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  1. Follow Us on Twitter @BillMoyersHQ Bill Moyers reading his iPad on set (Credit: Dale Robbins)
    6 Jun 2013 … Get tweets about money and politics, income inequality, poverty and other issues we delve into each week on Moyers & Company. Continue reading
  2. The Revolt of the Anxious Class People watch a monitor inside the venue while Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to the crowd at a Pearl Harbor Day Rally At U.S.S. Yorktown December 7, 2015 in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina. The South Carolina Republican primary is scheduled for February 20, 2016. (Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images)
    12 Dec 2015 … The great American middle class has become an anxious class – and it’s in revolt. Before I explain how that revolt is playing out, you need to understand the sources of the anxiety. Start with the fact that the middle Continue reading
  3. 5 Charts That Show How the Middle Class Is Disappearing
    1 Jan 2015 … As the super-rich continue to get richer, many middle class Americans are finding themselves slipping into poverty. Continue reading
  4. The Biggest Problem With Obamacare’s Rollout Is Being Caused Intentionally by Republicans
    11 Nov 2013 … The victims of Obamacare’s implementation problems being hit the hardest, by far, are those whose incomes fall into the coverage gap between the poverty line and subsidy eligibility cutoff in states not adopting Medicaid expansion. Continue reading
  5. Comics Artist Joe Sacco on Journalism and Drawing In this photo U.S. graphic novelist Joe Sacco poses for a photograph in Gaza. May 2003 (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
    7 Jul 2012 … In this Web-exclusive video, graphic artist and journalist Joe Sacco talks about his approach to telling real-life stories in comics. Sacco’s latest project called Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, explores trenchant poverty in America’s “sacrifice zones” and is a Continue reading
  6. Bill Moyers Essay: The United States of Inequality FILE - A man who did not wish to be identified, who lost his job two months ago after being hurt on the job, works to collect money for his family on a Miami street corner. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter, File)
    4 Apr 2013 … In an extended essay, Bill shares striking extremes of wealth and poverty across the country. Continue reading
  7. Mike Rose: A Conversation on Poverty and Education in Los Angeles Mike Rose
    4 Apr 1990 … Bill Moyers talked with Mike Rose, a decades-long advocate for those on the margins of Los Angeles. After attending a poor neighborhood school where no one expected him to succeed, Rose because the associate director of the UCLA writing program. Continue reading
  8. As Hate Incidents Rise, Rights Groups Urge Trump to Denounce Bigotry Richard Cohen, president of the Southern Poverty Law Center, speaks during a press conference in Washington, DC on Nov. 29, 2016. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
    11 Nov 2016 … Since the election of Donald Trump, an increased number of hate incidents have targeted minority groups in America, and the election results are having a negative impact on America’s schoolchildren, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Continue reading
  9. Anger Gone Viral Far right party posters in Rome
    11 Nov 2016 … British Labour MP Jo Cox was a committed advocate of the European Union, and a believer in Britain’s ability to do good in the world. She campaigned for the rights of Syrians — both those in her country and those Continue reading
  10. Encore: Living Outside Tribal Lines
    8 Aug 2013 … Bill reports on striking extremes of wealth and poverty in California’s Silicon Valley, and writer Sherman Alexie discusses the influence of his Native American heritage. Continue reading