The Republican strategy is to divide and conquer. Progressives must stay united in a powerful movement to take back our economy and democracy.
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Why Progressives Must Stay United
Author: Robert Reich
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.
Hillary Clinton won’t propose reinstating a bank break-up law known as the Glass-Steagall Act.
If we continue in the direction we’re headed we’ll soon have a health insurance system dominated by two or three mammoth for-profit corporations capable of squeezing employees and consumers for all they’re worth.
President Dwight Eisenhower warned of the dangers of an unbridled “military-industrial complex,” as he called it. Now it’s a military-industrial-congressional complex. After Citizens United, it’s less bridled than ever.
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Fighting Economic Apartheid in America
We must stop economic apartheid in America.
The Department of Labor proposed a new overtime pay threshold of $50,400. This is a big deal. Some 5 million workers will get a raise.
What if every county, city, and state in America followed Santa Cruz County’s example, and held the big banks accountable for their felonies?
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10 Ideas to Save the Economy
We bring you all 10 of Robert Reich’s ideas to save the economy in one convenient, easy-to-share article.
Instead of locking people up unjustly, and then locking them out of the economy for the rest of their lives, we need to stop wasting human talent and start opening doors of opportunity – to everyone.
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Anticipatory Bribery
In viewing campaign contributions as the major source of corruption we overlook the more insidious flow of direct, personal payments – much of which might be called “anticipatory bribery.”