In a wide-ranging interview for Waking the Sleeping Giant, scholar and political organizer Gar Alperovitz summarized the extraordinary wealth inequality we're witnessing in the U.S.
From the film-in-production "Waking the Sleeping Giant: the Making of a Political Revolution", scholar and political organizer Gar Alperovitz summarizes the extreme wealth inequality in America (http://wakingthesleepinggiant.com). Professor Alperovitz has had a distinguished career as a historian, political economist, activist, writer, and government official. For fifteen years, he served as the Lionel R.
Long-time professor at the University of Maryland, Prof. Alperovitz is currently the co-chair with Gus Speth of The Next System Project, an exciting initiative "aimed at thinking boldly about what is required to deal with the systemic challenges the United States faces now and in coming decades." His latest book is "What Then Shall We Do: Straight Talk about the Next American Revolution," a treatise on the growing frustration among everyday Americans with our economic system.