[Livingwage] Fwd: [Peace] TV this week

[Belden Fields]

Robert Pollin co-authored the book, The Living Wage.  Catch him on Friday 
on WILL.
Belden



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>[1] I find Charlie Rose hard to watch, but he continues to get interesting
>guests from politics and the arts -- recently including Gore Vidal and
>Sally Mann.  Now if he'd only shut up...
>
>Tomorrow (Thurs. 11/20 -- WILL-TV at 11PM) he has Noam Chomsky on.
>
>[2] Bill Moyers' program ("Now") is one of the best on TV I think -- not
>that the competition is that stiff -- e.g., he's recently had on our own
>Bob McChesney and Doug Henwood of the excellent "Left Business Observer.")
>
>Friday (11/21 -- WILL-TV at 8PM) he has Robert Pollin, Founding
>Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) and
>Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. PBS
>blurb follows:
>
>"In the United States, the idea that anyone can succeed is a vital part of
>our national identity. But today, the middle class is shrinking, the gap
>between the rich and poor is widening, and the American Dream is at risk.
>What's driving the growing disparity that's creating a two-class society?
>This Friday on NOW with Bill Moyers, noted economist and author Robert
>Pollin provides economic context to 'A Question of Fairness,' a special
>one hour edition of NOW with Bill Moyers. Pollin, who has worked with the
>Joint Economic Committee of the US Congress, walks viewers through the
>complicated issues leading up to and facing a troubled US economy. Pollin
>has been a consultant on living wage policies in several US cities, and is
>currently working under the auspices of the UN Development Program to
>develop policies to promote jobs and equality in South Africa. He is a
>prolific writer with a new book, Contours of Decent: US Economic Fractures
>in the Landscape of Global Austerity. This book shows how variants of
>neoliberal economics under both Clinton and Bush -- lavishing favors on
>multinationals and capitalists while allowing living standards for
>ordinary people to fall -- operate in the US and less developed countries,
>and explores policies for economic growth with increased equality."
>
>--CGE
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