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Concerns about the economy, inflation, and the cost of living are top issues for voters, and this election year is no different.
In a new frontline documentary, journalist Bill Moyers and his team give an intimate look at the realities of two families from the battleground state of Wisconsin.
These families have struggled through six presidential administrations to provide for their families and stay above the poverty line.
Moyers and his team began documenting the lives of the Stanleys and the Newmans in 1991 after the breadwinners of both families lost their well paying manufacturing jobs.
You just gotta roll with the punches.
You gotta do what you gotta do.
I'm hitting 70 years old now, and it's time for me to have it together.
I still believe in hard work, but I will say that I think we are fooling ourselves if we believe that it's only hard work.
So many people that are in the same situation that are struggling the same way.
It's like we haven't come very far.
The documentary Two American Families, 1991 to 2024, is the fifth installment in a series that began in 92 with updates on the families in 95, 2020 13.
We watched the Newmans and the Stanleys as the parents adapt to part time, lower wage work.