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Click here to download the presentation and video from today's USW economics presentation at the AFL-CIO Next Up young workers summit.

USW's Director of Education and Membership Development Lisa Jordan led the panel, "The State of the Union," today at the AFL-CIO Next Up young worker's summit in Minneapolis. She gave a presentation showing how our economy has increasingly moved wealth to a very few, while the rest of us struggle and the middle class evaporates. More than 800 delegates got pumped up, vowing to stand up and fight back for a more fair economy and a brighter future. Click here to download her presentation called "Reading the Tea Leaves." (If you don't want a Power Point, click here to download a PDF of the slides.) You can watch the video featured, "The Fighting Spirit," here: