As part of the AFL-CIO's ongoing book club series, author Anat Shenker-Osorio will be discussing her book Don't Buy It: The Trouble with Talking Nonsense about the Economy at AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington, D.C., Thursday, Oct. 3, from noon to 2 p.m. Attendees are invited to bring their lunches, and beverages will be provided.

On Monday, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz told a packed crowd at the AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington, D.C., that the United States is paying a high price for the growing inequality facing the country. But, despite the long-thought idea that we have to choose between growth and equality, he said that the two are complements and that we can have both a strong, growing economy and equality.