These witnesses of Black Sunday and much of the other suffering of the Dust-Bowl years are now old men and women, and Burns, as he has in other documentaries, makes good use of these ordinary folk. He is a sort of Studs Terkel of documentarians.
VA Hospital - nursing program. I currently work for a VA Hospital (Veterans Administration - government hospital - best care anywhere!!). They have an interesting program to become an RN. They will pay FULL SALARY of a current employee, and they will pay for the program cost. All you need to do is commit to be a VA nurse.
Like the children of Lake Wobegon, most of the members of the SES at the department are apparently above average. More than three-quarters of VA senior executives received a bonus in 2010, according to OPM. The average salary for VA SESers was $165,000, with an average award of $15,000.