Downsizing the American Dream

FEB 02 TUE: February 2 2010, 07:00pm; Hammer Forum

Downsizing the American Dream

After the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, Wall Street is back but Main Street still suffers. As the divide between rich and poor in America widens, will the middle class recover or be left out as the economy is restructured? Les Leopold is the director of the Labor Institute 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. Economist Dean Baker is the co-founder and co-director of The Center for Economic and Policy Research and the author of Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy.

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