I'm Bill Moyers. It's good to have your ear. This week on Moyers & Company,

we report from California Silicon Valley where not everyone strikes it rich in the high-tech gold rush.

Haldlessness has increased dramatically in the shadow of Google, in the shadow of Oracle, in the shadow of Apple

computer, you have people who are hungry. You have incredibly wealthy people and

incredibly poor people in a growing gap. And then I talk with Sherman Alexi about

his latest book, Blasphemy, and his life in between the many worlds of a Native American.

Because I'm ambiguously ethnic looking, you know, I come to New York and I can be anything.

People generally think I'm half of whatever they are.

You know, I can be in a room full of Indians and non-Indians, and I can switch in the middle of sentences.

I end up feeling like a spy in the House of Ethnicity.

Thanks for joining us.

Inequality matters. You'll hear people say it doesn't, but they're usually so high up the ladder

they can't even see those at the bottom. That's true across America. In California, Silicon Valley, Apple, Facebook,

and Google, among others, have reinvented the gold rush. But down the road in San Jose,

it's not so pretty a picture. Do the math. In an area where one-fourth of the population

earn an average of about $19,000 a year, rent alone can average more than $20,000 a year.

And that difference adds up to homelessness.

We talked to Associated Press reporter Martha Mendoza, who brought this story to our attention.

I've been a journalist in this area for 25 years and during that time it has gone from

having a pretty robust middle class to being an area where you see this great divide of wealthy and poor.

And nowhere do you see that more than in the Silicon Valley where 25 years ago this was a place of orchards and farms and ranching and small businesses.

And it has completely changed now so that you have incredibly wealthy people and incredibly poor people in a growing gap.

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