Frontline

Season 2, Episode 19

Episode Title: Living Below the Line

Air Date: 1984-10-30

Overview:

It could never happen to you. One day it happened to Farrell Stallings. After 28 years at the same job, he was laid off-a victim of the recession. Now he's broke, afraid, and at the mercy of the welfare system. Frontline follows him into the maze of the bureaucracy.