Poverty: Closing the Gap
Poverty: Closing the Gap
Poverty & the problems of the poor seem to have become epidemic to modern society. The margin between the haves & the have-nots continues to widen & there is now an almost total breakdown in communication between the two classes. The political promises & programs of the past are no longer enough, & the poor have begun to mobilize themselves.
Poverty: Closing the Gap
CU of Michael Harrington sitting at his desk talking about US poverty statistics. Many of the poor are under the age of 15. Poverty perpetuates itself. People picketing for housing. Rural family in poverty. CU of African American woman singing.
Poverty: Closing the Gap
Expensive, luxury car. Building in the financial district. Busy urban street. Expensive cars. Charles Dennison who quit his high paying job to work for the poor of the world, walks up stairs to a building rooftop. Talks about all the money in big industry & New York city. Pan across a building in a poor urban neighborhood. Michael Harrington, author of The Other America sits & talks to camera about poverty & the poor.
Poverty: Closing the Gap
African American men & boys drive teams of carts & horses down a street, next to expensive automobiles. Marching on Washington. Resurrection City protest (demonstration). Run-down buildings in a poor urban neighborhood.
Poverty: Closing the Gap
CU of a Caucasian male in a hard-hat (construction worker). He talks about how many people on welfare, just don't want to work (welfare abuse). Several similar short man-on-the-street interviews. Pan across urban tenements. Stryckers Bay section of New York. People picketing, protesting, because housing is being torn down to build middle-class high-rise building. The poor are being displaced. Good shots of demonstration. African American woman, demonstration organizer talks to the camera about her life. Protesters occupy the building (squatters).
Poverty: Closing the Gap
Man talks about a rehabilitation of an urban neighborhood. Man walks down a snow covered urban sidewalk.
Poverty: Closing the Gap
Poor, run down rural home (shack). Broken down cars. Appalachia farm. Dilapidated farms. Albert Messer, father of a rural mountain family. Several children climb around the parents. Very sad. CU of hands at work building furniture. A group in Kentucky that helps find work for people who need it. Family around their broken down farm. Poor family eating. Voice over talks about the poor diet of the poor. Mother talks about how difficult it is to feed her family.
Poverty: Closing the Gap
CU of Michael Harrington sitting at his desk talking about US poverty statistics. Starvation in India. Children eating rice. Charles Dennison speaks about hunger in India. Cut back to India.
Poverty: Closing the Gap
Housing protestors in New York. CU of Michael Harrington sitting at his desk talking about US poverty. Poor urban areas & the rich financial district. Luxury cars drive by. African American woman singing. Cut back & forth.