Product Details

• Format: NTSC, Color, Full Screen
• Studio: A&E Home Video
• ASIN: B000UM0WD8
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #460,343 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

They struggle to make ends meet, holding down jobs that pay $6 or $7 an hour. They are the "working poor," there are millions of them, and their plight is unfamiliar to most people fortunate enough not to experience it for themselves. This eye-opening, two-hour INVESTIGATIVE REPORTSTM shows what it is like to work full time and remain forever hovering near the poverty line. In preparing her bestselling book, Nickel and Dimed in America, author Barbara Ehrenreich embarked on a grim odyssey through three cities and half a dozen minimum wage jobs. What emerges is a view of the American experience many of us would prefer to ignore, a rare look at how prosperity appears from the bottom looking up, and a critical examination of the policies that shape the harsh realities of life among the working poor.