Hitting Hard Times

DateAugust 26 1982

Can DescriptionsHitting Hard Times

AbstractMaster; Special; Hitting Hard Times; Jack Heinz provides a voiceover, while still and moving images review the Depression period as an introduction to a focus on several families that now are living in poverty; 30%of the population is said to be chronically poor; the report includes details of their daily lives and how they manage; black screen breaks; a recently divorced mother of three shares her struggles; another couple, trying to find work after losing jobs that had seemed stable as a machinist and a service work; failed government programs are described alongside Reagan's economic plan; Has the war against poverty turned to a war on the poor?; a mother of three talks about trying to live on her paycheck as she chooses between food or lodging for her family; the differences of opinion between experts on how to end poverty is expressed;

OtherIn the studio David Skillicorn, Arnie Reisman, Mark Mills, Kristen McCormick, Phyllis Joffe, John D. Grahame, Jim Fripp, Mark Gunning, Kathy McKenna, Curt Reichenbach, Joe Mozdiez, Scott OBreza, Rob Roy, Lisa Borge, Susan Kreger, Doug Devitt, George Ellard, Geoff Sullivan, Jeff Brawer, Carlo DiPersio, Richard Dickinson Marcelle Watkins, Mikki Byrnes, Kay Mattson, George Winston, Darol Anger, Carol Higbie, Lisa Finestone, Kip Tiernan, Phillip S. Balboni, Judith Stoia, Charles Kravetz, Paul LaCamera;