An unprecedented abyss of economic and social turmoil

Bill Moyers Journal, PBS by Bill Moyers, Mike Davis | Mar. 23, 2009 (Interview)

Once a meat cutter and a long haul truck driver, nowadays, Mike Davis teaches creative writing at the University of California, Riverside. This recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" has written so many books we can barely get them on the screen for you. Two of his histories of Los Angeles and Southern California, 'City of Quartz' and 'Ecology of Fear' were best-sellers. His latest: 'In Praise of Barbarians: Essays Against ... Full Story »

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by Norman Rogers - Mar. 23, 2009

Battered woman. I think I heard about that previously. Now are we in for another run of battered woman as a big problem? I would have thought the problem would have been solved by now given the billions being spent to solve the problem.

Plenty of people have plenty of problems and there are plenty of social services to help them. The vested interests that work in this area are always trying to think up a new gimmick to improve funding.