Director Monica Strømdahl’s “Flophouse America” provides a visceral documentation of poverty in America. Flophouses are cheap, run-down motels where many people are forced to live when they ...

Statistics read by Mikal at the beginning of the doc make that clear. “The official poverty rate in the U.S. is 11.5%, meaning that approximately 34 million people live in poverty,” Mikal says.

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Statistics read by Mikal at the beginning of the doc make that clear. “The official poverty rate in the U.S. is 11.5%, meaning that approximately 34 million people live in poverty,” Mikal says.

The film begins with a statistic read by Mikal: “The official poverty rate in the U.S. is 11.5%, meaning that approximately 34 million people live in poverty.” ...

They are uttered by 12-year-old Mikal in the documentary Flophouse America, ... "The official poverty rate in the U.S. is 11.5%, meaning that approximately 34 million people live in poverty." ...

The truth is, the majority of people living in poverty in America today are not Black. They are white, rural Americans, children and veterans.

According to the Social Panorama of Latin America 2019, approximately 191 million people were below the poverty threshold in 2018, 72 million of whom are said to have experienced extreme poverty.