Bill Moyers Journal. The Business of Poverty / Facing Up to the Economy
Description
As more and more companies view low-income Americans as opportunities for profit, the "poverty business" is taking off. In this program, Bill Moyers Journal and Expose: America's Investigative Reports follow a team of BusinessWeek reporters as they track corporate practices that some say are exploiting the working poor. Bill Moyers then talks with economist Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and New York Times journalist Bob Herbert about the severe economic challenges facing the government and the populace. A Moyers essay on the Iraqi government's $79 billion surplus rounds out the program.
Runtime
57 min
Subjects
- Wealth (179)
- Power (Social sciences) (152)
- Macroeconomics (317)
- Welfare recipients (20)
- Political planning (192)
- Public welfare (48)
- Social service (140)
- Business ethics (382)
- Social policy (88)
- Economics (3707)
- Social classes (184)
- Public policy (Law) (168)
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Geography
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