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  1. Bill Moyers Essay: What’s the Truth Behind the Sunny New Unemployment Numbers? Ronald Reagan gives a televised address from the Oval Office, outlining his plan for Tax Reduction Legislation in July 1981.
    1 Jan 1984 … Bill tells the story of Ron Bricker, an out-of-work man who asked President Reagan for help finding a job, only to end up making less than he did on unemployment. Continue reading
  2. Margaret Flowers — The American Dream
    6 Jun 2017 … This is the time for a strong offense, because the only way we will achieve a transition to a clean energy economy, peace, and fulfillment of our human rights is by building people power to overcome those who profit from Continue reading
  3. Poet Kyle Dargan on the Affluence and Austerity of DC
    4 Apr 2013 … Poet Kyle Dargan talks about his efforts to reconcile his disparate cultural environments through poetry. Continue reading
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. Former Goldman Sachs Director Convicted of Insider Trading Rajat Gupta leaves federal court in New York sentenced to 2 years in prison for insider trading. Left is Gupta's attorney, Gary Naftalis. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
    10 Oct 2012 … Wednesday was a big day for government prosecutors cracking down on bankers. In addition to the Bank of America lawsuit, former Goldman Sachs director Rajat K. Gupta was sentenced to two years in prison and fined $5 million for insider Continue reading
  8. Activists to Watch: Deepak Bhargava
    10 Oct 2013 … Historian Peter Dreier explains why Bhargava is a part of a new wave of grass-roots activists changing America. Continue reading
  9. Morning Reads: Don’t Panic Over Ebola; GOPers Kill Probes Into Illegal Dark Money A medical worker from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, researchers who are working on the Ebola outbreak in Uganda, works at their laboratory in Entebbe 42kms (29 miles) from the capital Kampala Thursday Aug. 2, 2012. The latest Ebola outbreak in Uganda has dimmed hopes of a successful year for the country's growing tourism industry, government officials and tour operators said as tourists began to cancel trips amid rising cases of the deadly disease in the East African country. However the CDC team leader in Uganda says there is no cause of alarm since the disease is now under control. (AP Photo/Stephen Wandera)
    8 Aug 2014 … A roundup of some of the stories we're reading at Moyers & Company HQ... Continue reading
  10. Are We Heading Towards a Social Mobility Cliff?
    7 Jul 2012 … A new Pew report shows that Americans are still faring better than their parents, but another study says we're heading towards an impending cliff. Continue reading