Down and Out in America (1986)

Cast

Credited cast:
	Lee Grant	...	Narrator (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
	Jeff Farmer	...	Himself - AFL-CIO, MN
	Bob Hanson	...	Himself - Farmer, MN
	Robert Hayes	...	Himself - National Director, Coalition for the Homeless
	Ted Hayes	...	Himself
	Ann Kanten	...	Herself - Asst. Commissioner of Agriculture, MN
	Bob Killeen	...	Himself - UAW, MN
	Jim Langman	...	Himself
	Nancy Minte	...	Herself - Attorney, Inner City Law Center, LA
	Tom Styron	...	Himself - Volunteer, Coalition for the Homeless

Storyline

Three sectors of American society hit by recession in the mid-1980s: heartland farms, factory workers out of a job, and the new homeless. In Minnesota, 250 family farms are being repossesed each week; men and women talk about their farms, the nature of their bank loans, the onslaught of corporate farming, and their sorrow and despair. In cities where 3,500 jobs per day go overseas, unemployed workers contemplate their options. The newly homeless talk about the jobs they've lost, "Justice Ville" in Los Angeles (bulldozed by court order), and squatting in New York's abandoned buildings. A family living in a welfare hotel tells their story. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>  

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