Stories by Les Leopold
Les Leopold is the executive director of the Labor Institute and Public Health Institute in New York, and author of The Looting of America: How Wall Street's Game of Fantasy Finance Destroyed Our Jobs, Pensions, and Prosperity—and What We Can Do About It (Chelsea Green, 2009).
There's rising populist anger against the bailed-out billionaires -- they're only going to get more angry as the same folks who crashed the system are now making record bonuses.
Posted on Jan 29, 2010, Source: AlterNet
You can blame Obama for the Senate loss in Mass, but much of the failure also rests with the progressive community.
Posted on Jan 20, 2010, Source: AlterNet
By all means, let's fire Geithner -- and let's also target Wall Street as a whole. Also: MSNBC Host Dylan Ratigan's case against Geithner.
Posted on Jan 12, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Real change seems almost impossible. What are we doing wrong?
Posted on Jan 7, 2010, Source: AlterNet
The disillusioned masses don't just need more morale, as Levine claims. We also need more truth and more intelligence.
Posted on Dec 28, 2009, Source: AlterNet
We force very low income single moms to jump through hoops to get their welfare checks, but we let Wall Street's welfare kings walk all over us.
Posted on Oct 22, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Their combined wealth is more than enough to insure the uninsured for the next twenty years or more.
Posted on Oct 1, 2009, Source: AlterNet
The manufacturing sector accounts for fewer and fewer jobs each year, so why should we give a damn about it?
Posted on Sep 30, 2009, Source: Huffington Post
If we want a greener world and green jobs for our citizens, we have to ditch the 'free-trade' ideal -- markets on their own won't do it.
Posted on Jul 20, 2009, Source: AlterNet
This disaster has a few bright spots that we should build upon.
Posted on Jun 24, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Unfettered globalization, and trickle down economics are dead. This is the best teaching moment in 65 years.
Posted on Jun 16, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Wall Street investment houses went after the $100 billion saved in school-district trust funds like Whitefish Bay's, and made a killing.
Posted on Jun 3, 2009, Source: Chelsea Green Publishing
We're at the moment Wall Street has been waiting for: The time where we begin to forget who brought the economy down.
Posted on May 20, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Long after the Democratic Party abandoned labor interests, Tony Mazzocchi continued to fight for the working class.
Posted on Apr 9, 2008, Source: AlterNet
As the recent explosion in the sugar factory shows, in industrial facilities, the drive for profits undermines safety.
Posted on Feb 20, 2008, Source: Chelsea Green Publishing
Unfettered global trade will make efforts to reverse global warming and deliver safe products to our country all the more difficult.
Posted on Dec 28, 2007, Source: AlterNet
