A project of the Labor Institute to reverse runaway income and wealth inequality.
For the past few weeks we’ve been testing the wording and delivery methods for the Reversing Runaway Inequality Petition, a program of policy ideas designed to reverse runaway inequality. Now the test is done and we’ve gone live. The petition is going out first to the Runaway Inequality Education Network, and the hope is other … Read more
Let us know about your Reversing Runaway Inequality training events, so we can show others what we’re all doing on our News page. Email a description, photos, video, and audio to peter@runawayinequality.org.
Les Leopold is speaking at the People’s Summit this weekend, at 1:30pm on Saturday June 10 at McCormick Place in Chicago. Here’s what the organizers say about the People’s Summit: CALL FOR THE PEOPLE’S SUMMIT: BUILDING THE POLITICAL REVOLUTION At a time of tremendous turmoil and progressive opportunity, we invite you to participate in a … Read more
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”2_3″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] If you would like to be informed about local training events in your area, and you aren’t yet on our trainer map, please let us know your name and location. We’ll put you on the map! [/et_pb_text][et_pb_image admin_label=”Image” src=”https://runawayinequality.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Screenshot-2017-06-20-13.18.59.png” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”left” sticky=”off” align=”left” … Read more
Les Leopold, at Huffington Post, writes about a random sampling of opinions about runaway inequality he conducted in partnership with Survey Monkey, and how the results offer good reasons to act now and be a little hopeful. Read the story here.
A photo from a recent session in Cleveland, of people figuring out how to reverse Runaway Inequality. A note from David Bitter: May 13, 2017 I wanted to thank-you for inviting me to attend the May 2017 “Reversing Runaway Inequality” workshop in Cleveland, Ohio. After pondering the experience for a while I would also like to … Read more
Runaway Inequality author Les Leopold will be speaking about Reversing Runaway Inequality at events in Northern California — May 17-20. Please see the schedule below and reserve your space! May 17- UU Fellowship of Redwood City – 2124 Brewster Ave, Redwood City – 8pm RSVP here: https://e.sparxo.com/RunawayInequalityRedwoodCity?rn=riblog May 18- Indivisible Santa Cruz – Louden Nelson Community … Read more
The bulk of the review by Harris Gruman sits behind the paywall. You can buy short-term access ($36!) or get in if you’re a subscriber, but the lead paragraph is worth quoting: “Les Leopold has a mighty ambition for all of us. Like Populist Era “lecturers,” [he believes] we need to educate the people of … Read more
This is from the email Les started sending people who signed up for more information about becoming a trainer or joining the campaign. We’ve moved it here so anyone who is interested might find it. “As an economics educator, I was asked by the Communications Workers of America (CWA) in the Spring of 2015 to … Read more
Les talked about his work creating an education infrastructure to support progressive change and unions and the working class, and combatting runaway inequality. Click here to listen.