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  1. Why Does Essential Work Pay So Little and Cost So Much?
    7 Jul 2020 … The pandemic has exposed certain deep and unexamined assumptions about the nature and value of work in the United States. Continue reading
  2. America’s New Working Class Demands Respect NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 10: Low wage workers and supporters protest for a $15 an hour minimum wage on November 10, 2015 in New York, United States. In what organizers are calling a National Day of Action for $15 and hour minimum wage, thousands of people took to the streets across the country to stage protests in front of businesses that are paying some of their workers the minimum wage. Home care workers, employees in retail and fast food restaurants say that the current minimum is not a living wage. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
    4 Apr 2016 … My father was a machinist at a steel factory for 29 years. A white male who wore a hard hat to work, carried his lunch in a pail and washed his dark blue uniform at the end of every day, Continue reading
  3. What Ben Carson Should Learn About Housing Segregation HUD Secretary nominee Ben Carson waits for his meeting with incoming Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee chairman Sen. Mike Crapo (R-ID). (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
    12 Dec 2016 … President-elect Donald Trump proposes to nominate Ben Carson to head the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Mr. Carson has expressed opposition to the Obama administration’s new HUD requirement that cities and suburbs develop plans to end their segregation Continue reading
  4. Activists to Watch: Aaron Bartley Aaron Bartley rallies for PUSH's energy efficiency campaign in Buffalo, New York
    10 Oct 2013 … Historian Peter Dreier explains why Bartley is a part of a new wave of grassroots activists changing America. Continue reading
  5. More Than 4,000 Black People Were Lynched in the South. Where Are Their Monuments? A scene from 'Abbeville,' a video about the commemoration of a lynching that happened in South Carolina 100 years ago.
    8 Aug 2017 … Recent events in Charlottesville have renewed the debate around whether to take down Confederate memorials and statues, but the latest short film from the Equal Justice Institute’s Lynching in America project shows that much more is needed to truly confront Continue reading
  6. Dividing the Spoils
    11 Nov 2014 … On Capitol Hill, it's payback time for the wealthy donors who paid for the big victory. Continue reading
  7. Most Underreported Stories of 2013 Plant Explosion Investigation
    12 Dec 2013 … As 2013 comes to an end, we asked editors, journalists and friends of BillMoyers.com: What story deserved more attention this year? Continue reading
  8. The Trump GOP Prescription for America: Don’t Get Sick Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price speaks at a press conference with House Republicans to discuss health care reform in Washington, DC, on March 17, 2017. (Photo by Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images)
    3 Mar 2017 … Yes, ladies and gentlemen, Donald Trump still insists he’s going to Make America Great Again! Mind you, it won’t be a healthy or vigorous America — in fact, it will be coughing and wheezing to the grave, but boy, will Continue reading
  9. The Revolt of the Cities Democratic mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio smiles during a rally in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
    5 May 2014 … In one major city after another, newly elected officials are planning to raise the minimum wage or enact ordinances boosting wages in developments that have received city assistance. They are drafting legislation to require inner-city hiring on major projects and Continue reading
  10. One Cheer and a Half for Re-Election
    11 Nov 2012 … Perhaps one cheer and a half for the re-election of Obama. He is at best a moderate Republican to judge by his first term, a better bet on the future than Romney, and yet not what our desperate times need, Continue reading