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marmar

(76,985 posts)
Sat Apr 6, 2013, 10:59 AM Apr 2013

Bill Moyers: Homeless in High Tech’s Shadow

http://vimeo.com/63373007


Homeless in High Tech’s Shadow
April 5, 2013


California’s Silicon Valley is a microcosm of America’s new extremes of wealth and poverty. Business is better than it’s been in a decade, with companies like Facebook, Google and Apple minting hundreds of new tech millionaires. But not far away, the homeless are building tent cities along a creek in the city of San Jose. Homelessness rose 20 percent in the past two years, food stamp participation is at a 10-year high, and the average income for Hispanics, who make up a quarter of the area’s population, fell to a new low of about $19,000 a year — in a place where the average rent is $2000 a month.

As this week’s Moyers & Company remembers Dr. Martin Luther King’s legacy in economic justice as well as civil rights, we visit Silicon Valley to bring you this story about modern-day poverty and inequality. We talk to Cindy Chavez of Working Partnerships USA; Russell Hancock of Joint Venture Silicon Valley; Martha Mendoza, an AP writer whose recent piece about Silicon Valley poverty brought this story to our attention; Daniel Garcia, who became homeless after losing his job in a Google campus restaurant; and Teresa Frigge, a homeless woman who used to make the silicon chips that give the valley its name.


http://billmoyers.com/content/homeless-in-high-techs-shadow/


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Bill Moyers: Homeless in High Tech’s Shadow (Original Post) marmar Apr 2013 OP
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When does this air? senseandsensibility Apr 2013 #5
It aired Friday......but I know that locally, the Detroit PBS station airs Bill Moyers' show on Sun. marmar Apr 2013 #6
I watch all of Bill Moyer's shows anytime I want on his snappyturtle Apr 2013 #9
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HUGE K & R !!! WillyT Apr 2013 #10

marmar

(76,985 posts)
6. It aired Friday......but I know that locally, the Detroit PBS station airs Bill Moyers' show on Sun.
Sat Apr 6, 2013, 11:57 AM
Apr 2013

It varies locally.



snappyturtle

(14,656 posts)
9. I watch all of Bill Moyer's shows anytime I want on his
Sat Apr 6, 2013, 01:56 PM
Apr 2013

nice website. I just checked it's there.

http://billmoyers.com/

edit: oops! didn't see the posted link! dah!

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