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

Taming Capitalism Run Wild. Economist Richard Wolfe shines light on the disaster of the financial collapse

and how we can now battle for economic democracy.

Our system, capitalism, which we finally have to debate, now that it is so dysfunctional,

our system isn't working.

It isn't producing for the mass of people.

And an economic system is only as acceptable or should be as its performance.

An activist, Sarou Jaya Rahman, talks about restaurant workers fighting for a living wage.

It's an incredible irony that the people who put food on our tables use food stamps at twice the rate of the rest of the U.S. workforce,

meaning that the people who put food on our tables can't afford to put food on their own family's tables.

Thanks for joining us.

There's hardly a sin yet grown up in this country who isn't aware that our economy

is no longer working for vast numbers of everyday people.

The rich and powerful have more wealth and power than ever.

Everyone else keeps losing ground.

Between 2009 and 2011 alone, income fell for the 99% while it rose 11% for the top 1%.

Since the worst of the financial crisis, all of the economic growth has gone to the top 1% while the rest of the country has floundered.

Stunning, isn't it?

The behavior of many of those 1%ers brought on the financial crisis in the first place.

We turned around and rescued them, and now their wealth is skyrocketing once again.

At the bottom, working people are practically flat on their back. We talk a lot

about what's happening to the middle class, but the American dreams really become a nightmare

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