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The Final Sprint for Health Care Has Now Begun

Robert Reich | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Big Pharma, Pharmaceutical Industry, Robert Reich, Health Care Reform, PhRMA Lobby, Medicaid, Medicare, Health Care, Barack Obama, Politics News
Robert Reich

The real political race for health care has just begun. Obama's speech should be seen as the starting gate of a two-month sprint between two competitors -- and they're not Democrats and Republicans.

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Jason Linkins

Robert Reich Explains The Public Option In 70 Seconds

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

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Tonight, President Barack Obama will address a joint session of Congress and urge lawmakers to pass health care reform. Naturally, it will also be an ...

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A Short Guide to the Public Option Fight, and the 75-Year Battle Over Universal Health Care

Robert Reich | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Robert Reich, George W. Bush, Health Care Reform, New York Times, Aarp, Hillary Clinton, Health Care, Barack Obama, Video, Politics News
Robert Reich

With Congress returning from recess to consider health care legislation and the President set to deliver a major address on the subject to both houses of Congress tomorrow, a bit of history may be in order.

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The Real News About Jobs and Wages -- An Ode to Labor Day

Robert Reich | Posted 10.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Job Numbers, Unemployment, Robert Reich, Unemployment Rate, Economic Crisis, Economic Recovery, Business News
Robert Reich

I keep hearing that the economic meltdown has taken a huge toll on the stock portfolios of the rich. That's true. But the rich haven't lost nearly as much of their assets, proportionately, as everyone else.

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What Obama Must Demand from Congress on Health Care

Robert Reich | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Robert Reich, Obama Health Care, Health Care, Barack Obama, Obama Health Care Reform, Politics News
Robert Reich

Addressing Congress is a good idea, but Obama can't rely solely on his exceptional rhetorical skills. He'll need to twist arms, cajole, force recalcitrant members to join him, and threaten retribution if they don't come along.

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The Guns of August: How the Republican Right Fired on Health Care

Robert Reich | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

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Robert Reich

The most important difference between America's Democratic left and Republican right is that the left has ideas and the right has discipline.

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Ted Kennedy's Passing: An Inestimable Loss

Robert Reich | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

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Robert Reich

Most Americans will never know how many things Ted Kennedy did to make their lives better, how many things he prevented that would have hurt them, and how tenaciously he fought on their behalf.

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Grandparents Day Hijacked by the Health-Care Debate? Awesome!

Gary Drevitch | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Grandparents Day, Robert Reich, Grandparents, Grandparenting, Marian Lucille Herndon Mcquade, Grandparents Day 2009, National Grandparents Day, grandparents.com, Living News
Gary Drevitch

There are more grandparents than ever, and more of them are directly caring for their grandchildren than at any time in our recent history. And yet -- no parades, no telethons, not even a zero-down, interest-free auto sale.

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Paul Krugman: We Are In Economic "Purgatory" (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 09.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Video, Robert Reich Video, Robert Reich, George Stephanopoulos, George Will, Economy, This Week, Krugman Video, David Frum, Paul Krugman, Abc, Business News

Despite Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's upbeat comments Friday that the U.S. economy is on the cusp of recovery, economists Paul Krugman and R...

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Robert Reich Calls For 'March on Washington' in Support of Public Option

Politico | Fred Barbash | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

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Robert Reich, the former Labor secretary, scholar and commentator, called Tuesday for a "march on Washington" on Sept. 13 --"Grandparents Day" -- in s...

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White House Deal With Big Pharma Undermines Democracy: Robert Reich

wallstreetpit.com | Robert Reich | Posted 09.10.2009 | Business

Read More: Big Pharma, Robert Reich, Prescription Drug Costs, Drug Companies, Health Care Reform, Obama Health Care, Business News

Last week, after being reported in the Los Angeles Times, the White House confirmed it has promised Big Pharma that any healthcare legislation will ba...

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Healthcare and Food Policy: Part of the Same Conversation

Paula Crossfield | Posted 08.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Robert Reich, Lobbyists, Food Policy, Agribusiness, Health Insurance, Subsidies, Healthcare Reform, Single Payer, Barack Obama, Healthcare, Campaign Finance, Bill Moyers, Green News
Paula Crossfield

The critics of single-payer are either paid to tell you this, or are brainwashed by the multi-million dollar lobbying and advertising paid for by insurance companies and the pharmaceutical industry.

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Weekly Audit: Bigger Than "Too Big to Fail"

The Media Consortium | Posted 08.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Adam Schlesinger, Zachary Roth, Matt Taibbi, The Nation, Robert Reich, Goldman Sachs, Eyal Press, Air America, David Moberg, Salon, Weekly Audit, Mary Kane, The Media Consortium, Laura Flanders, JPMorgan Chase, Zach Carter, Grittv, Talking Points Memo, The Washington Independent, Tmc, In These Times, Business News
The Media Consortium

Congress should be writing regulations to curb risk in the financial system as fast as bankers are paying themselves bonuses. They're our representatives, after all, and it's our money.

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Shattering the Right vs. Left Prism Once Again: The Wall Street Journal Goes After Goldman and the Bank Bailout

Arianna Huffington | Posted 08.15.2009 | Business

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Arianna Huffington

We've now reached the point where the only people defending the administration's Wall Street policies are the people benefiting from them -- or their good friends, Tim Geithner and Larry Summers.

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Sam Stein

Reich: Obama "Over-Learned" From Clinton (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Clinton Lesson, Robert Reich, Clinton Years, Reich Labor Secretary, Obama Health Care, Health Care System, Labor Health Care, Politics News

In crafting health care legislation, the Obama White House may have "over-learned the lesson of the Clinton years," giving too much deference to Congr...

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The National Debt: Another Finanical Crisis in Slow Motion?

Jill Schlesinger | Posted 07.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Interest Rates, Ben Bernanke, Robert Reich, National Debt, American Stock Exchange, Inflation, Business News
Jill Schlesinger

The so-called "rich" can't be taxed enough to mitigate the coming wave of inflation, nor will increasing taxes on them pay for everything that's currently on the table

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Robert Reich Economist Interview: Reich Is Pessimistic On Recovery

The Economist | Posted 05.26.2009 | Business

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IN OUR lead story this week we say that the worst thing for the world economy would be to assume the worst is over. In order to reinforce our gloom, D...

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With Friends Like These...Robert Reich's "Mistakes" on Employee Free Choice Act

Art Levine | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics

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Art Levine

EFCA backers were no doubt thrilled to hear the only liberal on CNBC mimic conservative falsehoods on employee free choice.

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Sam Stein

"Fire Ken Lewis": Robert Reich Backs Push (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.17.2009 | Politics

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Former Labor Secretary and occasional adviser to the president Robert Reich, alongside a coalition of progressive organizations, has launched a new pu...

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A Short Citizen's Guide to Kooks, Demagogues, and Right-Wingers On Tax Day

Robert Reich | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics

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Robert Reich

Tax day typically attracts a range of right-wing kooks, all of whom tell us how awful we have it. Here's a citizen's guide responding to the predictable charges.

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The Left isn't Leaving Obama -- Yet

Rupert Russell | Posted 05.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Heritage Foundation, Think Tanks, Left Wing, Robert Reich, Conservatives, Interest-Groups, Rachel Maddow, Michael Moore, Card-Check, Paul Krugman, Intellectual, Unions, Labor Unions, Barack Obama, Arianna Huffington, David Frum, Obama's Economic Team, Politics News
Rupert Russell

Pundits have criticized last week's announcements on the new bank bailout and Afghanistan. Yet, a crack up of the Democratic coalition or fracturing of the progressive movement it is not.

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How Geithner Can Bow Out Gracefully

Larry Arnstein | Posted 04.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Prostitution Ring, Timothy Geithner, Robert Reich, Sex Scandal, Sex, Secretary of the Treasury, Barack Obama, Tim Geithner, President Obama, Politics News
Larry Arnstein

Finding a ring of high class hookers in Washington is like going outside and throwing a rock, in pretty much any direction.

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America Does Not Trust Geithner, Summers to Regulate Wall Street

Jane Hamsher | Posted 04.16.2009 | Politics

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Jane Hamsher

American taxpayers now own 80% of AIG. They'll be paying back the government, and paying off the bonuses, with our money. There is no reason to be tiptoeing around these people.

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Sam Stein

Krugman, Reich, Take Obama Up On Stimulus Advice

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics

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Last week, Barack Obama let it be known that when it came to formulating a stimulus bill, all ideas were welcome -- whether they came from the bowels ...

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Phasing Out of Transition and Into the Book Business

Mike Lux | Posted 02.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: OpenLeft.Com, The Progressive Revolution, Obama Transition, Carol Browner EPA, Phil Schilero, Obama Cabinet, Obama Global Warming, Valerie Jarrett, Robert Reich, Tina Tchen, Obama Justice Department, Epa, Progressives, Obama Administration, Obama Climate Change, Obama Progressives, Henry Waxman, Justice Department, Obama Health Care, Eric Holder, Barack Obama, Cecilia Munoz, Melody Barnes, Hilda Solis, Carol Browner, Obama Presidency, Tom Daschle, Patrick Gaspard, Obama Liberal, Mike Strautmanis, Politics News
Mike Lux

Leaving transition work, I find myself a lot more hopeful about generally progressive policy coming out of the Obama administration than some of my friends in the progressive blogosphere.

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