Author: Les Leopold

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).

How About Some of that Painful Welfare Reform for Wall Street?

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

What Recession? As the Economy Crashed Around Them, 400 Richest Americans Lined Their Pockets with $30 Billion

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

Why Do We Idolize Wall Street Hustlers but Hold People Who Actually Make Things in Contempt?

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

Serious About Green Jobs? It's Time to Throw 'Free Trade' out the Window

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

5 Progressive Bright Spots in a Bleak Economic Landscape

This disaster has a few bright spots that we should build upon.
Posted on Jun 24, 2009, Source: AlterNet

The Ideology of Unfettered Capitalism Is Crumbling -- It's a Huge Opportunity for Alternative Economics

Unfettered globalization, and trickle down economics are dead. This is the best teaching moment in 65 years.
Posted on Jun 16, 2009, Source: AlterNet

The Looting of America: How Wall Street Fleeced Millions from Wisconsin Schools

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

Wall St. and the Media Are Trying to Make Us Forget Who Started the Financial Crash

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

The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor

Long after the Democratic Party abandoned labor interests, Tony Mazzocchi continued to fight for the working class.
Posted on Apr 9, 2008, Source: AlterNet

Recent Explosion Reveals Fatal Double Standard for Workers

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

Globalization Is Fueling Global Warming

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

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