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On the Edge: America’s Working Poor
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Millions of employed Americans are living on the edge of poverty—a precipice where one unexpected expense, sudden illness, or missed payment could mean financial ruin. Segment one of this ABC News program profiles a family of four whose combined income is $18,000 a year. Even with housing assistance, Medicaid for the children, and occasional help from social services, the need for a new starter for their car is almost more than they can afford. Segments two and three present the painful stories of two DVD mothers who, strapped for cash, were hurt by loan deals they hoped would help them: a tax refund loan for one, a payday loan for the other.
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Critical Condition: America’s Obesity Crisis
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In the United States, people with low incomes tend to weigh more than the affluent, but a causal link between poverty and obesity is still a subject of debate. This ABC News program examines evidence for a link, with the addition of thoughtful commentary on personal responsibility from host Ted Koppel. Focusing on an economically struggling Detroit community in which fast food is prevalent and grocery stores are scarce, the video gathers the experiences of neighborhood residents and healthcare professionals into a powerful study of a dangerous cultural trend—and a moving glimpse into the lives of people for whom that trend is an everyday reality.
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Patrolling the Border: National Security and Immigration Reform
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Will the threat of terrorism from the U.S.-Mexican border radically reshape America’s immigration policies? This ABC News program studies the connections between 9/11, the American economy, and the workforce of undocumented labor on which that economy increasingly depends. Interviews with Arizona border patrol agents evoke their frustrations and reveal the perils faced by many Mexicans who attempt desperate wilderness crossings. Contrasts between President Bush’s proposed guest worker program and the Department of Homeland Security’s efforts to crack down on the influx of illegal aliens highlight the complexity of the situation.
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Failing Grade
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Use this ABC News program to explore links between a wide range of educational issues: school safety, overcrowding, privatization, and poor academic performance. The video takes viewers inside Chester High, a Pennsylvania school racked with security, staffing, and financial problems; in fact, Chester’s difficulties are so great that the company hired to run the school has pulled out. With commentary from many sectors of the community—including students, parents, school board members, and a young principal who tried to make a difference at Chester—Failing Grade sums up the frustrations of everyday people struggling to provide children with a decent education.
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Moyers on America: The Net @ Risk
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A boon to computer users, broadband has meant fast Internet service for millions. But as the phone and cable giants that operate these networks consider the profits to be made by controlling the content and delivery of the Internet, Net neutrality—and the easy sharing of ideas and opinions that goes with it—may soon become a thing of the past in America. In this program, Bill Moyers and journalist Rick Karr report on the struggle for the soul of the Internet as lobbyists and legislators reshape the telecom laws for the broadband era. Will democracy’s high-tech forum for the exchange of ideas be destroyed by regulations that favor online entities with deep pockets?
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Racial Stereotypes in the Media
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Although demeaning and offensive racial stereotypes were pervasive in popular media of every kind during the 20th century, most observers would agree that the media is much more sensitive to representations of race today. But the pernicious effects of that stereotyping live on in the new racism arising from disparities in the treatment of stories involving whites and people of color in a ratings-driven news market, media-enhanced isolationism as a result of narrowcasting, and other sources. This program examines the relationship between mass media and social constructions of race from political and economic perspectives while looking at the effects media can have on audiences. A Films for the Humanities & Sciences Production.
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Obama's War
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Tens of thousands of fresh American troops are now on the move in Afghanistan, led by a new commander, and armed with a counter-insurgency plan that builds on the lessons of Iraq. But can U.S. forces succeed in a land long known as the "graveyard of empires?" FRONTLINE producers Martin Smith (Beyond Baghdad, Return of the Taliban) and Marcela Gaviria (In Search of Al Qaeda) once again make the dangerous journey to the frontlines of America's biggest fight. Through interviews with the top U.S. commanders on the ground, embeds with U.S. forces, and fresh reporting from Washington, Smith and Gaviria examine U.S. counter-insurgency strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan -- a fight that promises to be longer and more costly than most Americans understand.
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The Warning
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In the devastating aftermath of the economic meltdown, THE WARNING sifts through the ashes for clues about why it happened and examines critical moments when it might have gone much differently. Looking back into the 1990s, FRONTLINE discovers early warnings of the crash and uncovers an intense battle between high-ranking members of the Clinton administration vs. one woman trying to sound the alarm about the need to regulate the emerging, highly complex, and lucrative derivatives markets, which would become the ticking time-bomb within the American economy.
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A Death in Tehran
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At the height of the protests following Iran s controversial presidential election this summer, a young woman named Neda Soltani was shot and killed on the streets of Tehran. Her death filmed on a cameraphone, then uploaded to the Web quickly became an international outrage, and Soltani became the face of a powerful movement that threatened the hardline government s hold on power. With the help of a unique network of correspondents in and out of the country, FRONTLINE investigates the life and death of the woman whose image remains a potent symbol for those who want to keep the reform movement alive. The film also explores a number of unanswered questions in the aftermath of the greatest upheaval in Iran since the 1979 revolution: How many were arrested and killed as the security forces attempted to contain the growing protest movement? To what extent was the presidential vote manipulated? What is the nature of the reported divisions among Iran s ruling elites?
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The Card Game
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As credit card companies face rising public anger, new regulation from Washington and a potential perfect storm of economic bad news, FRONTLINE correspondent Lowell Bergman examines the future of the massive consumer loan industry and its impact on a fragile national economy. In a joint project with The New York Times a follow-up to the Secret History of the Credit Card Bergman and the Times talk to industry insiders, lobbyists, politicians and consumer advocates as they square-off over new regulation and the possible creation of a consumer finance protection agency. How are the credit, debit and pre-paid card industries repositioning themselves to maintain high profits under the new rules? The stakes couldn t be higher as many fear the consumer loan industry could be at the center of the next crisis.
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I.O.U.S.A.
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America is on the brink of a financial meltdown. I.O.U.S.A. boldly examines the rapidly growing national debt and its consequences for the United States. Burdened with an ever-expanding government and military, increased international competition, overextended entitlement programs, and debts to foreign countries that are becoming impossible to honor, America must mend its spendthrift ways or face an economic disaster of epic proportions.
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Malaria: Fever Wars
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"Malaria: Fever Wars" highlights man's interminable fight against malaria, a disease which kills millions every year, and which is continuing to worsen. It delivers an up-to-date account of the global malaria situation from the perspectives of a few heroic individuals, each fighting their own very different battles against the disease
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Mumbai Massacre
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Told from the perspective of victims and survivors in their own words, Mumbai Massacre places viewers inside the nightmarish 60 hours of orchestrated terrorism, broadcast live to the world via cell phones and internet, text and twitter. This program captures the desperation and courage of ordinary people, and how social media became a silent witness and simultaneously transformed news as it happened.
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