[tdees40]

Wendy and Lucy! Also, TV is better: Atlanta and the Wire are great about poverty.

[mrec]

I second the Wendy and Lucy rec. I saw it not long after first reading Scalzi's Being Poor [1] and it really made everything concrete.

It's a tough sell in some ways - "girl loses dog, girl finds dog, the end" - but oh-so-worth-it.

[1] https://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/09/03/being-poor/

[nofinator]

+1 for Atlanta and The Wire as eye-opening depictions of daily life in poverty. But even in TV, these examples are the exception to the rule, sadly. The only other successful show I can think of is Rosanne, which means we're averaging about one a decade.