The Poverty Gap 7:00, 1999 (Ref: NA9917)

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Despite being the richest country in the world, the United States of America has the highest poverty rate of any western industrial country. From a distance, a town in West Virginia looks like a pleasant corner of rural America. Closer in though, you see the ramshackle homes and the trailer parks and the reality of one of the poorest states in the U.S. There are no jobs, children often go to bed hungry and the people are forced to eat squirrels for food. The main question is: What’s the Future?