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Robert Reich


American
June 24, 1946
Economist
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Radical conservatives want to police bedrooms.


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It is impossible to fight bullies merely by saying they're going too far.


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Tags: Going Too Far
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Corporations aren't people. They have no brains, no consciences, no capacity for intent or guilt.


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Universities have to tame their budgets, especially for student amenities that have nothing to do with education.
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America is one of few advanced nations that allow direct advertising of prescription drugs.


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Tags: America Few Allow
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In truth, government has been good to Wall Street and big business.


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Evidence suggests jobs are crucial not only to economic well-being but also to self-esteem.


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Tags: Only Also Jobs
As we segregate by income into different communities, schools in lower-income areas have fewer resources than ever.
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In reality, most of America's poor work hard, often in two or more jobs.


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Tags: Work More Most
Money buys the most experienced teachers, less-crowded classrooms, high-quality teaching materials, and after-school programs.
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Liberals are concerned about the concentration of wealth because it almost inevitably leads to a concentration of power that undermines democracy.
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Only if everyone buys insurance can insurers afford to cover people with preexisting conditions or pay the costs of catastrophic diseases.
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There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms.
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Tags: Doing Better Job
We don't have to sit by and watch our meritocracy be replaced by a permanent aristocracy, and our democracy be undermined by dynastic wealth.
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Tags: Our Watch Sit
Government subsidies to elite private universities take the form of tax deductions for people who make charitable contributions to them.
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America's real business leaders understand unless or until the middle class regains its footing and its faith, capitalism remains vulnerable.
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Technology is changing so fast that knowledge about specifics can quickly become obsolete. That's why so much of what technicians learn is on the job.
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Some argue shareholder capitalism has proven more efficient. It has moved economic resources to where they're most productive, and thereby enabled the economy to grow faster.
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More people are killed by stray bullets every day in America than have been killed by Ebola here. More are dying because of poverty and hunger.
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Rather than subsidize 'American' exporters, it makes more sense to subsidize any global company - to the extent it's adding to its exports from the United States.
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Tags: More Than Any
Tax laws favor capital over labor, giving capital gains a lower rate than ordinary income. The rich get humongous mortgage interest deductions while renters get no deduction at all.
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Tags: Get Than Over
I'm not one of those who thinks the only way to fix what's wrong with American education is to throw more money at it. We also need to do it much better.
Robert Reich
News and images move so easily across borders that attitudes and aspirations are no longer especially national. Cyber-weapons, no longer the exclusive province of national governments, can originate in a hacker's garage.
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Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together.
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Tags: Work You People
Instead of worrying about who's American and who's not, here's a better idea: Create incentives for any global company to do what we'd like it to do in the United States.
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Tags: Like About Any
Yes, the rich will find ways to avoid paying more taxes, courtesy of clever accountants and tax attorneys. But this has always been the case, regardless of where the tax rate is set.
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Tags: More Always Been
As long as the big banks are allowed to remain big, their political leverage over Washington will remain big. And as long as their political leverage remains big, the taxpayer and economic tab for the next mess they create will be big.
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Tags: Will Over Long
In 1968, the sanitation workers of Memphis tried to form a union. The city resisted. The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. came to support them. That was where he lost his life.
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Tags: Life Them He
Sugary drinks are blamed for increasing the rates of chronic disease and obesity in America. Yet efforts to reduce their consumption through taxes or other measures have gone nowhere. The beverage industry has spent millions defeating them.
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Official boundaries are often hard to see. If you head north on Woodward Avenue, away from downtown Detroit, you wouldn't know exactly when you left the city and crossed over into Oakland County - except for a small sign that tells you.
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