[North-NV-Greens] Fwd: This week on NOW

[Paul Etxeberri]

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>NOW
>Friday, March 25, 2005 on PBS
>(Check local listings at http://www.pbs.org/now/sched.html)
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>This week on NOW:
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>* Shrinking safety net.  Find out what the new bankruptcy legislation
>could mean for Americans who fall on hard times in PAYMENT DUE.
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>* Getting Galbraith. Economist and author Richard Parker on the views
>and legacy of John Kenneth Galbraith.
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>PAYMENT DUE
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>Controversial new bankruptcy legislation almost certain to become law
>could make it harder for regular Americans to protect themselves if they
>fall on hard times and can't pay their debt.  Credit card companies are
>hailing the proposed law as reform of a system rife with abuse, but does
>it unfairly favor the rich and target the working class?  NOW goes
>inside the debate, examines the causes for bankruptcy filings and looks
>at a loophole in the bill that allows the wealthy to protect assets from
>creditors.  The report tells the story of a Connecticut family forced
>into bankruptcy by expenses from a catastrophic medical emergency and
>contemplates what the new law could mean for families facing similar
>situations. 
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>RICHARD PARKER
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>Some statistics suggest that income inequality--the gap between rich and
>poor--in America is wider now than it has been for 70 years.  What does
>John Kenneth Galbraith, a chief architect of the American economy in the
>1960s, think about America's economic direction today?  David Brancaccio
>gets insight from economist Richard Parker, author of the biography JOHN
>KENNETH GALBRAITH: THE MAKING OF AMERICAN ECONOMICS.  "His ideal of what
>he called 'the new class' has not turned out to be nearly as
>public-minded as Galbraith hoped it would," says Parker.  A Lecturer in
>Public Policy and Senior Fellow of the Shorenstein Center at Harvard,
>Parker has worked as an economist for the United Nations Development
>Programme and as cofounder of MOTHER JONES MAGAZINE.  His books include:
>THE MYTH OF THE MIDDLE CLASS and MIXED SIGNALS: THE FUTURE OF GLOBAL
>TELEVISION NEWS.
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>NOW continues online at PBS.org (www.pbs.org/now).  Log on to find out
>about the provisions of the proposed bankruptcy legislation; to get the
>startling figures on Americans and debt in the 21st century; to read
>more from bankruptcy expert Elizabeth Warren; to explore the life and
>works of noted economist John Kenneth Galbraith; and more.
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>Hosted by David Brancaccio, NOW has been called "...one of the last
>bastions of serious journalism on TV" by the Austin American-Statesmen
>and "...public television at its best" by the Philadelphia Inquirer.
>Each week, the series sheds light on a wide range of issues confronting
>the nation and explores American democracy and culture through
>investigative reporting and interviews with major authors, leading
>thinkers, and artists. 
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Paul Etxeberri

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