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Inequality
  • Inequality
    'A Question of Fairness: Winners and Losers,' Rewriting the Rules, and Tax Justice.
    November 21, 2003 | NOW
    A three-part investigation into the roots of growing US economic inequality, and the often-forgotten human toll of government policies that favor corporations over individuals.
  • Inequality
    Women and Poverty: Labor Issues in Thailand, Education in Senegal, and Dr. Vandana Shiva on Globalization
    September 5, 2003 | NOW
    A special report examining how global corporations may be riding high by shortchanging the world's women.
  • Economy & Work
    Job Flight Overseas, Rising Gas Prices, and the State of Higher Education Today
    August 29, 2003 | NOW
    NOW visits India, where skilled workers are taking over technology and service positions for some of America's biggest corporations, and considers the effects of education budget cuts.
  • War & Peace
    A Report From Baghdad, the Patriot Act, and Cable Mergers and Community
    August 22, 2003 | NOW

    This episode of NOW reported on an attack on the UN headquarters in Iraq and what it might mean for the rebuilding of Iraq. Next up, a trend in local cable systems becoming part of big media conglomerates caused many to worry that cable companies were no longer interested in addressing the needs of local communities. At the time, community access to media provided millions of Americans with educational opportunity, access to local government, and ...

  • Health & Science
    Big Tuna and Mercury Poisoning, Ex-pat Brits on America as Empire, Healthcare For All in LA
    July 18, 2003 | NOW
    NOW examines how the tuna industry's influence on the FDA may cause mercury poisoning, discusses the health of US democracy compared to Great Britain, and looks at a model healthcare facility.
  • Justice
    A Former Inmate and Drug Addict on Incarceration, What You Need to Know About Iran, and Affirmative Action in College Admissions
    June 20, 2003 | NOW
    How can the American corrections system break the cycles of addiction and incarceration? A look at the psyche of Iran, and should colleges offer race-based affirmative action?
  • Health & Science
    A Conversation with Bill Gates: Making a Healthier World for Children and Future Generations
    May 9, 2003 | NOW
    NOW examines health issues around the world and Bill Moyers sits down with Microsoft mogul and public health student Bill Gates.
  • Gold Mountain Dreams
    March 25, 2003 | Becoming American – The Chinese Experience
    Fleeing civil war, flooding, and famine, thousands of young men leave the villages of southern China to seek their fortunes in the California Gold Rush.
  • Between Two Worlds
    March 1, 2003 | Becoming American – The Chinese Experience
    Part Two tells the story of these hostile years when Chinese Americans existed in a kind of limbo, denied rights in their new country and no longer at home in their former one.
  • Appreciations: An Interview with Doris Lessing
    January 24, 2003 | Updated October 26, 2015
    In this wide-ranging 2003 interview with Bill, the Nobel-prize winning novelist Doris Lessing, who passed away Sunday, opens up about her fascinating life.


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