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Lede: As Doug Cunningham reports, the Economic Policy Institute believes the American people have rejected neo-con economic policy and are ready for an "agenda for shared prosperity".

By Doug Cunningham

Ross Eisenbrey, Vice President of the Economic Policy Institute, says there’s been a remarkable public and political shift away from support for purely market driven economic policy. What American working families need, Eisenbrey says, is an economic policy agenda for shared prosperity, an economy actually designed to benefit the majority of us.

[Eisenbrey]: "It’s a remarkable change in a very short time. I think there’s been a public rejection of the conservative 'you’re on your own' economic agenda that we’ve seen for the last ten years or so, and there’s a hunger for something new."

He says the economy can and should be designed to benefit the majority of workers. Eisenbrey says it’s not true that we must just let market forces happen like the weather.

[Eisenbrey 2]: “That’s an argument the rich and powerful make to maintain their power position, to say it’s just the market and we have nothing to do with it. But the entire economy is based on rules. Everything in the economy is a choice that we can make.”