Immigrants are 80% more likely to start a business than U.S.-born citizens.
They're not “taking jobs.”
They're creating them.
Trump once said that the wages of US workers are “too high.”
He praised the idea of illegally firing workers who are on strike.
He said he "hated to give overtime" to his own workers and "wouldn't pay it."
But go on about how Trump is the candidate for working people. Hello?
The future of Trump if he loses the election https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-future-of-trumpism-if-he-loses?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
Clarence Thomas ruled in favor of Citizens United. Harlan Crow and his family's political contributions then went up 862%. Then we later find out Thomas let Crow take him on lavish trips, buy his mom's house, and help fund his wife's conservative nonprofit. See how this works?
Who exactly is trying to push Biden out? https://robertreich.substack.com/p/who-exactly-is-trying-to-push-biden?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
Trump is Project 2025. It is his plan, written by people he hand-chose, to put every aspect of Americans' lives under MAGA control. I'll be releasing a video about it soon, but in the mean time, please read this.?
Biden must put the blame for high prices where it belongs — on big corporations https://robertreich.substack.com/p/its-greedflation-stupid-b3c?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
Reminder: When you invest in the American people, the middle class expands, and the economy grows.
When you cut taxes on the rich, the rich get richer, and the gains don’t trickle down.
It’s that simple.
Announcing our “Debunk” series, starting next Friday! https://robertreich.substack.com/p/debunk-series-starting-next-friday?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
If the Kroger-Albertsons merger goes through, that combined company + Walmart would control 70% of the grocery market in over 160 cities.
Think grocery prices are bad now?
Without competition, it would be a price gouging free-for-all.
This is why the FTC is suing to stop it.
Whether it’s Sam Bankman-Fried, Bernie Madoff, or Elizabeth Holmes, it seems like super-rich con artists only get prison time when their victims also include the super rich.
Four years ago, Trump admitted about Covid for the first time: “This is a pandemic. I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.”
A week earlier he'd been promising it would just “go away” on its own.
Yesterday, Pres. Biden proposed a budget that makes the wealthy and big corporations pay their fair share while lowering costs for working Americans.
What was Donald Trump doing? He was on TV saying he'd cut Social Security and Medicare.
The contrast could not be more clear.
Because of the pay gap, women have lost out on more than $60 trillion in wages since 1967.
Yes, trillion.
Today women still earn roughly 84 cents for every dollar earned by men, despite playing an outsized role in our economy.
We must ensure fair wages for all.
"Reminder that special counsel Hur's classified documents investigation exonerated President Biden and recommended no charges.
Trump, on the other hand, has been charged with dozens of counts for his alleged retention of nat'l security documents (which included nuclear secrets.)"
Billionaires are taking over everything. How can we stop them? I have some thoughts. https://youtube.com/shorts/0BKGYKboVZQ?feature=shared
At tonight's #GOPDebate we heard plans to expand the death penalty, send troops into Mexico, ban lifesaving medical care for trans kids, burn more coal, and eliminate the Dept of Education.
Did I miss anything?
"School choice" sounds great, but it's a euphemism for defunding public schools and funneling the money to private, for-profit schools that don't have to accept all students, are not accountable for their curricula, and can use your tax dollars for religious indoctrination. #GOPDebate
Republicans passed a ~$2 trillion tax cut for the rich and added $7 trillion to the national debt under Trump. And we're supposed to believe they're risking a shutdown because they care about "fiscal responsibility"?
It's all just a game to them.
Call me a radical Lefty, but I don’t think an entry-level federal employee should be subject to more stringent ethics rules than Clarence Thomas.