>Subject: NOW with Bill Moyers (5/17/02)
>Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 16:43:11 -0400
>Reply-To: "Public Affairs Television
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>NOW WITH BILL MOYERS on PBS on Friday, May 17 at 9:00 p.m. (check local
>listings)
>
>This week, NOW explores the great divide between the rich and poor.  The
>United States is now the most unequal society of all industrialized
>nations.  The very rich are getting richer while wages, benefits, and
>working conditions for workers at the bottom continue to be downsized.
>
>NOW's Bryan Myers and NPR reporter Emily Harris take us to Connecticut,
>where the gap between rich and poor is growing faster than in any other
>state in the country.  Janice Gruendel of Connecticut Voices for Children,
>an advocacy organization for working families, explains the growing
>tension: "When people look at their lives and don't see the potential for
>change, I think it does breed cynicism-when you have a growing gap of
>folks who don't believe there is any hope for them-that leads to all kinds
>of challenges to democracy and the way we think about opportunities in
>America."
>
>Bill Moyers interviews Kevin Phillips, author of Wealth and Democracy,
>about the political and economic history of American wealth.  Phillips
>says, "When money...really takes over on both sides, then money not only
>talks, money screams."  Discussing the challenges to democracy when money
>and government become intertwined, Phillips notes, "You can't have two
>parties that represent different flavors of great wealth and expect not to
>see all these weaknesses continue to grow."
>
>Then, NOW takes a look at class division in an excerpt from the film
>"People Like Us," in which filmmakers Louis Alvarez and Andrew Kolker
>examine how income defines the life and lifestyle of people across America.
>
>In most of the industrialized West, health care is a human right.  Here in
>the United States, it is a function of the market, and that market makes
>it too expensive for nearly 40 million Americans to afford coverage.  NOW
>producer William Brangham and NPR's Julie Rovner travel to Maine where a
>new debate is stirring that could be a sign of things to come.  Nurse Jay
>Houghton says of the impending crisis, "Nobody is happy where the
>situation is. Nobody is happy. I don't think the insurance companies are
>happy with the situation. Certainly, the patients aren't, certainly the
>doctors aren't.  The hospitals are in dire straits."
>
>NOW WITH BILL MOYERS continues online at PBS.org (www.pbs.org/now).  Log
>on to the site to learn more about health care proposals, see an
>international comparison of income disparity, join the ongoing discussion
>about the critical issues covered in NOW, and more.
>
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>newsletter, visit www.pbs.org/now/newsletter.html.



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