Two Cape Cods: Hidden Poverty on the Cape and Islands - Part 4
Series: Two Cape Cods: Hidden Poverty on the Cape and Islands
From: WCAI / WNAN
Length: 00:05:10
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The Winter Rental Shuffle in Sandwich: With off-season rental-housing prices skyrocketing, where are the working poor expected to look for shelter?
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Homeless in Hyannis Part 2: Shelters housed more than 500 homeless people last year. But untold others live on friends' couches, in motel rooms, and in tents in the woods.
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Homeless in Hyannis Part 1: Shelters housed more than 500 homeless people last year. But untold others live on friends' couches, in motel rooms, and in tents in the woods
Two Cape Cods: Hidden Poverty on the Cape and Islands - Part 6
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Free and reduced lunch program statistics in Dennis indicate that there may be no accurate way to measure poverty.
Two Cape Cods: Hidden Poverty on the Cape and Islands - Part 12
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Elderly Poor in Harwich: The ever-rising costs of living means that for a growing number of seniors, retirement has not been the life of leisure they may have expected.
Two Cape Cods: Hidden Poverty on the Cape and Islands - Part 13
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Wampanoag in Mashpee: Of the 350 Wampanoag living in Mashpee today, 90% live from paycheck to paycheck, undeniably poor.
Two Cape Cods: Hidden Poverty on the Cape and Islands - Part 14
(00:04:52)
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Youth Flight in Falmouth: If the next generation of teachers, nurses, and firefighters can't make the Cape their home, then who will serve and take care of the people who can?
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Empty Nets in Provincetown: Cape Cod, a land named for its bounty of fish, doesn't have many commercial fishermen left.
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Each story is set in one of the fifteen towns on Cape Cod and the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. Part 4: Aging Out in Yarmouth: More than 250 children live in foster care. When these children leave state custody, more and more are winding up on the streets.
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State homeless advocates report seeing more and more former foster children on the streets and in shelters, including those on Cape Cod. Each year, some six-hundred youth 'age out' and leave the state's foster care program when they turn eighteen, and services such as healthcare and counseling end. When Aaron Malloy was twelve years old, he fled his Yarmouth home, and ran as fast as he could to the fire station at the end of the block, away from his rampaging mother.
Aaron Malloy: "This is where I went to elementary school for a little bit, Ezra Baker, and that's the playground, and this is a place I lived with my mother when I was taken away into foster care. And that's the fire station I was telling you about right down there. ... This is where we lived. It looked more junky when we were living there, though."
Twelve years later, the house is weathered and broken. A basketball ho...
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