Voter Voices
Voter Voices is a web series from WPBT2 South Florida PBS taking a look at the state of voting in 2016. This series tells the stories of seven individuals, each with unique backgrounds and barriers, who are all hoping to vote in the upcoming 2016 election. Meet these different voters and learn about their journey to the polls.


VOTER VOICES
Carmen
Meet Carmen, a blind voter who's never been able to vote by herself, until this election.
Postcards From The Great Divide
Postcards From The Great Divide is a series of short documentaries produced by leading American independent filmmakers, released as a digital partnership between PBS' Election 2016 initiative and The Washington Post. For more information visit the official website.
Chris Cillizza of The Washington Post wrote a blog post tied to each of the episodes on his The Fix blog:
- Blue Wind on a Red Prairie | This Democrat wants to turn a red stronghold purple — by being more liberal
- Gibraltar May Tumble | The spot where politicians face hecklers head-on
- Swinging Las Vegas | How Republicans let Nevada become a swing state — and how they’re trying to win it back
- Purple Reign | How West Coast Republicans are planning a comeback
- The Big Sort | When moving 40 minutes away leaves you in the same country — but a totally different nation
- The Giant Still Sleeps | Why turning Texas blue is A LOT harder than it looks
- Million-Dollar School Board | How $1 million got spent on a Colorado school board election
- Post-Obama Drama | What happens if black voters just don’t turn out this fall?
- Whatever Happened to Wisconsin Nice | How 'Wisconsin Nice' ceased to exist


POSTCARDS FROM THE GREAT DI...
Blue Wind on a Red Prairie
Energetic environmental activist tries to remake the Democratic party in deep-red Nebraska.


POSTCARDS FROM THE GREAT DI...
Gibraltar May Tumble
Are the partisans of small town Kentucky the last of a dying breed of rural Democrats?


POSTCARDS FROM THE GREAT DI...
Swinging Las Vegas
How does the GOP attract Latino voters to key Congressional races in the year of Trump?


POSTCARDS FROM THE GREAT DI...
Purple Reign
Republicans in reliably blue Washington State have a plan to win both legislative houses.


POSTCARDS FROM THE GREAT DI...
Million-Dollar School Board
A local school board election is a battleground for outside groups with lots of cash


POSTCARDS FROM THE GREAT DI...
Post-Obama Drama
A film exploring the hesitation, perseverance, and enthusiasm of black voters in Florida.


POSTCARDS FROM THE GREAT DI...
The Big Sort
A look at how people of similar political beliefs living near one another affect elections


POSTCARDS FROM THE GREAT DI...
The Giant Still Sleeps
A Mexican-American seeks to motivate voters in a Latino district outside Houston.


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Whatever Happened to Wisconsin Nice?
Two ex-legislators examine the ideological splits causing political strife in Wisconsin.
How The Deck Is Stacked
“How the Deck Is Stacked” is a collaborative and multiplatform series, jointly funded by PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Helmed by Kai Ryssdal, we investigate the new American economy, the forces that are shaping it, and the lives of the people living in it as we head into the 2016 elections and beyond.
Eight years ago, the country was in financial free fall. Now, with the 2016 presidential election looming, America’s economic landscape is much different: unemployment is below five percent; job growth is rising; and corporate profits and housing prices are booming.
But not far below the surface is a much less glowing economic reality: an America where wages are stagnant, and more work is temporary and part-time. If you’ve been unemployed for a long time, you’re likely to stay that way — and the gap between the rich and everyone else is wider than ever.
FRONTLINE, APM’s Marketplace and PBS NewsHour are joining forces to investigate why.
1 - Introducing How The Deck Is Stacked


FRONTLINE
Introducing How the Deck Is Stacked
These stories will explore different facets of the individual economic unease that persists across the country, despite booming big-picture indicators.

MARKETPLACE
Introducing: How the Deck Is Stacked
Here's a sneak peek at our new collaboration, "How the Deck is Stacked."


PBS NewsHour
What job growth? Voters still pessimistic about the economy
Though the nation’s unemployment rate is at its post-recession lowest.
2 - Why The Middle Class Matters


FRONTLINE
Why the Middle Class Matters
Are you in the middle class? The numbers might say otherwise.


PBS NewsHour
Middle class shrinks as income inequality grows, study finds
There’s less middle in the middle class as income inequality grows, Pew analysis finds.


PBS NewsHour
In today’s economy, even two-income families struggle
Marketplace’s Kai Ryssdal reports on the struggles facing millions of American families.
MARKETPLACE
What it feels like to be a middle class family today
The middle class is the most talked about group in the 2016 presidential election. But who are they?
MARKETPLACE
Does the middle class life cost more than it used to?
It's called the "middle-class squeeze" — that feeling that it's harder and harder for a middle-class family to make it in today's economy.
MARKETPLACE
Why the middle class has less money and bigger bills
About two thirds of America's gross domestic product is generated by consumption. That means our economy runs on people buying stuff. And who buys the most stuff? The middle class.
3 - The Recovery's Racial Divide


FRONTLINE
The Recovery’s Racial Divide
The American economy is recovering, but not everyone has felt it equally.

MARKETPLACE
The Edelmans: 50 years of fighting for equality
For two people, Senator Robert Kennedy's 1967 tour of the Mississippi Delta wasn't just a historical moment, it was a serendipitous one.


PBS NewsHour
Poverty-stricken past and present in the Mississippi Delta
Kai Ryssdal takes a look at the storied and complex history of the Mississippi Delta.
MARKETPLACE
Far from convention lights, life in Cleveland, Mississippi
Instead of going to the RNC, to listen to the speeches, observe the pageantry and watch the electoral process at work, we decided to do something a little different.
MARKETPLACE
The other Cleveland: Crossing the divide
The old railroad tracks that divide the east side and west side of Cleveland, Mississippi meet downtown on Sharp Street in an area called Cotton Row.
MARKETPLACE
Overcoming racial and economic struggle in Philadelphia, ...
Philadelphia is a small town made up of approximately 7,000 people in Neshoba County, Mississippi.
4 - The Cost Of College Debt


FRONTLINE
The Cost Of College Debt
With Americans holding $1.3 trillion in student debt, college affordability has become one of the top issues of the 2016 election.

MARKETPLACE
When going to college becomes a financial risk
Forty-two million people in the United States have student loan debt, a total of about $1.3 trillion worth of outstanding debt.
PBS NewsHour
As the economy improves, these voters don’t trust the data
A new survey finds that many Americans are experiencing high levels of economic anxiety.
PBS NEWSHOUR
When student loan borrowers complain, it’s most often abo...
About 41 million Americans carry more than $1.3 trillion in outstanding student debt.
PBS NewsHour
Why student debt is ‘a crisis’ for some borrowers
More than 40 million Americans carry debt from student loans.
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