The Murphy Family Story

An intimate look at one American family's struggle to get by in a broken economy, challenging common myths about why people are poor.

A humane, myth-busting portrait of what modern American poverty really looks like.

This short documentary is an intimate account of a family’s struggle to make it in a broken economy. It challenges traditional myths around poverty and sheds light on the structural nature of current day U.S. poverty.

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