I'm recommending everyone watch the latest Frontline: "Two American Families"

[reformist2]

Bill Moyers follows the lives of two families for 25 years or so to illustrate in painful detail what's happened to the middle class in America over that time period. It'll make you so angry you'll want to take global free-market capitalism and drown it in the bathtub!

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/two-american-families/

You may have to load the page twice to get the episode to play - I have to do that, anyway.

[Ruby the Liberal]

1. +1

Watched that a week or so ago. Very powerful stories of these 2 families.

[Laelth]

2. k&r for exposure. n/t

-Laelth

[antigop]

3. we can thank the corporate Dems for being part of the problem. nt

[reformist2]

9. Sadly, yes. But fortunately more and more Dem politicians are seeing the light.

[kestrel91316]

4. I just watched that. Excellent!

[Cleita]

5. Bookmarked for later. Thanks!

Any report by Bill Moyers is bound to be thought provoking.

[reformist2]

10. Good point. I revised my post to advertize that Bill Moyers is the reporter.

[Hestia]

6. Shows clearly what has happened to Middle Class families from late 1970s/early 1980s

through today. As I stated on another thread, I cannot get over that woman paying 24 years on her mortgage and she still owed $96k! WTH? Was she making no principal payments?

I'm conflicted about the black family and their religion - sometimes I just wanted to shake them for all the nonsense, but who I am to tell them that they are wrong?

(Sorry, deleted the program, forgot the families names)

[reformist2]

12. It kind of smacks Clinton in the face a bit, too, something more Dems need to think about.

[pacalo]

7. My husband saw some of it & recommended it.

Thanks for the reminder.

[reformist2]

8. It's sooo good. Both families' stories are compelling.

I think my heart goes out to Teri Neumann the most - no one singular or horrific tragedy, but just one setback after another, leading to a slow, crushing descent into subsistence living.

[reformist2]

11. One last bump.

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