About the Film

For decades, the dominant approaches to poverty alleviation in the United States have been centralized, top-down, and expert-led. An enormous amount of public and private time, effort, and money has been spent—and yet millions of struggling Americans appear stuck. What can be done?

From the creators of Poverty, Inc. comes a new documentary film about social and material poverty in the United States. Director Michael Matheson Miller and his team are traveling across the country looking for what has gone wrong in American efforts to solve poverty—and capturing the inspiring stories of people finding a better way.

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