Criterion: Streetwise (1984) and Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell (2016)

The first features "Tiny" as one of the street kids in Seattle; the second shows "Tiny" over 30 years later.

https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/4430-streetwise-tiny-the-life-of-erin-blackwell 

In the first film, I feel sorry for her. 
In the second, I don't: She's a hugely overweight methadone addict who has had 10 (!) kids since the first doc in 1984, and now spends her days sleeping on her nice couch in a nice two-story home while her kids and chihuahuas gambol around her.

WHERE did she get the money for this home and furniture? No, not any of her numerous black jobless partners, but directly from the US Government, which has been paying low-lifes like this per-baby since 1968. 

I don't care WHO has 10 kids, be they Mormon or Catholic or Elon Musk, as long as they can afford them on their own. Go for it. But this former whore and drug addict? With 10 kids, because she and her partners never used birth control and the US Govt PAID them per-child for this?? NO. This is insane.

My addendum: I used to think Republicans were just mean for bringing up "welfare mothers." Until I had no car from 2010 thru 2016 and had to be basically "on the streets" and share public transportation with very-low-income people. At one point, I was on a bus, and a guy behind me (on parole, as he revealed) was actually telling his friend: "Yeah, I got her pregnant so she can get money for the kid when I go in." (Prior to this, I'd always mocked Bill O'Reilly on Fox News! After this, I knew he was telling the truth.)

Had I not been forced to take public transportation for 6 years in Austin, I never would have learned half of what I learned. Between taking the bus in San Francisco in the mid-1990s and taking the bus in Austin from 2010 to 2016, I got quite the "street" education. Many of my fellow bus-goers were in no way "noble" poor people. I usually sat next to psychotics babbling and acting out; or gang-bangers trying to get out of the dollar fare and then going off on who they'd fucked the past weekend.

I was just trying to get to work or to the grocery store. But I had to put up with this low-life shit. 

So, yeah: Don't romanticize the poor. (Anyone poor but even mildly competent can get a city or state job and make a decent living with full benefits.)

And, for god's sake, don't pay them per kid, US Govt. Or else they'll keep churning them out to get the extra hundreds per month, and continue to replicate the same insane patterns. ("Thanks," LBJ, for your horrible contributions to the United States: Both the Vietnam War and your illogical social programs.)