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  1. Why is SNAP Part of the Farm Bill?
    6 Jun 2013 … During the Great Depression, Americans foraged through garbage cans for food and dug in public parks to find roots they could eat. Parents reluctantly sent their children door-to-door to beg. Ninety-five people were admitted to New York City’s four largest Continue reading
  2. Morning Reads…
    8 Aug 2013 … A roundup of the stories the Moyers & Company crew are reading today. Continue reading
  3. The Fair Food Program: Worker-Driven Social Responsibility for the 21st Century Farmworkers pick tomatoes at Taylor & Fulton Tomatoes in Immokalee, Fla. March 2006 (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)
    5 May 2014 … Since its inception three years ago, the Fair Food Program has played a key role in transforming the work conditions in Florida’s $650 million tomato industry. Continue reading
  4. The Unraveling of a Dream
    7 Jul 2013 … The sign I carried at the March on Washington said: “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.” I had just graduated from the University of Minnesota and was an intern at the State Department. A half century has not dulled Continue reading
  5. The Bad Boss Tax In this Feb. 17, 2009 file photo, shoppers leave a Wal-Mart in Danvers, Mass. Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010 said it is realigning its U.S. operations in an effort to give more autonomy to executives in regional markets and reinvigorate U.S. growth.. (AP Photo/Lisa Poole, File)
    7 Jul 2014 … Workers at Target, Wal-Mart and McDonald’s need food stamps to survive. Should the companies be taxed accordingly? Continue reading
  6. A Question of Fairness: Winners and Losers, Rewriting the Rules, and Tax Justice baseball park
    11 Nov 2003 … A three-part investigation into the roots of growing US economic inequality, and the often-forgotten human toll of government policies that favor corporations over individuals. Continue reading
  7. Morning Reads: Sandra Bland Arrest Video, Kids Count and the $153,000 Snakebite Sandra Bland police dashboard video screenshot
    7 Jul 2015 … A roundup of some of the stories we're reading at BillMoyers.com HQ… Continue reading
  8. Banks Got Nowhere to Run To, Baby US Bank branch in Omaha, Neb.
    4 Apr 2013 … After facing protests in their home city of Minneapolis, U.S. Bank executives moved their shareholders meeting to Idaho -- but the outrage followed. Continue reading
  9. That Night the Lights Went Out Police officers and passersby in front of a damaged Brooklyn store front, looted in the wake of the New York City blackout, July 14, 1977. (Photo by Robert R. McElroy/Getty Images)
    7 Jul 2017 … The summer of 1977 was long, hot and bizarre, and not simply because of the massive blackout. The city was still trying to pull itself from near-bankruptcy, just two years after the New York Daily News had reported the federal Continue reading
  10. Coming Home From War, Salon on Big Media, and Misconceptions About the Middle Class and the Economy TRANSCRIPT ONLY HAS PICTURE US vets
    11 Nov 2003 … This episode of NOW examines the gaps between the Defense Department and the Department of Veterans Affairs that allow America's war wounded to fall between the cracks after sacrificing so much for their country, the relationship between Big Media conglomerates Continue reading