Film: On the Line

Wednesday, 17 Feb 1982 at 12:00 pm – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union

The most pressing economic problems facing Americans today--inflation, layoffs, unemployment--are examined through the particular lives of several individuals, including angry Ford assembly line workers and engineer scheduled to lose his job and rent strikers in a large city, to show that low-income and middle class groups alike are suffering from financial insecurity.
Part of the National Affairs Series

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