Billionaires exert too much power over government policies, and average Americans are suffering as a result.

That’s the message prompting local protesters to gather from 2 to 5 p.m. on Monday in front of the Allen County Courthouse. And it’s the same sentiment motivating more than 1,000 similar Workers Over Billionaires rallies planned nationwide for Labor Day.

“The levels of inequality and the challenges different families are facing are so severe that something has to change,” said Unai Montes-Irueste, California-based media strategy director for the People’s Action Institute, part of the organizing coalition that includes unions, churches and nonprofits.

“People who have a lot have designed a system to get even more,” Montes-Irueste said this week during a phone interview. “How are w

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