Bernie or Biden?Monday, March 2, 2020 As the Democratic Party’s “moderate” (or shall we say “establishment”) wing coalesces around Joe Biden to stop Bernie, the primary contest is starting to look a lot like 2016,…

Friday, January 31, 2020 Friends, We’re launching a new talk show called “The Common Good,” with new episodes every Thursday on my YouTube channel. The inaugural episode is now up. In it, I talk with Katie Milne…

Robert B. Reich is Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies. He served as Secretary of Labor in the Clinton…

If the minimum wage had kept pace with inflation since 1968, it would be close to $12 an hour today, more than 65 percent higher than the national minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. While…

Robert B. Reich is Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies. He served as Secretary of Labor in the Clinton…

One of the tasks that are keeping economists employed these days is explaining the drop in labor’s share of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). This is supposed to be a major cause of concern since the…

Thursday, July 4, 2019 TRUMP NATIONALISM HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH PATRIOTISM Let us reject Trump’s notion of how to celebrate America — not with tanks and missiles that glorify war, not with a rally fit…

As countries develop, they face a choice: cash in on productivity gains as increased income or to enjoy increased leisure. That leisure means not only shorter workdays or a shorter workweek, but also longer vacations,…