Author Bios

Richard Walker is a professor of geography at UC Berkeley and co-director of the California Living New Deal Project.

Martin Bennett teaches American history at Santa Rosa Junior College and is co-chair of the Living Wage Coalition of Sonoma County.

Jeremy Gantz is Web Editor/Associate Editor of In These Times, editor of Working In These Times, the magazine's labor blog, and a freelance writer. 

Travis Lupick is a journalist and the author of, most recently, Light Up the Night: America’s Overdose Crisis and the Drug Users Fighting for Survival. Follow him on Twitter: @tlupick.