Bill Moyers Journal

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When The Blackstone Group bought a company and immediately laid off 841 people to boost profitability, the investors made a killing at the expense of the employees whose lives were derailed. In this program, Bill Moyers talks with best-selling journalist Barbara Ehrenreich-author of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America and Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream-about the real-world impact of the growing inequality gap between the increasingly wealthy and an eroding middle class. Moyers also talks with influential cultural critic Clive James about his latest book, Cultural Amnesia-a hundred short essays on 20th-century thinkers, villains, and heroes.

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