Jim Lardner is a journalist and the founder of Inequality.org. He is a co-author (with José García and Cindy Zeldin) of Up to Our Eyeballs: How Shady Lenders and Failed Economic Policies Are Drowning Americans in Debt and a co-editor (with David A. Smith) of Inequality Matters: The Growing Economic Divide in America and Its Poisonous Consequences (both published by The New Press).