CASCIATO: We're learning what their story is so we can translate that for a national, in this case, television audience. There were a number of people, including Jackie Stanley and Tony Neumann, who really struck me as very compelling. They were just people who told their stories in a very interesti
And Tony Neumann and Terry Neumann and Jackie Stanley and Claude Stanley - they are really, I think, economically, a lost generation. They're the people who, at the beginning of our project in 1991, had lost their foothold in the middle class, and they were never to gain it back, and as we get to 20
And so you mentioned Terry as she moves through different types of roles, different jobs she takes on just to make ends meet. Also, Jackie Stanley - she's the matriarch of the Stanley family. She candidly shared how time was moving so fast that basically, she looked up and now she has gray hair, an
look - just two families - how the economy helped to tear one of them apart. And I think the economy, in some ways, helped to keep the others together because they decided that they were going to struggle together, Claude and Jackie Stanley, and they have done so for all the decades we've known them.