Diane Sawyer and children in Applachia and poverty

From My google bookmarks

This is quoted from her article bookmarked in my Google. The frightening aspect of this poverty is it's close to home and silently around us. This is quoted twice but I do not want to expunge one part lest I over expunge.

I think that urban poverty, while often crushing and inestimable, doesn't
have the isolation," she said.Friday's special shows how a lack of
transportation deepens the effects of deprivation: one of the women in the
piece, Angel, trudges eight miles down the mountain every day to reach her GED
class.Sawyer's producing team worked on the project for two years, traveling
more than 14,000 miles in the process. The anchor herself made one "very
intense" trip to the region. She interviewed children like 11-year-old Erica,
who desperately wants her mother to kick her drug habit. When Sawyer asks her
why she believes her mother keeps using, the young girl replies world-wearily:
"Pain. Misery." Equally compelling are the stories of Shawn Grim, an 18-year-old
football phenom who lives in his truck to escape the dysfunction at home, and
Courtney, 12, whose family often runs out of food.I think that urban poverty,
while often crushing and inestimable, doesn't have the isolation," she
said.Friday's special shows how a lack of transportation deepens the effects of
deprivation: one of the women in the piece, Angel, trudges eight miles down the
mountain every day to reach her GED class.Sawyer's producing team worked on the
project for two years, traveling more than 14,000 miles in the process. The
anchor herself made one "very intense" trip to the region. She interviewed
children like 11-year-old Erica, who desperately wants her mother to kick her
drug habit. When Sawyer asks her why she believes her mother keeps using, the
young girl replies world-wearily: "Pain. Misery." Equally compelling are the
stories of Shawn Grim, an 18-year-old football phenom who lives in his truck to
escape the dysfunction at home, and Courtney, 12, whose family often runs out of
food.