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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. Youngstown’s Slow Path To Recovery The caption of this 1950 photo says it depicts American steelworker Charlie Grapentine drives his Dodge car home from work. He earns $320 per month for a 40-hour week at the United States Steel Corporation works in Youngstown, Ohio. His salary supports his wife Josephine and their two children Charles and Nancy. US Steel closed its Youngstown works in 1980. (Photo by Doreen Spooner/Keystone Features/Getty Images)
    4 Apr 2016 … There is no more powerful symbol of what has happened to the American manufacturing economy and the millions of middle-class livelihoods it made possible than Youngstown, Ohio. Despite, or perhaps because of that, it has become a regular stop on Continue reading
  4. On Black Friday, Americans Confront the Wal-Mart 1 Percent: Pay Employees a Living Wage Wal-Mart workers protesting for better wages and a union in front of Alice Walton's $25 million Park Ave penthouse in NYC in October 16, 2014. (Photo: Charina Nadura/Moyers & Company)
    11 Nov 2014 … Organizers say that at more than 1,600 Wal-Mart stores, shoppers on Black Friday will be greeted by employees protesting the company's abusive labor practices. Continue reading
  5. Whose Rights Matter in Pandemic America?
    2 Feb 2021 … Not those of poor Americans, that's for sure. Continue reading
  6. Invisible Americans Get the Silent Treatment
    8 Aug 2012 … Why President Obama needs to reaffirm his commitment to the American poor. Continue reading
  7. The Good Society (Part One) The Good Society Atlanta
    8 Aug 1992 … The groundbreaking book by sociologist Robert Bellah, The Good Society, forms the backbone for this two-part program with Bill Moyers, which looks at two American cities uniquely struggling to make a better society. The first program looks at Atlanta. Despite Continue reading
  8. America’s Middle-Class Squeeze and Philip Pan on China Flag of China
    8 Aug 2008 … Bill Moyers and Philip Pan discuss controversial aspects of China’s emergence as an economic powerhouse as the 2008 Summer Olympics come to a close. And as the 2008 Democratic National Convention prepares to open, the Journal travels to Denver to Continue reading
  9. The Earth Does Not Belong to Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk SpaceX owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk arrives on the red carpet for the Axel Springer Award 2020 on December 01, 2020 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Britta Pedersen-Pool/Getty Images)
    1 Jan 2021 … 2020 will go down as the deadliest year in American history, significantly due to the devastation delivered by the coronavirus pandemic. In addition, count in nearly two trillion dollars in damage from climate events, a surge of incidents of police Continue reading
  10. Farm Subsidies and America’s Hungry Clark Elementary School kindergartner Nora Henschel checks out at the end of the lunch line on Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2015, at her school in Paducah. The Southern Education Foundation found that 55 percent of Kentucky public school students qualify for free and reduced lunch. (AP Photo/The Paducah Sun, John Paul Henry)
    4 Apr 2008 … Bill Moyers sheds light on more than $15 billion in wasteful expenditures that flow from Washington to American farmers. Then, Bill Moyers looks at shortages in America’s food banks and speaks with David Beckmann of Bread for the World. Continue reading