🎬 Documentary

Living on the Edge

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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.

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Year
1995
Runtime
56m
Genre
Documentary
Director
Language
EN

Cast

🎭 Documentary 🎬 Kathleen Hughes 👤 Bill Moyers
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Living on the Edge has a runtime of 56m ( and 56 minutes).
Living on the Edge was directed by Kathleen Hughes and released in 1995.
Living on the Edge is a Documentary film (1995).
The cast of Living on the Edge includes Bill Moyers.

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