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Les Leopold is the executive director of the Labor Institute in New York, and author of "Runaway Inequality: An Activist's Guide to Economic Justice" (Labor Institute Press, 2015)
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Wednesday, April 29, 2020
The Two Numbers Trump Can't Spin There are two numbers Trump can't explain away: total deaths and job loss. Death and unemployment should mark the end of the Trump administration as well as Republican control of the Senate.
Wednesday, April 29, 2020The Two Numbers Trump Can't Spin There are two numbers Trump can't explain away: total deaths and job loss. Death and unemployment should mark the end of the Trump administration as well as Republican control of the Senate.
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Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Why Union Workers and Environmentalists Need to Work Together with Smart Protests It's hard to make the case that we're winning much of anything right now. Congress and the White House are now ruled by anti-labor, climate change deniers. We have an environmental lunatic as president. Perhaps it's time to review our organizing strategies.
Wednesday, June 21, 2017Why Union Workers and Environmentalists Need to Work Together with Smart Protests It's hard to make the case that we're winning much of anything right now. Congress and the White House are now ruled by anti-labor, climate change deniers. We have an environmental lunatic as president. Perhaps it's time to review our organizing strategies.
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Monday, June 5, 2017
Wanted: A Massive Education, Organizing Drive and Progressive Vision to Vanquish Trump As Trump stumbles, and maybe crumbles, progressives are confronting a painful truth: Trump is a reflection of a much bigger problem "- the rise of runaway inequality and the failure of the liberal establishment to address it.
Monday, June 5, 2017Wanted: A Massive Education, Organizing Drive and Progressive Vision to Vanquish Trump As Trump stumbles, and maybe crumbles, progressives are confronting a painful truth: Trump is a reflection of a much bigger problem "- the rise of runaway inequality and the failure of the liberal establishment to address it.
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Monday, March 20, 2017
Why Bernie Is the Most Popular Politician in America To keep the Sanders agenda alive, we should further refine it, turn it into a petition, get 25 million people to sign it and shove it under the noses of every politician in the country. Hard? Yes, but not impossible. We need a common movement that goes beyond our issue silos, interest groups and identities.
Monday, March 20, 2017Why Bernie Is the Most Popular Politician in America To keep the Sanders agenda alive, we should further refine it, turn it into a petition, get 25 million people to sign it and shove it under the noses of every politician in the country. Hard? Yes, but not impossible. We need a common movement that goes beyond our issue silos, interest groups and identities.
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Saturday, May 28, 2016
Why Bernie's Strong Poll Numbers Against Trump Are For Real Poll after poll shows Bernie doing better, much better, against Trump than Hillary.
Saturday, May 28, 2016Why Bernie's Strong Poll Numbers Against Trump Are For Real Poll after poll shows Bernie doing better, much better, against Trump than Hillary.
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Saturday, April 16, 2016
Does the Hillary, Bernie Battle Matter That Much? Hillary cannot reform the basic approach of neoliberalism by working from within. Bernie, however, wants to reverse each component of the model. He wants to 1) increase taxes on the wealthy; 2) re-regulate powerful financial and corporate institutions, and; 3) expand the public sector and the social safety net. But none of this stands a chance of success unless Bernie supporters keep at it after the election, win or lose.
Saturday, April 16, 2016Does the Hillary, Bernie Battle Matter That Much? Hillary cannot reform the basic approach of neoliberalism by working from within. Bernie, however, wants to reverse each component of the model. He wants to 1) increase taxes on the wealthy; 2) re-regulate powerful financial and corporate institutions, and; 3) expand the public sector and the social safety net. But none of this stands a chance of success unless Bernie supporters keep at it after the election, win or lose.
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Friday, March 18, 2016
Think Again Hillary Democrats: 10 Reasons Why She Could Lose this Fall The media tells us that Hillary has a lock on the nomination. That news should make her supporters extremely nervous, and not because the prognosticators have been wrong so many times already. All Democrats should worry because her major policy and character flaws could leave us with a Republican president this fall. Here's why.
Friday, March 18, 2016Think Again Hillary Democrats: 10 Reasons Why She Could Lose this Fall The media tells us that Hillary has a lock on the nomination. That news should make her supporters extremely nervous, and not because the prognosticators have been wrong so many times already. All Democrats should worry because her major policy and character flaws could leave us with a Republican president this fall. Here's why.
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Monday, November 9, 2015
Runaway Inequality: The facts that Drive the Sanders Insurgency This is the Introduction from the new book, "Runaway Inequality: An Activist's Guide to Economic Justice" by Les Leopold. It shows how the many problems we face are linked together by runaway inequality and the financialization of the economy. It also provides a range of policy and organizing solutions
Monday, November 9, 2015Runaway Inequality: The facts that Drive the Sanders Insurgency This is the Introduction from the new book, "Runaway Inequality: An Activist's Guide to Economic Justice" by Les Leopold. It shows how the many problems we face are linked together by runaway inequality and the financialization of the economy. It also provides a range of policy and organizing solutions
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Tuesday, November 18, 2014
We Are the Most Unequal Society in the Developed World... And We Don't Know It In 1965, for every dollar earned by the average worker, CEOs earned 20 dollars. By 2012, that gap mushroomed to 354 to one. But, when asked in the survey, Americans grossly underestimated this gap....
Tuesday, November 18, 2014We Are the Most Unequal Society in the Developed World... And We Don't Know It In 1965, for every dollar earned by the average worker, CEOs earned 20 dollars. By 2012, that gap mushroomed to 354 to one. But, when asked in the survey, Americans grossly underestimated this gap....
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014
New Report Reveals How Wall Street Impoverishes Los Angeles Los Angeles paid at least $204 million in fees to Wall Street in 2013, and probably significantly more, in addition to principle and interest payments, according to a new report. The study, issued today by a coalition of 15 community organization and unions, shows that due to revenue losses from the "Great Recession" L.A. "all but stopped repairing sidewalks, clearing alleys and installing speed bumps..."
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 299837 views)
Wednesday, March 26, 2014New Report Reveals How Wall Street Impoverishes Los Angeles Los Angeles paid at least $204 million in fees to Wall Street in 2013, and probably significantly more, in addition to principle and interest payments, according to a new report. The study, issued today by a coalition of 15 community organization and unions, shows that due to revenue losses from the "Great Recession" L.A. "all but stopped repairing sidewalks, clearing alleys and installing speed bumps..."
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 299837 views)
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Saturday, November 2, 2013
America's Greatest Shame: Child Poverty Rises and Food Stamps Cut While Billionaires Boom It seems utterly psychotic to live in a society that chooses to spread poverty to its young. It also seems psychotic to claim that cuts in food stamps are good for the poor while at the same time saying that it's quite OK for billionaires to pile up unearned, tax-sheltered income. The fact that we're putting up with all this should be driving us all insane.
Saturday, November 2, 2013America's Greatest Shame: Child Poverty Rises and Food Stamps Cut While Billionaires Boom It seems utterly psychotic to live in a society that chooses to spread poverty to its young. It also seems psychotic to claim that cuts in food stamps are good for the poor while at the same time saying that it's quite OK for billionaires to pile up unearned, tax-sheltered income. The fact that we're putting up with all this should be driving us all insane.
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Friday, September 20, 2013
How Wall Street Devoured the Recovery Our new economic era is characterized by the supremacy of financial capital which vacuums up the productive wealth of the nation, and then uses the nation's wealth as an insurance policy to pay for its inevitable losses. A call for Public Banking.
Friday, September 20, 2013How Wall Street Devoured the Recovery Our new economic era is characterized by the supremacy of financial capital which vacuums up the productive wealth of the nation, and then uses the nation's wealth as an insurance policy to pay for its inevitable losses. A call for Public Banking.
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Sunday, March 31, 2013
Why is Socialism Doing So Well in Deep Red North Dakota? Ultra conservative North Dakota has a socialist state bank and loves it. This article tells us why, and how spreading state banks could help us tame Wall Street
Sunday, March 31, 2013Why is Socialism Doing So Well in Deep Red North Dakota? Ultra conservative North Dakota has a socialist state bank and loves it. This article tells us why, and how spreading state banks could help us tame Wall Street
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Friday, April 20, 2012
What If the Greedy Rich Paid Their Share? 8 Things to Know About Wealth and Poverty in the US The 1 percent didn't get there just because they were great entrepreneurs or because they were smarter than the rest of us. They got there because they pressed for tax cuts for the super-rich and the deregulation of Wall Street. Those twin policies poured the money into their coffers and stalled our middle-class dead in its tracks. Those policies also crashed the economy and destroyed the jobs of millions of Americans.
Friday, April 20, 2012What If the Greedy Rich Paid Their Share? 8 Things to Know About Wealth and Poverty in the US The 1 percent didn't get there just because they were great entrepreneurs or because they were smarter than the rest of us. They got there because they pressed for tax cuts for the super-rich and the deregulation of Wall Street. Those twin policies poured the money into their coffers and stalled our middle-class dead in its tracks. Those policies also crashed the economy and destroyed the jobs of millions of Americans.
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Saturday, July 18, 2009
How to Create a Million Jobs in One Month From the author of The Looting America, an appeal to Americans to get serious about job creation with comments about how to do it.
Saturday, July 18, 2009How to Create a Million Jobs in One Month From the author of The Looting America, an appeal to Americans to get serious about job creation with comments about how to do it.
