By The Year 2000; The Have/Have-not Society
- Series
- By The Year 2000
- Episode
- The Have/Have-not Society
- Producing Organization
- KCET (Television station : Los Angeles, Calif.)
- Contributing Organization
- The Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia (Athens, Georgia)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip-526-sb3ws8js7c
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- Description
- Episode Description
- This is the program "The Have/Have-not Society" as described above. The program highlights people on different ends of the socioeconomic scale, including the Weber family who are in the top 10% of Los Angeles' earners, John Rementeria who lost his job and is working to retain his middle-class lifestyle, and welfare recipient and parent Tanya Fortson. Experts including Harvey Shaiken, Ed Soja, Edward Blakely, Robert Reich, Thomas Hazlett, Chalmers Johnson, Monica Lozano, and Robert Woodson speak about about the growing wealth discrepancy and potential solutions.
- Series Description
- "Produced for KCET's critically acclaimed weekly, single-subject public affairs series, BY THE YEAR 2000, our entry (3, 1/2-hours and a culminating one-hour special), aired in April 1990, is focused on an issue profoundly affecting Southern California and its future: Los Angeles County's changing class structure and the economic schisms that separate various segments of society. Hosted by Val Zavala and Joseph Benti, BY THE YEAR 2000 features field-produced documentary segments and in-studio discussions with community leaders. "The month was launched with 'The Waning Class', a disturbing look at how middle class is being squeezed out of the employment market, a market featuring mostly high or low end jobs. Next, 'A Class By Itself' focused on LA's upper echelon, those [benefiting] from the right education and expertise, and Southern California's emergence as a financial hub in a global marketplace. The third documentary, 'The Underclass', probed the conditions that have created communities of Los Angeles residents who are more and more disconnected from the mainstream of society. The month concluded with 'The Have/Have-not Society', a one-hour special that examined why the gulf between rich and poor Los Angeles is widening and what must be done to reverse the trend. "Our entry exemplifies KCET's continuing commitment to local, documentary public affairs programming that not only provides context and analysis to reporting on community problems, but gives voice to many diverse ideas and possible solutions."1990 Peabody Awards entry form.
- Broadcast Date
- 1990-04-01
- Asset type
- Episode
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Duration
- 00:58:41.051
- Credits
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Producing Organization: KCET (Television station : Los Angeles, Calif.)
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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The Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at the
University of Georgia
Identifier: cpb-aacip-d5857353d0c (Filename)
Format: U-matic
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- Citations
- Chicago: “By The Year 2000; The Have/Have-not Society,” 1990-04-01, The Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed April 26, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-526-sb3ws8js7c.
- MLA: “By The Year 2000; The Have/Have-not Society.” 1990-04-01. The Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. April 26, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-526-sb3ws8js7c>.
- APA: By The Year 2000; The Have/Have-not Society. Boston, MA: The Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-526-sb3ws8js7c