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Robert Reich
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Robert Reich
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Berkeley professor, former Secretary of Labor. Co-founder, @InequalityMedia. Preorder my new book below:
- Forced birth in a country with: —No universal healthcare —No universal childcare —No paid family & medical leave —One of the highest rates of maternal mortality among rich nations This isn't about "life." It's about control.
- Republicans who say we can't impeach a president 10 days before an inauguration had no trouble confirming a Supreme Court justice 8 days before an election.
- If Redditors rallying GameStop is unacceptable market manipulation, what would you call it when greedy Wall Street bankers gambled away our entire economy in 2008 and faced no consequences?
- Forced birth in a country that refuses to protect children from being murdered at school.
- Shh don’t tell the Republicans, but at Walter Reed they have socialized medicine.
- Call me old-fashioned but I don't think a president who incites a coup against the U.S. government deserves a $200,000 pension for the rest of his life, along with a million-dollar travel budget, all financed by U.S. taxpayers. Just sayin.
- Zuckerberg owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post. Elon Musk owns Twitter. When multi-billionaires take control of our most vital platforms for communication, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy.
- Those now saying Twitter's ban violates free speech didn't object when the NFL fired Colin Kaepernick.
- Our silence on this is embarrassing.After an earthquake and a hurricane — and Trump's failure to send condolences — Mexico rescinds aid offer to U.S. lat.ms/2gYZx3u
- How about we nix Presidents Day and make Election Day a national holiday instead?
- Please stop calling undocumented people who pay taxes “freeloaders”. A freeloader is a trust-fund billionaire who pays $0 in federal income taxes for 10 out of 15 years and then receives top-notch government-funded health care when he gets sick.
- I don't know who needs to hear this, but refusing to disclose the corporations receiving $500,000,000,000 in taxpayer-funded bailouts is just about as corrupt as it gets.
- Federal minimum wage in: 2009: $7.25 2010: $7.25 2011: $7.25 2012: $7.25 2013: $7.25 2014: $7.25 2015: $7.25 2016: $7.25 2017: $7.25 2018: $7.25 2019: $7.25 2020: $7.25 2021: $7.25 2022: $7.25 2023: $7.25 2024: $7.25 Folks, it's time to raise the damn wage already.
