- December 6, 2015The former labor secretary runs down the "dumb ideas" Ryan clings to including tax relief for the rich, Medicaid block grants for the states, Medicare vouchers for seniors and slashing the safety net.
- November 20, 2015Bernie Sanders has a plan to expand, not “save,” Social Security — and it should be popular.
- October 22, 2015Journalists are fond of saying what a "budget wonk" Ryan is, but they never talk about what he actually says about the budget.
- January 22, 2015One of the easiest and most effective things Congress could do to fight poverty would be to expand a program that already works very well: Social Security.
- January 19, 2015 | Updated January 28, 2015Every day, visit BillMoyers.com to discover a new action you can take to help turn the tide in the fight against poverty.
- July 27, 2014The Republican from Wisconsin has borrowed some populist rhetoric to go with his “kinder, gentler” talk about poverty. But his populism is not the real thing.
- July 22, 2014In its official 2014 platform for Texas, the GOP has gone for the chimerical bucket list of the extreme right instead of trying out real solutions to address real problems.
- July 8, 2014It's the Democratic Party's own fault that voters struggle to distinguish it from the Republican Party.
- May 22, 2014Minimum wage campaigns should be the entry point to not only raise the bottom but also to challenge the tricks, skims and scams that concentrate wealth into the hands of fewer and fewer people.
- May 21, 2014A roundup of some of the stories we're reading at Moyers & Company HQ...