Robert Reich
Robert B. Reich is the chancellor’s professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley and former secretary of labor under the Clinton administration. TIME magazine named him one of the 10 most effective Cabinet secretaries of the 20th century. He is also a founding editor of The American Prospect magazine and chairman of Common Cause. His film, Inequality for All. was released in 2013. Follow him on Twitter: @RBReich.
ALL POSTS BY Robert Reich
August 4, 2014What someone is paid has little or no relationship to what their work is worth to society.
July 27, 2014The “self-made” man or woman, the symbol of American meritocracy, is disappearing. Six of today’s 10 wealthiest Americans are heirs to prominent fortunes.
July 7, 2014If a company "leaves" the US to reduce its tax bill, it should no longer be able to spend a penny influencing American politics.
June 24, 2014Businesses are realizing they cannot succeed over the long term without the purchasing power of the middle class.
June 5, 2014Corporations aren’t people — despite what the Supreme Court says. Corporations don’t break laws; specific people do.
May 7, 2014The truth is, America’s lurch toward widening inequality can be reversed. But doing so will require bold political steps.
April 23, 2014Proposed legislation in California would set corporate taxes according to the ratio of CEO pay to the pay of the company’s typical worker.
March 27, 2014The vast wealth that has accumulated at the top of the American economy isn't the problem -- it's that political power tends to rise to where the money is.
February 12, 2014Former labor secretary Robert Reich explains how we have forgotten the three most important economic lessons America learned in the 30 years following World War II.- January 10, 2014Conservatives have pursued a divide-and-conquer strategy intended to convince working-class whites that the poor were their enemies. It’s starting to backfire.
