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Contact: Allan Goldfarb
212-614-5354
agoldfarb@cssny.org

Community Service Society and Channel 13 Team Up to Spotlight Hardships Facing Low-Wage Workers

Preview Screening and Discussion of Acclaimed PBS Documentary "Waging A Living" on August 22nd at 6 P.M.

August 17, 2006, New York, NY - Community Service Society President and CEO David R. Jones, and other prominent New York City panelists, will be featured speakers at Channel Thirteen’s preview screening and panel discussion of “Waging A Living,” a film by Roger Weisberg that chronicles the daily battles of four low-wage workers fighting to lift their families out of poverty.  The panel will focus on New York City where more than 40 percent of the population now lives in low-income households.  A Fact Sheet on low-income workers in New York City is attached.  A free downloadable Resource Guide is available here.

WHEN:
Preview Screening and Panel Discussion: Tuesday, August 22, 2006, at 6:00 p.m.

WHO:
Panel discussion and Q and A will feature:

• Linda Gibbs, Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services
• David R. Jones, President of the Community Service Society and member of the Mayor’s Commission for Economic Opportunity
• Lawrence Meade, Professor of Politics, New York University
• Jean Reynolds, Nursing Assistant profiled in the film

WHERE:
Channel 13 Studios, 350 West 33rd Street (between 9th and 10th Avenues)

The Community Service Society (CSS) is a leading, independent, nonprofit organization that provides innovative solutions to the most urgent problems facing low-income New Yorkers. Please visit the Community Service Society’s website at www.cssny.org.

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