Frontline: Poor Kids

A unique FRONTLINE documentary that explores poverty as it’s rarely seen: through the eyes of kids.

Told by children in three families over the course of half a decade, Poor Kids is an indelible portrait of the realities of growing up in poverty in America

Filiberto Nolasco Gomez is a former union organizer and former editor of Minneapolis based Workday Minnesota, the first online labor news publication in the state. Filiberto focused on longform and investigative journalism. He has covered topics including prison labor, labor trafficking, and union fights in the Twin Cities.