EPI's Larry Mishel on Our Rigged Economy and #OWS

I recently interview the esteemed Larry Mishel of the Economic Policy Institute. He has spent his entire career fighting on behalf of the 99%. Larry sent this interview, where he directly discusses #OWS and inequality and asked that we do what we can to get it out to the #OWS community. So, email it, tweet it, post comments about it - do what you can.




Larry's email to me:

Taryn,

I went up to NY to be on a panel on “The backlash: Zuccotti Park and beyond” at a conference sponsored by The Economist Magazine, attended by many finance sector types. I used this opportunity to speak truth to power and articulated why OWS was appropriately angry about the enormous rise in inequality and the failure to address persistent high unemployment. We recently were able to get the video from this session and posted it: http://www.epi.org/blog/video-wheres-outrage/ .This conference was just a few blocks from Zuccotti Park and I was able to visit there before doing this panel—I brought several of my/EPI books for the library (since they had a State of Working America in the library, but an old one). Obviously, those are all in the trash now.

I’m hoping you can get word about this video out to the OWS twitter universe. It’s six minutes. You’re welcome to post this on your OWS channel, too, of course.

Larry

I've interviewed quite a few people now and Larry is probably my favorite because of his commitment and sincerity - the overwhelming impression I have is that, first and foremost, he's a good person who cares about his fellow human beings.