Dr. Mark Weisbrot, Center for Economic and Policy Research (C.E.P.R.)/Just Foreign Policy/FAILED: What the "Experts" Got Wrong about the Global Economy, joins Thom. The chairman of the White House Council of Economic. Advisers - Jason Furman - recently wrote in the Washington Post that "Last year saw the largest single-year reduction in poverty since the 1960s." Furman's claim is echoed by a recent Census Bureau report that should that the typical household saw it's income grow by about $2,800 - the fastest rate on record. But while those numbers seem rosy - they are hardly enough to conclusively say that the U.S economy is healthy. For one - the media celebrated the household income figures despite the fact that any two or more people living in the same residence are considered a "household" - and the figures don't necessarily reflect anything about personal income. But according to Nick Buffie at the Center for Economic, "Income Inequality Has Gone Up Whether We Look At Households or Individuals" Buffie writes that whether you look at personal - family -or household income, "No matter how you toy with the precise definition of income, it's clear that inequality has gone up: by all three metrics, median income growth failed to keep pace with overall growth from 1974 to 2015.”

In American business culture - corporations are people, and nature is something that can be exploited with a little capital to make a lot of profit. But what if we gave nature the same legal rights as persons?

Thom discusses the latest groping allegations surrounding Donald Trump with the Working Families Party’s Valerie Ervin, why the mainstream media is ignoring the Dakota Pipeline protests with Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman, and in tonight’s Daily Take Thom details how corporations and capitalism is hurting the natural world around us.

Rolf Skar, Greenpeace USA, joins Thom. For tonight's Green Report we start in Florida - where at a rally yesterday with former Vice President Al Gore today Hillary Clinton expained the connection between Hurrican Matthew and global climate change. Matthew - of course - isn't the only weather event caused by or made more extreme by climate change. We live in a world where climate change affects everyone and everything - and until we finally keep the carbon in the ground - it's going to be a compounding factor in most disasters. Case in point: western wildfires like the one that tore through Big Sure broke records as the most expensive wildfire in this country's history. According to a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences "human-caused climate change contributed to an additional 4.2 million hectares of forest fire area during 1984–2015, nearly doubling the forest fire area expected in its absence."