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>From Films for the Humanities:
ON THE EDGE: AMERICA'S WORKING POOR =A9 2004: Segment one of this ABC News
program profiles a family of four whose combined income is $18,000 a year.
Segments two and three present the stories of two single mothers who,
strapped for cash, were hurt by loan deals they hoped would help them: a ta=
x
refund loan for one, a payday loan for the other.
VOICES OF DISPOSABLE PEOPLE =A9 2003: More than 300 million men, women, and
children are being forced to work in conditions of virtual enslavement. Thi=
s
program goes around the world to document the stories of disposable people:
sugarcane cutters in the Dominican Republic, bonded laborers in India, and
migrant workers in Miami, U.S.A
BILL MOYERS: A QUESTION OF FAIRNESS =A9 2003: The middle class shrinks as the
gap between rich and poor widens. Bill Moyers investigates what lies behind
the disparity. In three examples, he draws attention to a question of
fairness involving the politics of privilege: the impact of NAFTA on a
Pennsylvania mill town; financial deregulation in the early 1990s that led
to WorldCom=B9s scandalous collapse; and the story of a failed attempt to
reform Alabama=B9s state income tax system.
You can preview any for 30 days, for free! -=3DDiane
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Diane Rhodes, Production Editor
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
www.films.com, 800-257-5126, diane.rhodes@films.com
> A patron has asked me to recommend documentary films on poverty in Americ=
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> Does anyone have suggestions for better titles or resources?
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> Thanks.
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> Michael May
> Carnegie-Stout Public Library
> Dubuque, Iowa
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