All Robert Reich
Jobs growth slows. Should we worry?The economy added only 120,000 jobs in March 鈥� down from the rate of more than 200,000 in each of the preceding three months. It鈥檚 way too early to conclude the jobs recovery is stalling, but there鈥檚 reason for concern.
Election 2012: A fable of equalityAs voters, we can let rich private equity managers take over the electoral process and further the inequality gap. Or we can do something about it.
Social Darwinism is here to stayPresident Obama kicked off聽his 2012 campaign with a hard-hitting speech centered on the House Republicans鈥� budget plan.聽We are likely to hear a lot more about social Darwinism in the months ahead.
We're turning America into a giant casinoOrganized gambling is a scam. And it particularly preys upon people with lower incomes 鈥� who assume they can鈥檛 make it big any other way, who often find it hardest to assess the odds, and whose families can least afford to lose the money. Yet with new, relaxed gambling laws, America is now opening the floodgates.
Economic rebound? Not for most of us.For the richest Americans, the recovery is in full swing. But everyone else is losing ground.
Dallas Fed: Break up the big banksAccording to the Dallas Federal Reserve, one of the nation's most conservative regional banks, taxpayers will be on the hook for another giant Wall Street bailout, and the economy won鈥檛 be mended, unless the nation鈥檚 biggest banks are broken up.
Obama could turn a health-care loss into a winIf the Supreme Court decides the individual health-care mandate is unconstitutional, Obama's plans for reform begin to unravel. But with a little political maneuvering, he can turn such a defeat into a victory.
Sorry, Romney, it's no longer an Etch A Sketch worldThroughout his political career, Mitt Romney has relied on the ability to ignore past platforms and start fresh from campaign to campaign. But in the video age, the past is harder to erase.
Ryan's budget helps no one but the richThe real contrast in Paul Ryan's budget is over what the plan does for the rich and what it does to everyone else. It reduces the top individual and corporate tax rates to 25 percent. This would give the wealthiest Americans an average tax cut of at least $150,000 a year. The money would come out of programs for the elderly, lower-middle families, and the poor.
The GOP's tax cut trickWhen Republicans have nothing else to attack, they call for a tax cut. And it works.
Gas prices rising: Why GOP won't address real causeGas prices are rising not because of increased demand but because Wall Street is betting on higher gas prices.
The GOP is confused about public moralityThe real threat to American morality is what's happening in corporate board rooms, not people's private lives.
A surtax on the rich is fair and necessaryThe wealth gap in America is widening, and a surtax on the super rich would slow it from widening into a chasm.
Jobs recovery: Good news for Obama, bad for RomneyJobs are coming back fast enough to blunt Republican attacks against Obama on the economy and to rob Romney of the issue he鈥檇 prefer to be talking about in his primary battle against social conservatives in the GOP. But are jobs growing fast enough?
The American pie is growing, but most people aren't getting a sliceThe good news is that the American economic pie is growing again. The bad news is that the share of growth going to American workers is at a record low, and that's bad news for everybody.聽
How to stop starving public colleges and shrinking the middle classAmerica is聽 making it harder and harder for young people of modest means to attend college. But affordable public higher education is essential to preserving the middle class.
In economic rebound, housing woes remainJob growth and spending are showing signs of life, but the biggest continuing problem for most Americans is their homes.
The GOP slides right, and the rest of us should worryEven if they don't win on Election Day, the fringe right-wingers who have taken over the Repuplican party, will have a deep, negative impact on our government.
Corporations don't need tax cuts. Why is Obama proposing them?The Obama administration is proposing to lower corporate taxes from the current 35 percent to 28 percent for most companies and to 25 percent for manufacturers.聽 But American companies are booking higher profits than ever.
GOP's big investors: Who's really running for president?A handful of billionaires are all but funding the GOP primaries. Never before have so few spent so much to influence so many.
