Welcome. I'm Bill Moyers, and I want to talk about the hurricane that's blowing across America right now.

In our country today, we have more income and wealth inequality than any other major industrialization on earth.

It's blasting the race for president from left and right.

Middle income people are making less money today in real dollars by far than they made 18 years ago.

Voters are angry, angry at stagnating wages,

angry at the loss of upward mobility for their kids,

angry at the power of corporations and rich people over our political system.

People!

Don't take this anymore!

We're going to end this corrupt!

And they're angry over the vast gap that keeps growing between rich and poor.

Prosperity can't be just for CEOs and hedge fund managers.

Democracy can't be just for billionaires and corporations.

Let's call this for what it is, gross inequality.

And what's happening is not inevitable.

Inequality is no force of nature.

For more than 40 years, our politicians have collaborated with campaign contributors

to make the rich richer, even as Washington turned its back on the middle class.

So stay with us as we explore America's winner-take-all politics.

For over 40 years now, I've worked at the intersection of politics and journalism.

Inside the White House with President Johnson, I was his assistant for domestic policy

and then became his press secretary. On the outside, as a broadcast journalist

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