Bill Moyers Discusses New American Economy and His New Film 'Two American Families'

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Watch Moyers and two experts break down the policies turning the American dream into a nightmare.

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July 10, 2013
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Bill Moyers spent more than twenty years documenting the lives of two American families, one black and one white, for the new Frontline special ” Two American Families.” After decades chronicling their struggles to achieve the American dream, Moyers sat down this week with author/activist/playwright Barbara Garson, as well as public education advocate and author Barbara Miner, to discuss the changing lives of Americans struggling it to make it in the new American economy. Watch it:

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