1/6 Hour 1: Why The Economy Doesn’t Work with This Level of Income Inequality

Ira Grupper, longtime member of SNCC (student nonviolent coordinating committee), discusses the ways that union and civil rights activists have joined forces in the past, and why that is critical to the future of both movements. AFA-CWA President Sara Nelson joins us to talk about recent legislation introduced to stop human trafficking called Secure Our Skies Act, with the purpose of training aviation workers to know what to look for. David Madland, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and Author of Hollowed Out: Why The Economy Doesn’t Work Without A Strong Middle Class, joins us to talk about misinformation in the media, and the negative impact of Right to Work.