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Original Air Date:
March 18th, 2013

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I get a text from my
husband when I'm at work saying,

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"PGE is here to shut us off."

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And they come to my door.

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He says, "I'm with PGE,
and I need $557 right now,

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otherwise I'm going to shut off
your electricity."

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I was like,
"I don't have $557."

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I came home.

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No lights, no nothing,

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and then explaining to the kids
when they got home

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that we had no electricity...

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That was hard.

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With the no lights,

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it was hard to get
around the house.

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And since there was
no electricity,

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we couldn't cook our food.

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It was so cold

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that me and my baby brother
had to curl up on the couch

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together, and we had,
like, 4 comforters on us.

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It was really scary.

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My 4-year-old was like,
"Mommy, why are you crying?

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What's wrong?"
I'm like, "Nothing, baby.

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It's OK. Everything's
going to be OK."

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"Then why are you
crying, Mommy?

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"I don't want to see you cry.

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It's OK. We're OK."

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My son walks in
and he comes up to me

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and he-- Oh, yeah.

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He puts his arm around me,

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and he says I'm the best dad.

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Don't feel like it.

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Sync and corrections by n17t01
www.addic7ed.com

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Thank you for calling 211.
How can I help you?

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I was calling.

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I need help with
our electric bill.

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Still looking
for a job, but I haven't

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found anything, and the
money I had has run out.

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I just lost my job, and

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I won't be able to pay
rent for February.

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I'm going to see if I can find
some resources in your area.

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211 here in Portland,

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we're a non-profit organization

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that connects people
to community services,

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primarily over the phone
and also through the Web.

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Thanks for calling 211.
How can I help you?

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Yes, I need to
know if you guys can help me see

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if there's anybody to help
with energy assistance.

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- We were doing awesome.
- Then the winter came.

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The winter came.
He got laid off.

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I currently am
going to have to move out

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of my apartment;
I have no way to pay it.

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We can't pay our bills.

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Are we gonna have to move out?

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Are we gonna have
a 72-hour eviction?

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Yes, I was calling to inquire

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about energy assistance.

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I got good grades in school,
I went to college,

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and then to come out
and still live impoverished?

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I was
told to call you guys and see

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if you had any resources
for rental assistance.

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I have got doctor bills,

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like, every day in the mail.

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I got a $49,000 bill.

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Today we have no water

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and we have absolutely
no money to pay it.

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It's been 3 days since
the water got turned off.

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I'm not used to being able

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to not provide
basic things like water.

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My house is
going up for foreclosure sale.

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My savings dried up
from making these house

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payments, so I'm getting
foreclosed on.

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I don't know what to do.

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I'm needing some help
with my electric bill.

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My mom never owned a home,

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so buying a house was
a huge deal for me.

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And yesterday, when we were
signing those papers,

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it's just like, "My kids
don't have a home."

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I am looking
housing for myself and my son.

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I am a recent widow.

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I came home from work
one day, and my son

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looks at me and says,
"Dad's in the back of that ambulance."

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They said, within him
being there not even two hours

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that he was septic and that
he was going to die.

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For the middle
class in this country, we have

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a "one strike and
you're out" economy.

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The system that once
was in place

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to cushion those crises
has been frayed.

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And I think what people are
experiencing in this country is

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how quickly you can go
from middle class

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to being extremely vulnerable.

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The most endangered
species in America is

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the middle-class family,

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and I think we have
to be alarmed by that

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and ask whether that is

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good policy.

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We got the car payment,

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the credit card's
at $151 right now,

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so we have to come up with $500

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to make this month's rent.

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Did you just say 500?

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500.

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When he lost
his job, I was kinda scared and

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kinda nervous, but then,
you know, I figured,

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"Oh, he'll, he'll get
a job, you know?

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He's been doing this
for 5 or 6 years.

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He'll get a job," you know?

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And it has not been that way.

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- Hasn't been that way.
- No.

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I went through
the whole phone book

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from top to bottom.

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I went through
every single page

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and I called each place
asking them

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if they were hiring,
and none of them,

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not one of them said
they were hiring, not one.

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Close.

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I went to
the apartment complex,

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pretty much
laid it out, saying,

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"I don't have a job anymore.

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I can't afford $1,000 a month.

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Is there any way I can
get out of this lease

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so I can kinda move into
somewhere I can afford?"

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They pretty much told me no.

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If you get an eviction
on your record,

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you can't move into a place.

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We can't have an eviction.
We have two children.

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We need another place, and
they said that-- the $1,500,

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we said, "Can we make
payments on it?

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So let's move out,
we'll make payments."

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They want us to pay
$2,500 in 90 days.

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It's hard to accept
that this is happening.

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Like, we're going to have
to put all of our stuff

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in storage and then live
with my mom again.

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I'm 26, living
with my mom again.

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I never thought I'd be getting

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help from the state, you know?

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I told myself
I would never do that.

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Never thought I would be
getting food stamps.

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I never put that in my head.

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- You know?
- I know.

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We're going to
possibly be on couches.

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I can't count
the number of people

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I've spoken with who start
their conversation with,

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"I never believed I would be
in this situation."

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They say, "I have
always worked."

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People are just stunned that
they are suddenly in a position

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where not only did they get laid
off, but their unemployment

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is running out or has run out
because they cannot find a job.

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They think, "Well, I had money
in my retirement account

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and I had a savings account
and I used to take vacations

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and I had new cars, and now

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I am struggling
to put gas in my car."

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Pay attention to Daddy, OK?

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- I need your help.
- Nope.

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Yeah, I need your help.

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One more.

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You did it.

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It was
about 8:00, 9:00 that evening

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when the doctor came in and told
us that he had Down Syndrome.

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You know, I tell you what,

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something that will knock you
on the floor, that-- you know,

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that initial reaction
and everything.

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You know, you just-- "Oh!"

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OK. Ready? Here we go.

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- You ready?
- Ready. Ha ha!

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Oh!

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I was working
for Columbia Sportswear,

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making oh, about $55,000,
$56,000 a year

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as their cost accountant,

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and then I got laid off.

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OK, come on. Back up a little.
Back up a little.

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My parents,
they live about 490 miles away.

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They run a cattle ranch up there
in North Central Washington.

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We take the horses
and train them,

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and then my parents use them

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up in the Cascade Mountains.

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I've been working since
I was 10, 12 years old.

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Anyone worth their salt
wants to work.

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I'll scrub toilets.
I'm not too good to do...

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you know, I'm not above
doing any kind of work.

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I cannot
tell you how many people

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have told me how they were
the successful people,

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they always did well in school.

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And so they had families
and they bought homes

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and they had mortgages,
and then they started to

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find that they were
being laid off.

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No matter how well-educated
they are or how experienced,

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the fact that they're
older, above 50,

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they can't get other jobs.

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They spent their retirement
trying to, you know,

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survive long enough,
and now they have nothing.

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All right, you guys.

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I got certified as
a medical assistant,

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cardiac technician,
and phlebotomist.

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I worked for
the Alpha Plasma Center

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and they laid off 1,500 people.

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I went and I got into a field
that I thought was practical.

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If you become a medical
assistant, it's a growing field,

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but they don't tell you
that you're gonna become

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a medical assistant and still be
making minimum wage.

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- What?
- I got to go.

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Scrapping is basically

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when you recycle metal.

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On this scale, you're
recycling refrigerators

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and stoves and washers
and dryers.

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On a good day,
if 4 of us go out,

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then we have to split
the money 4 ways.

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So if we make a hundred
dollars that day,

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it's $25 for everybody.

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When you literally put in
more than 8 hours,

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you're not even making
minimum wage.

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People do what they have
to do to make it,

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so you can donate plasma
every other day.

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I like donating plasma less
than going scrapping.

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You know, it's just something
that I do to make ends meet

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and try to make sure
that we're not hungry

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for too many days
out of the month.

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I walked into
the house and she was sitting

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in the kitchen in the dark and
I was like, "Mom, what's wrong?"

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And, like, she was crying
because she just didn't know

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what she was
going to do for food

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for the next couple of weeks.

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And, like, I just couldn't do
anything but hug her

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and, like, tell her
that I was going to be OK.

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People want to work.

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You know, people just say to me
over and over on the phone,

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"I want to work. I want a job.

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I will do anything,
and I can't get one."

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They don't want
to live in poverty.

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Are you kidding me?

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Is that the electric bill?

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- Let me see it.
- This is impo--

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It's $1,200, T.J.

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There's no way I can pay
$1,200 in two weeks, so

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it's to keep
our lights on or--

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or keep our house.

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- Keep our lights on or keep our house?
- Mm-hmm.

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I'm trying to work
12 to 13 hours a day

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just to try to get
our house payment paid.

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It's minimum wage.

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I'm making $8.75
an hour.

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00:13:03,755 --> 00:13:07,191
I'm not making the money
to pay for our house,

252
00:13:07,225 --> 00:13:09,026
you know, and he's
working his butt off

253
00:13:09,060 --> 00:13:10,828
to try to find a job.

254
00:13:10,862 --> 00:13:13,297
I can get a second job.

255
00:13:13,331 --> 00:13:14,797
How can you get a second job?

256
00:13:14,832 --> 00:13:16,398
I can't even find
a fricking job.

257
00:13:16,433 --> 00:13:18,400
We got to do
something, T.J.

258
00:13:18,434 --> 00:13:20,569
I try not to blame myself,

259
00:13:20,603 --> 00:13:22,403
but I was the main provider

260
00:13:22,438 --> 00:13:24,105
for so long, it's hard not to.

261
00:13:24,139 --> 00:13:26,607
I wake up from night
terrors all the time.

262
00:13:26,641 --> 00:13:28,809
I wake up screaming, crying.

263
00:13:28,843 --> 00:13:31,812
My main thing is, is
I lose my kids 'cause

264
00:13:31,846 --> 00:13:35,582
I can't make the money
to provide for them.

265
00:13:35,616 --> 00:13:37,751
I literally could come
home and we could have

266
00:13:37,785 --> 00:13:39,920
a 72-hour notice
on our door.

267
00:13:39,954 --> 00:13:42,356
And at that point,

268
00:13:42,390 --> 00:13:44,325
we have nowhere to go.

269
00:13:44,359 --> 00:13:47,194
Do you want to go stand
on the street with a sign?

270
00:13:47,229 --> 00:13:50,365
Oh, I don't know. I'm not
holding no fricking sign.

271
00:13:52,067 --> 00:13:53,868
Yet.

272
00:13:53,903 --> 00:13:56,371
A friend of mine had told me

273
00:13:56,405 --> 00:13:58,907
that they had just fired,
like, 4 people.

274
00:13:58,941 --> 00:14:01,243
And I said, "Well, I'm
interested in applying."

275
00:14:01,277 --> 00:14:03,444
This place, they paint cars.

276
00:14:03,479 --> 00:14:05,980
It's not as much money
as I'm used to making.

277
00:14:06,014 --> 00:14:09,616
I don't care, you know? Long as
there-- get some more money

278
00:14:09,651 --> 00:14:13,020
coming in and take some
of that weight off of Tara.

279
00:14:15,391 --> 00:14:17,559
Thank you for calling 211.

280
00:14:17,593 --> 00:14:19,161
Please press 1 for English.

281
00:14:19,195 --> 00:14:22,498
My house payment's so
high that I have no money for food.

282
00:14:22,532 --> 00:14:25,835
I've been pretty
much out of work for two and a half years.

283
00:14:25,869 --> 00:14:29,405
We don't come up with the
money in 3 days, we got to get out.

284
00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:33,576
I got 3 kids depending on us
to keep a roof over their heads.

285
00:14:33,577 --> 00:14:35,652
_

286
00:14:37,147 --> 00:14:39,082
My name is Bev.

287
00:14:39,116 --> 00:14:40,583
- Hi.
- Hi.

288
00:14:40,618 --> 00:14:42,352
And I'm going
to be taking you back

289
00:14:42,386 --> 00:14:44,687
to get some food, and
you have a family of?

290
00:14:44,722 --> 00:14:46,189
- 5.
- 5. OK.

291
00:14:46,223 --> 00:14:48,191
Family of 5.
OK. Perfect.

292
00:14:48,225 --> 00:14:51,561
By the beginning of 2010,

293
00:14:51,596 --> 00:14:53,730
the clients were changing.

294
00:14:53,764 --> 00:14:55,632
They were no longer

295
00:14:55,666 --> 00:14:58,735
the traditional people
who needed social services.

296
00:14:58,769 --> 00:15:01,137
Now we're seeing
these people who

297
00:15:01,172 --> 00:15:03,739
are stunned to be
in this situation.

298
00:15:03,774 --> 00:15:06,809
- This is a new, relatively
new experience for me. - Yeah.

299
00:15:06,843 --> 00:15:08,411
Not something that we do.

300
00:15:08,445 --> 00:15:09,679
I can remember--

301
00:15:09,713 --> 00:15:11,814
It's OK.

302
00:15:13,217 --> 00:15:14,650
Oh! This is, like,

303
00:15:14,685 --> 00:15:17,019
a hundred dollars' worth
of groceries for us.

304
00:15:17,054 --> 00:15:18,154
It's a lot for me.

305
00:15:18,188 --> 00:15:19,689
- It helps a lot.
- Good.

306
00:15:19,723 --> 00:15:21,658
I'm glad we can do it.

307
00:15:21,692 --> 00:15:23,159
They feel guilty.

308
00:15:23,194 --> 00:15:26,729
Two years ago, they were giving
to a food pantry, and now,

309
00:15:26,764 --> 00:15:30,300
they're pressed to buy
a half a gallon of milk.

310
00:15:30,334 --> 00:15:32,769
And they have 3, 4 kids at home.

311
00:15:32,837 --> 00:15:35,805
And I don't think that's unique
to Portland in any way.

312
00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:39,442
You know, this is just not something
that I'm used to doing, and--

313
00:15:39,477 --> 00:15:41,511
You can help somebody
another time.

314
00:15:41,545 --> 00:15:43,579
We used to talk about,

315
00:15:43,613 --> 00:15:45,647
like, what we were going
to do with our life and

316
00:15:45,682 --> 00:15:48,149
our dreams and what we
wanted for the kids,

317
00:15:48,184 --> 00:15:50,719
and all we talk
about now is money.

318
00:15:50,753 --> 00:15:53,254
Forget the dreams. How do we
make it to tomorrow?

319
00:15:53,289 --> 00:15:54,289
Right.

320
00:15:54,323 --> 00:15:55,791
Tomorrow's the dream.

321
00:15:55,825 --> 00:15:57,326
This dinner is the dream.

322
00:15:57,360 --> 00:15:59,361
You can turn the lights on
and turn the water on.

323
00:15:59,396 --> 00:16:01,230
That's a dream.

324
00:16:06,403 --> 00:16:10,239
I hear them in bed sometimes

325
00:16:10,273 --> 00:16:12,741
saying, "We skipped dinner

326
00:16:12,775 --> 00:16:15,744
because we need
to feed our kids."

327
00:16:15,779 --> 00:16:19,748
It makes you feel
that it's your fault

328
00:16:19,783 --> 00:16:22,751
that they have to
pay food for us

329
00:16:22,786 --> 00:16:25,621
and that's wasting
their money for us.

330
00:16:25,655 --> 00:16:27,990
Sometimes when I hear that,

331
00:16:28,024 --> 00:16:31,126
I cry sometimes.

332
00:16:32,362 --> 00:16:34,463
One of the things we have is

333
00:16:34,497 --> 00:16:38,467
a vibrant social safety
net of non-profits.

334
00:16:38,501 --> 00:16:41,737
They can't keep up
with the onslaught,

335
00:16:41,771 --> 00:16:43,038
and it's not just for food.

336
00:16:43,073 --> 00:16:45,207
It's also for
the utility shut-offs,

337
00:16:45,241 --> 00:16:46,808
need help with rent.

338
00:16:46,843 --> 00:16:48,743
The non-profit sector,
are they able

339
00:16:48,778 --> 00:16:50,278
to meet the increased demand

340
00:16:50,313 --> 00:16:52,080
when you have a great recession?
Absolutely not.

341
00:16:53,523 --> 00:16:59,588
_

342
00:17:00,089 --> 00:17:01,189
Come on, Brandin!

343
00:17:01,223 --> 00:17:02,991
Come on, Brandin!

344
00:17:03,025 --> 00:17:04,760
Go, Brandin!

345
00:17:04,794 --> 00:17:07,362
Chelsea's wrestling manager for

346
00:17:07,397 --> 00:17:09,731
- the sixth, seventh, and eighth grades.
- How's she doing?

347
00:17:09,766 --> 00:17:11,667
It's a long road still.

348
00:17:11,701 --> 00:17:15,438
We just went in Monday and had
her stomach dilated again.

349
00:17:15,472 --> 00:17:17,940
She's probably missing
a lot of school, isn't she?

350
00:17:17,975 --> 00:17:19,943
She added it up the other day,

351
00:17:19,977 --> 00:17:21,911
and I think she's missed
40 days of school.

352
00:17:21,946 --> 00:17:23,613
Wow.

353
00:17:23,647 --> 00:17:26,116
My middle daughter

354
00:17:26,150 --> 00:17:28,786
was complaining
of stomach problems.

355
00:17:28,820 --> 00:17:30,821
She was just laying
on the couch, crying

356
00:17:30,856 --> 00:17:33,825
and crying and crying, "Mommy, it hurts.
Mommy, my tummy hurts."

357
00:17:33,859 --> 00:17:37,262
They did a scope
and a upper G.I.,

358
00:17:37,296 --> 00:17:40,298
and found out
that she had 5 ulcers

359
00:17:40,332 --> 00:17:43,067
and one severely bleeding ulcer.

360
00:17:43,102 --> 00:17:45,737
And they put a tube, a feeding
tube in through her nose.

361
00:17:45,771 --> 00:17:47,739
That was, I think,

362
00:17:47,773 --> 00:17:49,240
the worst thing that
I've ever dealt with.

363
00:17:49,274 --> 00:17:51,576
A feeding tube and
it went up my nose,

364
00:17:51,610 --> 00:17:53,411
down my throat,
and into my stomach

365
00:17:53,445 --> 00:17:55,346
and past my digestive system.

366
00:17:55,380 --> 00:17:57,515
Sometimes I've woke up
feeling sick

367
00:17:57,549 --> 00:18:00,718
and I screamed and tried
to rip it out of my nose.

368
00:18:00,753 --> 00:18:03,254
- I was off work for almost 3 months.
- Oh, right.

369
00:18:03,288 --> 00:18:05,790
And I'm slowly
just now--

370
00:18:05,825 --> 00:18:07,726
I mean, I haven't even
begun to get caught up,

371
00:18:07,760 --> 00:18:10,262
but now my insurance is saying,
"Oh, by the way, this month

372
00:18:10,296 --> 00:18:12,097
and this month, you
didn't have insurance."

373
00:18:12,131 --> 00:18:15,100
So I have a $49,000 doctor
bill that they're saying

374
00:18:15,134 --> 00:18:18,904
that I didn't have insurance
for, so I have to pay it.

375
00:18:18,938 --> 00:18:20,839
Brandin's gonna wrestle.

376
00:18:20,873 --> 00:18:22,807
- Come on, Brandin!
- Come on, Brandin!

377
00:18:22,842 --> 00:18:24,810
Come on, kid.

378
00:18:24,844 --> 00:18:26,311
Come on, Brandin!

379
00:18:26,345 --> 00:18:27,612
Squeeze!

380
00:18:27,646 --> 00:18:29,113
Squeeze, Brandin!

381
00:18:32,284 --> 00:18:34,719
Nice job, Bubba!

382
00:18:34,754 --> 00:18:38,123
I try to just kind of
tell her, "It's OK, Mom. It'll be OK."

383
00:18:38,157 --> 00:18:41,259
And, like, I just try to
encourage her as much as I can.

384
00:18:41,293 --> 00:18:44,162
Being the only
"man of the house,"

385
00:18:44,196 --> 00:18:46,164
I should say, it's...

386
00:18:46,198 --> 00:18:49,667
it's kind of my job, I guess.

387
00:18:53,071 --> 00:18:55,006
Is he your boyfriend?

388
00:18:55,040 --> 00:18:57,041
- Is that why? Who is he?
- No.

389
00:18:57,075 --> 00:18:59,076
He was my first friend on
the first day of school.

390
00:18:59,110 --> 00:19:00,845
He sat right across from me.

391
00:19:00,879 --> 00:19:03,581
- Is it a date?
- No, it's not.

392
00:19:05,851 --> 00:19:08,452
I can feel you staring at me.

393
00:19:08,487 --> 00:19:11,989
OK, so this
isn't a date, right?

394
00:19:12,023 --> 00:19:13,457
- No.
- No date? OK.

395
00:19:13,491 --> 00:19:15,125
- No date.
- Told you.

396
00:19:15,160 --> 00:19:17,061
- Dad is gonna wig.
- I said the same thing.

397
00:19:17,095 --> 00:19:18,829
OK, well,
you have fun. No date.

398
00:19:18,863 --> 00:19:20,297
No kissing. No sitting.

399
00:19:20,332 --> 00:19:22,332
No hugging.
No hand-touching.

400
00:19:24,002 --> 00:19:25,502
I mean it, sissy.
Ha ha!

401
00:19:25,537 --> 00:19:27,137
- Love you.
- Love you.

402
00:19:27,171 --> 00:19:29,172
- Be good.
- It was nice to meet you, Tara.

403
00:19:29,207 --> 00:19:32,910
Nice to meet you, too.
Sissy, be good.

404
00:19:39,084 --> 00:19:43,055
We can go over to Mom's
and shower till Dad gets home.

405
00:19:43,089 --> 00:19:45,558
She said we can just run people
through if we want to.

406
00:19:45,592 --> 00:19:47,092
- Do you need to shower?
- Yeah.

407
00:19:47,127 --> 00:19:49,594
OK. That's what I figured.

408
00:19:49,629 --> 00:19:51,362
The power was shut off.

409
00:19:51,397 --> 00:19:53,798
The gas has been
shut off now, too.

410
00:19:53,832 --> 00:19:55,833
Water. Water's gone.

411
00:19:55,867 --> 00:19:57,301
No electricity.

412
00:19:57,335 --> 00:20:01,138
Our neighbor has let us
use his electricity.

413
00:20:01,172 --> 00:20:04,274
He is the nicest guy in
the whole, entire world.

414
00:20:04,309 --> 00:20:06,811
Like, we wouldn't have
got through any of this

415
00:20:06,845 --> 00:20:08,279
if it wasn't for him.

416
00:20:08,313 --> 00:20:11,115
- Yeah.
- So I do everything for him

417
00:20:11,150 --> 00:20:14,619
that I possibly can to make
his life easier 'cause he's--

418
00:20:14,653 --> 00:20:16,687
- The lawn.
- He's let us

419
00:20:16,722 --> 00:20:20,524
- plug in a cord to his garage and
he's, you know-- - So we can warm water.

420
00:20:20,559 --> 00:20:24,061
These are used for bathing,
to flush the toilets,

421
00:20:24,096 --> 00:20:27,197
to do the dishes, to...

422
00:20:27,232 --> 00:20:30,835
I mean, this is
our water source.

423
00:20:30,869 --> 00:20:33,203
The water outside,
it's filled with--

424
00:20:33,238 --> 00:20:35,105
Bugs. Got to boil. Ha ha!

425
00:20:35,139 --> 00:20:37,607
Ha! See all that
gross stuff in there?

426
00:20:37,642 --> 00:20:40,943
I remember when he told me
when he was losing his job,

427
00:20:40,978 --> 00:20:43,079
but I didn't really think--
I don't know.

428
00:20:43,113 --> 00:20:46,282
I didn't think it was a big deal
until our water was turned off.

429
00:20:46,316 --> 00:20:50,821
It's just, like, embarrassing 'cause you
can't bring your friends over to your house

430
00:20:50,855 --> 00:20:54,024
and you can't tell anybody
about it, really.

431
00:20:54,058 --> 00:20:58,161
School's already stressful enough,
but having things like this happen,

432
00:20:58,195 --> 00:21:01,431
it's hard to concentrate
because I'm so worried.

433
00:21:01,466 --> 00:21:04,767
We got a letter
from PGE the other day that said,

434
00:21:04,802 --> 00:21:08,271
"We're worried about your children,
and if you can get a doctor's note

435
00:21:08,305 --> 00:21:11,975
that says that it's detrimental
for your children's health

436
00:21:12,009 --> 00:21:15,245
to have the power off, then we can
maybe work something out with you."

437
00:21:15,280 --> 00:21:17,748
I'm just waiting
for Children's Services

438
00:21:17,782 --> 00:21:20,217
to come knock on the door
and take my kids away.

439
00:21:20,252 --> 00:21:22,854
I... Fuck.

440
00:21:24,223 --> 00:21:28,259
If capitalism is not
regulated or checked,

441
00:21:28,293 --> 00:21:30,160
there's a harsh logic,

442
00:21:30,195 --> 00:21:35,466
and it will always seek out the
lowest costs, highest return,

443
00:21:35,500 --> 00:21:37,901
which is why we have
historically viewed government

444
00:21:37,936 --> 00:21:40,604
as a check
and a balance on that.

445
00:21:40,638 --> 00:21:44,541
Over the last quarter-century,
we have reduced regulations,

446
00:21:44,576 --> 00:21:47,611
degraded wages,
cut back on healthcare.

447
00:21:47,645 --> 00:21:51,315
We've reduced taxes, and now
people are more vulnerable.

448
00:21:51,349 --> 00:21:54,151
And my job is
to communicate to people

449
00:21:54,186 --> 00:21:57,654
the absolute moral imperative
during these times

450
00:21:57,689 --> 00:22:01,592
of using public resources
to maintain the safety net

451
00:22:01,626 --> 00:22:05,129
until things turn around
and to make sure that

452
00:22:05,164 --> 00:22:09,400
we don't throw some of our most vulnerable
people, essentially, to the wolves.

453
00:22:12,270 --> 00:22:14,638
You need to seriously
fix this drawer.

454
00:22:14,672 --> 00:22:17,140
You know how annoying it is when you
try and open up a dresser drawer

455
00:22:17,175 --> 00:22:19,443
when you're getting ready for
work and it doesn't open right?

456
00:22:19,477 --> 00:22:21,245
You don't have work.

457
00:22:21,279 --> 00:22:25,683
I don't have a job yet, but I hope to have one soon.
Are you with me on that?

458
00:22:25,717 --> 00:22:27,618
Yeah. Come on. Go, go.

459
00:22:27,653 --> 00:22:29,654
Came home from work
one day, and my son looks at me

460
00:22:29,688 --> 00:22:31,189
and says, "Dad's in the back
of that ambulance."

461
00:22:31,223 --> 00:22:33,191
And I said,
"Gunner, I'm not"-- 'cause Gunner liked

462
00:22:33,225 --> 00:22:35,393
to play little jokes on Mommy and
I thought he was just kidding.

463
00:22:35,427 --> 00:22:38,562
They said within him being
there not even two hours

464
00:22:38,597 --> 00:22:41,065
that he was septic, that
they didn't expect him to

465
00:22:41,099 --> 00:22:44,335
live through Saturday, and
that he was going to die.

466
00:22:44,370 --> 00:22:48,039
And what was the hardest is that
I hadn't-- I hadn't told Gunner,

467
00:22:48,074 --> 00:22:50,709
and I remember going to the hotel,
and Gunner just kept asking me,

468
00:22:50,744 --> 00:22:53,412
"Did that just really happen, Mom?
Did Dad just really die?"

469
00:22:53,447 --> 00:22:55,448
I said, "Yeah, baby, he did."

470
00:22:55,482 --> 00:22:57,550
It was hard, very hard.

471
00:22:57,585 --> 00:22:59,019
Uh-oh. Look at
what's in here.

472
00:22:59,053 --> 00:23:00,820
You think it's time we
threw Dad's clothes away?

473
00:23:00,855 --> 00:23:02,355
- Mm-hmm.
- Huh?

474
00:23:02,390 --> 00:23:04,991
Does it matter much now?

475
00:23:05,026 --> 00:23:07,628
Well, I don't think
I can keep them forever.

476
00:23:07,662 --> 00:23:10,664
Oh. Look at-- Remember,
this was Dad's favorite shirt?

477
00:23:12,266 --> 00:23:15,769
Living in a
garage with my son is nerve-wracking.

478
00:23:15,803 --> 00:23:18,104
Little bit bigger than
a hotel room, I would say,

479
00:23:18,138 --> 00:23:23,110
but with no windows and there's
no heating in here whatsoever.

480
00:23:23,144 --> 00:23:24,812
We just are ready
for our own space

481
00:23:24,846 --> 00:23:26,480
and our own home.

482
00:23:26,514 --> 00:23:27,948
Mom, I'm hungry.

483
00:23:27,982 --> 00:23:29,984
And Dad always said
that we're survivors,

484
00:23:30,018 --> 00:23:31,985
and so we'll survive.

485
00:23:32,020 --> 00:23:33,887
We'll get through this.

486
00:23:35,550 --> 00:23:40,075
_

487
00:23:40,460 --> 00:23:42,928
Oh, my God, they're closed.

488
00:23:42,963 --> 00:23:44,797
Oh, they're closed, huh?
That's funny.

489
00:23:44,831 --> 00:23:47,099
Huh. Now what do we do?

490
00:23:47,133 --> 00:23:49,134
- Don't we have to, like--
- I'm sorry.

491
00:23:49,169 --> 00:23:51,103
I thought they were
open until 7:00.

492
00:23:52,706 --> 00:23:55,475
Like, I'm not really worrying
about the food situa--

493
00:23:55,509 --> 00:23:56,943
Of course you're not.
You're not a mother.

494
00:23:56,977 --> 00:23:59,679
You don't worry
about your son being hungry.

495
00:23:59,713 --> 00:24:01,781
Not the end of the world.

496
00:24:01,815 --> 00:24:04,850
You always had something
for dinner hot to eat.

497
00:24:06,787 --> 00:24:09,755
I don't need a fricking
hot meal. Dang.

498
00:24:09,790 --> 00:24:11,424
- Yes, you do.
- No, I don't.

499
00:24:11,458 --> 00:24:13,359
- You have school tomorrow.
- And I can have--

500
00:24:13,393 --> 00:24:16,830
I don't want you to go to
sleep with an empty belly.

501
00:24:18,766 --> 00:24:21,401
All right.
OK, OK, OK, OK.

502
00:24:21,435 --> 00:24:23,436
We'll figure this out, right?

503
00:24:23,471 --> 00:24:25,071
All right.

504
00:24:29,310 --> 00:24:31,411
Sorry. If I'd have
known it was closed,

505
00:24:31,446 --> 00:24:34,281
we wouldn't have come out
all this way for nothing.

506
00:24:34,315 --> 00:24:36,717
- Right?
- Yeah.

507
00:24:36,752 --> 00:24:39,120
If you're constantly moving

508
00:24:39,154 --> 00:24:42,724
from apartment to apartment,
or apartment to car

509
00:24:42,758 --> 00:24:45,527
or car to motel--
which happens,

510
00:24:45,561 --> 00:24:47,896
and it happens here
in Portland--

511
00:24:47,930 --> 00:24:50,032
kids struggle to learn.

512
00:24:50,066 --> 00:24:52,167
In the middle of a crisis,

513
00:24:52,202 --> 00:24:54,736
sometimes it is hard
to think about

514
00:24:54,771 --> 00:24:57,072
investing in very early,
young children

515
00:24:57,106 --> 00:25:01,376
because your pay-offs are coming
15, 20, 30 years down the road.

516
00:25:01,410 --> 00:25:06,614
But if you don't, those problems will be
there 15, 20, 30 years down the road.

517
00:25:08,179 --> 00:25:16,461
_

518
00:25:21,596 --> 00:25:23,497
Hi.

519
00:25:23,532 --> 00:25:25,566
So don't even talk to me.
Tell me what happened.

520
00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:27,435
I'm excited.

521
00:25:27,469 --> 00:25:29,270
Don't get too excited.

522
00:25:29,304 --> 00:25:31,906
It was a long process,
just-- I went in there,

523
00:25:31,940 --> 00:25:34,942
filled out my application,
gave them my application.

524
00:25:34,976 --> 00:25:37,311
And, uh...

525
00:25:37,345 --> 00:25:40,080
So, what'd he say?

526
00:25:40,115 --> 00:25:43,684
They got to, uh, go
through a couple more guys.

527
00:25:45,087 --> 00:25:46,454
OK.

528
00:25:46,488 --> 00:25:47,555
I'm kidding. I got it.

529
00:25:47,589 --> 00:25:49,623
Did you?

530
00:25:52,193 --> 00:25:54,895
- When do you start?
- Tomorrow morning.

531
00:25:54,929 --> 00:25:56,463
- Are you serious?
- Yeah.

532
00:25:59,034 --> 00:26:01,734
Are you serious?

533
00:26:03,370 --> 00:26:06,005
T.J. got a job.
Thank you, Lord.

534
00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:08,508
And so that's been helping out.
I mean, he's working.

535
00:26:08,542 --> 00:26:10,877
We haven't seen a paycheck,
but he's working.

536
00:26:10,911 --> 00:26:12,712
He's making some money.

537
00:26:12,746 --> 00:26:15,215
I just know
that today, right now,

538
00:26:15,249 --> 00:26:17,417
the kids have food
in their stomach

539
00:26:17,451 --> 00:26:20,419
and they don't have
to worry about being...

540
00:26:20,454 --> 00:26:22,087
out on the streets.

541
00:26:22,122 --> 00:26:24,089
- Is it really part-time?
- Yeah.

542
00:26:24,124 --> 00:26:26,592
He said part-time
to full-time.

543
00:26:26,626 --> 00:26:28,427
- Proud of me?
- Yeah!

544
00:26:28,461 --> 00:26:30,762
- Good.
- I'm so happy now.

545
00:26:30,797 --> 00:26:33,098
Yeah, I'm relieved
that my dad got a job,

546
00:26:33,133 --> 00:26:35,267
even if it is minimum wage.

547
00:26:35,302 --> 00:26:38,104
Then it's still--
I'm OK with it.

548
00:26:38,138 --> 00:26:41,440
We still are going to
get money to pay the bills

549
00:26:41,474 --> 00:26:45,010
and not have to worry about
our power going off again.

550
00:26:45,045 --> 00:26:48,080
Our country holds

551
00:26:48,114 --> 00:26:51,683
that the richer the rich get,
the better off everyone will be.

552
00:26:51,718 --> 00:26:55,921
And that rich business guys
like me are job creators,

553
00:26:55,956 --> 00:26:59,392
and so, if you just make it
cozier and cozier

554
00:26:59,426 --> 00:27:03,930
for businesses and rich people, somehow
everything will be good for everyone else.

555
00:27:03,965 --> 00:27:06,166
And, of course,
that hasn't worked out.

556
00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:09,102
If there was a shred
of truth to the idea that

557
00:27:09,137 --> 00:27:11,839
the richer the rich got, the
better everyone else would be

558
00:27:11,873 --> 00:27:14,942
and the more jobs we'd create, today
we would be drowning in jobs.

559
00:27:14,976 --> 00:27:17,779
It's obviously not true,
and that's why

560
00:27:17,813 --> 00:27:20,147
all of our policies are
so upside down.

561
00:27:20,182 --> 00:27:22,816
When you give the biggest tax
breaks and the best exemptions

562
00:27:22,851 --> 00:27:26,120
to rich people and to businesses
in the name of job creation,

563
00:27:26,154 --> 00:27:29,757
all that happens is
that the rich get richer.

564
00:27:30,594 --> 00:27:35,931
_

565
00:27:36,488 --> 00:27:41,613
_

566
00:27:43,373 --> 00:27:46,342
Thank you for calling 211.
How can I help you?

567
00:27:46,377 --> 00:27:47,877
We're on a fixed income,

568
00:27:47,912 --> 00:27:51,181
and I don't have any bed
for my daughter to sleep on.

569
00:27:51,215 --> 00:27:54,183
My fiancé got fired on Friday,

570
00:27:54,218 --> 00:27:56,820
and we have to be out of
our apartment by this Friday.

571
00:27:56,854 --> 00:28:00,490
I'm having some health issues
right now and I need to see someone.

572
00:28:00,524 --> 00:28:03,960
I have
an energy notice for $375.

573
00:28:03,994 --> 00:28:06,629
My daughter and I
don't know where to turn.

574
00:28:15,797 --> 00:28:18,900
_

575
00:28:26,922 --> 00:28:29,586
_

576
00:28:36,123 --> 00:28:40,314
_

577
00:28:41,298 --> 00:28:43,033
OK.

578
00:28:43,067 --> 00:28:44,734
Where are we?

579
00:28:44,769 --> 00:28:47,070
- Hi!
- Hi!

580
00:28:47,104 --> 00:28:49,238
Hi, sweetheart.

581
00:28:49,273 --> 00:28:51,774
If you could
sign in here, please.

582
00:28:51,809 --> 00:28:53,743
And this is your first time?

583
00:28:53,778 --> 00:28:55,712
- Yes, it is.
- OK.

584
00:28:55,746 --> 00:28:58,748
I did not anticipate ever being
in this position, ever.

585
00:28:58,783 --> 00:29:02,052
I told myself me and my husband
are hard-working people.

586
00:29:02,086 --> 00:29:05,222
We would never have
to ask for help, ever.

587
00:29:05,256 --> 00:29:08,025
We wouldn't because we would
feed our own children

588
00:29:08,059 --> 00:29:11,562
our own selves and we would, you
know, work hard to make that money.

589
00:29:11,596 --> 00:29:15,666
And when you can't find a job, you can't find a job.
There's nothing you can do.

590
00:29:15,701 --> 00:29:17,335
So you rent a home?

591
00:29:17,369 --> 00:29:19,170
- Rent an apartment.
- Apartment.

592
00:29:19,204 --> 00:29:22,173
- I'm glad you got a home.
- Well, we're losing it,

593
00:29:22,208 --> 00:29:24,041
so I'm moving in with
my mom, but-- ha ha!

594
00:29:24,076 --> 00:29:25,343
You are losing your home?

595
00:29:25,377 --> 00:29:26,310
Mm-hmm.

596
00:29:26,345 --> 00:29:28,813
Is there enough room
there for you?

597
00:29:28,848 --> 00:29:31,616
It's a two-bedroom apartment
with my mom and my sister,

598
00:29:31,651 --> 00:29:34,854
and I'm bringing in 4 of us,
so it will be 6 people living

599
00:29:34,888 --> 00:29:37,723
in two bedrooms, so...
it's going to be tough.

600
00:29:37,757 --> 00:29:39,692
It is going to be tough.

601
00:29:39,726 --> 00:29:41,527
My husband got
a job interview on Monday,

602
00:29:41,561 --> 00:29:44,029
and he came out feeling
like it went really well,

603
00:29:44,063 --> 00:29:46,565
so I'm hoping
he finds out next week.

604
00:29:46,599 --> 00:29:50,035
So I'm hoping that he
gets a job so when

605
00:29:50,069 --> 00:29:52,537
we live with my mom,
we can pay off all our stuff

606
00:29:52,571 --> 00:29:54,406
and try to move back
into somewhere else, so--

607
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:55,941
I really hope he gets that job.

608
00:29:55,975 --> 00:29:57,242
Me, too.

609
00:29:57,277 --> 00:29:59,244
Pam, what size diapers?

610
00:29:59,279 --> 00:30:01,280
You needed a size 5 and then?

611
00:30:01,315 --> 00:30:02,949
Uh, 3 and a 5.

612
00:30:02,983 --> 00:30:04,184
3 and a 5. OK.

613
00:30:04,218 --> 00:30:07,888
And then get you...
some shampoo.

614
00:30:07,922 --> 00:30:10,424
Sometimes we have--
we're really short on things today.

615
00:30:10,458 --> 00:30:13,693
That's OK. Actually, I just
really need some razors.

616
00:30:13,728 --> 00:30:16,630
Razors.
OK, I can do that.

617
00:30:16,664 --> 00:30:20,100
Say I'm talking to my
father back in Wyoming, all right?

618
00:30:20,134 --> 00:30:22,636
He's a conservative guy,
all right? He's a banker.

619
00:30:22,671 --> 00:30:25,072
He grew up independently.

620
00:30:25,106 --> 00:30:27,040
Our family owned banks.

621
00:30:27,075 --> 00:30:29,776
He feels people should be able to
take care of themselves, all right?

622
00:30:29,810 --> 00:30:32,412
"You don't go to
the social service agency

623
00:30:32,446 --> 00:30:35,282
to take care of your problems.
You take care of it yourself."

624
00:30:35,316 --> 00:30:38,718
I don't think
he understands the same

625
00:30:38,753 --> 00:30:42,089
kinds of pressures that
a young family would feel now.

626
00:30:42,123 --> 00:30:45,025
Millions of people
without health insurance,

627
00:30:45,059 --> 00:30:48,262
without good education,
unsafe streets,

628
00:30:48,296 --> 00:30:51,298
little opportunity
to build their way out

629
00:30:51,333 --> 00:30:54,601
if you're struggling day to day.

630
00:30:54,636 --> 00:30:56,903
I just got out of the place.

631
00:30:56,938 --> 00:31:00,440
I've never been so, like, scared and
out of place out of my whole life.

632
00:31:00,474 --> 00:31:03,943
I just wanted to bolt out of there. Like,
I did not feel comfortable at all.

633
00:31:03,978 --> 00:31:07,780
I'm, like, shaking to death. Like,
people were talking about me, you know?

634
00:31:07,815 --> 00:31:10,683
"Why is she here?
Her children are dressed nice,

635
00:31:10,718 --> 00:31:12,519
and look at that big
wedding ring on her finger.

636
00:31:12,553 --> 00:31:14,721
She's obviously married.
She's probably doing fine."

637
00:31:14,755 --> 00:31:18,457
And it just made me feel
so awful and stuff, and I just--

638
00:31:18,492 --> 00:31:20,926
Oh, my God. I didn't feel good.

639
00:31:20,961 --> 00:31:22,661
I don't feel good
about it at all.

640
00:31:22,696 --> 00:31:25,697
The kids are screaming.
I got to go. I love you.

641
00:31:25,731 --> 00:31:28,300
Bye.

642
00:31:34,906 --> 00:31:39,409
I finally broke down
when-- this was kind of a prideful thing,

643
00:31:39,444 --> 00:31:43,346
but I'd never even
had food stamps until

644
00:31:43,381 --> 00:31:45,114
a month and a half ago.

645
00:31:45,149 --> 00:31:47,983
The food stamps were people--
it was for the needy.

646
00:31:48,018 --> 00:31:50,419
I was looking at myself
as being,

647
00:31:50,453 --> 00:31:52,988
you know, kind of like
a deadbeat

648
00:31:53,022 --> 00:31:57,860
for having to resort
to... food stamps.

649
00:31:57,894 --> 00:32:01,930
I was told by PGE
to call you folks.

650
00:32:01,965 --> 00:32:06,134
Gonna have some problems making
electric payment and everything.

651
00:32:06,169 --> 00:32:08,436
Well, my unemployment is
expired, and I was wondering

652
00:32:08,471 --> 00:32:11,740
if you could give me
a holler, hopefully help me out.

653
00:32:11,774 --> 00:32:13,708
Thank you. Bye.

654
00:32:13,743 --> 00:32:16,211
I called
Oregon Housing Assistance,

655
00:32:16,245 --> 00:32:19,715
and they said that they
were out of money.

656
00:32:19,749 --> 00:32:23,719
They were stone broke,
and for that section-8 housing,

657
00:32:23,753 --> 00:32:27,022
there was, like, an 8-month
waiting period on that.

658
00:32:27,056 --> 00:32:28,924
Stay. Puppy. Look.

659
00:32:28,958 --> 00:32:31,726
You know, you get
in this situation where

660
00:32:31,761 --> 00:32:34,062
you're so broke, you know,
you have to start

661
00:32:34,096 --> 00:32:38,232
selling things off just
to have a little gas money.

662
00:32:39,634 --> 00:32:42,870
Talking to my dad.
He tries to keep my head up.

663
00:32:42,904 --> 00:32:44,938
He'll help when he can.

664
00:32:44,973 --> 00:32:47,842
This last month...

665
00:32:47,876 --> 00:32:51,445
I had to call him up
and have him

666
00:32:51,479 --> 00:32:54,581
pay the electric bill.

667
00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:00,921
It's not easy.

668
00:33:00,956 --> 00:33:03,624
You're a 50-year-old man and

669
00:33:03,658 --> 00:33:07,695
you have to call your dad
to pay the electric bill?

670
00:33:14,370 --> 00:33:16,871
You're funny
in that picture, OK?

671
00:33:16,906 --> 00:33:19,207
Stay. OK?

672
00:33:19,241 --> 00:33:20,709
You hold still.

673
00:33:20,743 --> 00:33:23,378
OK! Good dog!

674
00:33:25,348 --> 00:33:27,682
Around the eighties, I noticed

675
00:33:27,716 --> 00:33:30,851
there was a change in how
we spoke about poor people.

676
00:33:30,885 --> 00:33:33,053
We started talking about
welfare queens

677
00:33:33,087 --> 00:33:37,023
who were taking advantage
of taxpayer money.

678
00:33:37,058 --> 00:33:41,127
And suddenly, we started
not thinking about

679
00:33:41,162 --> 00:33:43,296
the challenges
faced by our families,

680
00:33:43,331 --> 00:33:47,000
but we started blaming
the victims of poverty.

681
00:33:48,636 --> 00:33:51,806
Her little friend
boy is coming over.

682
00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:53,841
He'll be here
in, like, 5 minutes.

683
00:33:53,875 --> 00:33:55,309
Friend boy? Why? How?

684
00:33:55,343 --> 00:33:57,311
What? Why are you
always surprise--

685
00:33:57,345 --> 00:33:59,113
No, we've been discussing this

686
00:33:59,147 --> 00:34:01,015
for 5 days now, right, Dakota?

687
00:34:01,049 --> 00:34:03,050
- 5 days.
- Who's we?

688
00:34:03,084 --> 00:34:05,553
Because his birthday's
tomorrow,

689
00:34:05,587 --> 00:34:08,556
and I'm going with him and
his mom and his sister and--

690
00:34:08,590 --> 00:34:11,258
Oh, so he wants to come over here and
make out with my little daughter

691
00:34:11,293 --> 00:34:13,027
for his birthday present?

692
00:34:14,830 --> 00:34:16,831
Dad. He's just my friend.

693
00:34:16,865 --> 00:34:20,101
Would you rather have her do
it in our house or with--

694
00:34:20,135 --> 00:34:22,203
"Do it"?! What do you mean, "do it"?

695
00:34:22,237 --> 00:34:24,906
Have dinner inside our house.

696
00:34:24,940 --> 00:34:26,942
Listen.

697
00:34:26,976 --> 00:34:30,012
Dad's watching, all right?

698
00:34:32,215 --> 00:34:35,484
- I love you.
- I love you, too.

699
00:34:36,853 --> 00:34:39,321
When I grow up in the future,

700
00:34:39,356 --> 00:34:42,625
I want to be able
to support my family.

701
00:34:42,659 --> 00:34:45,828
I'm gonna have a good job and
I'm gonna help my mom and dad.

702
00:34:45,862 --> 00:34:48,664
If they need money, I'm gonna
let them borrow the money.

703
00:34:48,698 --> 00:34:51,733
Like, I'll even let them
live with me.

704
00:34:53,136 --> 00:34:55,237
- Hey.
- Hi.

705
00:34:56,640 --> 00:34:58,607
Mom, Michael's here.

706
00:34:58,641 --> 00:35:00,742
- What's up?
- Hey.

707
00:35:00,777 --> 00:35:02,644
- How are you?
- Good.

708
00:35:02,679 --> 00:35:04,213
- Nervous?
- A little, yeah.

709
00:35:06,483 --> 00:35:08,751
Ahem. Come here.

710
00:35:08,785 --> 00:35:10,352
This is my dad.

711
00:35:10,386 --> 00:35:12,387
Hey. How are you?

712
00:35:12,421 --> 00:35:13,789
How you doing?

713
00:35:13,823 --> 00:35:15,123
Good. You?

714
00:35:15,158 --> 00:35:16,692
So you're my daughter's
boyfriend?

715
00:35:16,727 --> 00:35:19,695
Um, no. Friends.

716
00:35:19,730 --> 00:35:22,098
- Do you get good grades in school?
- Uh, yeah.

717
00:35:22,132 --> 00:35:23,566
- He's home-schooled.
- I know.

718
00:35:23,601 --> 00:35:25,702
Well, I used to go
to school, though.

719
00:35:25,736 --> 00:35:27,070
Why are you
home-schooled now?

720
00:35:27,105 --> 00:35:28,872
'Cause my mom-- I used
to be home-schooled

721
00:35:28,906 --> 00:35:30,541
when I was in,
like, first grade.

722
00:35:30,575 --> 00:35:33,210
We were having problems with
money, so we had to go back,

723
00:35:33,245 --> 00:35:37,381
but now we can start back up again or something.
That's what my mom told me.

724
00:35:37,416 --> 00:35:39,617
You guys can go
sit down and visit.

725
00:35:39,652 --> 00:35:42,220
OK.

726
00:35:45,492 --> 00:35:48,928
He's so nervous.
It's funny. Ha ha!

727
00:35:48,962 --> 00:35:51,631
- Zeus, get down.
- OK.

728
00:35:55,535 --> 00:35:58,137
Zeus, come here.
Come here!

729
00:36:07,447 --> 00:36:10,316
So it's already been two weeks
since you guys were here last, right?

730
00:36:10,350 --> 00:36:13,520
- Actually, yesterday was two weeks.
- Yesterday was two weeks. Oh.

731
00:36:13,554 --> 00:36:15,421
Yup. I'm waiting to see if we'll
be back in another two weeks.

732
00:36:15,456 --> 00:36:17,190
- Yeah, exactly.
- So...

733
00:36:17,224 --> 00:36:19,225
The doctor told us to come in,

734
00:36:19,260 --> 00:36:21,628
and he wants to keep dilating it

735
00:36:21,662 --> 00:36:24,097
until her stomach opens
and stays open

736
00:36:24,132 --> 00:36:26,366
'cause it's not staying open.

737
00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:29,068
We have to do this,
he said, every two weeks.

738
00:36:29,103 --> 00:36:33,073
I feel bad that it's
my fault that she's losing so much work.

739
00:36:33,107 --> 00:36:37,143
My mom was always there for me and
stayed every single night with me,

740
00:36:37,178 --> 00:36:39,646
so she made me really happy.

741
00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:41,281
I'm really anxious.

742
00:36:41,315 --> 00:36:43,416
I just want it to be done.

743
00:36:43,450 --> 00:36:46,486
I've got doctor bills,

744
00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:48,955
like, every day in the mail.

745
00:36:48,989 --> 00:36:51,291
I got a $49,000 bill.

746
00:36:51,326 --> 00:36:54,427
About fell over when I opened it.

747
00:36:54,461 --> 00:36:56,829
I haven't paid my rent
for December.

748
00:36:56,864 --> 00:36:59,899
I've always been able
to do it on my own.

749
00:36:59,934 --> 00:37:03,469
I may not have a lot of money, but my bills
are paid, my kids are taken care of.

750
00:37:03,504 --> 00:37:07,207
Nobody has rent assistance.

751
00:37:07,241 --> 00:37:10,910
I guess you have to call
before the first of the month,

752
00:37:10,944 --> 00:37:13,079
and I didn't know that.

753
00:37:13,113 --> 00:37:15,648
Am I going to get
an eviction tomorrow?

754
00:37:17,050 --> 00:37:19,652
I just don't know.

755
00:37:20,954 --> 00:37:25,091
I have never seen a time

756
00:37:25,125 --> 00:37:29,896
when there has been as much
venom and vitriol over things

757
00:37:29,931 --> 00:37:33,466
that, in previous years,
we agreed on.

758
00:37:33,500 --> 00:37:35,902
We've always been a nation

759
00:37:35,936 --> 00:37:38,905
that would look out for those
that needed help,

760
00:37:38,939 --> 00:37:42,776
and for the life of me,
I don't understand the response

761
00:37:42,810 --> 00:37:45,879
that would say,
"No, fend for yourself."

762
00:37:45,913 --> 00:37:49,783
And that's not rooted in
the fabric of America.

763
00:37:50,919 --> 00:37:57,157
_

764
00:37:59,393 --> 00:38:03,096
I've got the letter
from the doctor right here

765
00:38:03,130 --> 00:38:07,133
to help us get the
electricity turned back on,

766
00:38:07,167 --> 00:38:09,134
let them know about
the medical.

767
00:38:09,169 --> 00:38:14,105
My son's got just
this incredible... cough.

768
00:38:14,139 --> 00:38:19,043
He's coughing so bad
he's throwing up.

769
00:38:20,446 --> 00:38:23,814
Our power's been shut
off for about a month now.

770
00:38:23,849 --> 00:38:26,317
- OK.
- And so we just

771
00:38:26,351 --> 00:38:29,987
found out not too long ago that you
can get a letter from your doctor

772
00:38:30,022 --> 00:38:32,823
that states that if you
have medical issues--

773
00:38:32,858 --> 00:38:36,827
OK, once your power
is turned off,

774
00:38:36,862 --> 00:38:39,864
you are not-- you don't
actually qualify

775
00:38:39,898 --> 00:38:42,132
for the medical certificate
at that point.

776
00:38:42,167 --> 00:38:46,136
Once your power is restored,
then I can give you--

777
00:38:46,170 --> 00:38:49,139
I can give you the phone number

778
00:38:49,174 --> 00:38:53,143
for you to contact them
and then, you know,

779
00:38:53,178 --> 00:38:56,614
hopefully they can
get that going for you.

780
00:39:00,919 --> 00:39:02,887
- So, hey, dude.
- Hmm?

781
00:39:02,921 --> 00:39:05,489
Like...
how are you doing?

782
00:39:05,524 --> 00:39:07,859
- Bad.
- Bad?

783
00:39:07,893 --> 00:39:09,928
It just sucks.

784
00:39:09,962 --> 00:39:11,429
Like, the house?

785
00:39:11,464 --> 00:39:12,931
Mm-hmm.

786
00:39:12,965 --> 00:39:15,834
Like, what sucks
about the house?

787
00:39:15,868 --> 00:39:17,969
Almost everything.

788
00:39:19,572 --> 00:39:21,774
There's been times
that there's not enough food,

789
00:39:21,808 --> 00:39:25,277
and I definitely go over
to friends' houses

790
00:39:25,311 --> 00:39:27,747
and eat their food.

791
00:39:27,781 --> 00:39:31,784
But I feel bad for everyone else
who has to stay here

792
00:39:31,818 --> 00:39:34,854
'cause, you know, like,
what are they going to eat?

793
00:39:36,791 --> 00:39:39,793
If you want, you
can go to your friend's

794
00:39:39,827 --> 00:39:42,295
and we won't blame you
or anything.

795
00:39:42,330 --> 00:39:45,031
You should probably
eat there, too.

796
00:39:45,066 --> 00:39:46,967
I don't know.

797
00:39:47,001 --> 00:39:49,936
This is too much
for you, you can go.

798
00:39:49,970 --> 00:39:51,605
Me and Austin aren't
gonna blame you

799
00:39:51,639 --> 00:39:53,106
and we're not gonna be lonely.

800
00:39:53,140 --> 00:39:55,241
OK.

801
00:39:56,711 --> 00:39:59,713
I definitely
worry about them a lot.

802
00:39:59,747 --> 00:40:03,016
I want to take care of them,
but I just can't.

803
00:40:03,051 --> 00:40:04,885
It's so hard.

804
00:40:04,919 --> 00:40:06,987
In Oregon,

805
00:40:07,021 --> 00:40:09,056
and this is mirrored
around the country,

806
00:40:09,090 --> 00:40:12,726
but 26% of the population lives
in a condition of asset poverty.

807
00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:14,694
So that's one out of 4 people.

808
00:40:14,729 --> 00:40:17,430
If you don't have income
for 3 months,

809
00:40:17,465 --> 00:40:18,899
you're going to your friends.

810
00:40:18,933 --> 00:40:21,401
Hopefully you have some friends,
right, or family?

811
00:40:21,436 --> 00:40:24,705
Maybe you don't have family
nearby, or public assistance.

812
00:40:24,739 --> 00:40:26,707
The resiliency cushion--
the resiliency,

813
00:40:26,741 --> 00:40:29,844
economic resiliency
of Oregonians

814
00:40:29,878 --> 00:40:34,615
and, in fact, nationwide is
almost non-existent, really.

815
00:40:34,650 --> 00:40:37,485
We need to pray

816
00:40:37,519 --> 00:40:39,787
that we get our
food stamps next week.

817
00:40:39,821 --> 00:40:42,890
We'll just eat what's in
the cupboards this weekend.

818
00:40:42,924 --> 00:40:44,891
We're just not going
to have any meat.

819
00:40:44,926 --> 00:40:48,095
Will you go to that
food bank tomorrow?

820
00:40:48,129 --> 00:40:49,797
Yeah.

821
00:40:49,831 --> 00:40:52,600
Our kids know
I don't eat during the day.

822
00:40:52,634 --> 00:40:54,602
They ask, "Mom, what'd you
eat for lunch today?"

823
00:40:54,636 --> 00:40:56,670
I didn't eat. "What'd
you eat", you know?

824
00:40:56,704 --> 00:40:58,405
"I wasn't hungry," you know?

825
00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:01,408
"I worked through my lunch."
I'll make up some excuse.

826
00:41:01,442 --> 00:41:03,944
I just worry about
my mom the most.

827
00:41:03,978 --> 00:41:06,446
She doesn't really get to eat.

828
00:41:06,481 --> 00:41:09,349
I'd rather have
my mom eat than me.

829
00:41:09,384 --> 00:41:11,351
So, you cannot,

830
00:41:11,385 --> 00:41:14,187
cannot forget your lunch.

831
00:41:14,221 --> 00:41:17,123
So if you forget it,
I'll be texting you.

832
00:41:17,158 --> 00:41:19,726
- And you'll get in trouble.
You'll get grounded. - OK.

833
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:22,194
My daughter--
we had leftovers last night,

834
00:41:22,229 --> 00:41:24,230
and she's like, "No, you need
to take this to work.

835
00:41:24,264 --> 00:41:26,732
You need to eat."
I was like, "No, no, no.

836
00:41:26,767 --> 00:41:29,135
Don't worry about it."
So I wake up this morning,

837
00:41:29,169 --> 00:41:32,105
and she had one on the door,

838
00:41:32,139 --> 00:41:35,274
two on the fridge, one on
the cupboard, and then one

839
00:41:35,309 --> 00:41:38,744
on my bedroom door saying,
"Mom, don't forget your lunch.

840
00:41:38,778 --> 00:41:40,279
Don't forget
your lunch."

841
00:41:40,313 --> 00:41:42,214
Sure enough, I didn't
forget my lunch.

842
00:41:42,248 --> 00:41:44,115
It was the best lunch ever.

843
00:41:44,150 --> 00:41:47,252
I really love my Mom.

844
00:41:50,256 --> 00:41:53,425
The social safety net

845
00:41:53,460 --> 00:41:54,860
has more holes in it.

846
00:41:54,895 --> 00:41:57,429
You have to be
significantly poorer today

847
00:41:57,464 --> 00:42:01,433
to even get in the door, OK,
for them to consider you.

848
00:42:01,468 --> 00:42:04,437
In Oregon, for instance,
a 3-person family

849
00:42:04,471 --> 00:42:08,441
whose income exceeds
$616 for a month

850
00:42:08,476 --> 00:42:12,545
cannot get into the door to be
considered for the TANF program.

851
00:42:12,580 --> 00:42:15,115
That was set in 1991

852
00:42:15,149 --> 00:42:17,751
when our minimum wage
was under $5.00

853
00:42:17,785 --> 00:42:20,554
and it's been frozen
there ever since.

854
00:42:20,588 --> 00:42:22,056
That's a bad budget priority.

855
00:42:22,090 --> 00:42:23,290
It's a bad choice,

856
00:42:23,325 --> 00:42:25,793
and we need to change that.

857
00:42:45,547 --> 00:42:49,517
So are you going to come
to the game tomorrow?

858
00:42:49,551 --> 00:42:51,552
- To where?
- To the game?

859
00:42:51,586 --> 00:42:53,687
Yeah, it's my last game.

860
00:42:53,722 --> 00:42:55,723
Uh! It's in
the Northeast?

861
00:42:55,757 --> 00:42:57,191
It's at Grant.

862
00:42:57,225 --> 00:43:01,195
If I can get the insurance
and stuff on the car

863
00:43:01,229 --> 00:43:05,232
and get, like, a trip permit,
then I'll be down there.

864
00:43:05,267 --> 00:43:10,238
The job interview she
went to, she said that she had killed it.

865
00:43:10,272 --> 00:43:12,773
She said she felt like she killed it
and she ended up not getting the job.

866
00:43:12,808 --> 00:43:17,245
And she was, like, down and she was like, "I don't
know if I'm ever going to get a job again."

867
00:43:17,279 --> 00:43:19,947
And I'm like, "Mom,
you got to do this.

868
00:43:19,982 --> 00:43:22,750
We need you and you're
gonna push through."

869
00:43:22,785 --> 00:43:25,152
Weren't you invited
to go to Nevada?

870
00:43:25,187 --> 00:43:27,154
- About wrestling?
- Those regionals?

871
00:43:27,188 --> 00:43:29,290
Huh?
No, for nationals.

872
00:43:29,324 --> 00:43:31,258
When is it?
When is Nebraska?

873
00:43:31,293 --> 00:43:34,394
- I have to have my money in by June--
- By June what?

874
00:43:34,429 --> 00:43:37,197
You have to have your money
in by June and how much?

875
00:43:37,231 --> 00:43:39,166
$500.

876
00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:41,268
Oh, my God. How long
you guys gonna be there?

877
00:43:41,302 --> 00:43:43,270
For a week.

878
00:43:43,304 --> 00:43:45,772
Your one goal as a parent is

879
00:43:45,806 --> 00:43:47,908
that your kids do
better than you.

880
00:43:47,942 --> 00:43:50,911
Also, they know
that I went to college.

881
00:43:50,945 --> 00:43:54,414
They know that they have
the ability to go to college.

882
00:43:54,449 --> 00:43:57,417
I do want them to know that
they can achieve more.

883
00:43:57,451 --> 00:43:59,853
This is not it. This is not it.

884
00:43:59,887 --> 00:44:01,855
I told her all the time

885
00:44:01,889 --> 00:44:04,991
that when I get older,
I want to buy her a house.

886
00:44:05,026 --> 00:44:07,027
That's, like,
the American dream for me.

887
00:44:07,061 --> 00:44:08,628
I was like, "I just want
to buy her a house."

888
00:44:08,663 --> 00:44:11,398
I just want to give her
the world, and I literally do.

889
00:44:11,432 --> 00:44:13,633
She's like Superwoman
on steroids.

890
00:44:16,403 --> 00:44:18,404
If you believe

891
00:44:18,438 --> 00:44:21,506
that wealth trickles down
from the top,

892
00:44:21,541 --> 00:44:25,143
then the only reason
you would help a poor family

893
00:44:25,178 --> 00:44:29,113
is for charity, because
you felt sorry for them.

894
00:44:29,147 --> 00:44:31,882
But there's, I think,
a far more persuasive argument

895
00:44:31,917 --> 00:44:35,654
that you simply have this problem where
no one can afford to buy stuff anymore.

896
00:44:35,688 --> 00:44:39,892
Helping a poor family
isn't an act of charity.

897
00:44:39,926 --> 00:44:42,962
It's converting a family
that you have to support

898
00:44:42,997 --> 00:44:47,166
into a family that can buy
things from your company.

899
00:44:47,201 --> 00:44:50,670
Helping the poor is what
drives the economy.

900
00:44:50,704 --> 00:44:52,905
That's why all
prosperous economies

901
00:44:52,939 --> 00:44:55,341
have big middle classes, right,

902
00:44:55,375 --> 00:44:57,777
that there's a huge return--

903
00:44:57,811 --> 00:45:01,648
economically, socially, and politically--
in helping poor people.

904
00:45:02,415 --> 00:45:08,684
_

905
00:45:09,428 --> 00:45:13,329
_

906
00:45:15,464 --> 00:45:18,933
So there's going to be 3
rooms, and right now we have 5 rooms.

907
00:45:18,968 --> 00:45:22,137
Somebody's going to have to share,
and it's either going to be you two

908
00:45:22,171 --> 00:45:24,606
or you and Bella.

909
00:45:24,640 --> 00:45:27,642
I was working
for Volkswagen Credit.

910
00:45:27,676 --> 00:45:31,145
Company cars, new car every year,
you know, made every bonus.

911
00:45:31,180 --> 00:45:33,648
But things changed.

912
00:45:33,682 --> 00:45:35,516
- The baby comes along--
- And I got pregnant.

913
00:45:35,584 --> 00:45:36,918
And she's got health problems.

914
00:45:36,952 --> 00:45:39,587
And then, you know,
he lost his job.

915
00:45:39,621 --> 00:45:41,589
We were already starting to get

916
00:45:41,623 --> 00:45:44,592
a little bit behind
on our mortgage.

917
00:45:44,626 --> 00:45:47,594
I called them, and he said that

918
00:45:47,629 --> 00:45:49,830
"We can modify your loan and,

919
00:45:49,864 --> 00:45:51,932
you know, get you
a lower payment."

920
00:45:51,966 --> 00:45:54,467
And he said, "But you're
not far enough behind yet.

921
00:45:54,502 --> 00:45:57,471
You need to be 90 days behind

922
00:45:57,505 --> 00:45:59,673
before we can
help you."

923
00:45:59,707 --> 00:46:02,576
And that, to me, sounded crazy.
I was like, "What?"

924
00:46:02,610 --> 00:46:06,080
- No, take the whole box.
Get it into the U-Haul. - OK.

925
00:46:06,114 --> 00:46:09,117
But they said,
you know, "Don't make any payments

926
00:46:09,151 --> 00:46:12,253
until we can modify
this loan."

927
00:46:12,288 --> 00:46:15,256
Then, in September, they say,

928
00:46:15,290 --> 00:46:17,758
"We're so sorry.

929
00:46:17,793 --> 00:46:20,361
You don't qualify for anything,

930
00:46:20,395 --> 00:46:24,264
And we need
$17,000 in 5 days."

931
00:46:24,299 --> 00:46:27,567
We came home
and we saw the foreclosure sign

932
00:46:27,601 --> 00:46:30,069
on, like, in the front door.

933
00:46:30,104 --> 00:46:33,173
That was really scary.

934
00:46:34,843 --> 00:46:38,712
The kids are gonna
have that sense of unstableness.

935
00:46:38,746 --> 00:46:40,914
I wanted better for them.

936
00:46:40,948 --> 00:46:43,783
I feel like a failure.
I feel like I failed.

937
00:46:56,763 --> 00:47:00,432
- Gunner, stay with me, please.
- I'm staying right here.

938
00:47:00,466 --> 00:47:02,934
So it's going to be a little
rough the next couple days.

939
00:47:02,969 --> 00:47:05,770
I'm going to be staying at the
shelter I don't know the name of.

940
00:47:05,805 --> 00:47:07,773
This is our first night here.

941
00:47:07,807 --> 00:47:10,008
Um, are they having
dinner tonight?

942
00:47:10,042 --> 00:47:11,877
The food's right
in the kitchen.

943
00:47:11,911 --> 00:47:13,345
OK, thanks.

944
00:47:13,379 --> 00:47:15,413
- There's so many people here.
- Shh.

945
00:47:15,447 --> 00:47:18,282
You know, people start crying

946
00:47:18,317 --> 00:47:20,584
the minute you even use
the word "shelter."

947
00:47:20,619 --> 00:47:23,588
They say, "I can't.
I can't go there."

948
00:47:23,622 --> 00:47:26,591
No one wants
to go to a shelter.

949
00:47:26,625 --> 00:47:30,595
It's not a wonderful environment
for you or for your children,

950
00:47:30,630 --> 00:47:35,566
and yet it's a safe place you can
go and you can start working

951
00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:39,303
with folks whose job it is to
help you get back on your feet.

952
00:47:39,337 --> 00:47:44,075
I know there are people who would rather
sleep in their car than go to a shelter.

953
00:47:44,109 --> 00:47:46,477
I think there's a lot
of people in that situation.

954
00:47:46,511 --> 00:47:48,513
It's just temporary.
I promise, OK?

955
00:47:48,547 --> 00:47:50,715
I'm not worried
about the stupid shelter.

956
00:47:50,750 --> 00:47:52,684
Gunner...

957
00:47:52,718 --> 00:47:55,187
you know Mommy will
fix this, right?

958
00:47:55,221 --> 00:47:57,689
Oh, why do you--
why would I say something?

959
00:47:57,724 --> 00:47:59,324
You're all, like,
"Ooh, don't worry."

960
00:47:59,359 --> 00:48:00,859
'Cause you look like you're
upset right now and--

961
00:48:00,894 --> 00:48:03,195
I'm not upset.
I'm tired.

962
00:48:03,230 --> 00:48:05,531
- Really?
- I'm tired.

963
00:48:05,565 --> 00:48:06,899
I know you better
than that, son.

964
00:48:06,933 --> 00:48:08,901
- I need you to stop.
- OK. Give--

965
00:48:08,936 --> 00:48:10,937
I know you're upset,
but I'm sorry.

966
00:48:10,971 --> 00:48:12,972
I'm not! Mmm!

967
00:48:27,056 --> 00:48:28,657
Gunner?

968
00:48:29,960 --> 00:48:32,061
Gunner.

969
00:48:34,797 --> 00:48:36,899
Gunner.

970
00:48:38,068 --> 00:48:40,069
Where did he go?

971
00:48:47,510 --> 00:48:51,013
People asked
me where I lived at school,

972
00:48:51,048 --> 00:48:53,616
but I just said I lived
in the same place

973
00:48:53,651 --> 00:48:56,853
or by that place so, like,
they wouldn't, like,

974
00:48:56,888 --> 00:49:00,790
make fun because my school
is very, like, judgmental.

975
00:49:00,825 --> 00:49:03,326
They'll make fun of you
if you live somewhere

976
00:49:03,361 --> 00:49:06,563
that isn't regular or normal.

977
00:49:06,597 --> 00:49:09,533
- Gunner, stop.
- I'm tired! I want--

978
00:49:09,567 --> 00:49:11,535
I know this is
a lot to take in.

979
00:49:11,569 --> 00:49:13,503
When is this going to be over?

980
00:49:13,537 --> 00:49:15,505
I don't know. When
it's over, it's over,

981
00:49:15,539 --> 00:49:19,509
but in the meantime, you and I
have to figure this out, OK?

982
00:49:19,544 --> 00:49:25,149
I promise, things will be
better in a real soon time.

983
00:49:25,183 --> 00:49:29,554
Please, dear God,
let this be temporary.

984
00:49:29,588 --> 00:49:33,057
Everybody
has a bump in the road.

985
00:49:33,092 --> 00:49:37,196
Homeless people are people
who, in many instances,

986
00:49:37,230 --> 00:49:39,031
have hit a rough stretch
in their life.

987
00:49:39,065 --> 00:49:40,299
A series of things
have happened.

988
00:49:40,333 --> 00:49:42,434
Someone's lost
their home, their job,

989
00:49:42,469 --> 00:49:44,337
their healthcare;
and then they have some

990
00:49:44,371 --> 00:49:46,706
traumatic personal experience
and they're on the street.

991
00:49:46,740 --> 00:49:49,542
And I think the thing about
homelessness that I've learned

992
00:49:49,576 --> 00:49:52,578
is it can happen to anybody;
that it could be your neighbor,

993
00:49:52,613 --> 00:49:54,546
your friend, a family member.

994
00:49:54,581 --> 00:49:58,017
And I think once you break down
those barriers and stereotypes,

995
00:49:58,051 --> 00:50:01,587
and you see homeless individuals
as brothers and sisters,

996
00:50:01,621 --> 00:50:03,756
friends, co-workers, others,

997
00:50:03,790 --> 00:50:05,424
it changes one's attitude.

998
00:50:13,567 --> 00:50:15,568
All right.
One more.

999
00:50:15,602 --> 00:50:18,738
Geral, guess what.
These are the long ones.

1000
00:50:18,772 --> 00:50:21,007
It's tough when
you can't give your kid something.

1001
00:50:21,041 --> 00:50:24,010
He sits there and says,
"I want to watch a movie.

1002
00:50:24,044 --> 00:50:26,980
I want to get a movie.
You know, it's one dollar."

1003
00:50:27,015 --> 00:50:29,282
"Sorry, kid."

1004
00:50:31,018 --> 00:50:33,119
"Not tonight."
"Why?"

1005
00:50:33,154 --> 00:50:34,721
"Can't afford it."

1006
00:50:34,755 --> 00:50:38,725
Kids shouldn't even have to
worry about that kind of stuff.

1007
00:50:38,759 --> 00:50:41,895
It's not their fault, you know?

1008
00:50:41,929 --> 00:50:45,265
OK, Geral. Here we
go, Geral, right here.

1009
00:50:45,299 --> 00:50:47,801
Aim that ball.
Use your knees.

1010
00:50:47,835 --> 00:50:49,269
Here we go.

1011
00:50:49,303 --> 00:50:50,704
Oh, yeah.

1012
00:50:50,738 --> 00:50:53,039
- Yeah!
- Good job.

1013
00:50:53,074 --> 00:50:54,507
Yeah.

1014
00:50:54,542 --> 00:50:57,510
Without a job
and all that stuff,

1015
00:50:57,545 --> 00:51:00,447
the only thing that really
keeps my sanity

1016
00:51:00,481 --> 00:51:03,283
is the little boy,
the little guy.

1017
00:51:03,318 --> 00:51:06,286
He's always smiling.
When you see that smile

1018
00:51:06,320 --> 00:51:09,255
and the way his outlook
on life is, you know,

1019
00:51:09,290 --> 00:51:12,292
it gives you a feeling like, "You
know, the world isn't so bad."

1020
00:51:12,326 --> 00:51:15,462
You know?

1021
00:51:17,365 --> 00:51:18,899
Whoa!

1022
00:51:18,933 --> 00:51:20,968
We have these trade policies

1023
00:51:21,002 --> 00:51:25,039
with other countries which have
been enormously beneficial

1024
00:51:25,073 --> 00:51:27,441
to the owners of companies
because it turns out

1025
00:51:27,475 --> 00:51:33,014
to be incredibly useful to be able
to relocate where we manufacture

1026
00:51:33,048 --> 00:51:36,918
or create our products to places
where workers have no power, right?

1027
00:51:36,952 --> 00:51:39,520
Where you don't have to pay them
anything and you don't have to worry

1028
00:51:39,555 --> 00:51:42,156
about pollution regulations or
anything like that.

1029
00:51:42,191 --> 00:51:44,626
What Congress hears about

1030
00:51:44,660 --> 00:51:48,162
is how fantastic that is
for business.

1031
00:51:48,197 --> 00:51:51,232
And it is fantastic
for the shareholders

1032
00:51:51,266 --> 00:51:53,634
in the near term
of the businesses.

1033
00:51:53,669 --> 00:51:56,637
But what it doesn't account for
is the long-term health

1034
00:51:56,671 --> 00:51:58,438
of the American economy.

1035
00:51:58,473 --> 00:52:00,940
The only people who suffer
are the workers,

1036
00:52:00,975 --> 00:52:03,576
and the only people
who benefit are the owners.

1037
00:52:03,611 --> 00:52:05,511
The sort of typical
American family

1038
00:52:05,546 --> 00:52:08,547
has been completely railroaded.

1039
00:52:24,363 --> 00:52:27,699
I would have never thought that I would
have had to move back home, ever.

1040
00:52:27,733 --> 00:52:31,869
And it's just extremely hard
and it's extremely frustrating,

1041
00:52:31,904 --> 00:52:34,705
and I don't even want
to tell people. I'm embarrassed.

1042
00:52:34,740 --> 00:52:36,707
My husband's embarrassed.
We don't want to tell people.

1043
00:52:36,742 --> 00:52:39,210
And people on Facebook...
"Hey, how you doing?"

1044
00:52:39,244 --> 00:52:41,212
"I'm doing good.
How are you?" You know?

1045
00:52:41,246 --> 00:52:43,914
And I mean, no, I'm going
to tell them? You know.

1046
00:52:43,948 --> 00:52:45,916
I mean I'm not going
to sit there and say,

1047
00:52:45,950 --> 00:52:47,584
"Oh, we're both not working.
We have no money.

1048
00:52:47,619 --> 00:52:49,453
We don't know how we're
going to pay our bills.

1049
00:52:49,487 --> 00:52:51,721
I'm living at home
with my mother,

1050
00:52:51,756 --> 00:52:53,789
and my mom's sleeping
on the couch."

1051
00:52:53,824 --> 00:52:56,859
I mean, it breaks my heart.

1052
00:52:56,894 --> 00:52:59,729
I don't want to tell
people that. It's embarrassing.

1053
00:52:59,763 --> 00:53:01,664
- Hey, Mama?
- Yeah, son?

1054
00:53:01,698 --> 00:53:03,432
I just want to say thank you.

1055
00:53:03,467 --> 00:53:06,402
It is a hard day, and I
know this is a lot on you.

1056
00:53:06,436 --> 00:53:07,870
Thank you, son.
And you know what?

1057
00:53:07,905 --> 00:53:09,905
My pleasure.
I love you.

1058
00:53:09,940 --> 00:53:11,440
You're a good man.

1059
00:53:11,475 --> 00:53:13,342
You know, least
we can do is just

1060
00:53:13,377 --> 00:53:15,911
continue being the family
that we should be.

1061
00:53:15,946 --> 00:53:17,313
Yeah?

1062
00:53:17,347 --> 00:53:19,815
We're just one big
happy family.

1063
00:53:19,849 --> 00:53:22,517
Yeah, we are.

1064
00:53:22,552 --> 00:53:24,986
My last job interview,

1065
00:53:25,021 --> 00:53:27,889
I mean, I think
I nailed it to the tee.

1066
00:53:27,923 --> 00:53:29,857
- That's awesome.
- I think I did pretty good.

1067
00:53:29,892 --> 00:53:32,326
I mean, I've never done
an interview where,

1068
00:53:32,360 --> 00:53:35,362
towards the end of the interview,
we were pretty much done

1069
00:53:35,397 --> 00:53:37,365
and then they asked me
about football.

1070
00:53:37,399 --> 00:53:39,133
And I was like, "Oh, yeah,
big in football."

1071
00:53:39,167 --> 00:53:41,302
When are you gonna hear
back on that interview?

1072
00:53:41,336 --> 00:53:43,504
This week.

1073
00:53:43,538 --> 00:53:45,372
We have to have a system

1074
00:53:45,407 --> 00:53:49,377
that can take that person whose
skills were perfectly fine

1075
00:53:49,411 --> 00:53:52,013
when they left high school
and now, all of a sudden,

1076
00:53:52,047 --> 00:53:54,348
the economy has changed
around them

1077
00:53:54,383 --> 00:53:55,950
and they need to be re-tooled.

1078
00:53:55,985 --> 00:53:59,721
We need the money and the
investment to help them re-tool.

1079
00:53:59,755 --> 00:54:02,623
They end up costing us more

1080
00:54:02,658 --> 00:54:06,661
sitting on the sidelines than they
would if we invested the money

1081
00:54:06,695 --> 00:54:10,365
to get them the skills
they need to participate.

1082
00:54:27,815 --> 00:54:29,983
- Hey, baby.
- What's up, lady?

1083
00:54:30,018 --> 00:54:31,452
Nice.

1084
00:54:31,486 --> 00:54:33,320
What's up?

1085
00:54:33,354 --> 00:54:35,956
Well, how was your day?

1086
00:54:35,991 --> 00:54:37,991
Fine, till I checked
the mail. Heh!

1087
00:54:38,026 --> 00:54:39,426
What's in there?

1088
00:54:39,461 --> 00:54:41,562
- Do you want to know?
- Yeah.

1089
00:54:41,596 --> 00:54:43,430
We got a shut-off notice
from the electricity company

1090
00:54:43,465 --> 00:54:45,933
even though I just
gave them 280 bucks.

1091
00:54:47,769 --> 00:54:50,037
$336.

1092
00:54:50,072 --> 00:54:51,906
Sit down.

1093
00:54:51,973 --> 00:54:53,908
Why? Ha ha!

1094
00:54:53,942 --> 00:54:56,311
Well, I got bad news.

1095
00:54:56,345 --> 00:54:59,680
The bad news--
they fired me today.

1096
00:54:59,715 --> 00:55:02,517
What do you mean,
they fired you?

1097
00:55:02,551 --> 00:55:04,119
They fired me.

1098
00:55:04,153 --> 00:55:06,521
I got pulled in the office

1099
00:55:06,555 --> 00:55:08,523
and...

1100
00:55:08,558 --> 00:55:10,692
I got fired.

1101
00:55:12,128 --> 00:55:14,196
OK.

1102
00:55:16,065 --> 00:55:18,667
And, look, and when
I was leaving,

1103
00:55:18,701 --> 00:55:20,936
Jerry said--

1104
00:55:20,970 --> 00:55:23,905
- Who is Jerry?
- Jerry's the owner.

1105
00:55:23,940 --> 00:55:26,308
Said apparently
he should have listened

1106
00:55:26,342 --> 00:55:29,578
to Jason and not hired my kind.

1107
00:55:29,645 --> 00:55:32,114
So, at that point, I told him

1108
00:55:32,148 --> 00:55:33,482
that that was racist

1109
00:55:33,516 --> 00:55:35,817
and it's just not right,
it's not fair.

1110
00:55:35,852 --> 00:55:39,054
Things started happening,

1111
00:55:39,089 --> 00:55:42,057
as far as me getting accused
of doing things wrong.

1112
00:55:42,091 --> 00:55:45,227
It started probably
about maybe a week ago,

1113
00:55:45,262 --> 00:55:48,264
when the painter was
talking about

1114
00:55:48,298 --> 00:55:50,732
a customer's car, you know,
and I kind of had an idea.

1115
00:55:50,767 --> 00:55:54,269
He has a big rebel flag
tattooed on his neck.

1116
00:55:54,304 --> 00:55:56,171
He was like, "Oh, great.

1117
00:55:56,206 --> 00:55:58,173
Now I get to paint
another nigger's car."

1118
00:55:58,208 --> 00:56:00,409
And he looked at me and he goes,

1119
00:56:00,443 --> 00:56:02,978
"You're not nigger, are ya?"

1120
00:56:03,012 --> 00:56:05,915
And I just kind of smiled
and I was just, like, going,

1121
00:56:05,949 --> 00:56:08,818
"I'm American," you know?

1122
00:56:08,852 --> 00:56:11,822
I said, "I don't really
see any color."

1123
00:56:11,856 --> 00:56:14,224
It just pisses me off.

1124
00:56:14,259 --> 00:56:15,960
Just another stump.

1125
00:56:15,994 --> 00:56:19,029
Yeah, but it hit us
hard right now.

1126
00:56:19,064 --> 00:56:21,732
We still have rent to pay.

1127
00:56:23,301 --> 00:56:25,869
And then this.

1128
00:56:25,904 --> 00:56:27,471
Did you get your check today?

1129
00:56:27,505 --> 00:56:29,006
I asked him
to give me my check,

1130
00:56:29,040 --> 00:56:31,208
and he said he had 24
hours to get it to me.

1131
00:56:31,242 --> 00:56:32,810
I was hot.

1132
00:56:32,844 --> 00:56:36,547
I was, like, really upset
and very angry.

1133
00:56:36,581 --> 00:56:39,716
I wasn't only angry about the
situation, you know what I mean?

1134
00:56:39,751 --> 00:56:42,320
About me being fired and stuff like
that, because all these things that's

1135
00:56:42,354 --> 00:56:45,490
running through my head is, "Now
we're going to struggle again,

1136
00:56:45,524 --> 00:56:47,993
and I've got to tell
my wife this."

1137
00:56:48,027 --> 00:56:50,429
And now everything's
pushed back on her.

1138
00:56:54,034 --> 00:56:56,535
So how do you feel
about this whole thing?

1139
00:56:56,570 --> 00:56:59,171
Hurt. Upset.

1140
00:56:59,205 --> 00:57:03,408
Distressed, disgusted
with people.

1141
00:57:03,443 --> 00:57:06,044
So what is real? Like, how do
you feel about everything?

1142
00:57:06,079 --> 00:57:09,081
You losing your job hurts
the most just because

1143
00:57:09,115 --> 00:57:11,450
just because of the fact that
we were bringing in more money.

1144
00:57:11,484 --> 00:57:13,518
Might not seem
like it right now,

1145
00:57:13,553 --> 00:57:15,020
but it was helping
with the bills.

1146
00:57:15,054 --> 00:57:16,554
Well, I have
no control over that.

1147
00:57:16,589 --> 00:57:18,890
That's why I feel like
you're kind of blaming me

1148
00:57:18,924 --> 00:57:20,925
for losing the job and
everything that's going on.

1149
00:57:20,960 --> 00:57:22,627
No. I don't
blame you at all.

1150
00:57:22,661 --> 00:57:25,263
You had no control over this.

1151
00:57:26,966 --> 00:57:31,203
It's just this whole thing affects
me in a weird way, you know?

1152
00:57:31,237 --> 00:57:33,638
I just don't get the fact
that people are racist.

1153
00:57:33,673 --> 00:57:36,141
God made us all
the same, right?

1154
00:57:36,175 --> 00:57:37,476
No.

1155
00:57:37,510 --> 00:57:40,078
Some of us are darker.

1156
00:57:41,514 --> 00:57:44,983
I still love you.

1157
00:57:45,018 --> 00:57:47,453
It's all that matters.

1158
00:57:47,487 --> 00:57:50,423
Honestly,
the way I look at it is,

1159
00:57:50,457 --> 00:57:53,359
I don't know how I'm
going to make it.

1160
00:57:53,393 --> 00:57:55,828
I have no money
saved up for college.

1161
00:57:55,862 --> 00:57:59,498
I don't have any of that stuff.

1162
00:58:00,834 --> 00:58:02,768
And I want to go to college.

1163
00:58:02,803 --> 00:58:04,871
I want to be able
to have a good life.

1164
00:58:04,905 --> 00:58:09,442
And it makes me worry, like,
how am I going to be successful?

1165
00:58:09,476 --> 00:58:14,380
And how am I going to be able
to provide for my family?

1166
00:58:16,350 --> 00:58:19,452
I worry about that every day.

1167
00:58:23,992 --> 00:58:25,459
Oh!

1168
00:58:25,494 --> 00:58:27,594
Oh, my goodness.

1169
00:58:31,633 --> 00:58:34,034
It's so cute.

1170
00:58:34,069 --> 00:58:37,205
It's trying to find its mama.

1171
00:58:39,576 --> 00:58:42,044
That doesn't surprise me that,

1172
00:58:42,078 --> 00:58:45,514
among the folks who are showing
up on the 211 phone line,

1173
00:58:45,549 --> 00:58:48,017
that they're questioning the
American dream 'cause you know what?

1174
00:58:48,051 --> 00:58:51,653
It's not a part of the American dream
to have to call and ask for food help.

1175
00:58:51,688 --> 00:58:53,555
It's not a part of
the American dream to think,

1176
00:58:53,589 --> 00:58:55,824
"I'm not going to be able
to pay my rent."

1177
00:58:55,858 --> 00:58:59,494
I think people still believe in the
American dream and want the American dream.

1178
00:58:59,529 --> 00:59:01,964
I think there's more and more
people who are being denied it

1179
00:59:01,998 --> 00:59:04,066
by the growing income
inequality.

1180
00:59:04,100 --> 00:59:06,535
And they're saying, "I work
hard. I play by the rules.

1181
00:59:06,570 --> 00:59:08,837
I see corporate profits
going through the roof

1182
00:59:08,871 --> 00:59:11,073
and I can't get ahead."

1183
00:59:12,509 --> 00:59:15,277
I am a single mom

1184
00:59:15,311 --> 00:59:18,780
that really needs help with coming
up with the rest of our rent.

1185
00:59:18,814 --> 00:59:22,783
We just got an eviction
notice and we have nowhere to go.

1186
00:59:22,817 --> 00:59:26,787
I am out of food,
and I've got very little for the baby.

1187
00:59:26,821 --> 00:59:28,788
- How old is your daughter?
- She's 17.

1188
00:59:28,823 --> 00:59:31,825
- Are you sleeping in your car?
- Under a bridge, actually.

1189
00:59:31,859 --> 00:59:34,694
Yeah, and it's cold.
It is really cold.

1190
01:00:16,335 --> 01:00:18,837
Think we check in
right over here.

1191
01:00:18,871 --> 01:00:20,806
All right,
so you guys are disconnected

1192
01:00:20,840 --> 01:00:23,709
on PGE and Northwestern, right?

1193
01:00:23,743 --> 01:00:25,311
- On everything.
- And our water.

1194
01:00:25,345 --> 01:00:28,247
We have never gone through this,
so we really let things--

1195
01:00:28,281 --> 01:00:31,016
we don't, you know--
it's been almost a month.

1196
01:00:31,051 --> 01:00:34,386
I was in a similar situation.

1197
01:00:34,420 --> 01:00:36,522
I've been homeless,
been in apartments

1198
01:00:36,556 --> 01:00:39,325
where I couldn't afford
anything, got evicted.

1199
01:00:39,359 --> 01:00:43,195
You know, finally got a place but
couldn't get my electricity back on.

1200
01:00:43,229 --> 01:00:46,632
I actually came to
Human Solutions for help,

1201
01:00:46,666 --> 01:00:49,134
and they're the one who helped me
with the housing, with electricity

1202
01:00:49,169 --> 01:00:52,771
and, you know, with everything,
and then, next thing I know,

1203
01:00:52,805 --> 01:00:55,207
they offered me to volunteer
here and I got a job.

1204
01:00:55,241 --> 01:00:56,408
- No way.
- Really?

1205
01:00:56,443 --> 01:00:57,610
- Wow.
- Yeah.

1206
01:00:57,644 --> 01:00:59,445
Everybody goes
through something.

1207
01:00:59,479 --> 01:01:01,147
Mm-hmm.

1208
01:01:01,181 --> 01:01:03,482
OK, so, with PGE,

1209
01:01:03,517 --> 01:01:06,452
your balance is $1,439.

1210
01:01:06,487 --> 01:01:08,221
- Mm-hmm.
- So we are

1211
01:01:08,255 --> 01:01:09,756
helping you with

1212
01:01:09,790 --> 01:01:13,326
$945.

1213
01:01:13,361 --> 01:01:14,828
- You're kidding me.
- Oh, my God.

1214
01:01:14,863 --> 01:01:17,164
Did you know that they
told us one of the options

1215
01:01:17,199 --> 01:01:19,567
is we could get it turned
on if it was over $700?

1216
01:01:19,601 --> 01:01:21,269
Yes.

1217
01:01:21,303 --> 01:01:22,671
We're going to get electricity?

1218
01:01:22,705 --> 01:01:24,639
Turned back on today
and your gas, too.

1219
01:01:24,674 --> 01:01:25,607
Today?

1220
01:01:25,641 --> 01:01:27,042
It's all going to be today.

1221
01:01:27,076 --> 01:01:28,543
- Yeah.
- You're kidding me.

1222
01:01:28,578 --> 01:01:30,445
- Heat and electricity?
- Oh, my God.

1223
01:01:30,480 --> 01:01:33,015
- Thank you so much. - So I will be
right back in just a second, OK?

1224
01:01:33,049 --> 01:01:35,985
I'm dumbfounded.

1225
01:01:43,727 --> 01:01:46,228
What does it mean to be in America?

1226
01:01:46,262 --> 01:01:49,198
What does it mean
to live in this country?

1227
01:01:49,232 --> 01:01:51,834
Everybody wants the same thing.

1228
01:01:51,868 --> 01:01:53,802
We want to be able to live
in a place of freedom.

1229
01:01:53,837 --> 01:01:57,906
Want to be able to live in a place where we
have the chance to be the best we can be.

1230
01:01:57,941 --> 01:01:59,775
- Awesome.
- Thank you very much.

1231
01:01:59,809 --> 01:02:03,746
That's why you're
seeing so many other nations

1232
01:02:03,780 --> 01:02:05,914
appreciate that about America,

1233
01:02:05,949 --> 01:02:08,049
yet we're throwing it away,

1234
01:02:08,084 --> 01:02:11,786
and it's our most
powerful asset that we have.

1235
01:02:12,810 --> 01:02:16,164
_

1236
01:02:16,966 --> 01:02:23,607
_

1237
01:02:24,233 --> 01:02:28,136
My daughter's been very
ill since September, off and on.

1238
01:02:28,170 --> 01:02:33,107
And I have, like, hundreds of
thousands of dollars in doctor bills.

1239
01:02:33,142 --> 01:02:37,078
And I didn't know if,

1240
01:02:37,112 --> 01:02:40,648
like, I can get help
with those or

1241
01:02:40,683 --> 01:02:43,417
I don't know what
to do at this point.

1242
01:02:43,452 --> 01:02:46,588
OK. Well, I appreciate it
very much.

1243
01:02:47,957 --> 01:02:49,958
OK, thank you very much.

1244
01:02:49,992 --> 01:02:53,995
Uh-huh. You, too. Bye.

1245
01:02:54,029 --> 01:02:55,263
What'd they say?

1246
01:02:55,297 --> 01:02:57,265
There's nothing they can do.

1247
01:02:57,300 --> 01:03:00,702
- For reals?
- Yup.

1248
01:03:00,737 --> 01:03:04,139
So basically they're telling you that
you have to pay every single bill?

1249
01:03:04,173 --> 01:03:05,674
Pretty much.

1250
01:03:05,708 --> 01:03:08,143
They don't go back and pay

1251
01:03:08,177 --> 01:03:11,412
past medical, due to
budget cuts and stuff.

1252
01:03:11,447 --> 01:03:13,949
How does the doctor
expect anybody

1253
01:03:13,983 --> 01:03:16,418
to have that kind of
money, like, honestly?

1254
01:03:16,452 --> 01:03:20,322
I just feel like it's all my fault
that you have to pay so much money.

1255
01:03:20,357 --> 01:03:22,291
Honey, it's not your fault.

1256
01:03:22,326 --> 01:03:25,461
So what? You got sick.
We couldn't change that.

1257
01:03:25,496 --> 01:03:28,698
But I don't want you to stress
about it every day, by all means,

1258
01:03:28,733 --> 01:03:31,001
I want you to just be a kid

1259
01:03:31,035 --> 01:03:34,171
and not worry about bills.

1260
01:03:34,205 --> 01:03:37,141
You're too young.

1261
01:03:37,175 --> 01:03:40,311
That, and it could give you
a fricking ulcer again.

1262
01:03:41,813 --> 01:03:43,914
And we don't want that
to happen

1263
01:03:43,949 --> 01:03:45,449
'cause then we'll have
double the bills.

1264
01:03:45,484 --> 01:03:47,118
Yeah, exactly.

1265
01:03:47,152 --> 01:03:49,520
Just, I feel like...

1266
01:03:49,555 --> 01:03:52,023
I have to help you in some way.

1267
01:03:52,057 --> 01:03:54,758
No, you don't.
You're a kid. Be a kid.

1268
01:03:54,793 --> 01:03:56,160
I know, but--

1269
01:03:56,194 --> 01:03:58,195
Doesn't everything
always work out?

1270
01:03:58,230 --> 01:03:59,730
No.

1271
01:04:05,203 --> 01:04:06,704
- You got everything?
- Yeah.

1272
01:04:06,738 --> 01:04:08,406
- OK.
- Please be on.

1273
01:04:08,474 --> 01:04:10,909
- Please be on. Please be on.
- I know, right?

1274
01:04:14,780 --> 01:04:17,248
OK. I don't see
any lights yet.

1275
01:04:17,283 --> 01:04:19,918
I don't know if we left any.

1276
01:04:23,790 --> 01:04:26,124
Ohh! No!

1277
01:04:26,159 --> 01:04:28,527
- Really? You hit a light switch?
- Whoo!

1278
01:04:28,561 --> 01:04:30,463
- Ha ha! Let me do it.
- Oh, my God.

1279
01:04:30,497 --> 01:04:32,932
See this?

1280
01:04:32,967 --> 01:04:35,001
Oh, my God.
Are you-- crazy.

1281
01:04:35,035 --> 01:04:36,569
This is crazy cool.

1282
01:04:36,603 --> 01:04:39,505
OK, breathe-- ohh!

1283
01:04:39,539 --> 01:04:41,573
- We have lights.
- That's awesome.

1284
01:04:41,608 --> 01:04:44,076
I'm just psyched.

1285
01:04:45,445 --> 01:04:47,412
Are you OK, buddy?

1286
01:04:47,447 --> 01:04:49,715
Obviously not.
You're puking.

1287
01:04:49,749 --> 01:04:51,716
You're OK.
I'm right here.

1288
01:04:51,751 --> 01:04:54,519
Let me see you.
You look really pale.

1289
01:04:54,553 --> 01:04:57,021
Well, yeah, I just barfed.

1290
01:04:57,056 --> 01:05:00,191
Do you feel a little
better, though?

1291
01:05:00,225 --> 01:05:02,527
No. I'm achy.

1292
01:05:02,561 --> 01:05:04,362
- Will you at least tell me
how to set the-- - See that?

1293
01:05:04,397 --> 01:05:07,198
I know. You're shaking. It's
also cold outside, too.

1294
01:05:07,232 --> 01:05:12,570
I am so sorry that we're here
and you can't be at home.

1295
01:05:19,078 --> 01:05:22,646
No, I really don't want you by the window.
Let's go over here.

1296
01:05:24,015 --> 01:05:25,649
What we have is a system that,

1297
01:05:25,683 --> 01:05:27,918
once someone falls
into homelessness,

1298
01:05:27,952 --> 01:05:30,420
we've ensured
that the highest-cost

1299
01:05:30,454 --> 01:05:33,022
service delivery
system kicks in.

1300
01:05:33,057 --> 01:05:35,258
The police officer
becomes their case worker.

1301
01:05:35,292 --> 01:05:39,328
The fire bureau becomes
their medical provider.

1302
01:05:39,363 --> 01:05:43,933
They get most of their medical care
through emergency-room services.

1303
01:05:43,968 --> 01:05:47,036
What if we actually went
upstream and said,

1304
01:05:47,071 --> 01:05:49,706
"How do we prevent people
from falling into homelessness?

1305
01:05:49,741 --> 01:05:51,475
How do we make
investments upstream

1306
01:05:51,509 --> 01:05:53,376
so that no one falls
into homelessness,

1307
01:05:53,411 --> 01:05:56,246
and what if it turns out
it costs a lot less?"

1308
01:05:56,280 --> 01:05:59,783
Now, of course, we've documented all
over the country that that's the case.

1309
01:05:59,817 --> 01:06:03,220
If we make a small investment
then-- early on--

1310
01:06:03,254 --> 01:06:05,722
to keep someone in
their apartment

1311
01:06:05,756 --> 01:06:08,325
and avoid all of the dominoes

1312
01:06:08,359 --> 01:06:10,327
which follow when
there's an eviction,

1313
01:06:10,361 --> 01:06:12,362
then not only do we
save a fortune,

1314
01:06:12,397 --> 01:06:16,733
the back end, but we keep
someone in a healthy place.

1315
01:06:17,888 --> 01:06:22,176
_

1316
01:06:22,856 --> 01:06:31,980
_

1317
01:06:32,584 --> 01:06:34,518
- I love you.
- Love you, too.

1318
01:06:34,553 --> 01:06:36,721
I'm going to be right by you,
so if you need to get up

1319
01:06:36,755 --> 01:06:39,123
or anything,
just wake me up, OK?

1320
01:06:39,157 --> 01:06:42,093
- Mm-hmm.
- I'm sorry you have to be sick here.

1321
01:06:42,127 --> 01:06:44,862
Sometimes I dread coming here

1322
01:06:44,896 --> 01:06:49,734
because all
the stress and stuff.

1323
01:06:49,768 --> 01:06:51,902
Some times are
harder than others,

1324
01:06:51,937 --> 01:06:55,039
but I never lose hope.

1325
01:06:56,742 --> 01:06:58,242
Bye.

1326
01:06:58,277 --> 01:07:00,678
Nighty-night.
Sweet dreams.

1327
01:07:08,687 --> 01:07:11,689
Day by day I'm in that house,

1328
01:07:11,723 --> 01:07:14,192
I'm getting, like, more
and more depressed.

1329
01:07:14,226 --> 01:07:16,661
When we married each other,

1330
01:07:16,695 --> 01:07:19,297
and when we talked about
our future and our plans,

1331
01:07:19,331 --> 01:07:22,333
- this isn't what I saw.
- Oh, I know.

1332
01:07:22,368 --> 01:07:25,203
Brandon was so
disappointed he did not get that job.

1333
01:07:25,237 --> 01:07:28,206
He thought, "Oh, we were talking
about football and laughing

1334
01:07:28,240 --> 01:07:31,209
and the interview went
so well," and no.

1335
01:07:31,244 --> 01:07:33,712
No. They even said,
"We'll call you by next week

1336
01:07:33,746 --> 01:07:36,248
to let you know if you're going
to get it or if you're not."

1337
01:07:36,282 --> 01:07:38,850
And then Brandon called them,

1338
01:07:38,885 --> 01:07:41,553
and they said, "Oh, we still
haven't picked an applicant.

1339
01:07:41,587 --> 01:07:45,691
It'll be the following week."
But he didn't get a phone call.

1340
01:07:45,725 --> 01:07:47,226
You know, I'll be
honest with you.

1341
01:07:47,260 --> 01:07:49,929
When I go to this interview
tomorrow and it doesn't work out,

1342
01:07:49,963 --> 01:07:51,931
I'm going to fricking lose it.

1343
01:07:51,966 --> 01:07:53,399
Heh! That's
the honest truth.

1344
01:07:53,434 --> 01:07:56,035
Because this is, like, the
fifth interview that you had?

1345
01:07:56,070 --> 01:07:59,005
I'm gonna lose it.
I'm gonna be so angry.

1346
01:07:59,039 --> 01:08:02,041
Each job
I've been interviewing for,

1347
01:08:02,076 --> 01:08:05,578
each donation I'm getting
from my family,

1348
01:08:05,612 --> 01:08:09,882
each little step I take on
moving into a new place,

1349
01:08:09,917 --> 01:08:12,352
then living with
my mother-in-law,

1350
01:08:12,386 --> 01:08:16,156
the confidence up here just keeps
taking a step down and a step down.

1351
01:08:16,190 --> 01:08:18,558
Your hope is just
draining out of you.

1352
01:08:18,592 --> 01:08:22,028
It seems like I was on
a ladder up here...

1353
01:08:22,062 --> 01:08:25,598
but I'm not even on the ladder.

1354
01:08:25,632 --> 01:08:28,734
I'm back on the ground,
I got two feet on there,

1355
01:08:28,768 --> 01:08:31,337
just holding a ladder
looking up; it's all I'm doing.

1356
01:08:33,307 --> 01:08:35,374
I don't know.

1357
01:08:35,409 --> 01:08:37,944
- I do love you.
- I love you, too.

1358
01:08:37,978 --> 01:08:40,012
I love you, too.

1359
01:08:40,047 --> 01:08:42,348
Every state
in this country, if you look at state

1360
01:08:42,382 --> 01:08:46,886
and local taxes, the lowest-income Americans
pay a higher share of their income

1361
01:08:46,920 --> 01:08:49,922
towards state and local taxes
than do the wealthy.

1362
01:08:49,957 --> 01:08:51,257
That's upside down.

1363
01:08:51,292 --> 01:08:54,027
The home-mortgage interest
deduction is a perfect example.

1364
01:08:54,061 --> 01:08:57,197
Someone who can afford to pay
the monthly payment

1365
01:08:57,231 --> 01:09:00,800
on a $900,000 mortgage,
we're subsidizing through

1366
01:09:00,835 --> 01:09:03,436
our tax code at the same time
that we're not willing

1367
01:09:03,471 --> 01:09:06,773
to build affordable housing
for families who are homeless.

1368
01:09:06,807 --> 01:09:10,710
That's a poor budget choice. That's
a spending choice that's wrong.

1369
01:09:12,680 --> 01:09:16,983
You've been approved
for our Housing First program,

1370
01:09:17,018 --> 01:09:20,654
which is 3 months of rental assistance
from the time that you move in.

1371
01:09:20,688 --> 01:09:22,522
Funding is not guaranteed.

1372
01:09:22,557 --> 01:09:25,692
- It may run out before you secure housing.
- OK.

1373
01:09:25,726 --> 01:09:27,895
We're just going to stay positive
and I'm going to have an address

1374
01:09:27,929 --> 01:09:30,497
soon, very soon.

1375
01:09:30,531 --> 01:09:33,600
And what we're
going to do today is

1376
01:09:33,635 --> 01:09:35,969
- go over your training plan...
- OK.

1377
01:09:36,004 --> 01:09:38,071
And talk about your
job description,

1378
01:09:38,106 --> 01:09:40,574
- give you a tour, introduce
you to the staff. - OK.

1379
01:09:40,608 --> 01:09:43,677
Talk to you a little bit about
Southeast Works and what we do.

1380
01:09:43,711 --> 01:09:45,078
OK.

1381
01:09:45,113 --> 01:09:47,180
I have gotten a job,

1382
01:09:47,215 --> 01:09:49,649
and most people would
probably think that

1383
01:09:49,684 --> 01:09:54,121
getting a job would be
a great big change

1384
01:09:54,155 --> 01:09:56,657
and everything would be
all better.

1385
01:09:56,691 --> 01:10:00,060
But the guy who actually
referred me to the program,

1386
01:10:00,094 --> 01:10:02,096
he said, "Yeah, it's
gonna be $10, you know."

1387
01:10:02,130 --> 01:10:03,431
$10 an hour.

1388
01:10:03,465 --> 01:10:05,633
It wasn't until I got
the paperwork

1389
01:10:05,668 --> 01:10:08,736
and I looked down, and I'm like,
"Oh, my God, it's $8.80.

1390
01:10:08,771 --> 01:10:09,871
It's minimum wage."

1391
01:10:09,905 --> 01:10:12,607
At that very moment,
I wanted to cry,

1392
01:10:12,642 --> 01:10:15,010
I really did. I wanted to cry.

1393
01:10:15,044 --> 01:10:18,814
I felt like I-- you know,
like a kick in the stomach.

1394
01:10:18,848 --> 01:10:22,384
Still gonna be difficult
to help keep my family clothed,

1395
01:10:22,418 --> 01:10:25,153
still gonna be difficult
to help keep them fed.

1396
01:10:25,187 --> 01:10:28,690
Right now I have rental assistance,
and so my rent is fairly low,

1397
01:10:28,724 --> 01:10:32,627
but as soon as I start to make money,
the rent goes up, the stamps go down,

1398
01:10:32,661 --> 01:10:36,798
and I'm back in the position that
I was in in the first place.

1399
01:10:36,832 --> 01:10:39,334
- Good job, Mama.
- Thank you.

1400
01:10:39,368 --> 01:10:41,903
And tomorrow-- ohh!--
after working all week,

1401
01:10:41,937 --> 01:10:43,871
I have to get up
and go scrapping.

1402
01:10:43,906 --> 01:10:47,875
Scrapping, donating plasma,
that's just making ends meet.

1403
01:10:47,909 --> 01:10:51,111
You'll never be able
to get ahead,

1404
01:10:51,146 --> 01:10:52,980
not working for minimum wage.

1405
01:10:53,015 --> 01:10:55,649
You'll never achieve
the American dream.

1406
01:10:55,684 --> 01:10:59,353
That's not part of my reality.

1407
01:10:59,388 --> 01:11:02,790
If you're earning the minimum wage

1408
01:11:02,824 --> 01:11:07,128
in the United States of America,
you're on food stamps, Medicaid.

1409
01:11:07,162 --> 01:11:10,831
I don't know what the array of
government services are that you

1410
01:11:10,866 --> 01:11:13,334
need to survive, particularly
if you have a family.

1411
01:11:13,368 --> 01:11:15,836
If you tripled the minimum wage,
none of those people

1412
01:11:15,871 --> 01:11:18,339
would need those
services anymore.

1413
01:11:18,373 --> 01:11:21,542
So it's very clear
the minimum wage

1414
01:11:21,576 --> 01:11:23,543
is simply a way

1415
01:11:23,578 --> 01:11:26,146
for the American taxpayer

1416
01:11:26,180 --> 01:11:28,782
to subsidize companies

1417
01:11:28,816 --> 01:11:31,418
that pay people
the minimum wage.

1418
01:11:31,452 --> 01:11:33,620
They pay this person
the minimum wage,

1419
01:11:33,654 --> 01:11:37,290
and then we supply
a social safety net

1420
01:11:37,324 --> 01:11:40,326
so that person
doesn't starve to death.

1421
01:11:40,360 --> 01:11:41,961
It's insane!

1422
01:11:42,857 --> 01:11:49,316
_

1423
01:11:49,913 --> 01:11:57,913
_

1424
01:11:59,678 --> 01:12:01,779
Got to go feed the horses, huh?

1425
01:12:01,814 --> 01:12:03,982
Yup. I'm ready.

1426
01:12:04,016 --> 01:12:07,318
With my little boy,
Geral, this is home to him, you know?

1427
01:12:07,353 --> 01:12:09,921
He has his dogs,
Puppy and Bishop.

1428
01:12:09,955 --> 01:12:11,989
He loves the horses.

1429
01:12:12,024 --> 01:12:13,958
He loves the animals.

1430
01:12:13,992 --> 01:12:15,993
It's home.

1431
01:12:16,028 --> 01:12:18,462
And that's one
of the main reasons

1432
01:12:18,497 --> 01:12:20,965
I really even want
to keep this house,

1433
01:12:20,999 --> 01:12:23,501
is this is the house
that he knows.

1434
01:12:23,535 --> 01:12:25,503
This is home.

1435
01:12:25,537 --> 01:12:27,805
OK. Here's Bulls-eye.

1436
01:12:33,345 --> 01:12:34,979
- Say, "Hi, Bulls-eye."
- Hi, Bull's-eye.

1437
01:12:35,014 --> 01:12:37,048
Yay!

1438
01:12:37,083 --> 01:12:39,517
- Yay!
- I did it!

1439
01:12:39,552 --> 01:12:42,688
Yeah. Yeah.

1440
01:12:42,722 --> 01:12:44,723
We did it! Yay!

1441
01:12:44,757 --> 01:12:46,658
You did it. One more.

1442
01:12:46,692 --> 01:12:49,829
Tomorrow
they're going to auction off

1443
01:12:49,863 --> 01:12:52,197
my house, my 5 acres here.

1444
01:12:52,232 --> 01:12:55,200
I'm scared about
my situation right now,

1445
01:12:55,234 --> 01:12:58,404
but I'm also scared about
Geral's situation

1446
01:12:58,438 --> 01:13:00,439
as he gets older.

1447
01:13:00,473 --> 01:13:02,107
Come on, kitty-kitty.
Come on.

1448
01:13:02,142 --> 01:13:05,644
My hope was that
I could build something here,

1449
01:13:05,678 --> 01:13:10,682
pay it off; that way Geral would
have something to fall back on.

1450
01:13:10,716 --> 01:13:13,685
I got to be here to protect him,

1451
01:13:13,719 --> 01:13:16,388
or... make his life

1452
01:13:16,422 --> 01:13:20,326
as comfortable as... I can.

1453
01:13:22,763 --> 01:13:25,065
Hmm.

1454
01:13:25,099 --> 01:13:26,900
Yay! I did it!

1455
01:13:26,934 --> 01:13:29,870
Whoo! I did it!

1456
01:13:29,904 --> 01:13:34,075
Hey Gunner, look!
Our furniture got here!

1457
01:13:34,109 --> 01:13:36,777
Oh, my goodness.

1458
01:13:36,812 --> 01:13:38,245
Lookit, Gunner!

1459
01:13:38,279 --> 01:13:40,147
Yay!

1460
01:13:40,181 --> 01:13:42,683
Gunner and I got up
one Saturday morning and it was beautiful,

1461
01:13:42,718 --> 01:13:44,685
and I said, "We're not going
home till we find a place."

1462
01:13:44,720 --> 01:13:46,587
This was the third place
we looked at.

1463
01:13:46,622 --> 01:13:49,357
Amy had to come do,
like, an inspection thingy

1464
01:13:49,391 --> 01:13:52,994
for Human Solutions, and then
she called me with--

1465
01:13:53,028 --> 01:13:55,830
less than 24 hours and said,
"You guys are approved.

1466
01:13:55,864 --> 01:13:58,566
You can move in.
Come get your keys."

1467
01:13:58,600 --> 01:14:02,403
That day was... the heavens were
shining down upon us. Ha ha ha!

1468
01:14:02,437 --> 01:14:04,038
I'm so glad we have
a place here.

1469
01:14:04,072 --> 01:14:06,807
Oh, Gunner.
Are you happy?

1470
01:14:06,842 --> 01:14:09,142
Yeah, I'm happy.

1471
01:14:12,623 --> 01:14:20,003
_

1472
01:14:20,614 --> 01:14:28,562
_

1473
01:14:36,604 --> 01:14:40,073
We can still file bankruptcy
on the house, too.

1474
01:14:40,108 --> 01:14:41,709
And then what?

1475
01:14:41,743 --> 01:14:43,644
I don't know what.

1476
01:14:45,715 --> 01:14:49,250
Maybe it'd be better
you go to your mom's.

1477
01:14:49,285 --> 01:14:50,851
How could you say that?

1478
01:14:50,886 --> 01:14:52,820
I know she's not going
to put me up anything,

1479
01:14:52,854 --> 01:14:53,988
you know what I'm saying?

1480
01:14:54,022 --> 01:14:55,489
I'm not saying it to be
mean or anything like

1481
01:14:55,523 --> 01:14:56,823
that; I'm just thinking
about all the options

1482
01:14:56,858 --> 01:14:58,825
and we don't really have
that many options.

1483
01:14:58,860 --> 01:15:00,894
I can't even imagine
why you would say

1484
01:15:00,928 --> 01:15:02,562
move out of state.

1485
01:15:02,597 --> 01:15:04,030
It's crap.

1486
01:15:04,065 --> 01:15:06,033
- It's not crap.
- It is.

1487
01:15:06,067 --> 01:15:07,334
What's crap about it?

1488
01:15:07,368 --> 01:15:10,104
Realistically?
Realistically.

1489
01:15:10,138 --> 01:15:12,506
Dad already has 10 people
living in that house.

1490
01:15:12,540 --> 01:15:15,175
Mom has 5 people living
in her house.

1491
01:15:15,210 --> 01:15:18,112
It's not even
an option for me...

1492
01:15:18,146 --> 01:15:21,182
or our kids.

1493
01:15:21,216 --> 01:15:23,784
If it gets to the point
of where--

1494
01:15:23,819 --> 01:15:25,820
where we have no place to go
and we're going to end up

1495
01:15:25,854 --> 01:15:28,589
up on the fricking street...

1496
01:15:28,623 --> 01:15:30,591
you're gonna stay with me even
if we have to live in a tent?

1497
01:15:30,626 --> 01:15:32,493
- Mm-hmm.
- Really?

1498
01:15:32,527 --> 01:15:34,996
Mm-hmm. In the snow.

1499
01:15:36,532 --> 01:15:38,700
You're crazy.

1500
01:15:38,734 --> 01:15:41,103
Well, we're a family, right?

1501
01:15:41,137 --> 01:15:43,372
And families don't
just up and move

1502
01:15:43,406 --> 01:15:45,875
because things are bad.

1503
01:15:45,909 --> 01:15:47,777
I haven't left you in 9 years.

1504
01:15:47,811 --> 01:15:49,946
I don't think I'm
gonna do it now.

1505
01:15:49,980 --> 01:15:53,583
My dumb ass chose to stay.

1506
01:15:55,686 --> 01:15:58,155
I'm glad you did.

1507
01:15:58,189 --> 01:16:00,591
- Me, too.
- You didn't have to.

1508
01:16:00,625 --> 01:16:02,659
I know.

1509
01:16:04,562 --> 01:16:05,863
Hey.

1510
01:16:08,166 --> 01:16:10,100
I love you.

1511
01:16:10,135 --> 01:16:11,435
I love you, too.

1512
01:16:11,470 --> 01:16:13,204
How much?

1513
01:16:13,238 --> 01:16:15,506
Enough to stay and live
in a tent in the winter.

1514
01:16:15,541 --> 01:16:18,176
That's love.

1515
01:16:30,322 --> 01:16:32,891
- So I appreciate you coming in today.
- Mm-hmm.

1516
01:16:32,925 --> 01:16:35,360
You know, I told you during
that interview process

1517
01:16:35,394 --> 01:16:37,395
that there was a lot of candidates
that we were interviewing

1518
01:16:37,430 --> 01:16:39,798
and that it was
incredibly competitive.

1519
01:16:39,832 --> 01:16:41,966
- I'm prepared to offer you a job today.
- All right.

1520
01:16:42,001 --> 01:16:43,601
- That's the good news, OK?
- That's good.

1521
01:16:43,636 --> 01:16:46,238
Really, you're over-qualified
and I recognize that.

1522
01:16:46,272 --> 01:16:47,739
I wouldn't let you down.

1523
01:16:47,773 --> 01:16:50,675
If you tell me that
I'm getting the job,

1524
01:16:50,709 --> 01:16:52,777
- I'll work hard and wouldn't let you down.
- Well, I appreciate that.

1525
01:16:52,812 --> 01:16:55,981
I really think you'd be a
great fit to this company.

1526
01:16:56,015 --> 01:16:59,351
- So how about we start next week?
- All right. We'll do it.

1527
01:16:59,385 --> 01:17:00,786
- Welcome to Caldera.
- All right, all right.

1528
01:17:00,820 --> 01:17:03,823
- Thanks very much.
- Thank you. Thank you so much.

1529
01:17:03,857 --> 01:17:06,392
I finally found a job.

1530
01:17:06,426 --> 01:17:09,395
At my last job, I was
making about $22 an hour.

1531
01:17:09,430 --> 01:17:11,164
Yeah, and he's making,
like, half now.

1532
01:17:11,198 --> 01:17:15,035
Now I'm making
$13.50 an hour, and...

1533
01:17:15,069 --> 01:17:16,669
- It's a big blow.
- It is a big blow.

1534
01:17:16,704 --> 01:17:18,104
It's really hard.

1535
01:17:18,138 --> 01:17:20,173
Daddy's not going
to have as much as free time,

1536
01:17:20,208 --> 01:17:22,208
you know, 'cause he's
working part-time.

1537
01:17:24,111 --> 01:17:27,079
I'm working, but on weekends
I'll still take you out.

1538
01:17:27,114 --> 01:17:29,482
- Yes.
- Promise.

1539
01:17:29,516 --> 01:17:32,718
If we did
not have those resources,

1540
01:17:32,752 --> 01:17:34,586
I don't know what we
would have done.

1541
01:17:34,621 --> 01:17:36,288
I really don't.

1542
01:17:36,322 --> 01:17:40,759
Those resources are the only
thing that I think saved us.

1543
01:17:40,793 --> 01:17:42,828
Whee!

1544
01:17:42,862 --> 01:17:46,097
In this country, as profits

1545
01:17:46,132 --> 01:17:48,567
went up at businesses
and the economy was producing

1546
01:17:48,601 --> 01:17:50,736
more incomes of all
of the income groups,

1547
01:17:50,770 --> 01:17:53,271
the lowest income,
middle income, and upper income

1548
01:17:53,306 --> 01:17:55,207
all went up pretty much
the same rate.

1549
01:17:55,242 --> 01:17:57,743
Starting in the mid to late-1970s,

1550
01:17:57,777 --> 01:18:00,212
the wealthy shot up
and everybody else

1551
01:18:00,246 --> 01:18:01,713
leveled off or went down.

1552
01:18:01,748 --> 01:18:03,549
Businesses have had
record profits,

1553
01:18:03,583 --> 01:18:05,184
and what do we have for it?

1554
01:18:05,218 --> 01:18:07,687
We have middle class seeing
their incomes go down.

1555
01:18:07,721 --> 01:18:09,355
We have highest level
of poverty in the--

1556
01:18:09,389 --> 01:18:12,358
that we've ever had,
number of people who are poor.

1557
01:18:12,392 --> 01:18:14,860
That's not right.
And so, for me,

1558
01:18:14,895 --> 01:18:17,696
the American dream is you
work hard, play by the rules,

1559
01:18:17,731 --> 01:18:20,699
and there's opportunity for all;
that everyone gets to share

1560
01:18:20,734 --> 01:18:24,703
to some degree in the growth in
our economy, in our prosperity.

1561
01:18:24,737 --> 01:18:27,172
And we haven't had that.
And now, when the country

1562
01:18:27,207 --> 01:18:30,242
does better, it's going
to a select and privileged few.

1563
01:18:30,276 --> 01:18:34,280
We were talking about getting
a home, and now we're back to square one.

1564
01:18:34,314 --> 01:18:36,716
And now I don't even want
to talk about getting a home,

1565
01:18:36,750 --> 01:18:38,751
just talk about getting
on our feet.

1566
01:18:38,785 --> 01:18:40,586
I always wanted to raise
my kids in a home

1567
01:18:40,620 --> 01:18:42,755
'cause I never had it,
but it's just sad.

1568
01:18:42,789 --> 01:18:46,292
That dream is
just so far, just...

1569
01:18:46,326 --> 01:18:47,960
sad.

1570
01:18:47,995 --> 01:18:50,330
- Sorry, baby.
- It's OK.

1571
01:18:50,398 --> 01:18:52,332
I've never lived in a house.

1572
01:18:52,366 --> 01:18:54,067
She's never lived in a house.

1573
01:18:54,102 --> 01:18:55,702
She's always lived
in an apartment.

1574
01:18:55,736 --> 01:18:58,204
I still want that.

1575
01:18:58,239 --> 01:19:00,340
So...

1576
01:19:00,374 --> 01:19:02,008
I could hit
the lottery, you know?

1577
01:19:02,043 --> 01:19:03,343
I love you. Ha ha!

1578
01:19:03,377 --> 01:19:05,779
You never know.

1579
01:19:05,813 --> 01:19:07,280
Say, "Bye-bye, park."

1580
01:19:07,314 --> 01:19:08,748
Bye-bye, park.

1581
01:19:08,782 --> 01:19:10,783
See you again soon.

1582
01:19:10,818 --> 01:19:12,118
Bye. See you soon.

1583
01:19:14,155 --> 01:19:17,557
I believe
our American dream has turned

1584
01:19:17,591 --> 01:19:21,929
into American nightmare
by falling for the lure

1585
01:19:21,963 --> 01:19:25,633
of sort of individual success

1586
01:19:25,667 --> 01:19:29,203
that we have forgotten
our ideals.

1587
01:19:29,237 --> 01:19:32,572
It's not just our safety net
that's falling apart,

1588
01:19:32,607 --> 01:19:35,142
it's the moral fiber,
and that's what happens

1589
01:19:35,176 --> 01:19:41,915
when we forget to have love
and compassion for one another.

1590
01:19:59,667 --> 01:20:02,069
"Happy Mother's Day, Mommy.

1591
01:20:02,103 --> 01:20:05,740
You are my mommy
and I am proud to say that.

1592
01:20:05,774 --> 01:20:09,743
I love you so much.
You are the best mommy ever."

1593
01:20:09,778 --> 01:20:12,446
That is very, very cute.

1594
01:20:12,480 --> 01:20:14,415
Thanks for being there
for me in the hospital.

1595
01:20:14,449 --> 01:20:16,216
You're welcome.
Thank you, guys.

1596
01:20:16,251 --> 01:20:19,487
This is where we're at, is people
really looking for a safety net

1597
01:20:19,521 --> 01:20:23,424
that's frayed well beyond what
I think most people think.

1598
01:20:26,261 --> 01:20:27,628
Ohh!

1599
01:20:27,663 --> 01:20:30,898
Stimulus dollars,
a lot of that has now gone away,

1600
01:20:30,933 --> 01:20:33,267
and that's going to impact a lot
of social service agencies.

1601
01:20:33,301 --> 01:20:37,738
So you see need up, you see social
service agencies with less resources.

1602
01:20:37,773 --> 01:20:39,240
Your mark, set--

1603
01:20:39,274 --> 01:20:41,208
Go, Geral! Go, go, go!

1604
01:20:41,243 --> 01:20:44,545
So I think, for us,
the next year, year and a half

1605
01:20:44,580 --> 01:20:46,414
is going to be probably
even more challenging

1606
01:20:46,448 --> 01:20:48,749
than the last year and a half.

1607
01:20:48,784 --> 01:20:50,651
Good job, partner.

1608
01:20:50,686 --> 01:20:53,120
- Did really, really good, huh?
- Yeah.

1609
01:20:53,154 --> 01:20:55,422
- Were you really, really, really fast?
- Yeah.

1610
01:20:55,456 --> 01:20:57,924
The reason
why I want to be successful now

1611
01:20:57,959 --> 01:21:00,527
is because when I wake up,
I look around,

1612
01:21:00,561 --> 01:21:03,996
I don't like where I am. I don't
feel like I deserve this.

1613
01:21:04,031 --> 01:21:06,866
I feel like I deserve better.
Feel like my mom deserves better.

1614
01:21:06,900 --> 01:21:10,102
I was like,
"Mom, my whole 17 years,

1615
01:21:10,137 --> 01:21:13,739
I have always had to struggle,"
and she's like, "You know what?

1616
01:21:13,773 --> 01:21:16,709
I'm 40 years old and I
feel the same way."

1617
01:21:16,743 --> 01:21:18,677
And I'm like, "Why?"

1618
01:21:18,712 --> 01:21:21,781
When people realize

1619
01:21:21,815 --> 01:21:24,717
that it's not
"every man for himself,"

1620
01:21:24,751 --> 01:21:27,754
that it truly is
"we're all better off

1621
01:21:27,788 --> 01:21:30,023
when we're all better off,"

1622
01:21:30,057 --> 01:21:32,526
you're going to have
a much better society,

1623
01:21:32,560 --> 01:21:35,162
one that's both fairer
and more inclusive,

1624
01:21:35,196 --> 01:21:37,598
but also more prosperous
for everybody.

1625
01:21:39,233 --> 01:21:42,535
I don't want to
have, like, a mansion or anything

1626
01:21:42,570 --> 01:21:45,371
and, like, stacks of money
sitting right next to me.

1627
01:21:45,406 --> 01:21:48,574
I want to have, like,
just a normal house,

1628
01:21:48,609 --> 01:21:51,544
maybe a dog, maybe two kids;

1629
01:21:51,578 --> 01:21:54,513
I'd prefer one.

1630
01:21:54,548 --> 01:21:56,249
That's
the American dream, right?

1631
01:21:56,283 --> 01:21:59,852
To not have to worry about
money. That's every kid--

1632
01:21:59,887 --> 01:22:03,656
Like, if every kid could say
that, then it's just awesome.

1633
01:22:03,690 --> 01:22:05,491
That'd be awesome.

1634
01:22:05,526 --> 01:22:07,460
- Ha! Who's that?
- Dada!

1635
01:22:09,030 --> 01:22:11,398
- Hey, buddy.
- Dada!

1636
01:22:11,432 --> 01:22:13,800
We've lost our identity.

1637
01:22:13,835 --> 01:22:17,170
Are we headed in a direction
that is gonna cause us

1638
01:22:17,204 --> 01:22:21,208
to thrive and survive and grow,
or are we headed in a place

1639
01:22:21,242 --> 01:22:24,410
where you're gonna have
the haves and the have-nots?

1640
01:22:24,445 --> 01:22:27,380
If that increases and there's
a divide between the two,

1641
01:22:27,414 --> 01:22:30,950
that's not going to bode very
well for the future of America.

1642
01:22:30,984 --> 01:22:33,987
Yee-haw. Ride, cowboy.

1643
01:22:38,025 --> 01:22:39,892
Yee-haw.

1644
01:22:39,927 --> 01:22:41,894
- Ride, cowboy.
- Yeah.

1645
01:22:41,929 --> 01:22:44,964
Once upon
a time, America had policies

1646
01:22:44,999 --> 01:22:47,933
which promoted a strong
middle class,

1647
01:22:47,968 --> 01:22:51,504
investing in education
so that kids have a chance.

1648
01:22:51,538 --> 01:22:53,472
Investing in affordable homes.

1649
01:22:53,507 --> 01:22:56,576
Making sure that healthcare
is affordable and accessible.

1650
01:22:56,610 --> 01:22:59,145
It's investments
in the kinds of things

1651
01:22:59,180 --> 01:23:00,980
which we know produce
healthy outcomes

1652
01:23:01,015 --> 01:23:03,316
for our community,
and we know what they are.

1653
01:23:03,351 --> 01:23:07,387
That's no mystery. The question is,
are we willing to invest in them?

1654
01:23:07,422 --> 01:23:09,523
And we keep falling short.

1655
01:23:09,557 --> 01:23:11,057
Can we insist

1656
01:23:11,092 --> 01:23:13,960
that we protect families
in this country

1657
01:23:13,994 --> 01:23:16,296
and that we have policies
that make sure

1658
01:23:16,330 --> 01:23:19,532
we're investing in healthy
outcomes for them?

1659
01:23:19,567 --> 01:23:21,701
- Love you.
- I love you.

1660
01:23:21,735 --> 01:23:23,436
Yeah? Me you.

1661
01:23:23,471 --> 01:23:26,940
When I
grow up, I want to have kids,

1662
01:23:26,974 --> 01:23:30,144
a husband, and I want
to be able to not worry about

1663
01:23:30,178 --> 01:23:32,880
"How am I gonna feed my family?

1664
01:23:32,914 --> 01:23:35,282
How are we gonna pay our bills?"

1665
01:23:35,316 --> 01:23:37,551
And I'll have
to worry about that.

1666
01:23:37,585 --> 01:23:39,020
Gonna say your prayers?

1667
01:23:39,054 --> 01:23:41,055
OK. Fold your hands
like this.

1668
01:23:41,090 --> 01:23:42,557
Go like this.

1669
01:23:42,591 --> 01:23:44,025
Close your eyes.

1670
01:23:44,059 --> 01:23:46,528
- Say, "Dear God..."
- Dear God.

1671
01:23:46,562 --> 01:23:49,531
- "Protect my family."
- Protect my family.

1672
01:23:49,565 --> 01:23:52,033
- "Keep us safe."
- Keep us safe.

1673
01:23:52,067 --> 01:23:53,934
"Thank you for
looking after us."

1674
01:23:53,969 --> 01:23:55,836
Thank you for
looking out for us.

1675
01:23:55,871 --> 01:23:57,071
"And providing for us."

1676
01:23:57,105 --> 01:23:58,539
And providing for us.

1677
01:23:58,574 --> 01:24:01,776
I sure hope I'm gonna be
able to live the American dream.

1678
01:24:01,810 --> 01:24:03,645
I want to be able,
when I get older,

1679
01:24:03,679 --> 01:24:06,047
to have a good job and go
to work every day.

1680
01:24:06,082 --> 01:24:09,985
And I want to have
that, like, relief

1681
01:24:10,019 --> 01:24:12,554
to know my family's gonna be OK

1682
01:24:12,589 --> 01:24:16,091
and they're gonna
be able to eat.

1683
01:24:16,125 --> 01:24:18,360
- In Jesus' name...
- In Jesus' name...

1684
01:24:18,394 --> 01:24:20,228
- Amen.
- Amen.

1685
01:24:20,263 --> 01:24:24,099
Yeah, I do want to get
to a place where I don't have to worry.

1686
01:24:24,134 --> 01:24:27,769
I think that's
every kid's dream.

1687
01:24:38,163 --> 01:24:50,187
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1688
01:24:50,512 --> 01:24:57,548
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1689
01:24:57,716 --> 01:25:04,333
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1690
01:25:06,247 --> 01:25:14,936
_

1691
01:25:15,523 --> 01:25:20,666
_

1692
01:25:21,765 --> 01:25:30,744
_

1693
01:25:31,070 --> 01:25:37,881
_

1694
01:25:39,704 --> 01:25:46,385
_

1695
01:25:46,762 --> 01:25:51,110
_

1696
01:25:51,457 --> 01:25:57,152
_

1697
01:25:58,891 --> 01:26:02,931
_

1698
01:26:03,219 --> 01:26:10,520
_

1699
01:26:12,429 --> 01:26:19,861
_

1700
01:26:20,301 --> 01:26:28,673
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1701
01:26:30,690 --> 01:26:38,277
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1702
01:26:38,596 --> 01:26:44,712
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1703
01:26:45,262 --> 01:26:51,813
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1704
01:26:53,775 --> 01:27:03,090
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01:27:03,391 --> 01:27:10,588
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01:27:10,958 --> 01:27:16,259
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