Upcoming TV Program

[Guest guest]

Dear Colleagues, here is a press release on a television program set to air on

Friday on your PBS station at 9:00 pm.. (I assume Central time,please check your

local listings...) It is the NOW Program with Bill Moyers and will include info

on farmworkers in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas among other working poor in

search of the American Dream. We were able to assist them in their data

gathering process. Hope you get a chance to see it. Bobbi Ryder

Dear Ms. Ryder,

I would like to alert you and your members to a report that the PBS

public affairs series NOW with Bill Moyers will be airing on the

struggle for economic mobility among the working poor, which includes

interviews with a family of migrant farm workers and a former factory

worker. I have attached a program description below and hope that you

will be able to alert your colleagues, members, and organizational

partners to this important story about the widening gap between rich and

poor.

If you are able to distribute this alert to others, please let me know.

Also, please don't hesistate to contact me, should you have any

additional questions.

Sincerely,

Su Patel

NOW with Bill Moyers

NOW with Bill Moyers

PBS Airdate: Friday, May 28, 2004 at 9 p.m. on PBS

(check local listings at http://www.pbs.org/now/sched.html)

The working poor of South Texas are surrounded by signs of prosperity:

new houses, new malls, new construction. But the economic boom in the

area is actually widening the gap between the wealthy and the working

poor. The dream for many immigrant families of working hard, educating

their kids, and moving up the economic ladder is becoming increasingly

that, just a dream. On Friday, May 28, 2004 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check

local listings), NOW with Bill Moyers takes viewers inside the

hardscrabble world of two migrant families trying to break out. One is

a family of migrant farm workers who are forced to choose between barely

earning a living in the fields or educating their kids. The other is a

grandmother who's starting her life over again after the factory where

she worked shut down and moved to Mexico. NOW correspondent Michele

examines this unique cycle of poverty and looks at the

potential outcomes of a public policy debate that may mean the

difference for the nation's poorest workers.