ROBERT B. REICH, one of the nation’s leading experts on work and the economy, is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He has served in three national administrations, most recently as secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton. Time Magazine has named him one of the ten most effective cabinet secretaries of the last century. He has written thirteen books, including his latest best-seller, “Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s Future;” “The Work of Nations,” which has been translated into 22 languages; and his newest, an e-book, “Beyond Outrage.” His syndicated columns, television appearances, and public radio commentaries reach millions of people each week. He is also a founding editor of the American Prospect magazine, and Chairman of the citizen’s group Common Cause. His widely-read blog can be found at www.robertreich.org.

Recent Blog Posts by Robert Reich

• Pyromaniacs on the Potomac: The Problem With Obama’s Second Term May 17th, 2013
• A Story for May Day: The Fed, Apple, and Trickle-Down Economics May 2nd, 2013
• Why This Is the Worst Recovery on Record April 16th, 2013
• The Stealth Sequester April 9th, 2013
• What Immigration Reform Could Mean for American Workers, and Why the AFL-CIO Is Embracing It April 2nd, 2013
• Sequestration Nation, and Remembering Robert Kennedy March 4th, 2013
• Coming Tuesday (Hopefully): The State of the Union’s Economy February 11th, 2013
• An Anniversary of America’s First Progressive Revolution February 4th, 2013
• Why Consumers are Bummed Out January 30th, 2013
• Debt Ceiling and Guns: Using Presidential Authority to the Fullest January 11th, 2013
• TARP is Over, But the Bailouts Will Continue Until the Big Banks are Broken Up — And Washington Knows It January 9th, 2013
• The Ongoing War: After the Battle Over the Cliff, the Battle Over the Debt Ceiling January 2nd, 2013
• The Only Way Left to Beat Republican Fanatics: Call Their Bluff and Go Over the Cliff December 26th, 2012
• Cliff Hanger: The President’s Unnecessary and Unwise Concessions December 20th, 2012
• As Washington Fiddles over the Fiscal Cliff, the Real Battle Over Inequality Is Happening in the Heartland December 11th, 2012
• Understanding the Fiscal Cliff (in 2 Minutes 30 Seconds) December 4th, 2012
• Organizing McDonalds and Walmart, and Why Austerity Economics Hurts Low-Wage Workers the Most December 3rd, 2012
• Bungee-Jumping Over the Fiscal Cliff November 29th, 2012
• Will Tim Geithner Lead Us Over or Around the Fiscal Cliff? November 27th, 2012
• Why is the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers Helping the Republicans? November 26th, 2012
• Why We Should Stop Obsessing About The Federal Budget Deficit November 20th, 2012
• The Next Game of Economic Chicken: Not on the Deficit But Over Taxing the Rich November 12th, 2012
• Why the Unemployment Report Should Be Taken With A Grain of Salt November 2nd, 2012
• The Final Days, the Biggest Issue, and the Clearest Choice October 30th, 2012
• Memo to the President: Your Next Debate October 16th, 2012
• The Politics of Fear and the Party of Non-Voters October 10th, 2012
• The First Presidential Debate October 4th, 2012
• Questions that are Unlikely to be Asked Wednesday Night October 3rd, 2012
• The Week Ahead: Wednesday’s Presidential Debate and Friday’s Jobs Report October 1st, 2012
• The Two Major Views About Why Romney is Losing, and Why the Second is More Convincing September 26th, 2012
• Four Reasons Why Romney Might Still Win September 20th, 2012
• Why Romney and Ryan are Going Down September 17th, 2012
• The Biggest Economic Challenge of Obama’s Second Term September 10th, 2012
• The Real Importance of Bill Clinton’s Wonderfully Long Speech September 6th, 2012
• The Most Important Political News This Week September 5th, 2012
• Labor Day 2012 and the Election of 2012: It’s the Inequality, Stupid August 30th, 2012
• The Five Reasons Why the Ryan-Romney Economic Plan Would Be A Disaster for America August 21st, 2012
• Paul Ryan’s Faux Populism August 20th, 2012
• Whose Plan Destroys Medicare, Obama’s or Romney-Ryan’s? August 14th, 2012
• The Terrible Economy and the Anti-Election of 2012 July 30th, 2012
• The Man Who Invented ‘Too Big to Fail’ Banks Finally Recants. Will Obama or Romney Follow? July 26th, 2012
• The Problem Isn’t Outsourcing. It’s that the Prosperity of Big Business Has Become Disconnected from the Well-Being of Most Americans July 19th, 2012
• The Selling of American Democracy: The Perfect Storm July 15th, 2012
• The Truth About Obama’s Tax Proposal (and the Lies the Regressives are Telling About It) July 11th, 2012
• The Wall Street Scandal of all Scandals July 9th, 2012
• The Jobs Doldrums and Obama’s Future July 6th, 2012
• Patriotism July 4, 2012 July 5th, 2012
• Roberts’ Switch June 29th, 2012
• Excluding Outsiders or Coming Together for the Common Good: What’s the True Meaning of Patriotism? June 26th, 2012
• Dimon in the Rough: How Wall Street Aims to Keep U.S. Regulators Out of Its Global Betting Parlor June 20th, 2012
• Ponderings on the New Politics of Extremism June 17th, 2012
• A Back Door to the Public Option June 14th, 2012
• Why the Economy Can’t Get Out of First Gear June 13th, 2012
• Why the Public’s Growing Disdain for the Supreme Court May Help Obamacare June 8th, 2012
• The Quiet Coup d’Etat June 5th, 2012
• The Job Stall June 4th, 2012
• A Diabolical Mix: U.S. Wages and European Austerity May 31st, 2012
• How to Avoid the Austerity Trap But Still Deal with the Budget Deficit May 29th, 2012
• The Commencement Address That Won’t Be Given May 20th, 2012
• The Dog That Didn’t Bark: Obama on JPMorgan May 17th, 2012
• Of Bedrooms and Boardrooms May 10th, 2012
• A Question of Timing: What America Can Learn from the Revolt in Europe May 7th, 2012
• The Answer Isn’t Socialism; It’s Capitalism that Better Spreads the Benefits of the Productivity Revolution May 7th, 2012
• The Stall Has Arrived May 4th, 2012
• Why the Economy Is Heading for a Stall May 4th, 2012
• The Tinder-Box Society May 2nd, 2012
• How Europe’s Double Dip Could Become America’s April 26th, 2012
• Why “We’re on the Right Track” Isn’t Enough, and What Obama’s Plan Should Be for Boosting the Economy April 22nd, 2012
• The Significance of Citigroup’s Shareholder Revolt April 18th, 2012
• Thoughts on Tax Day 2012 April 17th, 2012
• Why a Fair Economy Is Not Incompatible with Growth but Essential to It April 15th, 2012
• Why the Buffett Rule Sets the Bar Too Low April 11th, 2012
• What Today’s Job Numbers Mean April 8th, 2012
• The Fable of the Century April 6th, 2012
• The Choice in 2012: Social Darwinism or a Decent Society April 4th, 2012
• Whose Recovery? April 1st, 2012
• Break Up the Big Banks, Says the Dallas Fed March 29th, 2012
• Healthcare Jujitsu March 27th, 2012
• The Republican’s Social-Darwinist Budget Plan March 21st, 2012
• If You Took the Greed Out of Wall Street, All You’d Have Left Is Pavement: Why Greg Smith’s Critique Is Way Too Narrow March 18th, 2012
• The Difference Between Private and Public Morality March 14th, 2012
• The Precarious Jobs Recovery March 12th, 2012
• Bye Bye American Pie: The Challenge of the Productivity Revolution March 2nd, 2012
• Stop Starving Public Universities and Shrinking the Middle Class March 1st, 2012
• No Longer Home Sweet Home: The Ongoing Housing Crisis and the End of an Era February 28th, 2012
• As Santorum and Romney Battle for the Loony Right, the Rest of Us Should Not Gloat February 27th, 2012
• Corporations Don’t Need a Tax Cut, So Why Is Obama Proposing One? February 22nd, 2012
• The GOP’s Big Investors February 22nd, 2012
• The Gas Wars February 21st, 2012
• Manufacturing Illusions February 20th, 2012
• The Sad Spectacle of Obama’s Super PAC February 8th, 2012
• The Downward Mobility of the American Middle Class, and Why Mitt Romney Doesn’t Know February 6th, 2012
• America’s Jobs Deficit, and Why It’s Still More Important than the Budget Deficit February 5th, 2012
• The Republican Myth of Obama’s “Entitlement Society” February 2nd, 2012
• The Biggest Risk to the Economy in 2012, and What’s the Economy for Anyway? January 30th, 2012
• Why No Responsible Democrat Should Want Newt Gingrich to Get the GOP Nomination January 27th, 2012
• Who Is Sheldon Adelson and What Has Newt Promised Him? January 25th, 2012
• The State of Our Disunion: A Globalizing Private Sector, A Government Overwhelmed by Corporate Money January 23rd, 2012
• The Romney Tax Loophole January 19th, 2012
• Free Enterprise on Trial January 17th, 2012
• The Bain of Capitalism January 11th, 2012
• How a Little Bit of Good Economic News Can Be Bad for the President January 10th, 2012
• The Decline of the Public Good January 5th, 2012
• The GOP Ticket in 2012: Romney-Rubio January 3rd, 2012
• My Political Prediction for 2012: It’s Obama-Clinton December 29th, 2011
• Why the Republican Crackup Is Bad for America December 21st, 2011
• The Defining Issue: Not Government’s Size, but Who It’s For December 20th, 2011
• An Offer to the President December 15th, 2011
• Newt’s Tax Plan, and Why His Polls Rise the More Outrageous He Becomes December 14th, 2011
• The Remarkable Political Stupidity of the Street December 11th, 2011
• The Most Important Economic Speech of His Presidency December 7th, 2011
• How to Avoid Being a Principled Republican on Taxes December 6th, 2011
• The Jobs Report: Don’t Break Out the Champagne December 4th, 2011
• The Rebirth of Social Darwinism December 1st, 2011
• Restore the Basic Bargain November 29th, 2011
• A Thanksgiving Reflection: Looking Beyond Election Day November 27th, 2011
• The First Amendment Upside Down. Why We Must Occupy Democracy November 22nd, 2011
• Stop the Austerity Train Wreck! November 20th, 2011
• Occupiers Occupied: The Hijacking of the First Amendment November 16th, 2011
• Why We May Be in Store for a Passionless Presidential Race November 13th, 2011
• Trigger Happy: Why Deficit Cuts Should Be Triggered Only When Unemployment Drops to 5 Percent November 11th, 2011
• The Corporate Pledge of Allegiance November 8th, 2011
• Washington Pre-Occupied November 4th, 2011
• Greece’s Choice — and Ours: Democracy or Finance? November 2nd, 2011
• The Occupiers’ Responsive Chord November 1st, 2011
• Wall Street Is Still Out of Control, and Why Obama Should Call for Glass-Steagall and a Breakup of Big Banks October 26th, 2011
• Why We Shouldn’t Be Selling the Right to Live in America October 25th, 2011
• The Flat-Tax Fraud, and the Necessity of a Truly Progressive Tax October 23rd, 2011
• The Meagerness of the Republican Debates, the Smallness of the President’s Solutions, and the Need for a Progressive Alternative October 18th, 2011
• The Rise of the Regressive Right and the Reawakening of America October 16th, 2011
• The Triumph of Dogma, and a Sad Goodbye to David Frum October 14th, 2011
• The Seven Biggest Economic Lies October 12th, 2011
• The Wall Street Occupiers and the Democratic Party October 9th, 2011
• Follow the Money: Behind Europe’s Debt Crisis Lurks Another Giant Bailout of Wall Street October 5th, 2011
• The American Jobs Depression, and How to Get Out of It October 2nd, 2011
• The Moral Question September 30th, 2011
• Why This Is Exactly the Time to Rebuild America’s Infrastructure September 26th, 2011
• When Will Wall Street Call for More Federal Spending? September 23rd, 2011
• The Republicans’ Latest Ploy to Keep the Economy Lousy through Election Day September 21st, 2011
• A Good Fight September 20th, 2011
• Taxing the Rich, the Obama Way September 18th, 2011
• The Republican Weapon of Mass Cynicism September 16th, 2011
• How to Create More Jobs by Lowering Wages: Texas and America September 14th, 2011
• The Oddness of the President’s Upcoming Deficit-Reduction Plan September 13th, 2011
• Two Cheers and One Jeer for the American Jobs Act September 9th, 2011
• Why Inequality Is the Real Cause of Our Ongoing Terrible Economy September 4th, 2011
• Obama’s Jobs Plan: Will He Offer Policy Miniatures or Give ‘em Hell? September 2nd, 2011
• Rick Perry’s Secret Plan to Save Blue States from the Red States August 31st, 2011
• This Labor Day We Need Protest Marches Rather than Parades August 26th, 2011
• Stock Tip: Be Worried. Workers Are Consumers. August 21st, 2011
• The President’s Bold Jobs Bill (Maybe) August 18th, 2011
• Why the President Doesn’t Present a Bold Plan to Create Jobs and Jumpstart the Economy August 10th, 2011
• Slouching Toward a Double Dip, For No Good Reason August 9th, 2011
• Why S&P Has No Business Downgrading the U.S. August 8th, 2011
• The Republican’s Double-Dip, and What Must Be Done August 5th, 2011
• The Hostage Crisis Continues: Why Obama Can’t Pivot to Jobs and Growth August 3rd, 2011
• Ransom Paid August 2nd, 2011
• Don’t Fall for the GOP Lie: There Is No Budget Crisis, There’s a Job and Growth Crisis July 29th, 2011
• The Empty Bully Pulpit July 28th, 2011
• Vicious Cycles: Why Washington Is About to Make the Jobs Crisis Worse July 26th, 2011
• Why Medicare Is the Solution – Not the Problem July 25th, 2011
• The Only Social Security Reform Worth Considering: Raising the Ceiling on Income Subject to It July 24th, 2011
• The Shameful Murder of Dodd Frank July 21st, 2011
• The Dangerous Hi-Jinks of the GOP’s Juveniles July 17th, 2011
• Why Mitch McConnell Will Win the Day July 14th, 2011
• The President’s Jobs Plan (Not) July 13th, 2011
• The Growing Desperation of the Don’t-Raise-Taxes-on-the-Rich Crowd June 17th, 2011
• Why the Republican War on Workers’ Rights Undermines the American Economy June 15th, 2011
• Of Snake Oil, Puff Balls, and the Need for a Real Jobs Plan from the President June 14th, 2011
• The Swamp of Washington and the Morass of the Economy June 13th, 2011
• Why the President Must Come Up with Demand-Side Solutions, and not go Over to the Supply Side June 10th, 2011
• Why the President Must Come Up With Demand-Side Solutions, and Not Go Over to the Supply Side June 9th, 2011
• Why Washington Isn’t Doing Squat About Jobs and Wages June 6th, 2011
• Back Toward Double Dip June 3rd, 2011
• How to Get Washington’s Attention June 2nd, 2011
• The Truth About the American Economy May 31st, 2011
• The Republican Death Wish May 27th, 2011
• The Battle for the Soul of the GOP May 10th, 2011
• Paul Ryan’s Plan, the Coming Shutdown, and What’s Really at Stake April 6th, 2011
• The Truth About the Economy that Nobody in Washington or on Wall Street Will Admit: We’re Heading Back Toward a Double Dip March 31st, 2011
• As the Global Economy Trembles, Our Nation’s Capital Fiddles March 17th, 2011
• Safety on the Cheap March 16th, 2011
• Why Obama Isn’t Fighting the Budget Battle March 11th, 2011
• The Real News on Jobs March 7th, 2011
• The Republican Shakedown February 25th, 2011
• The Coming Shutdowns and Showdowns: What’s Really at Stake February 22nd, 2011
• The Republican Strategy February 20th, 2011
• Budget Baloney (1): Why Social Security Isn’t a Problem for 26 Years, and the Best Way to Fix It Permanently February 17th, 2011
• Why We Should Raise Taxes on the Super-Rich and Lower Them on the Middle Class February 16th, 2011
• The Obama Budget: And Why the Coming Debate Over Spending Cuts Has Nothing to Do with Reviving the Economy February 14th, 2011
• Who Says Republicans Have No New Ideas? February 13th, 2011
• Why the Republican Attack on “Job-Killing Regulations” Is Dumb February 10th, 2011
• Obama’s Deal with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce February 8th, 2011
• The Individual Mandate in the Health Care Bill: Why We Should Trade Broccoli and Asparagus for Hot Dogs and Apple Pie February 7th, 2011
• The Jobs Report, and America’s Two Economies February 4th, 2011
• Stocks Up, Houses Down, and What This Means for Most Americans February 2nd, 2011
• The President Ignored the Elephant in the Room January 27th, 2011
• The State of the Union: What the President Should Say January 24th, 2011
• The Real Economic Lesson China Could Teach Us January 20th, 2011
• The Shameful Attack on Public Employees January 6th, 2011