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  1. ‘Two American Families’
    7 Jul 2013 … Watch the latest update of Bill's 20-year chronicle of two Milwaukee families who epitomize the modern struggles of America's beleaguered middle class. Continue reading
  2. Decades of Inequality Shadow Voter Turnout in Rural Georgia
    12 Dec 2020 … This article was produced by Voting Booth, a project of the Independent Media Institute. Commerce Street, once the heart of downtown Hawkinsville, Georgia, is easily overlooked. A visitor following state highways through the Pulaski County seat would glance at a row of faded Continue reading
  3. Wasserman Schultz Has a Change of Heart, But Too Little, Too Late Democratic National Committee Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Shultz (D-FL) (center) joined fellow congressional Democrats to call on Republicans to postpone the Memorial Day holiday recess at the US Capitol May 26, 2016 in Washington, DC. Rumors are circulating about her being forced from her DNC role. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
    6 Jun 2016 … Return with us now to the saga of Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the soul of the Democratic Party. First, a quick recap: Rep. Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), chair of the Democratic National Committee, also has been an advocate for the payday Continue reading
  4. Capital in the Twenty-First Century: An Essential Inequality Reader
    12 Dec 2013 … Everyone seems to be talking about inequality. If you’ve got questions, we’ve (hopefully) got the answers. Continue reading
  5. ‘Calls From Home’: A Radio Show Bringing Hope to Inmates in Remote Rural Prisons The Red Onion Prison is shown Saturday, Feb. 24, 2001, in Pound Va. Out-of-state inmates take up space in Virginia's prisons like the Red Onion, but they also supply revenue to the state's general fund. Depending on the contract, the department charges inmates $60 a day or more. (AP Photo/Don Long)
    4 Apr 2015 … In a region dominated by coal companies and privatized prisons, activist Amelia Kirby charts a new path for her community. Continue reading
  6. The Trump Infrastructure Plan Won’t Bridge the Nation’s Job Gap Workers with the Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York install guard rail with pneumatic hammers at Bay 50 St on the D Line in Brooklyn on July 14, 2012. (Photo by Leonard Wiggins/Metropolitan Transportation Authority/ flickr CC 2.0)
    2 Feb 2017 … President Trump on Tuesday night is expected to make what he told a meeting of governors on Monday would be “a big statement” on infrastructure spending. Democrats who have been fighting Trump fiercely on virtually every other issue have been Continue reading
  7. What Has Capitalism Done for Us Lately?
    3 Mar 2013 … Bill takes a close look at avarice, banks, and capitalism -- the ABCs of economic inequality -- with insight from Sheila Bair and Richard Wolff. Continue reading
  8. We Supported Their Dictators, Led the Failed ‘War on Drugs’ and Now Deny Them Refuge Migrants seeking asylum in the United States await near the US-Mexico border at El Chaparral crossing in Tijuana, Mexico on May 7, 2017. (Photo by Guillermo Arias /AFP/Getty Images)
    11 Nov 2017 … President Donald Trump has tied his executive order giving Congress six months to “fix” DACA to constructing a wall between the US and Mexico as well as a rapid and massive deportation of unaccompanied children and families entering the US Continue reading
  9. Missing in the American Media: Working People Lena Dunham in HBO's 'Girls' (Photo: Courtesy of HBO)
    9 Sep 2014 … Corporate flacks and entitled millennials get plenty of TV airtime. Working Americans, not so much. Continue reading
  10. Wendell Potter and Marcia Angell on Health Care Reform
    3 Mar 2010 … Bill Moyers sits down with former insurance executive turned public health advocate Wendell Potter, who argues that all is not lost in the healthcare bill and details what he likes about the legislation. And single-payer advocate Marcia Angell explains why Continue reading