Living on the Edge

Living on the Edge

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Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 12, 1995

Runtime

0h 56m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Living on the Edge

Director

Kathleen Hughes

Description

Bill Moyers tells the story of several hardworking Milwaukee families struggling with low-paying jobs after previous employers downsized their operations. Filmed over a period of five years, these families were first featured in Moyers’s 1992 documentary ‘Minimum Wages: The New Economy.’ FRONTLINE chronicles the families’ emotional and financial strains, their search for better jobs and job retraining, and looks at Milwaukee’s efforts to adapt to an ever-shrinking industrial sector.