Tomorrow on Bill Moyers Journal: Economic Inequality

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Economic Inequality
Bill Moyers Journal
t r u t h o u t | Programming Note

Airdate: Friday, August 3, 2007 at 9 p.m. EDT on PBS,
(Check local listings at http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/about/airdates.html.)

Economic inequality. As Wall Street continues to fuel wealth in America, Bill Moyers Journal examines what growing economic inequality means for the middle class and working families.
Big deals on Wall Street mean big gains for the wealthy in America, but is it at the expense of the middle class and working families? Bill Moyers talks to best-selling author Barbara Ehrenreich, who has gone undercover as a low-wage worker and as a struggling middle-class job seeker, about the real-world impact of the growing inequality gap. Also on the program, Bill Moyers interviews culture critic Clive James, whose latest book, "Cultural Amnesia," comes after more than 40 years of observing and commenting on arts, literature, culture and politics.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080207U.shtml

[bluestateguy]

1. Ah, Barbara Ehrenreich: The Florida Nader voter

A lot of the problems that she writes about would be much less severe today if she had not indulged in her bourgeoisie exercise of "conscience" in 2000.

Shame on her.

[Selatius]

2. Well, that's true, but it has no relevance to the topic of this thread

Economic inequality has been getting worse since Reagan. The 1990s didn't see much improvement for the lower and middle classes either, but the stock market and the top ten percent of income earners saw dramatic improvement in that period. After welfare "reform" the term "working poor" was coined.