Poverty Outlaw (1997)

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Poverty Outlaw was conceived in the grinding poverty in Kensington, North Philadelphia. This once thriving industrial neighborhood provided the filmmakers with a fertile field for their five-year investigation into the future of America's poor.

It is a story of the hard choices faced when living in poverty without society's "safety net," told by one woman who descends from middle-class security to welfare, and then to abject poverty. Her fierce and tenacious drive to raise her children brings her up against bureaucrats, politicians, and her own self-doubt. Eventually the choices she must make put her on the wrong side of the law.



Poverty Outlaw has a street-level immediacy in its urgent and straight forward realism. Shot over a period of five years, Poverty Outlaw tells the story of the birth and development of one of the leading poor peoples' organizations in the U.S., the Kensington Welfare Rights Union.

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Related websites:

Project H.O.M.E. in Philadelphia 

Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign