A Hidden America: Children of the Mountains
In the hills of Central Appalachia, up winding, mountain roads, is a place where families face unthinkable living conditions. Isolated pockets here have three times the national poverty rate, an epidemic of drug abuse, and the shortest life span in ...
The New Rulers of the World
Award-winning journalist, John Pilger, investigates the realities of globalization by taking a close look at Indonesia. In order to examine the true effects of globalization, Pilger turns the spotlight on Indonesia, a country described by the World ...
Moyers & Company: MLK’s Dream of Economic Justice
Martin Luther King had long known that racial equality was inextricably linked to economic equity—fairness for all, including working people and the poor. In the last year of his life, Dr. King announced the Poor People’s Campaign to demand an �...
How to Start a Revolution
Gene Sharp hardly seems like one of the world's most dangerous men. White-haired and soft-spoken, the 83-year-old professor mostly keeps to himself, spending much of his time in his small Boston home reading, writing, and tending to his orchid garde...
Park Avenue: Money, Power, and the American Dream - Why Poverty?
Number 740 Park Avenue is home to several New York billionaires. Just ten minutes north, in the South Bronx, is another Park Avenue, where more than half the population rely on government food stamps to survive. According to the American dream, any ...
Poor Us: An Animated History of Poverty - Why Poverty?
Economist Jeffrey Sachs has pointed out that for most of history, “everybody in the world was poor.” As societies grew richer, they formed different attitudes toward poverty. The Greeks thought it played an essential role in society, whereas the...