Frontline · SEASON 39

Growing Up Poor in America

Episode 4 · 2020-09-08

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Episode overview

The experience of childhood poverty against the backdrop of a pandemic and a national reckoning with racism. Set in Ohio, the film follows children and their families navigating issues of poverty, homelessness, race and new challenges due to COVID-19.

Season 39 episodes

1. COVID's Hidden Toll2020-07-21 2. United States of Conspiracy2020-07-28 3. Love, Life & the Virus / Undocumented in the Pandemic2020-08-11 4. Growing Up Poor in America2020-09-08 5. Policing the Police 20202020-09-15 6. The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden2020-09-22 7. America's Medical Supply Crisis2020-10-06 8. Whose Vote Counts2020-10-20 9. American Voices: A Nation in Turmoil2020-11-17 10. Return from ISIS2020-12-15