MOYERS - Coming Home (wounded vets), US workforce (new economy)

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This week on NOW:

* Are America's injured soldiers returning from Afghanistan and Iraq getting a raw deal at home? Wounded veterans tell their stories of coming home to wage a battle for benefits in COMING HOME.
* NEW YORK TIMES editor and columnist Frank Rich has no shortage of opinions. What's he got to say to Bill Moyers about politics, culture and the media?
* How does the US workforce compare to the rest of the world? David Brancaccio talks to journalist Doug Henwood whose answers may surprise you.
* Bill Moyers and David Brancaccio on news that you might have missed.

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COMING HOME

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have generated banner headlines and outpourings of grief about the dead, but the wounded have gone largely unnoticed. Today as hundreds who have been maimed and disabled in service to their country are coming home to rebuild their lives, many are engaged in a new battle-the battle for benefits. NOW's David Brancaccio examines gaps between the Defense Department and the Department of Veterans Affairs-the federal government's first and second largest bureaucracies-which can allow America's war wounded to fall between the cracks after sacrificing so much for their country and talks to injured and disabled soldiers who have been left behind by the military they served.

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FRANK RICH

Former NEW YORK TIMES theater critic Frank Rich has been called the "Butcher of Broadway." Now an op-ed columnist and associate editor at the TIMES, he may have one of the mightiest pens in the media. A man of many words and he doesn't mince them Frank Rich takes on politics, culture, and the media's role in today's key issues. A Bill Moyers interview.

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DOUG HENWOOD

David Brancaccio talks to journalist Doug Henwood about the American workforce and dispels some myths about productivity, professional mobility and the middle class. He also talks to Brancaccio about his latest book, AFTER THE ECONOMY, a dissection of the new economy written with his customary irreverence and acuity. Henwood is the editor and publisher of LEFT BUSINESS OBSERVER, the monthly newsletter on economics and politics in the US and abroad, and contributing editor of THE NATION.

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NOW WITH BILL MOYERS continues online at PBS.org (www.pbs.org/now). Log on to the site for a history of veterans' benefits from the Revolutionary war to today; for information on the current situation of wounded veterans; for an online scrapbook of veteran's memories; for instructions on how to do an oral history of a veteran in your family or neighborhood; for comparisons of US work hours as they compare to the rest of the world; for information on income disparity in the US; for an online poll on the cancellation of the Reagan miniseries; for photos of veterans from many conflicts to which you can post your own caption; and more.

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1. Thanks for the alert! n/t

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2. Doug Henwoon should be a great source of infromation

His book Wall Street, was very informative.
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[wuushew]

9. Workers in China enjoy more vacation than Americans?

reality sure does suck

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3. kick

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6. On now on some stations (kick)

[Wonk]

11. mp3s here for those who missed it

or don't feel like waiting until Sunday...

Vets Coming Home, 4 M

Eric Boehlert, re: CBS Raygun movie, 4 M

Doug Henwood, 2.6 M

Final thoughts, 1 M

[Wonk]

14. Quicktimes here

Vets Coming Home, 56 M

Eric Boehlert, 48 M

Doug Henwood, 30 M

Final Thoughts, 12 M

[proud patriot]

15. Thanks Wonk

:hi: It was a great show

[proud patriot]

4. Going to be a tough one to watch

but I'll watch . :-(

[Gin]

7. Where were all the congressmen and women who represent these people

this is a national disgrace...but we can send funds to Iraq.

[wuushew]

8. Awesome piece on RaygunCBSgate

cutting straight through the crap.

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10. This didn't play in my area till 9 CST...

I just watched 20 minutes of reality reporting.

There were some stories about soldiers that had seen delays in treatment from the VA. While I have been following this closely, (as Vet issues concern me), it seems to me that PBS is the ONLY news outlet that had a decent look at this national disgrace. One congressman fron NJ was mentioned as a champion for these wounded soldiers. ONE CONGRESSMAN!!!!!!

This is it, this is the ONE guy who is fighting in Congress to ensure that those who have lost limbs, eyes, and are facing psychological disabilities! (Congressman Smith (R) NJ)

This issue should cross party lines! There is NO excuse for this to be happening. I urge everyone who reads this, to do as I have done, and write your Senators an Congressmen! This is an atrocity, and if these people see it as appropriate to send our yout5h into harms way, then the least they can do is care for them!!!!:Grr:

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12. Time zone kick

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13. Time zone kick

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17. a kick for Sunday viewers

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18. One last Sunday kick

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16. they needed 2 go deeper w/ the

vet health benefits altho this covered the current wounded getting screwed.

A friend, who is a Viet-nam war widow, who had 'n raised her children w/ military health coverage, was informed when she went in for her latest mammogram, that she was no longer covered for that procedure. Seems Rummy has changed the way ALL vet health services R being doled out. Her local military health center is now staffed by a 'managed care' professional & not an MD administrative officer. She is 70 & fearful that her medical care has just been pulled and she has virtually no options.