Statistics read by Mikal at the beginning of the doc make that clear. “The official poverty rate in the U.S. is 11.5%, meaning that approximately 34 million people live in poverty,” Mikal says.

One surprising thing your study found was that while Black kids are much more likely to grow up in poverty than white kids, racial discrimination doesn’t actually make poverty persist more.

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Taylor joined the Film and Digital Media Department at UC Santa Cruz in 2014. She is an award-winning documentary producer and director of character-based, documentary films–often focusing on youth, ...

Statistics read by Mikal at the beginning of the doc make that clear. “The official poverty rate in the U.S. is 11.5%, meaning that approximately 34 million people live in poverty,” Mikal says.