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Under the editorial direction of Bill Moyers, the non-profit, award-winning Moyers & Company offer independent news and commentary covering elections, money and politics, inequality, climate change, voting rights, the media and more.
Don’t Be Fooled: Banks Still Too Big to Fail
The immediate takeaway by many in the media, government and investment community was that the need for a taxpayer subsidy like the bailouts of 2008 may have declined or …
Why “Can’t Make Ends Meet” Trumps “Poverty“
Poverty is structural, created by policies and practices that benefit some people at excruciating cost to others - particularly people of color and women.
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It’s Not Just Low Pay Stressing Out Part-Time Workers
A single mom working two jobs should know if her hours are being canceled before she arranges for daycare and drives halfway across town to show up at work.
Deep in the Tell-Tale Heart of the Texas GOP
Are we to sell reality for a phantom?
The Crusade Against Reproductive Rights
Despite consistent public opinion to the contrary, conservatives and the religious right have patiently and relentlessly campaigned against Roe v. Wade for decades.
Richard D. Wolff | Capitalism’s Deeper Problem
Globalization distributed capitalism's deepening inequality throughout the world.
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No One Expects a Monty Python Fourth of July
The US and the UK may yet be an ocean apart and separated by a common language but we share a bond of vast wealth at the very top …
Fracking Is Causing an Earthquake Boom in Oklahoma
A study published last week in the journal Science adds more detail to the already widely acknowledged finding that fracking leads to earthquakes.
Rising Voices for a New Economy
In a world where income inequality is squeezing the middle class to the point of oblivion and those with the biggest bank accounts have the loudest voices, two of …
Joseph Stiglitz: No, Spiraling Inequality Isn’t Inevitable
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz took to the opinion pages of The New York Times to argue that there's no such thing as “natural” market forces.