{"id":75,"date":"2005-06-23T17:31:37","date_gmt":"2005-06-24T01:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/ross\/2005\/06\/23\/waging-a-living\/"},"modified":"2005-06-23T17:31:37","modified_gmt":"2005-06-24T01:31:37","slug":"waging-a-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/2005\/06\/waging-a-living\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Waging a living&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYT film review of &#8220;Waging a Living,&#8221;<br \/>\ndirected by Roger Weisberg<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/movies2.nytimes.com\/2005\/06\/22\/movies\/22wagi.html\">Tales of the Poor, Working to Survive in America<\/a><br \/>\nBy JEANNETTE CATSOULIS<\/p>\n<p>New York Times June 22, 2005<\/p>\n<p>For most of the readers of this newspaper a 25-cent increase in hourly wage would hardly be cause for celebration. But for at least one of the subjects of &#8220;Waging a Living&#8221; &#8211; an eye-opening, often heartbreaking documentary about America&#8217;s working poor &#8211; that pittance could mean the difference between disaster and survival.<\/p>\n<p>Filmed over a three-year period in the Northeast and California, &#8220;Waging a Living&#8221; tracks four ethnically diverse, low-wage workers as they struggle to bridge the gap between paycheck and expenses. &#8220;There&#8217;s no American dream anymore,&#8221; sighs Jean Reynolds, 51, a certified nursing assistant supporting three children and four grandchildren on $1,200 a month. In common with 78 percent of low-wage workers, Jean has no health insurance and faces eviction when she must choose between paying her rent and purchasing medication for her terminally ill daughter.Middle-aged divorc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYT film review of &#8220;Waging a Living,&#8221; directed by Roger Weisberg Tales of the Poor, Working to Survive in America By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS New York Times June 22, 2005 For most of the readers of this newspaper a 25-cent increase in hourly wage would hardly be cause for celebration. But for at least one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}