terry newman you know, has done everything she was supposed to do. got training for different kinds of factory jobs. she did pretty well for a job relatively speaking. lost her factory job, and then when she lost her factory job she didn't crawl in a hole. she went back to school again to train to be a home healthcare aid. everyone told her that was the thing to do, the health industry. all kinds of healthcare is a growing industry, but for the vast majority of people who are getting jobs in those industries, they're finding that the wages are not that great and there is minimal benefits attached not to mention job security lack of job security. >> michael: we focus on terry here, but their kids and their families their kids face an even more daunting economic future is that accurate? >> yes i think it is, michael. in the parents' generations there was not only an expectation that they would have a middle class life, they had a real foothold in the middle class. they were able to buy homes and for a long time hang on to those homes. in the stanley fa

newman, terry newman, marvelous mother and devoted wife has to go to the food pantry to find food. you know, there are 49 million people in this country on food stamps. and many of them as we showed in our broadcast broadcast last week include a cop working in a small town in colorado, the town cut the budget and he's lost three of his troops, of his fellow policeman. he's the seoul remaining policeman. his salary has been cut. he runs out of money for food by halfway through the month. a cowboy does two jobs, a cowboy at day and cleaning up the school at night. he's on food stamps to feed his children. >> rose: another impact is the husband and wife are work at different times so they never see each other. >> and you can tell this in the consequences on the family. and as their need for security and for-- and for the presence of their parents increases, so does the deterioration of the neighborhood. in in and in both neighborhoods you see violence coming, bullying happening. and so this stability that you would associate normally with a middle-class family begins to deteriorate ra

. >> terry newman, just a picture on the screen, right now she's probably getting off of work.children and she's been through a number we were just trying to show in documentary fashion what good americans are who are working hard, doing what they're supposed to be doing, following all the rules. >> playing by the rules. >> playing by the rules. >> yeah. >> that's it. >> i think the families haven't given up hope. you see claude, 60 years old. gets up at 4:00 or 5:00 in the morning to empty garbage throughout the city. these people are doing everything they can possibly do to hold on. so i don't think we should give up on them. i think we should find something. >> and claude stanley does that with a smile on his face and commitment to his family and commitment to his country. he does not give up. >> everyone should take a look at "frontline's" two american families premiering tonight at 10:00 on pbs stations. thank you so much for being on the show. it's really nice to meet you. >> the same. >> we have a friend in common which we discovered this morning. up next, bin laden's se