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Bill Moyer's Journal. The business of poverty - Facing up to the economy [videorecording] / a presentation theirteen/WNET New York ; producers, Gail ablow ... [et al.] ; directed by Ken Diego ; written by Bill Moyers, Michael Winship.

Contributor Diego, Ken.

Imprint:Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities and Sciences, c2008.

Description1 videodisc (57 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Note:"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 follows 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 70 billion surplus rounds out the program."--Container

Note : PerformerBill Moyers, host ; guests, Dean Baker and Bob Herbert

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Diego, Ken.
Moyers, Bill D.
Winship, Michael, 1950-
Baker, Dean, 1958-
Herbert, Bob, 1945-
WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
Films for the Humanities (Firm)
Title:
Business of poverty [videorecording]
Facing up to the economy [videorecording]
Series Statement
Moyers collection on DVD
Subject:
United States -- Economic conditions.
United States -- Social conditions.
United States -- Appropriations and expenditures.
Iraq -- Appropriations and expenditures.
Index Term - Genre/Form
Documentary television programs.
Television programs for the hearing impaired.
Nonfiction television programs.
Series Added Entry-Uniform title
Moyers collection on DVD.