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Minimum Wages: The New Economy

Genres

Documentary

Duration

57 min

Director

Tom Casciato

Rating

Rating not available

Release Date

January 7, 1992

Minimum Wages: The New Economy

Original title: Minimum Wages: The New Economy

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Synopsis Minimum Wages: The New Economy

Bill Moyers takes a piercing look at how global economic changes are destroying the lives and livelihoods of hardworking Americans. The documentary follows several individuals and their families in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as they fight to make ends meet in the “new economy.” In sheer numbers, more jobs were created than lost in America during the last decade, but a look behind those numbers reveals a shortage of jobs that pay enough to support a family. The program intimately portrays the lives of workers and their families as they struggle to make it in today’s job market.