Waging A Living Poverty

The film, “Waging a living” is about four different people, from four different backgrounds and all live four different lives. These four different people all go through struggles with poverty, and the film shows how they all deal with it in different ways and how some of them suffer from it. The film shows how an average person deals with poverty in their daily lives.

The film focuses on Jean Reynolds, Jerry Longoria, Mary Venitelli, and Barbara Brooks. This film shows how they deal with their everyday struggle with poverty and how it affects them and the things that they do. The film shows how people in different walks of life are all affected by the same problem, poverty. Being stuck in poverty is such a problem nowadays, and the people within this film are doing what they can to provide for themselves and the others in their family. …show more content…
Jerry lives in San Francisco in a small room in a hotel. Jerry is 42 and he’s a recovering alcoholic and drug addict and has been clean for four years now. Jerry is a security guard, and his $12 an hour payment is hardly enough to cover the basics. Jerry is still able to pay child support to his two children that he hasn’t seen in nine years. Jerry joins a union that is trying to get a higher pay and better health benefits for San Francisco's security guards. Jerry is able to go see his kids after saving up enough money to go see them. But when Jerry returns to his job, he loses it after getting in an argument with his boss. Jerry is able to find a new job, still a security guard, but at less