Two Cape Cods: Hidden Poverty on the Cape and Islands - Part 14
Series: Two Cape Cods: Hidden Poverty on the Cape and Islands
From: WCAI / WNAN
Length: 00:04:52
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Meals on Wheels on the Vineyard: Much of the world knows Martha's Vineyard as a rich person's playground, but many locals are struggling to find adequate food and shelter.
Two Cape Cods: Hidden Poverty on the Cape and Islands - Part 10
(00:04:04)
From: WCAI / WNAN
Stressed Out in Eastham: According to a survey conducted by Barnstable County last year, 80% of the most needy households on the Cape wrestle with stress and anxiety.
Two Cape Cods: Hidden Poverty on the Cape and Islands - Part 9
(00:05:02)
From: WCAI / WNAN
The Winter Rental Shuffle in Sandwich: With off-season rental-housing prices skyrocketing, where are the working poor expected to look for shelter?
Two Cape Cods: Hidden Poverty on the Cape and Islands - Part 8
(00:04:51)
From: WCAI / WNAN
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.
Two Cape Cods: Hidden Poverty on the Cape and Islands - Part 7
(00:05:04)
From: WCAI / WNAN
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
(00:04:34)
From: WCAI / WNAN
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
(00:05:08)
From: WCAI / WNAN
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
(00:05:07)
From: WCAI / WNAN
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 15
(00:04:58)
From: WCAI / WNAN
Empty Nets in Provincetown: Cape Cod, a land named for its bounty of fish, doesn't have many commercial fishermen left.
Two Cape Cods: Hidden Poverty on the Cape and Islands - Part 20
(00:05:18)
From: WCAI / WNAN
The Road Ahead: If living the American Dream means getting married, buying a house, and raising a family, Cape Cod may not be a viable option for future generations.
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Those who serve Cape Cod's poor are the first to point out that behind the veil of the affluent summer paradise we all recognize, hides a community that continually struggles to make ends meet. This duPont-Columbia Award-winning series examines the unique factors that contribute to persistent and hidden poverty throughout the Cape and Islands region. Each story is set in one of the fifteen towns on Cape Cod and the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket.
Transcript
The 2000 federal census indicated a very real problem for Cape Cod: Young people are leaving. In the 1990s, the number of people living on Cape Cod between the ages of twenty to twenty-four declined by almost 25% and the number of twenty-five to thirty-four year olds fell by nearly 21%.
Andrea Bogomolni is a twenty-nine year old scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. She's part of a research project on how different flu types pass between marine mammals and birds. Her work is directly related to the potential bird flu pandemic. But for Bogomolni, having a good job and a master's degree in a science specialty is not enough to survive in the Cape economy.
Andrea Bogomolni: "I'm living at the edge right there. I think I am definitely living on that edge. And I know that at the end of the month I am barely, if at all, making it."
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