Note: As a result of Hurricane Sandy's devastating effects, we are rebroadcasting the premiere of Moyers & Company, exploring politically-engineered inequality.
Political Scientist Jacob HackerHow, in a nation as wealthy as America, can the economy simply stop working for people at large, while super-serving those at the very top?
This weekend, in an encore broadcast of the premiere episode of Moyers & Company, Bill Moyers looks deeper at America’s economic disparity to investigate how it happened and who’s to blame. His detectives: political scientists Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson, authors of "Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer — And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class." Through exhaustive research and analysis, Hacker and Pierson — whom Moyers regards as the “Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson” of economics — detail important truths behind a 30-year economic assault against the middle class.
The show includes testimony of middle class Americans at a Senate hearing about the impact of hard times on families, as well as an essay on how Occupy Wall Street reflected a widespread belief that politics no longer works for ordinary people.
Moyers & Company, Friday at 9 p.m. on PBS 6.
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