WorldCat Linked Data Explorer

Turtle N-Triple JSON-LD RDF/XML HTML Contact Us Home

http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/1026325849

Poor kids

Open All Close All

type

about

alternateName

http://schema.org/alternateName

  • "Four corners"
  • "Four Corners"

contributor

description

http://schema.org/description

  • ""This week on Four Corners, three children tell what it's like to grow up poor in modern Britain. They're brave, they're funny but they're dealing with a system that doesn't seem to care. It is easy to talk about poverty, easier still to make judgements about why people are poor. Now True Vision Productions take their cameras inside the lives of children so they can tell their own story, as they struggle to survive." -- Container."
  • "This week on Four Corners, three children tell what it's like to grow up poor in modern Britain. They're brave, they're funny but they're dealing with a system that doesn't seem to care. It is easy to talk about poverty, easier still to make judgements about why people are poor. Now True Vision Productions take their cameras inside the lives of children so they can tell their own story, as they struggle to survive. Sam is 11 years old and lives in Leicester. His mother walked out on him, his sister and his dad when he was just two. His family survives on around $150 a week. Sam is one of nearly three and half million children in Britain living in poverty. He goes to school but he is forced to wear his sister's shirts as hand-me-downs and the other kids give him a bad time because of it. Despite his father's best efforts he and the family can only go out if the entertainment is free. Sam can watch television but, like the electricity his family uses, he must pay for it by dropping one pound coins in the slot. Money is so tight his birthday party is plunged into darkness when the coins run out. Paige is 10 and she lives in Glasgow. It is the poorest city in Britain and in some districts every single family is living below the poverty line. For Paige her greatest dread is being cold and feeling sick because of the mould that grows like a carpet through-out the flat her family lives in. Her dream is simple; to live in a house that is dry and clean with a backyard. At first glance these children and others like them might be seen as victims of Britain's latest massive economic downturn. But this type of poverty and the massive gap between rich and poor began many decades ago. Successive Prime Ministers including Margaret Thatcher, John Major and Tony Blair promised to do their best to break the cycle of poverty but all the latest evidence suggests those leaders and their policies simply cemented the problems or made them worse."

name

workExample