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The term "working poor" should be an oxymoron. If you work full time, you should not be poor, but more than 30 million Americans...
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Directed by | |||
| Roger Weisberg | |||
| Pamela Harris | (co-director) | ||
| Frances Reid | (co-director) | ||
| Edward Rosenstein | (co-director) | ||
Produced by | |||
| Deborah Clancy | .... | associate producer | |
| Pamela Harris | .... | co-producer | |
| Frances Reid | .... | co-producer | |
| Edward Rosenstein | .... | co-producer | |
| Roger Weisberg | .... | producer | |
Original Music by | |||
| Richard Fiocca | |||
Cinematography by | |||
| Jim Arnold | |||
| Rick Butler | |||
| Brian Danitz | |||
| Vicente Franco | |||
| Slawomir Grunberg | |||
| John Hazard | |||
| Hilary Morgan | |||
| Peter Nelson | |||
| Mark Stoddard | |||
| Fawn Yacker | |||
Film Editing by | |||
| Sandra Christie | |||
| Lewis Erskine | |||
| Christopher White | |||
Production Management | |||
| Tammy Arnstein | .... | production manager | |
| Alexis Jallad | .... | production manager | |
| Corrie Kaufman | .... | production manager | |
| Jessie Pepper | .... | production manager | |
Sound Department | |||
| Tom Bergin | .... | sound | |
| Ray Day | .... | sound | |
| William Doll | .... | sound | |
| Richard Fleming | .... | sound | |
| Francisco La Torre | .... | sound | |
| Lawrence Loewinger | .... | sound | |
| Jason Longo | .... | sound | |
| Dow McKeever | .... | sound editor | |
| Dow McKeever | .... | sound re-recording mixer | |
| Gabriel Miller | .... | sound | |
| Lauretta Molitor | .... | sound | |
| Marsha Moore | .... | sound editor | |
| York Phelps | .... | sound | |
| Juan Rodriguez | .... | sound | |
| Bernard Russo | .... | sound | |
| John Steadwell | .... | sound | |
Visual Effects by | |||
| Rob Roth | .... | title designer | |
Editorial Department | |||
| Josh Braslow | .... | assistant editor | |
Other crew | |||
| Aspen Baker | .... | production assistant | |
| Chris Borgia | .... | production intern | |
| Kaity Cheng | .... | production intern | |
| Lea Cho | .... | production intern | |
| Heather Clayton | .... | production intern | |
| Emily Dimiero | .... | production intern | |
| Alexander Emerson | .... | production intern | |
| Solange Jorge | .... | production intern | |
| Andrew Levine | .... | production intern | |
| Beth Levine | .... | production intern | |
| Mei Chun Lin | .... | production intern | |
| Sonal Mahida | .... | production intern | |
| Colette Mercier | .... | production assistant | |
| Dee Ouellette | .... | production assistant | |
| Daniel Powell | .... | production intern | |
| Ruby Privateer | .... | production assistant | |
| Sheela Reddy | .... | production intern | |
| Adrian Rodelo | .... | production assistant | |
| Dani Rotstein | .... | production intern | |
| Shane Sahadi | .... | production assistant | |
| Jennifer Schoen | .... | production intern | |
| Elyse Steinberg | .... | production intern | |
| Jessica Windt | .... | production intern | |
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- Public Policy Productions (2005) (USA) (theatrical)
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Waging a Living looks at the lives of several people who feel that it is difficult for themselves to get ahead or pay the bills even though they have full-time employment. A waitress, security guard, CNA and an elder care activity leader face the challenges of rising costs of living, raising dependent children, social services regulations and just plain life.
The documentary's strongest asset is that instead of the snapshots usually seen on the nightly news, these people are followed for several years so we can see the steady stream of immediate problems along with the slower solutions such as education, unionization and patient persistence.
Watching the movie filled me with a combination of gratitude for my own circumstances and insecurity from knowing that I am not too far away from living paycheck to paycheck myself.
My only concern about the film is that it is imbalanced by focusing on the external causes of their conditions but does not point out as much what choices these people made in the past to place themselves in these positions. For instance, we are not told why one person lost his job, or why disability claims were not taken earlier, or why they have so many children and so on. Then again, perhaps the filmmakers thought that "blaming the victim" was unwarranted.
Lastly, two of the four people are members of the same union, even though they live on different coasts, and are both shown as active union members. I wonder how these people came to be chosen for the documentary, and if their union somehow was involved in the making of the film.