it's just in general. >> we're gonna get that d up.'t. we don't even own the car. we borrowed it from my mom's friend. >> yeah, youo.
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sometimes weo to get food at yeah, you do care.and you'da lo. the food pantry. sometimes when my mom does have, like, a little bit of money, 'll get it on our own.>> y'all e >> i don't really care. strawberries? >> we have different stuff evy now, 'cause you didn't get it, e >> please let there be rawberries. please let there be strawberries. >> i hope they have them. it and now we're just... >> all right, baby, you can... i just can-- i can't. >> all right, thank you. (groans)>> it's all right. >> hi. >> (laughs): hi. >> no, i can't concentrate. >> we have chi and apples... >> okay.nd premade lunches.an >> if laikyen doesn't do her work, then she's probably going to struggle. >> sure. >> okay, i can give yo like,fiv? it's harder for laikyen becauser >> we'll just take three, yeah. thank you, though. mi >> yeah. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. >> y'all have a good one. >> yeah, youtoo. >> i can't concentrate. >> there you go. >> have a nice day, guys. >> you, too. i like her mask. (sighs) >> the leader of north korea... masks. >> i'm reading it!ve to read it. >> okay. >> i just ne to know what i'm about all this is seeing my mom doing and i know what i'm dog. like this. i try not to, like, show my i just need, just... >> you just need what? feelings because i know it will be overwhelming, and it makes >> i don't know, just... things worse. ju me try to figure
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ese worries as a kid,d have to it out. but i st choose to.an see that, like, my mom feels if i was hd like that, it mas l like would be sad becau i that, then i start to, like, not go to the middle school already. blame it on myself, but feel li ild help, but can't. sostress mf >> so are you getting the, um, cheeseburger? >> yeah, shawn, what are you getting, chicken nuggets? what i miss most about time wity >> my stomach is hurting. >> oka friends, um, talking to them, you want to lay down >> (murmurs) being able tcommunicate. somess >> you sure you don't want to a lot of friends in, like, gym lay down? class or recess, stuff like huh? that. because of the virus, don't do a lot of contact with other when i'm trapped, i actually people than the family. feel.. i actually am-- i feel packed today. depressed, even though kids yo, it's gonna be te shouldn't be depressed, but i before we order oufo feel like it really makes us >> well, we ought to hurry u man. and when i feel that way, i i only have so much to do at actually-- sometimes, i do cry. home, like, inside, and, i feel din
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♪ d play basketball, but now i n' 'cause of the virus. you're ng li >> where-- oh, sry >> yeah. to peoplth them, but i'dather, a sothing's wrong, for ♪ burger or nuggets? >> nuggets. >> nugge >> ohio food pantries are feeling the weight of the health >> yo, a mustang. crisis. >> food pantries are finding new >> i usually spend time with my ways to keep our communities brotheand my sister dior. safe while providing their much-needed services. >> many americans face a new i usually, like, take her out challenge of putting food on the walks sometimes.o doey have a f, table. school-aged kids. >> hello. h >>e're here for the free lunch.ike,a father figure to, >> l, d i'm 12 years she don't really have. i i li in marietta, ohio >> he is the lite man of this my mom a my sister. >> (laughs): your aim cks. >> i am not in sool rino coronas
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n p you can't even throw a football. all you can do is throw pom po's kind of sec kind of boring, and i don't get to see my friendgh (indistinct) ♪ (laughing)p< my mom works at a gas ation.thi. was a stra when you're on a b, next week,he's gonna work mornings. and sometimes she has mid-shift. sxthat sort of f like vacation. (dog barking)>> mox, come on. but on the other hand, you were really sain a bla. he's happy you're home. >> you're happy i'm home?d day . i woke her up. >> did you do dishes? >> no. >> is it just toçmuch to ask >> i could sweep. n't hard.undry( >> dishes suck. >> w when you get older?
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e?w you gonna make it in >> paper plates. >> paper plates. >> yep.lb >>ou are going far away. i'm missing lots of scol, schoolwork is not very well.wat, that's really al and eat-- that's what i do. eat, sleep... sometimes len. (p c >> (coughs) (song playing on phone)m >> i have to take adhd medicine, but i don't take it 'cause, uh, i don't like it. land.ve a land d laikyen land, and when i, do you guys know when you guys just, like, zone out, like when you just stare and don't blink land; it's where i think.
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i think it's when i, like, i get when i'm, like, i don't know.ke, and, like, i just stare at something. and, then, like, it, like, calms me down, and i don't know why, but yeah. i just stare at something, and then i zone out. everything except what i'm staring at becomes blurry. see i'm cross-eyed?how i'm doins right now? it looks, like, blurry. like, i stare at it... (growls don't it... >> my mom has food stamps. our food stamps have not stayedy whole life. depending on my mom's raise or decline, or what job she's had, they've always gone up and down. paychecks om work to buy our food, 'cause that's more important to put towards bills and other uff that we need. >> my paycheck yesterday was $214, and iteady gone. and lied.
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