Tag: Moyers & Company
Outrage Over Obamacare Is Nothing Compared With FDR’s New Deal
Every baby step toward guaranteeing American working people a minimum of economic security with new social insurance programs has been greeted with howls of horror and outrage — and predictions that the end of the Republic is near. Every new addition…
We Asked, You Answered: Working in Restaurants
Last week, Bill spoke with Saru Jayaraman, co-founder of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, about the group’s fight for better wages and working conditions for America’s 10 million restaurant workers. At the end of the show, Bill asked…
Your Turn: Working in Restaurants
On our show this week, Bill Moyers asks viewers to tell us about their experiences working as waiters and waitresses. We know there are community blogs online like Waitress Confessions, Dinners From Hell and Stuck Serving, and also Reddit’s What’…
Millennials Didn’t Abandon Our Institutions — Our Institutions Failed Them
The Pew Research Center recently released a study finding that the Millennial generation – those born between the early 1980s and 2000 – is increasingly alienated from the major institutions of American society. Many are turned off by religion and…
Here’s How You May Already Be Getting Hacked
The following is an excerpt from Julia Angwin’s Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance. Who is watching you? This was once a question asked only by kings, presidents and public figures trying…
