1:33:00
But we're not doing anything
by taking one parent
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and putting them on a bus
and sending them out of town
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to make $5.50 an hour.
1:33:08
- This is the bus that she was
forced to ride every day
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in order to work off
the welfare money
1:33:13
the state had given her.
1:33:18
She, and many others from Flint
who were poor,
1:33:21
would make the 80-mile
round-trip journey every day,
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from Flint to Auburn Hills,
in Oakland County,
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one of the wealthiest areas
in the country.
1:33:31
Tamarla would leave
1:33:33
early in the morning
and return late at night,
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rarely seeing
her young children.
1:33:40
- What's the point in doing that?
Where does the state benefit?
1:33:43
Where does Flint and Genesee
County benefit from that?
1:33:46
We have a child dead.
I think that may be, in part,
1:33:49
part of the problem.
1:33:51
We drove the one parent out.
1:33:54
Now, you or anybody else
that can tell me
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that that best serves
the community,
1:34:01
I shake my head and wonder why.
1:34:04
- How long you been riding
the bus?
1:34:07
- I've been working here
1:34:08
just about three years now.
- About three years?
1:34:11
- Yeah. My brother...
I got my brother working here,
1:34:14
half of my neighbourhood
works out here.
1:34:16
Just about everybody I know
personally works in the mall.
1:34:20
In Flint, doing the same thing
I'm doing now,
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they only pay minimum wage
in Flint. I come 40 miles
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to make three or four
dollars more an hour.
1:34:28
- How much do you make an hour?
- I make 8.50 now.
1:34:31
- Is that enough
to pay the bills?
1:34:33
- No.
1:34:35
- So did you know Tamarla Owens,
1:34:37
the woman whose son
shot the little girl?
1:34:40
I think she rode this bus.
- I knew her a little bit.
1:34:43
Not real good.
- Nice lady?
1:34:45
- Yeah, she was okay. She came
to work every day, did her job.
1:34:49
She worked two jobs, so...
- She worked two jobs?
1:34:51
- She was trying
to make ends meet.
1:34:54
"We're going hopping
We're going hopping today
1:34:56
"Where things are popping...
1:34:58
- This is Dick Clark's
American Bandstand Grill,