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Programs & Projects
Waging a Living September 28, 2006
An additional screening of the film will take place on September 19th, 2006 from 12 to 2 PM at the Reginald. F. Lewis Museum, located at 830 E. Pratt Street, Baltimore. With opening remarks by U.S. congressman Elijah Cummings, a 26 minute policy version of the film will be screened, followed by panel discussion and audience Q & A. The panel will include Jason Perkins-Cohen of the Job Opportunities Task Force, JoAnn Williams of University of MD Medical Systems, a Baltimore resident, and others. From the business community, workforce development field, media, policy-making area, and education and healthcare industries, it is expected that 100 will attend. Lunch will be included. To RSVP, please, contact Jessica Traskey at the Job Opportunities Task Force (JOTF) at 410-234-8040. www.pbs.org/pov/wagingaliving/ Need more information? Contact us by e-mail at outreach@mpt.org or by telephone: (800) 223-3678, ext. 4034.
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Waging a Living is an upcoming PBS P.O.V. (a cinema term for point of view) film that will be broadcast September 28th, 2006 at 9 PM. It is part of a series of independent non-fiction films that PBS features. Additional funding is provided by the Annie E. Casey Foundation as a part of the Working Families Partnership outreach initiative, which highlights the issues low-income families face as well as organizations that address these problems. Waging a Living, an observational documentary, produced by Roger Weisburg, chronicles over a period of three years the lives of four everyday wage-earners who are working to lift their families out of poverty in both the northeast and California. Available at the website are materials for discussing the issues that face low-income wage earners today.