Recovering journalist and class warrior Susie Madrak explores the impact of current events on the daily lives of working class people.

This week: Richard (RJ) Eskow writes at A Night Light, Huffington Post and OurFuture.org. A former executive with experience in health care, benefits, and risk management, finance, and information technologym, RJ worked for AIG and other insurance, risk management, and financial organizations. He was also a public policy and finance/economics consultant, in the US and over 20 countries.

His Twitter ID is "@rjeskow.