>> bill moyers: hello, and welcome to this special edition frontline. i'm bill moyers. we want to tell you the story of two american families whose lives embody what's happened to the hopes and dreams of millions of americans over the past 20 years. it's a story that begins in milwaukee, back in 1991, when we first met the stanleys and the neumanns, families my mother, rest her soul, would have called "the salt of the earth." >> i want my kids to... >> grow up to be good kids. >> yeah, i want good children. >> i can tell you've been down south a long time. you're saying, "yes, ma'am." >> moyers: hard workers, caring parents, faithful church-goers trying to secure a foothold in the middle class. but as we came back to visit them over the years, we watched their children grow and their fortunes change. >> now i'm putting longer hours in, you're getting money, but it's not that much, and you say, "what's the use?" >> moyers: we saw their work lives upended by the powerful economic and political forces that were altering the american landscape. >> here's my paycheck. $9,646

>> yes. >> moyers: what did they say?i didn't answer them right now because i wanted to talk to tony, and he wasn't home. so i wanted to talk to him. >> moyers: you must dread it when the phone rings. >> i do. i cringe. >> moyers: long before the term "foreclosure crisis" was on america's lips, laid-off working people were learning what it meant. >> i did send a thousand-dollar check in probably a few weeks back, but the check was sent back to me with a letter stating, "we will not accept a partial payment." i don't really think of that as a partial payment. i think of that as a basic payment and a good gesture on trying to get, um, caught up. right now we're going through a hard time. my husband's out of work. he went to school and he's looking for a job. and i'm basically just trying to buy a little time so we can get on our feet again, you know, >> i don't like having to go and ask and say, "i have no food in the house, can you help me out?" where when you would go and work and get a paycheck and come home and support

>> bill moyers: this week on "moyers & company" -- two american families struggling to find their place in the new economy. >> barbara miner: this deindustrialization, the growing disparity didn't happen as some sort of natural event, like the rain falling from the sky. but it really is the result of policy decisions. >> barbara garson: not only have we abandoned americans as workers, we are now abandoning them as consumers. >> announcer: funding is provided by -- carnegie corporation of new york, celebrating 100 years of philanthropy, and committed to doing real and permanent good in the world. the kohlberg foundation. independent production fund, with support from the partridge foundation, a john and polly guth charitable fund. the clements foundation. park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the herb alpert foundation, supporting organizations whose mission is to promote compassion and creativity in our society. the bernard and audre rapoport foundation. the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant

>> bill moyers: this week on "moyers & company" -- "a place at the table." >> kristi jacobson: when we were making this film we traveled all over the country and again and again met people who were working and trying to make ends meet but were not able to put food on the table. >> mariana chilton: there's no opportunity for people who are low income to really engage in our democracy. and i think that they're actively shut out as well. >> bill moyers: and -- >> greg kaufman: there are a lot of corporations that are, you know, want to be involved in the fight against hunger. and the best thing they can do is get onboard for fair wages. >> announcer: funding is provided by -- carnegie corporation of new york, celebrating 100 years of philanthropy, and committed to doing real and permanent good in the world. the kohlberg foundation. independent production fund, with support from the partridge foundation, a john and polly guth charitable fund. the clements foundation. park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the herb alpert foundation, supporting organi

pleased to have my friend bill moyers back at this table. if it was not for him i wouldn't be here. and for that he profoundly apologizes to all of you. welcome. >> charlie, it's good to see you again. thanks for those generous words. >> rose: sir bill. where do you put all the things that you have done, where do you put this? >> i think it's the defining story of my career, because it's the defining story of what's happened in this country in the last 30 years. we went to milwaukee to find these two families in 1990. encouraged by my wife judist-- judith whom you know very well. she had seen a story and had stayed in touch touch with people like this. and said there's something really going on out in milwaukee. and it was the fact that the manufacturing jobs were beginning to disappear at a faster and faster rate. so two talented team of producers, cathry hughes and tom kashoto, husband and wife, went out for us. we found these two families who seemed to be representative of what was happening to thousands of working families in milwaukee.

thank you. >> i think that we all look forward to that moyer lee, administration.nd finally, our good friend and dynamic leader, the executive director of the port of san francisco, monique moyer. [ applause ] >> thank you. >> okay, so raise your hands, how many of you would like to be me today? i am so humble and honored, what a great fortune to land my term right on the 150th year because the one thing that i will tell you about being 150 years old if you realize that your time is really short and insignificant, and if i were to dare to count

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it is the saga of what's happened to the american dream. >> rose: bill moyers for the hour, next. funding for charlie rose was provided by the following: captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. rose. bill moyers is here, we had a knighthood for journalism he will be sir bill, for more than 40 years he has been one of the most respected voices on television and television every where. he has over 30 emmies and 9 peabody awards. he once described himself as a beach comber on the shore of other people's experience. in books, documentary films and news shows he has explored everything from democracy and poetry to the power of myth. he returns to one of his most important subjects, the middle class and the american dream. here is the trailer for "frontline"'s two american families. >> next time on frontline, the unforgetable story of two american families. the newmans -- >> this is a very stable job. >> and the stanleys. >> when i got laid off, i thought i will find me a job. >> filmed over 20 years. >> a lot of people lost t

thank you. >> i think that we all look forward to that moyer lee, administration.r good friend and dynamic leader, the executive director of the port of san francisco, monique moyer. [ applause ] >> thank you. >> okay, so raise your hands, how many of you would like to be me today? i am so humble and honored, what a great fortune to land my term right on the 150th year because the one thing that i will tell you about being 150 years old if you realize that your time is really short and insignificant, and if i were to dare to count how many port directors there have been before and how many there will be after it will become more of a second time, but, i get to be here with all of you and so many of you who have been here at this water front for decades, all of you from fisherman's wharf thank you for coming today, because of you it is our water front that has evolved ahead of everywhere else in the world this is a perfect place to celebrate. because here we have a little bit of something of everything, in fisherman's wharf. it has been part of the port since its in

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. ♪ >> bill moyers: this week on "moyers & company" -- "a place at the table." >> kristi jacobson: whenwere making this film we traveled all over the country and again and again met people who were working and trying to make ends meet but were not able to put food on the table. >> mariana chilton: there's no opportunity for people who are low income to really engage in our democracy. and i think that they're actively shut out as well. >> bill moyers: and -- >> greg kaufman: there are a lot of corporations that are, you know, want to be involved in the fight against hunger. and the best thing they can do is get onboard for fair wages. >> announcer: funding is provided by -- carnegie corporation of new york, celebrating 100 years of philanthropy, and committed to doing real and permanent good in the world. the korg

wonderful staff and i want to thank my fellow commissioners along with their support and director moyer who showed up at my confirmation hearing and the first time in 15 years it was a breeze, so thank you and i look forward to working with everyone for the next four years. >> and thank you for saying yes. >> okay. public comment on the executive's director report other than all the comments we received already? okay. moving on. >> i want to just add after i listened to everyone today and no offense i think the port staff and i said this many times is among the best in the city and i think really listening today you get that sense from the retirement of an exemplary employee to all of the employees stepping up during the bart strike and going that extra step, almost the extra mile, no pun intended and going the extra level and to director moyer and what she has done and as we talk about the waterfront and the people coming here. i think it's a tribute to the director and staff for all of the work that you do and i want thank you again and reiterate what i say about you behind your backs

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bill moyers is the correspondent, july 9th, tuesday at 10 p.m. is the time. thank you for joining us. thank you. >> thank you, charlie, always good to see you. >> rose: good night. >> funding for charlie rose has been provided by its coca-cola company, supporting this program since 2002. >> an american express. a decisional funding provided by these funders. >> and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. tavis: it has taken a backseat to the bloodshed in cairo. here to discuss john kerry's role as a piece worker is tohael oren, the ambassador the u.s.. the show is good to be here. your: talk to me about thoughts, the chaos in egypt. >> we have had peace with egypt for close to 35 years. it is essential for israel and egypt's security. for stability throughout the entire region. we and israel certainly have been interested in peace, stability, and interest. we will not get involved and how the egyptians should run we want security and peace to be stored there. crucial for us and for the region. >> he was democratically e

to make sure that you know that if you combine the ages of myself, or president chiu, and monique moyer we might get to 150 years, maybe. but i'm down here to have fun, today, get out of city hall, go to bubba gumps and make sure that i spend it with other people who love to have fun like our port commission and hers directors and the staff and the rec and parks here and i know that the fire chiefs had to lessen her fun time and go to a three alarm fire and thank you to her for being vigilant for the city. and we would rec and park they have discovered yet another great partner to find water front open space that we can all enjoy, both in terms of getting our public to understand our bond program better, but also to create new spaces. so thank you, phil for being here as well. our port commissioners extend not to present but to past for commissioners and he knows that and i saw mike and others, because it takes generations of people to create things along the water front. it is incredibly expensive to restore a lot of our piers and monique is the first person to know that intimately and

>> bill moyers: this week on "moyers & company" -- two american families struggling to find their placen the new economy. >> barbara miner: this deindustrialization, the growing disparity didn't happen as some sort of natural event, like the rain falling from the sky. but it really is the result of policy decisions. >> barbara garson: not only have we abandoned americans as workers, we are now abandoning them as consumers. >> announcer: funding is provided by -- carnegie corporation of new york, celebrating 100 years of philanthropy, and committed to doing real and permanent good in the world. the kohlberg foundation. independent production fund, with support from the partridge foundation, a john and polly guth charitable fund. the clements foundation.

continues to be base but savings are made in gold so i discussed this with investment professional eduardo moyer earlier and i first asked him about the role of the euro in the new monetary paradigm how it relates to the concept of free gold and how this potentially revolutionary monetary transition could actually occur. if the euro is truly the future if this transition is going to happen how is it going to to occur or does it require hyperinflation of the u.s. dollar what are the dynamics involved in the us it doesn't require hyperinflation it's just a very lightly out of the probable out of the dollar it's had a couple of near death experiences already you have the collapse of. you have the shock occurred. in the trim of that occurred in the wake of what is that and i. what happened in the late one nine hundred ninety s. with the gold market. basically i mean i think the hyperinflation of the dollar is highly likely and really gold doesn't have to the liberation of that were gold from paper to rivet is does not have to happen with the hyperinflation it's just of a much more likely outcome wel

emission criteria reduction programs so those -- the reason i bring that to your attention is the carl moyer program is a funning source for the projects you're interested in here. the one measure, the assembly measure did pass the assembly recently. >> which page. >> ab 8 is on page one. of the matrix. it recently passed the assembly just before the deadline date for measures to pass. the look alike bill s and we'll see which one gets down to the governor. i have a high degree of faith that unless somebody puts something in either one of the bills that the governor objects to this is something that the administration agrees to. we're halfway into the legislative recess. this is an unusual year. the assembly completed their work and took a recess last week and that extends through august 5 however the senate's recess doesn't start until this friday so there's an odd situation where we will have committee meetings in either house when the other house the out of session, meaning those members have to travel to sacramento to present their bills. it is recklations we're working under and we're a