Poor Kids

BRITTANY: My name is Brittany Smith, and I'm 9 years old. It's tough because my mom and dad are poor. My dad just lost his job. That's kind of hard for us.

One day, I started getting in the shower and it was cold. I put— I put the hot on all the way and no cold, and it was freezing. It felt like shoving your face in a bunch of snow. It was freezing! The hot water shut off because we didn't pay the bill in time. It was overdue.

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KAYLIE: I'm just starving. We don't get that three meals a day, like, breakfast, lunch and then dinner. When I feel just, like, hungry, I'll just, like— I'll feel like— like, I'm so, like, sad an all droopy. And then I'll be— feel, like, weak and then some in the mornings, I'll be, like, so starving. But then I'll, like, be, like, Oh, I need some food! But then, like, I'll get, like— but then I don't think of food, and then I'll just think of something else and then I'll not be hungry anymore.

TYLER: There's good days and bad days. Sometimes when we have cereal, we don't have milk. We have to eat it dry. Sometimes we don't have cereal and we have milk. It's often, like, switch and swap. Sometimes, like, when I switch the channel and there's a cooking show on, I get a little more hungry and I want to vanish into the screen and start eating the food.

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If I keep missing school, then I see my future poor, on the streets, in a box, not even, and asking for money everywhere, everybody, and then stealing stuff from stores. And yeah, I don't want to steal stuff. I don't want to do any of that stuff. I want to get an education and a good job. I believe that I'm going to get a perfect job that I like and that I want to do.

People can't stop you from believing in your own dreams.

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