Frontline 255x9 - Two American Families: 1991-2024

It's a central premise of the American dream: If you're willingto work hard, you'll be able to make a living and build abetter life for your children.But what if working hard isn'tenough to get ahead — or even to ensure your family's basicfinancial stability?Two American Families: 1991-2024, aspecial, two-hour documentary filmed over more than 30 years,is a portrait of perseverance from FRONTLINE, Bill Moyers,and filmmakers Tom Casciato and Kathleen Hughes that raisesunsettling questions about the changing nature of the Americaneconomy and the impact on people struggling to make a livingthrough hard times, falling wages and loss of manufacturingjobs.Premiering Tuesday, July 23, 2024, this is the saga oftwo families in Milwaukee, Wisconsin — one Black, theStanleys, and one white, the Neumanns — who have spent thepast 34 years battling to keep from sliding into poverty, andwho refuse to give up despite the economic challenges thattheir stories reveal.