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  1. Race and Justice: Police Violence in Miami and CEO Compensation Miami Police
    4 Apr 2002 … In two segments, Bill explores the increasing disparity between what regular workers and CEOs take home from work and how the inability to deal with our "astonishing diversity" may be the greatest challenge facing law enforcement in our big cities. Continue reading
  2. SNAP Cuts Mean Millions Could Go Hungry
    11 Nov 2013 … Congressional cuts to the food stamp program went into effect this week, making it much harder for struggling families to make ends meet. Continue reading
  3. The Kingdom Divided Methodist pastor George Baldwin
    12 Dec 1987 … Bill Moyers explores two different visions of Christianity and how each is finding a pulpit and battleground in Central America. In Nicaragua, the Sandanistas’ view of Christianity says that the poor must not wait for justice, that the Kingdom of Continue reading
  4. How Seattle’s $15 Minimum Wage Victory Began in New York City’s Zuccotti Park In this Aug. 1, 2013 photo, demonstrators protesting what they say are low wages and improper treatment for fast-food workers march in downtown Seattle. Washington already has the nation’s highest state minimum wage at $9.19 an hour. Now, there’s a push in Seattle, at least, to make it $15. That would mean fast food workers, retail clerks, baristas and other minimum wage workers would get what protesters demanded when they shut down a handful of city restaurants in May and others demonstrated nationwide in July. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
    6 Jun 2014 … Immediately after the Occupy Wall Street protests began, candidates and elected officials started echoing its themes and the growing inequality in the country. Continue reading
  5. Let’s Tell Congress to Raise the Minimum Wage… Right Now! Fast Food Strike in NYC, July 2013. (Photo: Annette Bernhardt/Flickr CC 2.0)
    9 Sep 2014 … There's no need to wait for the next election. Americans know what they want. Continue reading
  6. 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
  7. Van Jones on Being a ‘Post-Hope Democrat’ Supporters hold up signs that read "Hope" as Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., speaks at a rally in Concord, N.H. January 2008 (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
    4 Apr 2012 … The former green jobs czar explains the importance of winning in November... and December. Continue reading
  8. Condoleezza Rice, Double Dealing on the Reservation, the Dimensions of Race, and the Tom DeLay Controversy Rice signs official papers after receiving the oath of office during her ceremonial swearing in at the Department of State. Watching are, from left, Laura Bush, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, President George W. Bush. (Photo: Wikimedia)
    11 Nov 2004 … NOW looks at soon-to-be Sec. of State Condoleezza Rice's track record, investigates lobbyists who allegedly cheated Indian tribes of tens of millions, and looks at social justice in an unfair system. Continue reading
  9. DC’s Money Explosion Leaves Most Behind
    8 Aug 2013 … America's capital is its richest city, and also one of its most unequal. Continue reading
  10. Bryan Stevenson and Michelle Alexander on Injustice
    4 Apr 2010 … Bill and two prominent civil rights attorneys talk about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s vision for economic justice. Continue reading