Special Guest: Heidi Shierholz Heidi is President of the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). Under her leadership, EPI has fought for legislative and regulatory reforms that support collective bargaining, increase worker power, improve wages, benefits, and working conditions, and reduce racial and gender inequities. Heidi is a Former Chief Economist for the Department of Labor under […]

Special Guest: Rep. Summer Lee (PA-12) Born and raised in the Mon Valley of Pennsylvania, Rep. Lee is a dedicated organizer, attorney, and progressive state legislator. She graduated from Penn State and Howard University School of Law, where she focused on civil rights and social justice advocacy. She worked as labor organizer, joining the Fight for […]

Jayati Ghosh has been a Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst since January of 2021. She also taught economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. In 2021 the United Nations named her to be on the High-level Advisory Board on Economic and Social Affairs. She has authored and/or edited 19 […]

Bob Lord is the Senior Vice President for Tax Policy at Patriotic Millionaires. He has a 30+ year career as a tax lawyer, and serves as an Associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. Scott Ellis is a founding Board Member of the Excessive Wealth Disorder Institute. He is also a member of the […]

Kitty Richards is a Senior Strategic Advisor at Groundwork Collaborative. Building on yesterday’s discussion of extreme wealth inequality, Maggie and Kitty talk about how small businesses would experience a new tax rate. Also, huge grocery corporations admit that they keep prices artificially high in order to boost their profits. Not to boost their workers’ pay. […]