The War on Poverty

Bill Moyers Journal

BILL MOYERS: And the Wall Street Journal says, "You're trying to-- trying to stoke a class war." I mean, that's a knock on this kind of reporting isn't it?

BARBARA EHRENREICH: Yeah, well, look, I didn't start the class war that's being gone on here. The class war that's been coming from the side of the extremely wealthy. It-- you know, it's been happening for a while. But it's a class war which has been very one-sided.

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BM: But did science teach you anything about looking into these problems, looking into--

BE: Yeah, well of course, I think everybody should get a Ph.D. in science. (LAUGHTER)

BM: Do you have a PhD?

BE: Yeah, yeah.

BM: In-- in cell biology?

BE: I-- exactly, right.

BM: What did you bring from that to journalism?

Any scientists out there want to guess what she said (before reading the transript, of course ;-)