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  1. Robert Reich: Four Big Conservative Lies About Inequality Fast food workers announce a global protest for a higher minimum wage outside a McDonald's restaurant in Manhattan on May 7, 2014. (BillMoyers.com/Neha Tara Mehta)
    5 May 2014 … The truth is, America’s lurch toward widening inequality can be reversed. But doing so will require bold political steps. Continue reading
  2. Preventing Crime Before It Happens
    1 Jan 2013 … No other city comes close to matching New York’s crime-fighting success, which has lasted twice as long and has been twice as deep as the national average. The cause of that crime drop is the intense, data-driven style of policing Continue reading
  3. Jacob Needleman Jacob Needleman
    6 Jun 1990 … Bill Moyers talks with philosopher Jacob Needleman about his new study of the role of money in our culture. Needleman discusses how there has always been greed, avarice and people wanting more than they need. However cultures have always wanted Continue reading
  4. What We Didn’t Hear At the Debate Fast Food Workers Stage Nationwide Protest in front of McDonalds
    10 Oct 2016 … In a debate that will be most remembered for Donald Trump's diss of democracy, there was little said about the anxieties that appear to be undermining it. Big questions about the old economy and new economy were not addressed. Here Continue reading
  5. Pope Francis Embraced the Most Subversive Voices in Modern American Catholicism 'Much as the legacies and lives of Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks have been historically revised and sanitized,' explains Scahill, 'so too are the lives of Dorothy Day and Thomas Merton.' (Photo: Archive/via miriampawel.com)
    10 Oct 2015 … Holding up these two radical, pacifist, militantly anti-war Catholics as role models was a remarkable act by Pope Francis. Continue reading
  6. A World Cup for the Wealthy, Not the People A demonstrator argues with police lined up during a protest against the World Cup in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Saturday, June 14, 2014. Anti-World Cup demonstrators are demanding better public services and protesting the money spent on the international soccer tournament. (AP Photo/Bruno Magalhaes)
    6 Jun 2014 … Dave Zirin discusses the Brazilian people's protests against huge sporting events that catch the world's eye but deepen inequality and divert resources from where they're needed most in a country struggling with massive income inequality. Continue reading
  7. The True Size of the Student Debt Crisis Students attend graduation ceremonies at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Ala. August 2011. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)
    6 Jun 2013 … More people than the entire population of Colorado are in danger of defaulting on student loans. An infographic from Demos illustrates the true size of the crisis. Continue reading
  8. Richmond Revisited: What It Takes to Beat the Elite A view of a Chevron refinery on March 3, 2015 in Richmond, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
    4 Apr 2016 … A retired schoolteacher who beat a $3 million campaign by Chevron talks about how he became vice mayor of Richmond, California. Continue reading
  9. Ryan Budget Slashes Safety Net on ‘Path to Prosperity’ House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., holds up a copy of his budget plan entitled "The Path to Prosperity," March 2012. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
    3 Mar 2012 … House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan seems to be playing Robin Hood in reverse. Continue reading
  10. Unequal Education Unequal Education screenshot
    9 Sep 1992 … Bill Moyers compares the everyday experiences of two New York City middle schools and contrasts political rhetoric with the reality of American education. Continue reading