Living on the Edge

Living on the Edge — Plot

Bill Moyers tells the story of several hardworking Milwaukee families struggling with low-paying jobs after previous employers downsized their operations. Filmed over a period of five years, these families were first featured in Moyers’s 1992 documentary ‘Minimum Wages: The New Economy.’ FRONTLINE chronicles the families’ emotional and financial strains, their search for better jobs and job retraining, and looks at Milwaukee’s efforts to adapt to an ever-shrinking industrial sector.

• Release date
• December 12, 1995
• Runtime
• 56 min
• Genres
• Documentary
• Director
• Tom Casciato

Living on the Edge — Cast

Bill Moyers Self