Park Avenue: money, power and the American dream - Why Poverty?

740 Park Ave, New York City, is home to some of the wealthiest Americans. Across the Harlem River, 10 minutes to the north, is the other Park Avenue in South Bronx, where more than half the population needs food stamps and children are 20 times more likely to be killed. In the last 30 years, inequality has rocketed in the US -- the American Dream only applies to those with money to lobby politicians for friendly bills on Capitol Hill.



How much inequality is too much? To find out more and get teaching resources linked to the film, go to www.whypoverty.net

Mark Leibovich on America's Gilded Capital | Bill Moyers

This Town by Mark Leibovich is the story of how Washington became an occupied city, its hold on reality distorted by greed and ambition. Leibovich pulls no punches, naming names and revealing the city’s bipartisan lust for power, cash and notoriety.

Robert Reich: super committee is super trouble

Robert Reich explains how the Super Committee could reduce the deficit by raising taxes on the 1% and create jobs, rather than making cuts that will hurt working families.

Bill Moyers on Plutonomy

Bill Moyers signs off his last broadcast with an editorial discussion on why plutocracy and democracy don't mix.

How to succeed through supercommittee’s ‘failure’

By E.J. Dionne Jr. | The Washington Post

16 Nov 2011 | Here is a surefire way to cut $7.1 trillion from the deficit over the next decade. Do nothing.

That’s right. If Congress simply fails to act between now and Jan. 1, 2013, the tax cuts passed under President George W. Bush expire, $1.2 trillion in additional budget cuts go through under the terms of last summer’s debt-ceiling deal, and a variety of other tax cuts also go away.

Knowing this, are you still sure that a “failure” by the congressional supercommittee to reach a deal would be such a disaster?

Read it here.

Barney Frank: Gingrich is 'fundamentally intellectually dishonest' for hypocrisy on Freddie Mac

Bill Press on the 'Super Congress'

Occupy Wall Street: the next viral video

DC Douglas has put together a brilliant 3-minute video which boils down the situation and just what the hell should be done about it.

Rep. Ed Markey asks GOP if they plan to legislate against gravity, relativity