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BBC OS: 2020/12/17 16:06 GMT: Pandemic poverty in the US

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Pandemic poverty in the US

2020/12/17 16:06 GMT

2020/12/17 16:06 GMT: Pandemic poverty in the US

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We hear from Americans struggling to provide for their families

We hear from Americans struggling to provide for their families.

We talk about the poverty in the US and hear more stories about people struggling to provide for their families during the pandemic. One father in Florida explains how he has lost it all and is about to be evicted. 

And we explain the latest developments with the coronavirus with the help of our medical expert, Dr Emma Hodcroft, from the University of Basel in Switzerland. 

We also go to Nigeria where a video has been released - apparently by the Islamist group Boko Haram - showing some of the 300 boys kidnapped last week in northwest Nigeria.

And we ask people in Tunisia what has changed in the country since the uprising ten years ago.

(Photo: People wait in a block-long line to pick up food at the Masbia of Flatbush food pantry in Brooklyn, New York, USA, 30 April 2020. Credit: JUSTIN LANE/PA)

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