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  1. Children in America’s Schools Kids at school
    4 Apr 1996 … A documentary tour of America's schools, illustrating the vast differences among inner city, rural and suburban settings. Bill Moyers moderates a town meeting immediately following the documentary. Continue reading
  2. Everything You Wanted to Know About the 1996 Welfare Law but Were Afraid to Ask President Bill Clinton during a 1996 speech on welfare reform at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. (PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/Getty Images)
    8 Aug 2016 … In 1996, Congress replaced the New Deal-era Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) with a new program called Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), under the guise of “ending welfare as we know it.” Continue reading
  3. What’s Killing the American Middle Class? Unemployed and homeless people line up for a free meal and new shoes during a Good Friday event in Los Angeles, California on April 3, 2015. After a year of pumping up their payrolls, US employers sharply cut back hiring in March, in a fresh sign of a slowdown in the world's leading economy. AFP PHOTO/ MARK RALSTON (Photo credit should read MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images)
    5 May 2016 … A new study by the Pew Research Center spurred a rash of headlines last week about “the dying middle class.” But the word “dying” might be more appropriate if we were watching the regrettable but inevitable effects of natural forces Continue reading
  4. Downward Mobility, Hypocritical Politicians and Rebuilding Afghanistan ** ADVANCE FOR THURSDAY JULY 24 ** Jefferson, Wis., Mayor Arnold Brawders, center, talks to striking Tyson Foods plant workers Ron Geyer, left, and Tom Heine, right outside the plant on May 12, 2003, in Jefferson. A strike by 470 Tyson workers at the Jefferson plant has turned the contract negotiations into a David-and-Goliath-type fight between a small southeastern Wisconsin town of 7,300 and the nation's largest meat company. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
    10 Oct 2003 … A battle between union workers and corporate efforts to cut pay and benefits, politicians who tout their religions but don't help those in need, and the plight of women in Afghanistan. Continue reading
  5. Breaking the Grip of the Fossil Fuel Economy: If It Can Happen in Appalachia, It Can Happen Anywhere Activist Helen Lewis at home. (Photo: Paula Allen)
    8 Aug 2014 … A number of small, local initiatives are beginning to transform Appalachia's coal country. Continue reading
  6. Dr. Eddie Glaude Jr. (Part One): Full Transcript
    4 Apr 2016 … Bill Moyers recently interviewed Eddie Glaude Jr., author of Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul and William S. Tod Professor of Religion and African-American Studies at Princeton Univesity. Here is the full transcript of their conversation. Continue reading
  7. The Other America Fast Food Workers Stage Nationwide Protest in front of McDonalds
    11 Nov 2020 … This post originally appeared on TomDispatch.com. In the two weeks since Election 2020, the country has oscillated between joy and anger, hope and dread in an era of polarization sharpened by the forces of racism, nativism, and hate. Still, truth Continue reading
  8. The Real Forgotten Americans Dirt streets still make up parts of East Biloxi on Jan. 2, 2016 in Biloxi, Mississippi. According to the US Census Bureau, Mississippi is the nation's poorest state, with a median income of $39,680. The city of Biloxi has struggled to make progress after the devastating flooding from Hurricane Katrina in 2005. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
    1 Jan 2017 … When Donald J. Trump assumes the presidency and lays out his agenda for our country, he will likely proclaim himself, as he did in the campaign, the voice of "the forgotten Americans." To Trump, these “forgotten Americans” are the white working-class Continue reading
  9. ’90 Percent of Workers Aren’t Getting Bupkis’
    8 Aug 2013 … Greg Kaufmann asks two economists: "How could we return to broad wage growth for all workers?" Continue reading
  10. The Most Undercovered Stories of 2015 (Part One)
    12 Dec 2015 … Around this time every year, BillMoyers.com asks reporters, editors and bloggers which key story they feel the mainstream media failed to cover adequately over the last 12 months. This post is the first installment of a two-part series. Continue reading