Les Leopold is the co-founder and director of two nonprofit educational organizations: The Labor Institute and the Public Health Institute. He is the 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 (2209) and The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor: The Life and Times of Tony Mazzocchi (2008), both published by Chelsea Green.