A vivid recording of the trauma that so many more people have experienced since things started getting nasty in the 80's.
I liked the commentary from social service workers interspersed with the slice-of-life scenes. Even the venture-capitalist could see that Republican policies were tearing the *real* economy apart. The documentary illustrated painfully how peoples' lives can be torn apart by the vicissitudes of the business world. My eyes were welling with tears all through it.
Canada has followed a parallel although not so brutal path of reducing real wages and benefits and shredding the social safety net. Cold comfort to imagine that we do not have quite such a harsh social landscape as does the USA.
I liked the commentary from social service workers interspersed with the slice-of-life scenes. Even the venture-capitalist could see that Republican policies were tearing the *real* economy apart. The documentary illustrated painfully how peoples' lives can be torn apart by the vicissitudes of the business world. My eyes were welling with tears all through it.
Canada has followed a parallel although not so brutal path of reducing real wages and benefits and shredding the social safety net. Cold comfort to imagine that we do not have quite such a harsh social landscape as does the USA.
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