60 Minutes on America’s poverty epidemic - families living in cars
FAMILIES LIVING IN CARS
This is the home of the Metzger family. Their dad, Tom, is a carpenter. And, he's been looking for work ever since Florida's construction industry collapsed. When foreclosure took their house, he bought the truck on Craigslist with his last thousand dollars.
Pelley: How long have you been living in this truck?
Arielle: About five months.
Pelley: What's that like?
Arielle: It's an adventure.
Austin: That's how we see it.
Pelley: When kids at school ask you where you live, what do you tell 'em?
Austin: When they see the truck they ask me if I live in it, and when I hesitate they kinda realize. And they say they won't tell anybody.
Jade Wiley is eight years old. She spent three weeks living in her car with her mom, her dad, two dogs and a cat.
Pelley: Did you think you were ever gonna get out of the car?
Jade Wiley: I thought I was going to be stuck in the car.
Pelley: How did you keep your spirits up?
Jade Wiley: By still praying to God that somebody'd let us stay in a hotel.
Pelley: And how did you get out of the car?
Jade Wiley: Well there's this nice lady named Beth. And then she gave us a lot of money so we could stay at the hotel. And now I'm staying at the hotel.
