ROBERT B. REICH, Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies, was Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration. Time magazine named him one of the ten most effective cabinet secretaries of the twentieth century. He has written fourteen books, including the best sellers Aftershock, The Work of Nations and Beyond Outrage and, his most recent, Saving Capitalism. He is also a founding editor of The American Prospect magazine, chairman of Common Cause, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and co-creator of the award-winning documentary, Inequality for All.
Over the years, America has decided that certain kinds of jobs – jobs that were done by children, or were unsafe, or required people to work too many hours, or below poverty wages – offend our sense of decency.
The market is tilted in the direction of moneyed interests exerting disproportionate influence, while average people lose power—economic and political.
The enterprises of the country are aggregating vast corporate combinations of unexampled capital, boldly marching, not for economical conquests only, but for political power.
Planned Parenthood’s contraceptive services are one of the major reasons we don’t have more abortions in the United States.
Are college rankings part of the problem? Yes, if those rankings are from U.S. News.
An economy depends on public morality; shared standards about what is impermissible.
Many people have advocated a basic minimum income, the question was how to finance it. Robert Reich gives us an answer. Happy Labor Day.
In five years over 40 percent of the American labor force will have uncertain work; in a decade, most of us.
Corporate welfare is camouflaged in taxes that seem neutral, but give windfalls to entrenched corporations at the expense of people and small businesses.
The biggest political phenomenon in America today is a revolt against the “ruling class” of insiders that have dominated Washington for decades.