Living on the Edge (1995)

Overview : 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.

Release Date : December 12, 1995

Runtime : 56m

Genre : Documentary  

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Countries : United States of America

Keywords : unemployment, milwaukee wisconsin, frontline, documentary