Reckoning, The

• 1979 ----- color ----- 27 min ----- 16mm
• Over the past fifteen years, Dr. Harvey Brenner of John Hopkins University has developed reliable computer programs to compare employment and health data from dozens of American cities. His findings show a frightening correlation between joblessness and an increase in mortality from heart attacks, liver disease, suicide and other stress-related ailments. England's Granada Television invited Dr. Brenner to apply his investigative techniques to unemployment in two British cities. When the data was analyzed the same deadly figures were discovered: mortality increased not just among unemployed workers, but in their families and the impacted communities.
• Topics: (Cities and Towns, Economics, Public Health and Safety)