I've still got family members living below the poverty line in New York.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
I was just a regular kid in poverty, struggling.
I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
My mom lives in New York still in the home that I grew up in.
I grew up in a very large, poor family.
I just can't live in New York anymore.
I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.
My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average.
My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.
It's really hard to be poor in New York - I was really poor when I lived in New York.