YOU’RE INVITED
to the first Bay Area screening of WAGING A LIVING,
a new documentary chronicling the lives of the working poor in
SPECIAL PANEL PRESENTATION
As a special feature, please join Springboard Forward, EARN, and Paul Herman of the Omidyar Network for a panel presentation on Friday evening, January 6th in San Francisco (7:30pm show on Friday in San Francisco at Opera Plaza Cinema, 601 Van Ness Ave., SF) and Saturday evening, January 7th in Berkeley (7:15pm show on Saturday in Berkeley at Landmark’s Act 1 & 2 Theatre, 2128 Center St, Berkeley) immediately following the show featuring:
Elliott Brown, Founder of Springboard Forward
Jerrry Sangoria,
Ben Mangan, President and CEO of Earn (Harvard KSG MPP ’98)
Waging a Living – Synopsis
“An eye-opening, often heartbreaking documentary.” The New York Times
"Should be required viewing for every concerned citizen." Christian Science Monitor
“A forthright documentary breathes life into what might have been a hailstorm of grim statistics.”
The term “working poor” should be an oxymoron. If you work full time, you should not be poor, but more than 30 million Americans – one in four workers – are stuck in jobs that pay less than the federal poverty level for a family of four. WAGING A LIVING chronicles the day-to-day battles of four low-wage earners fighting to make work pay. Shot over a three-year period in the northeast and
For more information on WAGING A LIVING, please visit http://www.pppdocs.com/wal.html.