The Breakdown with Richard Eskow - May 26, 2012

Richard talks with Maya Rockeymoore, President and CEO of Global Policy Solutions, a social policy consulting firm, about the environmental causes of the high rates of obesity among African-American women, and The Plan for a New Future, a proposal that would expand Social Security benefits. 

Roger Hickey, co-director of the Campaign for America's Future, came on the show to discuss what it means to both help elect Democrats and hold them accuntable for their actions, as well as what the Campaign for America's Future has in store for the Take Back the American Dream Conference on June 18-20 in Washington, DC.

Mike Konczal, financial policy whiz and author of the Rortybomb blog for the Next New Deal, talks with Richard about judging private equity on the merits, and the need for a new Glass-Steagall Act to reign in Wall Street.