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Robert B. Reich: The triumph of progressivism: Graduation 2013 and 1968
American VoicesMany of you soon-to-be college graduates are determined to make the world a better place. Some of you are choosing careers in public service or joining nonprofits or volunteering in your communities. But many of you are cynical about politics. You see...Tags: Abortion Issue, Rivers, Richard Nixon, Chicago Tribune Columnists, Vietnam War (1955-1975)
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Family values and the new economy
My mother went into paid work soon after my father's clothing store was flooded out in a hurricane, almost wiping him out. She had no choice. We needed the money. This was some two decades before a tidal wave of wives and mothers went into paid work....
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Robert B. Reich: The hollowing out of government
American VoicesThe chemical and fertilizer plant in the town of West, Texas, where at least 15 were killed and more than 200 injured a few weeks ago hadn't been fully inspected by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration since 1985. (A partial inspection by a...Tags: Layoffs and Downsizing, Chicago Tribune Columnists, Republican Party, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Health and Safety at Work
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Robert B. Reich: The new xenophobes
American VoicesThe Boston Marathon bombing has brought out the xenophobes. Often when America suffers some large, inexplicable tragedy, we want to blame "foreigners" and look for ways to fortify ourselves against them. It's more reassuring to believe that an evil...Tags: Lindsey O. Graham, Chuck Grassley, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Chicago Tribune Columnists, Migration
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Robert B. Reich: The economic elephant in the room: widening inequality
American VoicesFour years into a so-called recovery and we're still below recession levels in every important respect except the stock market. A measly 88,000 jobs were created in March, and total employment remains some 3 million below its pre-recession level. Labor-...Tags: Economy, Federal Reserve, Chicago Tribune Columnists, Economic Policy, Taxation
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Robert B. Reich: Where our democracy works and where it doesn't
American VoicesWho says American politics is gridlocked? A tidal wave of politicians from both sides of the aisle who just a few years ago opposed same-sex marriage are now coming around to support it. Elected officials who had been against allowing undocumented...Tags: Chicago Tribune Columnists, Gays and Lesbians, Medicare, Migration, Illegal Immigrants
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Robert B. Reich: The stealth sequester
American VoicesSo far, the much-dreaded "sequester" -- some $85 billion in federal spending cuts between March and September 30 -- hasn't been evident to most Americans. The dire warnings that had been issued from the White House beforehand -- threatening that Social...Tags: Layoffs and Downsizing, Chicago Tribune Columnists, Labor Markets, Head Start, Job Layoffs
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Robert B. Reich: The case against cutting Social Security and Medicare
American VoicesThe president and a few other prominent Democrats are openly suggesting that Social Security payments be reduced by applying a lower adjustment for inflation, and that Medicare be means-tested. This is even before Democrats have begun formal budget...Tags: Chicago Tribune Columnists, Consumer Confidence, Medicare, Inflation and Deflation, Health Insurance
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Robert B. Reich: The morality brigade
American VoicesWe're still legislating and regulating private morality, while at the same time ignoring the much larger crisis of public morality in America. In recent weeks Republican state legislators have decided to thwart the Supreme Court's 1973 decision in Roe v....Tags: Abortion Issue, Values, Chicago Tribune Columnists, Republican Party, Eric Holder
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Robert B. Reich: The contest over defining our biggest economic problem
American Voices"Our biggest problems over the next 10 years are not deficits," President Obama told House Republicans last week, according to those who attended the meeting. The president needs to deliver the same message to the public, loudly and clearly. The...Tags: Chicago Tribune Columnists, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Public Finance
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Robert B. Reich: Why there's a bull market for investors and a bear market for workers
American VoicesLast Friday, the Labor Department reported that 236,000 new jobs were created in February. That's good news -- but not nearly good enough. Even if this rate were to continue, which seems unlikely, the United States wouldn't be back to pre-recession levels...Tags: Chicago Tribune Columnists, Labor Markets, Stock Market, Money and Monetary Policy, Technology
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Robert B. Reich: What would RFK do?
American VoicesWith the sequester now beginning, I find myself thinking about Robert F. Kennedy -- and 46 years ago when I was an intern in his Senate office. The nation was going through a difficult time in 1967. America was deeply split over civil rights and the...Tags: Ronald Reagan, Chicago Tribune Columnists, Vietnam War (1955-1975), International Military Interventions, George W. Bush
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