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Income growth has changed radically in the past thirty years. Who do you think it’s benefitted the most? (Hint: It’s not the bottom 99% of us.) My course Wealth & Poverty discusses how our economy evolved into a system that overwhelmingly benefits the wealthy. Join me in class? https://robertreich.substack.com/p/wealth-and-poverty-class-1-the-problemContinue Reading

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Friends, please join me for a live conversation with Astra Taylor, a documentary filmmaker, anti-inequality activist, and co-founder of the Debt Collective, a debtors’ union that works to cancel student debt, abolish medical debt, and build tenant power — and Naomi Klein, who is a bestselling author, climate justice activist,Continue Reading

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Billionaires want you to believe taxing their extreme wealth is too radical and that it can’t be done. Baloney. Economist Gabriel Zucman debunks their lies. Watch. His new book “We Need to Tax Billionaires” is out now. https://bookshop.org/p/books/we-need-to-tax-billionaires-the-most-important-economist-in-the-world-today-gabriel-zucman/113ca645a136d886 0:00 The problem with taxes 0:36 The rise of extreme wealth 1:20Continue Reading