A Rust Belt City’s Economic Struggle | Left Behind America (documentary) | FRONTLINE + ProPublica

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A Rust Belt City’s Economic Struggle | Left Behind America (documentary) | FRONTLINE + ProPublica


FRONTLINE and ProPublica chronicled Dayton’s struggle to recover in the aftermath of recession and the economic and social forces shaping the lives of residents in a city where nearly 35% of people lived in poverty. (Aired 2018)

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  1. What do you guys think MAGA really means?

    Make America white again. Make women housewives and subservient to men again. MAGA wants to erase 100 years of progress. If that's what you want vote for Trump.

  2. You have to hunt opportunity, move if you must. I grew up in a small city that had 6 manufacturesmillsfactories when I was a kid. By the time I was 20 everyone of them had moved to China. No one is going to give you a good life. You must go take it.

  3. I live in Silicon Valley and gross $20k a year. I live in the building I work in (R&D space so I have a bathroom and running water but not a shower) and I get around by bike. I do most of my own cooking (Iwatani butane stoves are genius) and take things I ship out to the post office and FedEx by bike trailer. This is success in Silicon Valley.

  4. The FPL (Fed Poverty Level) has not been adjusted except for inflation since its inception in the 1960s. It was developed based on a food budget, which makes no sense given everyone's greatest expenditure is housing, and makes no allowance for geographic difference (i.e. living in NYC is far costlier than Dayton). Its current measurement – a family of 4 at about 24k – is homelessness, not poverty. But no president or their administration wants to be the one to tackle this head on because the USA would then have to confront that our actual poverty rate is far higher than what we like to claim. Conservatively, it would more than double – and for families of color, it would skyrocket. We are not a nation of affluence or well-being anymore. We are a nation of struggle. Upwards of 40-50% of us are low income (twice the poverty rate). Imagine how that would change if the calculations were adjusted for the reality of what it costs to live in this country.

  5. Personally, l would rather have a job than no job! $35 an hour? Crazy, where do you think the 🎥 ney is coming from? Just like the fast food services wanted an increase in wages! Now it's expensive to eat at any fast food places! Wake up already! PLEASE!
    In a country north of here they increased the hourly wage to $15/hour. Guess what happened? The prices in the stores went up to compensate for the hourly wage and the forty hour work week disappeared along with benefits! Businesses went out of business!
    Being greedy isn't going to make it in our world on anyone's part!
    Vicious cycle we keep repeating!

  6. 14:00 "What's good for Wall St. is good for us." is a Republican attitude in the same vein as "trickle down economics." Nothing ever trickled down. Those rich fucks bought politicians to seal those tax leaks so all that money stayed right there on top. When things started going good for Wall St., they did the same thing. No money flowed out. The greedy fucks had bought taxation immunities once again.

  7. When you know your wife is an IV drug user, maybe don't have unprotected sex. Doubtful that she's "one of the lucky ones" because she went to a short treatment. Their recovery rates are abysmal. AND there's a cigarette smoldering in the ashtray near her. Gross.

  8. The U.S. economy has always been brutal for certain people because it wasn't designed to be equitable. If you're not born into wealth or born with some natural talent for something the current job market highly values, you need to have a hustler's mentality to avoid getting caught up like the people in this video. Most people don't have that hustler's mentality of constantly seeking ways to exploit systems to their gain.

    Too many politicians are shameless hustlers. Too many people who run corporations are shameless hustlers. The legal system allows corporate hustlers to spend big money on influencing political hustlers who are more than willing to take their money. The whole system is run by the types of shameless hustlers who couldn't care less what moving jobs to another country does to the people who had those jobs. I'm curious to see how bad things will need to get before decent people in large numbers decide enough is enough and start getting themselves in positions of power. Things won't get better until the decent people have a real voice in how the economy works for everyone.

  9. And none of the billions of opioid settlement dollars will be properly spent in places like Ohio and people will continue to struggle. I see this same parallel in my home town of Peoria, IL. No wonder Trump wins votes there. He says things that give people hope. He's lying his ass off in most cases, but some people in these communities often don't have much left.

  10. I'm baffled and angry at the Food Shelf manager who said "I hate seeing kids come here with their parents, because I know 20 years from now, they'll be coming here to feel THEIR families." WTF?!?! First of all, what's wrong with kids accompanying their parents to a food shelf? The families probably can't afford child care, and it gives kids a chance to learn about food, groceries, shopping, community, to be a part of life, to maybe even have fun with their parents and siblings…I grew up very poor, and I loved going shopping with my mom because I got to ride in the grocery cart. I see no problem. Secondly, who on EARTH says that those kids will be visiting the food shelf when they themselves are parents? Maybe they will. Maybe they won't. What's with the fatalistic judgment on what a person does in their unforeseen future? And most of all, there's NO correlation or causation between a kid being at a food shelf at age 3, and at age 23! Does this woman think that the food shelf is a gateway drug to future poverty, or apathy, or laziness, or unemployment?! I just don't get the unnecessary negative judgement going on here, ESPECIALLY by the woman running the foodshelf.