Richard (RJ) Eskow is a journalist and policy consultant. He hosts a nationally distributed radio and television program. Richard was lead writer and for Bernie Sanders during the 2016 presidential campaign. How work has been published in The Nation, the American Prospect, Salon, The Intercept, the Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere, and has been anthologized three times in book form.

For decades Richard worked as a senior executive and expert in health insurance, social benefits, workers’ compensation, risk analysis, and finance. He has consulted on health and social policy for governments and private concerns in more than 20 countries. He has also been a teacher, a country/western singer, janitor, a nurse’s aide, a rock’n’roll guitarist and songwriter, and a warehouse worker.

Richard’s weekly program, The Zero Hour, is available nationwide on cable TV, syndicated radio, and online. The program’s guests have included Bernie Sanders, Jeremy Corbyn, Sherrod Brown, Imran Khan, and a range of leading activists, authors, and academics.
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Richard was also a Senior Fellow with Social Security Works and a Senior Fellow with the Campaign for America’s Future.