Candy Lumpkin lives in a trailer at the end of a long, muddy road, strewn with litter. There is no telephone nor running water (except for water that is collected from a nearby spring). She lives in an impoverished county in the hills of Kentucky with her daughter Amy who is 5. Packs of stray dogs run rampant through the area looking for food. Amy runs around in ragged clothes and without shoes even though it is the dead of winter.
Excerpted from:
Harris, Paul. "37 million Poor Hidden in the Land of Plenty." 19 Feb. 2006, The Observer, http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/feb/19/usa.paulharris.
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