Mr. Moneybags Acts Out Union’s Lessons on U.S. Inequity: Economy

Ten chairs lined the front of a community center in Greensboro, North Carolina, where Mr. Moneybags was giving a lesson in wealth inequality. Moneybags, played by tobacco worker John Ledbetter, sprawled across seven of them as nine of his classmates jostled for the rest.

“How does that look to you all?” Katie Gregg, an organizer with AFL-CIO affiliate Working America, asked a class of workers, retirees and community activists.