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Robert Reich, former U.S. Secretary of Labor and Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley, has a new film, "Inequality for All," to be released September 27. He blogs at www.robertreich.org.
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, November 5, 2022 It's the Corporate Greed, Stupid
As American corporations report their highest profit margins the United States has seen in over seventy years, executives of leading companies are admitting on earnings calls that they're taking advantage of inflation.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 18, 2022 The 'Big Lie' GOP Has Some Other Midterm Whoppers Up It's Sleeve
They involve crime, inflation, and taxes. None of these three lies is as brazen and damaging as Trump's Big Lie but they're all being used by Republican candidates in these last weeks before the midterms.
(6 comments) SHARE Tuesday, August 16, 2022 You are being lied to about the IRS
The 1% have an incentive to keep the IRS hobbled and unable to excavate their hidden wealth.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 13, 2022 Big Donors - Small Donors - and the Fight for Democracy
Small donors are ramping up their giving to Democrats because they're aware of how nuts the Republican Party has become on issues ranging from abortion to democracy.
(6 comments) SHARE Friday, July 29, 2022 Debunking Four Myths About Inflation
Higher prices are not being driven by wage increases. They were not driven by federal assistance to people during the pandemic. And Democrats aren't to blame.
SHARE Thursday, July 21, 2022 How global corporations are using white Christian nationalism
What do congressional Republicans, Joe Manchin, and Hungary's Viktor Orban have in common? They all oppose the Biden administration's proposed global minimum corporate tax "- designed to stop corporations from playing one country against another in a worldwide race to the tax bottom.
(9 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 7, 2022 The ideology of Christian nationalism
The Republican Party: God, guns, forced birth, and strongmen The ideology of Christian nationalism
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 6, 2022 Is America becoming a theocracy?
An increasing number of Republicans are openly pushing to turn America into a theocracy. What can be done to stop it?
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, June 24, 2022 Republicans Won't Stop at Roe
The Republican majority on the Supreme Court is giving states the green light to invade everyone's privacy in ever more egregious ways
SHARE Tuesday, June 21, 2022 How to end corporate welfare - Robert Reich
Putting our chips on the table
Today I want to explain why corporations so often get what they want while average Americans don't. It's not simply that corporations bribe legislators with campaign donations, although that's a big part of it. There's another phenomenon at work that you need to know about.