James Steele, along with his investigative partner Donald Bartlett, are widely acclaimed as the best investigative reporting team in American journalism.

Their specialty is researching, analyzing and writing about the complex issues and institutions that profoundly affect American life. Steele co-authored with Bartlett, “How Health Care in America Became Big Business – And Bad Medicine.”

Ì¢‰âÂå¬They are the authors of five previous books, including America: What Went Wrong?, an expanded version of their Philadelphia Inquirer series that was published in 1992. It was adapted for two television specials produced by Bill Moyers. Within weeks of its publication, America: What Went Wrong? appeared on the best-seller list of The New York Times, where it remained for eight months. Today, the book is in its 18th printing.

Steele will share his insights on how our government changed the rules about how business should treat its employees and community, and stopped being the referee, preferring to side with corporate interests. He will also summarize his account of the viable businesses destroyed, pension funds raided, life savings plundered and people thrown out of work as a result of the corporate takeovers and S&L scam artists.

Steele and Bartlett recently produced the TIME cover story investigation, “The Great Retirement Ripoff,” which looks at how companies are leaving millions of Americans at risk of an impoverished retirement and how Congress let it happen.