Reposted by RC - Stop Wealth InequalityRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Today's jobs report is a reminder that tax cuts for corporations and the rich don’t create jobs or grow the economy. What's required is investment in working people — and better wages. When workers have money to spend, the economy grows and businesses create more jobs. Remember this. 20972112463
Reposted by RC - Stop Wealth InequalityBob Ballentine @raballentine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026 341124654459
Reposted by RC - Stop Wealth InequalityRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The response when progressive policies that help millions of people are proposed... "How will you pay for it?" The response when the richest 1% ask for tax cuts, or banks ask for bailouts, or defense contractors ask for more contracts... "How much do you need?" It doesn't have to be this way. 210122703899
Reposted by RC - Stop Wealth InequalityRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. In 2025, he made 1,794x more. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers? I will continue my boycott of Starbucks. 633131263899
Reposted by RC - Stop Wealth Inequalityrandy39.bsky.social @randy39.bsky.social · 25/09/2026 12844971555
Reposted by RC - Stop Wealth InequalityRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026CEO pay is up 1,316% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 28%. CEOs are now paid 325 TIMES as much as the typical worker in their industry, according to @epi.org Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"? 15861992373
Reposted by RC - Stop Wealth InequalityRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The vicious and corrupt cycle of monopolization: 1) Corporations argue that their growth is just part of the free market. 2) Use their monopoly power to price gouge consumers and shaft workers. 3) Use profits to make political donations. 4) Lobby against antitrust enforcement. 5) Repeat. 351719572
Reposted by RC - Stop Wealth InequalityRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This is what a rigged economy looks like. 20380093298
Reposted by RC - Stop Wealth InequalityRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/09/2026For those who have forgotten the past 40 years: Tax cuts for the rich ...don’t trickle down Boosting military spending ...doesn’t bring peace Slashing regulations ...doesn’t create jobs Folks, we’ve seen this all before. 352160635294
Reposted by RC - Stop Wealth InequalityRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/09/2026By moving to the “center,” Democrats have failed to fight the forces that led us to Donald Trump: widening inequality, economic insecurity, and the unchecked political power of corporations and the rich. Political centrism is nonsense. There is no middle ground between democracy and oligarchy. 17842831281
Reposted by RC - Stop Wealth InequalityThe Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 15/09/2026No shit, 100% agree here. 237208015612
Reposted by RC - Stop Wealth InequalityRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/09/2026"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” —FDR, 1944 10340211357
Reposted by RC - Stop Wealth InequalityElizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 08/09/2026Right now, a middle-class nurse pays a higher payroll tax rate than a highly-paid CEO. That's wrong. It's time to protect Social Security by scrapping the cap so higher-income earners and wealthy investors pay their fair share—preventing benefits cuts for everyone. 21060611762
Reposted by RC - Stop Wealth InequalityThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/09/2026And if you think this is wrong and needs to be addressed they call you a communist 394109804168
Reposted by RC - Stop Wealth InequalityMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 07/09/2026 186155083606
Reposted by RC - Stop Wealth InequalityRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Corporate America’s playbook: 1) Exploit workers to maximize profits 2) Use profits to buy Congress 3) Use Congress to pass union-busting laws 4) Use these laws to further exploit workers 5) Repeat Let's break the cycle and keep building back a powerful labor movement.youtube.comHow Corporations Crush the Working Class | Robert ReichFormer Secretary of Labor Robert Reich breaks down how power has shifted from labor unions to corporate giants over the 9435841537
Reposted by RC - Stop Wealth InequalityRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Wages of unionized workers are 13% higher than their nonunion counterparts. But unions also set a higher pay standard that all workers enjoy. In high-union-density states, median household income is $12,000 higher than in low-union-density states. This is why unions are vital. 12246091464
Reposted by RC - Stop Wealth InequalityRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Increase in productivity since 1979: 93% Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 34% Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%. As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power. 17373932697
Reposted by RC - Stop Wealth InequalityRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Kroger, which wants to buy yet ANOTHER grocery chain: -Ranks among the largest companies with employees dependent on Medicaid & SNAP -Paid its CEO $14M last year, 417x its median worker's pay of just $34,552 -Spent $12.3B on stock buybacks since 2019 This is what corporate greed looks like. 31283673410
Reposted by RC - Stop Wealth InequalityRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Uber just announced it will lay off 10% of its workforce, or around 3,300 workers. Last year, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi made $35M — 360 times his median employee's pay — and announced a $20B stock buyback program to further enrich shareholders and himself. Textbook corporate greed. 514147745239
Reposted by RC - Stop Wealth InequalityRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026This is how our government has been corrupted: 1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office 2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor 3) Donors make huge profit 4) Repeat We must get big money out of politics. It is the root of our dysfunction. 38194863081
Reposted by RC - Stop Wealth InequalityRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Target paid its CEO $21.8M last year — 794x the median Target worker's pay of $27,506. Target has also spent $13.9B on stock buybacks since 2019, while remaining among the largest employers of Medicaid and SNAP recipients in America. This is what I mean by a rigged economy. 421106814035
Reposted by RC - Stop Wealth InequalityRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Your regular reminder that if not for the Trump and Bush tax cuts, federal revenues would keep pace with federal spending indefinitely. Instead, these tax cuts have added at least $10 trillion to the debt. The so called "party of fiscal responsibility" is full of it. 12353161990
Reposted by RC - Stop Wealth InequalityRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement. 528161974508
Reposted by RC - Stop Wealth InequalityRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/08/2026The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it. 670252208959
Reposted by RC - Stop Wealth InequalityMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 27/07/2026At our municipal grocery stores, New Yorkers will get a 30% discount on eggs, milk, chicken, produce and other everyday essentials. In the wealthiest city in the richest country in the world, no one should have to wonder how they’ll afford the food they need to feed themselves or their families. 390189053847
Reposted by RC - Stop Wealth InequalityRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/07/2026What do these companies have in common: -Amazon -Walmart -FedEx -McDonald's -Dollar General -DoorDash -Instacart They're all highly profitable, give their CEOs lucrative salaries, and pay thousands of workers starvation wages — making them reliant on SNAP and Medicaid. 20947611929
Reposted by RC - Stop Wealth InequalityRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Everyday Americans need protection from those with power who seek to exploit them for every last penny in their pocket. Some call this view "socialism." I call it fair. 682871701
Reposted by RC - Stop Wealth InequalityRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Google co-founder Sergey Brin is leading a coalition of billionaires who plan to spend $87M+ on ads attacking California's proposed wealth tax. He's accidentally making the case for the billionaire tax better than anyone else could! 661973743
Reposted by RC - Stop Wealth InequalityGary Rogers 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇺🇦⚛️🎨🖌️ @garyrogersartist.bsky.social · 18/07/2026 25786542427
Reposted by RC - Stop Wealth InequalityRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement. 362133873809
Reposted by RC - Stop Wealth InequalityRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/07/2026The grasshopper gets it — divide and conquer. Today's oligarchs use the same playbook. But together, we have all the power. Watch. 8931411069
Reposted by RC - Stop Wealth InequalityRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/07/2026People don't want masked thugs terrorizing their neighbors. They don't want warehouses being turned into detention centers. They don't want billions of taxpayer dollars spent on a rogue police state. They want healthcare. They want affordable homes. They want their basic needs met. 14048571454
Reposted by RC - Stop Wealth InequalityRightardia @rightardia.bsky.social · 18/07/2026One of many DK cartoons. 14667812596
Reposted by RC - Stop Wealth InequalityRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Last night's political earthquake in New York shows the path forward for Democrats. They must fight for populist values and stop appeasing the moneyed interests. Moving to the so-called "center" will only give us more Trumps.youtube.comThe Failures of “Centrism”By moving to the so-called “center,” Democrats have failed to fight the forces that led us to Donald Trump: widening ine 42811228
Reposted by RC - Stop Wealth InequalityWilliam Murphy @futuredude.bsky.social · 25/06/2026The U.S. has the wealth to rebuild everything—housing, rail, energy, schools. Not in theory, but right now. The problem isn’t money. It’s a system that funnels abundance upward while letting infrastructure rot in plain sight. That’s not failure. That’s design.futuredude.substack.comThe United States Can Afford to Modernize Itself. Capital Simply Refuses to PayHow the dictatorship of capital transformed the richest society in history into a landscape of decay, austerity, and managed decline. 0104
Reposted by RC - Stop Wealth InequalityRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Hourly wages are up 3% since 2019. Corporate profits are up 50%. Labor’s piece of the economic pie is the smallest it’s been in over 75 years, while corporate profits’ share is the *biggest* it’s been since 1950. This is what a rigged economy looks like. 481903818
Reposted by RC - Stop Wealth InequalityRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Corporations spend more than $1.5 billion a year on union-busting. That’s $1.5 billion they could have spent on higher wages, better benefits, and improving workplace safety. Remember: if they weren’t so scared of worker power, they wouldn’t fight so hard against unions.theguardian.comUS employers spend more than $1.5bn a year to fight labor unions, report findsCritics say employers spend money hiring union-avoidance consultants and lawyers while not investing in workers 333115974729
Reposted by RC - Stop Wealth InequalityRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Food prices are skyrocketing thanks to drought conditions, Trump’s tariffs, and his war on Iran. On top of that, consolidation in our food system allows dominant firms to take advantage of these shocks and jack up prices even higher. Everyone gets squeezed while Big Ag rakes it in. 22789270
Reposted by RC - Stop Wealth InequalityM Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 26/05/2026FYI ! Thanks, Andrea....... 31275763524
Reposted by RC - Stop Wealth InequalityBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 25/05/2026134 years ago this cartoon was drawn, and in 134 years the problem has only gotten worse. 441619598
Reposted by RC - Stop Wealth InequalityRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Over 50 years later, this anti-Vietnam War PSA still rings true. 384119295431
Reposted by RC - Stop Wealth InequalityRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/05/2026A history of the top marginal tax rates on the wealthiest Americans: 1940: 81% 1950: 84% 1960: 91% 1970: 72% 1980: 70% 1990: 28% 2000: 40% 2010: 35% For 50 years, corporate backed politicians in Congress have slashed taxes to line the pockets of their wealthy donors. 23048652138
Reposted by RC - Stop Wealth InequalityRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Remember: Wealth cannot be separated from power. We're seeing in real time how the extreme concentration of wealth is distorting our politics, rigging markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people. Taxing the rich isn't just an economic issue, it's a defense of our democracy. 701706510
Reposted by RC - Stop Wealth Inequalitypissed-off-g.bsky.social @pissed-off-g.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Hard to believe that before 1973, health insurance wasn’t about profit. Now it’s a $25‑billion‑a‑year business built on people’s pain. Imagine what healthcare could look like if compassion came before profit... 33722
Reposted by RC - Stop Wealth InequalityCongressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 15/05/2026This is big news. The far-right Supreme Court hijacked the Constitution to let corporations spend in our elections. But we are not powerless. We can fight back.apnews.comNew Hawaii law targets corporate influence in politics after Citizens United rulingHawaii's Democratic governor has signed a bill to curb corporate and "dark money" influence in politics. This move comes after the 2010 U.S. 8843511139
Reposted by RC - Stop Wealth Inequalityebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Mamdani for President 💥 537162664204