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The Grotesque Corporate Monstrosity Unleashed By Citizens United

Robert B. Reich, Robert Reich's Blog. January 5, 2012.

Citizens United invites the worst corruption our democracy has witnessed since the Gilded Age. Mitt Romney is one of its biggest beneficiaries.

Make the Rich Pay More Taxes! How Obama's Pledge to Fight for a Fairer Tax Policy Sets Off the Real Battle of 2012

Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog. September 19, 2011.

The really big fight -- perhaps the defining battle of 2012 -- won't be over Medicare or Obama's jobs program. It will be over whether the rich should pay more taxes.

10 Bold Moves That Should Be In Obama's Promised Jobs Bill

Robert B. Reich, Robert Reich's Blog. August 18, 2011.

President Obama is promising to fight for a jobs bill this September. Here are ten suggestions for that bill from the former Labor Secretary.

Time For a New Plan: Frightening Jobless Numbers Show Flaws in GOP Austerity Agenda

Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet. July 8, 2011.

While Obama pushes for a deal on the debt ceiling, jobs numbers make plain that the focus in Washington is in the wrong place: jobs, not deficits, are the crisis.

Why Americans Have to Work Longer Hours and Borrow to the Hilt Just to Keep Afloat

Robert Reich, RobertReich.org. May 31, 2011.

The fundamental economic challenge ahead is to restore the vast American middle class.

Why Obama's Budget Sell-Out to Republicans Threatens Our Economy

Robert Reich, RobertReich.org. February 14, 2011.

Obama's budget proposal hinges on major cuts that ensure that Republicans get to control the conversation on spending.

300 Economists Warn That Deficit Hysteria Is a Big Con That Threatens to Drive America into a Full-Blown Depression

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. September 16, 2010.

The experts called for a sane policy of growing our way out of debt by kick-starting the real economy in which most of us live and work.

Why the Dow is Hitting 10,000 Even When Consumers Can't Buy And Business Cries "Socialism"

Robert B. Reich, Robert Reich's Blog. September 24, 2009.

How can the Dow be so far up when every business and Wall Street executive is screaming about government crushing the economy?

Memo from Robert Reich to Obama: Here's How to Save Universal Health care

Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog. June 21, 2009.

Momentum for universal health care is slowing dramatically on Capitol Hill.

The Great Debt Scare: Why Has It Returned?

Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog. June 12, 2009.

The government has to create larger deficits if the economy is to get anywhere near full capacity again.