Robert Reich

Fewer millennials are entering the middle class than previous generations.

This is a huge asymmetry in American politics, and, you know, I don`t recall a time when you have one party basically willing to undermine democracy for the sake of winning, and another party of the Democratic Party really feeling that its…

I think that what the Republicans and also Sinema and Manchin, what they would like more than anything else is for Democrats to squabble about all this.

We all went through a terrible war and before that, a terrible depression, the great depression. After the Second World War, workers and managers, people who were unionized and even the non-union sector had kind of an unwritten rule, and…

If the companies are not going to be good to us, why should we continue to be good to these companies?

For 105 years, the Supreme Court has made it very, very clear that they endorse vaccine mandates with regard to public health.

One thing we have to do, obviously, and Maria is absolutely right, is strengthen our safety net. And this is where the bill that is winding its way through Congress, that $3.5 trillion, becomes so critical.

What we have seen over the last -- really the last 12, 14 years is an upsurge of populism, some of it on the left, some of it on the right, but a distrust of elites and a concern that the game is rigged for those at the top.

I and others urged Bill Clinton not to sign that welfare bill. He did it. I remember that day. Everybody knew that he was making that decision. I -- when he ultimately decided he was going to sign the Republican welfare bill, I was -- I…

To the extent that in fact these things are going to be paid for by big corporations and wealthy people, then it’s not a problem of inflation because you are not -- you’re paying for everything. You’re not inflating the economy.

Well, that is I would say total baloney. And the reason it’s baloney, Chris, is because number one, raising wages is a good thing. One of the big problems in the American economy is that for the past 40 years, wages have the median worker…

Yes, it’s an opportunity. And Sara Nelson is exactly right. We need stronger unions. And that’s part of the structural change that is necessary to change the bargaining relationship.