the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the kohlberg foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that s why we re your retirement company. welcome. here s something to make you really, really mad. our country s infrastructure is crumbling. potholes are becoming sinkholes, axle-killers, tire-busters. our cities struggle to pay for services. the powers-that-be in bankrupt detroit even cut off the water to some residents. schools and libraries are closing. public parks decay. and the war party in washington clamors for billions of dollars more for foreign interventions bombs, rockets, drones, even troops. 20 million americans who would like a full-time job still can t get one, yet corp
and creativity in our society. the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the kohlberg foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that s why we re your retirement company. welcome. i ll wager that in the first seven pages of this book, losing our way, you will be hooked. and when you close the final chapter, you will have seen our country as you haven t in a long time intimately, through the eyes of a great reporter. his stories take us across america, from the best buy headquarters in minnesota to ordinary homes in allentown, pennsylvania. you will meet jessica gallardo at her high school in brooklyn, and rico and frankie blancaflor of montclair, new jersey, survivors of hurricane
we continue our conversation with one of the world s most influential economists sited by his colleagues in the field. he s a nobel laureate, and he s mad as hell, infuriated by america s growing inequality as those at the top buy the politicians who write the rules that rig the system. he s especially angry at how the tax code has been manipulated and abused to place the burden on the earners of ordinary income, instead of on the rich and powerful most able to pay. but joseph stiglitz says there are solutions. here s what he told us in our last episode: we have a tax system that reflects not the interest of the middle. we have a tax system that reflects the interest of the one percent. and i want to do is create a tax system that has incentives to create jobs. and if you tell a corporation, look it, if you don t create jobs, you re taking out of our system, you re not putting back, you re going to pay a high tax. but if you put back into our system by investing, then you c
the herb alpert foundation, supporting organizations whose mission is to promote compassion and creativity in our society. the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the kohlberg foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that s why we re your retirement company. welcome. it s unbelievable, and frankly outrageous, that in the last four years, close to half the states in this country have passed laws making it harder for people to vote. but it s true. and whereas once upon a time, in the south of my youth, it was democrats who used the poll tax, literacy tests and outright intimidation to keep black people from voting, today it s the republicans working the levers of suppression, as if s
and now bbc world news america. i am katty kay. dramatic new fitted from nairobi shows the incredible extent of damage after a siege that left dozens dead. rescuers searched through the rubble in pakistan after a powerful earthquake killed more than 300 people there. she spent her life in the political spotlight. tonight we speak with chelsea clinton about her role in the family foundation. welcome to our viewers on public elevation in america and around the globe. al-shabaab, the islamist group responsible for killing dozens of people in a shopping center in nairobi, said it was carrying out a vetting process of muslims would not be hurt in the raid. 137 people were killed, which is disputed by kenyan authorities which say it over 60 people died. from inside footage what is left of the mall. the scale of destruction is staggering. who did this, the gunman or the kenyan forces storming the holding. this is storming the building. this is the landscape in which experts mu