Tập
Frontline: Episode 21
Tóm tắt
Frontline investigates the Reagan administration's effort to remove tens of thousands of people from the Social Security disability rolls. Disabled people face personal hardship and bureaucratic indifference as they take their cases to the courts and to Congress.
Chi tiết
- Phim bộ
- Frontline
- Mùa
- Mùa 1
- Tập
- Tập 21
- Ngày phát sóng
- 1983-06-20
Thông tin tập
Episode 21 là tập 21 trong Season 1 của Frontline. Tập này phát sóng ngày 1983-06-20.
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