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  1. America: “The Land of the Percents” A line of job applicants snakes through a ropeline to attend the CUNY Big Apple Job Fair Friday in New York. March 2009. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
    9 Sep 2012 … Romney’s recent characterization of the mindset of the 47 percent of Americans who don’t pay income taxes has spurred discussion about who pays what, and how income, taxes and entitlements affect American voters’ decisions in the voting booth. And though Continue reading
  2. Crunching Test Scores Isn’t Enough to Educate Our Kids EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE AT 3 A.M. EST (5 P.M. JST) - Students Julian Lopez, 12th grade, second left; Ben Montalbano, 11th grade, second right; and James Agostino, 12th grade, right; listen during their Advanced Placement (AP) Physics class at Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington, Friday, Feb. 7, 2014. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
    2 Feb 2014 … One teacher's perspective on today's data-driven education system. Continue reading
  3. An Ohio Community Confronts the Opioid Crisis Head On Downtown Portsmouth, Ohio. (Photo by Jack Shuler)
    9 Sep 2017 … Devon Applegate’s life in Scioto County, Ohio, has paralleled one of the worst drug epidemics this nation has ever seen. During his 19 years, he’s watched as opioid pills, dispensed by unscrupulous doctors to anyone who walked through their doors, Continue reading
  4. Louis Kelso Louis Kelso
    7 Jul 1990 … Bill Moyers talks with Louis Kelso, coauthor of The Capitalist Manifesto. Kelso advocates for spreading America’s wealth through Employee Stock Ownership Plans. Continue reading
  5. Filmmaker David Puttnam (Part Two) David Puttnam still
    9 Sep 1988 … Part two of Bill's conversation with the British filmmaker about popular movies, their power to change society, and moviemakers and their values. Continue reading
  6. The Gap Between SNAP and Basic Economic Security In this photo taken Nov. 23, 2009, Lisa Zilligen, 28, serves lunch to her three children, Miles, 20 months, Olivia 6, left, and Danielle, 8, in her home in Chicago. Zilligen, a single mother and full-time student at Loyola University has been getting food stamps for the past several months; sometimes the allotment runs out before the end of the month and the family ends up visiting a food pantry. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
    6 Jun 2013 … The amount of federal food assistance is often capped well below what a family needs. See the size of that gap in several U.S. states. Continue reading
  7. PODCAST: Heather McGhee: How American Racism has a Cost for Everyone
    11 Nov 2020 … At 22, working for the non-profit organization Demos in New York, Heather McGhee plunged into the fight for debt reform, then tackled Wall Street corruption and consumer protection, and wound up president of Demos, leading its campaign against political and Continue reading
  8. How the Great Society Democratized Our Economy Lyndon Johnson in his State of the Union message on Jan. 8, 1964.
    5 May 2014 … Like the New Deal before it, the Great Society changed the way Americans thought about the relationship of the government to the economy. Continue reading
  9. Will Every State Eventually Expand Medicaid?
    10 Oct 2013 … Some Republican governors are now saying that the Obamacare provision makes good fiscal sense for their states. Continue reading
  10. A New American Revolution: Can We Break Out of Our Nation’s Culture of Cruelty? Demonstrators from Texas sit on the ground and chant, "Kill the bill, kill the bill," outside the offices of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) while protesting against health care reform legislation in the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington, DC on July 10, 2017. More than 100 people from across the country were arrested during the protest that was organized by Housing Works and Center for Popular Democracy. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
    7 Jul 2017 … The health care reform bills proposed by Republicans in the House and Senate have generated heated discussions across a vast ideological and political spectrum. On the right, senators such as Rand Paul and Ted Cruz have endorsed a new level Continue reading