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Billie Eilish recently asked a room full of billionaires, “If you’re a billionaire, why are you a billionaire?”One reaso Billie Eilish Debunks Billionaire Charity

Billionaires love to claim that they need to keep their vast fortunes so they can continue donating to good causes.

But as Billie Eilish points out, most of them really aren’t all that generous.

Watch.

It’s bad enough that we’re subsidizing extremely profitable sports teams with our tax dollars to build stadiums, but we’ The Stadium Concession Pricing Scam Exposed

It’s bad enough we’re subsidizing billionaire sports team owners to build stadiums.

Then they turn around and price-gouge us on tickets and concessions? It’s absurd.

But there’s a way we can fight back. Watch.

The Trump regime started the week by telling lies about Alex Pretti's murder.Now, Trump has pivoted back to telling lies Did Trump Keep ANY of His Campaign Promises?

NEW: From groceries to healthcare to housing, has Donald Trump delivered on anything he promised voters?

@rbreich.bsky.social breaks down Trump's biggest broken promises.

In one of the final speeches of his life, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called for America to muster the political will to end poverty.

Robert Reich Brace Yourself for the AI Bubble

The AI industry has inflated the U.S. stock market and the economy.

What happens when that bubble bursts?

YouTube video by Robert Reich A Powerful Message From Zohran and Bernie

Zohran Mamdani and Bernie Sanders joined striking Starbucks United workers in New York.

Listen to their powerful message of solidarity.

Zohran Mamdani and Bernie Sanders joined striking Starbucks United workers in New York.

Listen to their powerful message of solidarity.

Elon Musk’s new pay package could amount to $100B per year ($1 trillion over ten years!).

That's the same as 3.2 million cashiers’ paychecks combined.

It’s more than 1.4 million elementary school teachers’ paychecks.

It’s more than 2 million janitors’ paychecks.

The system is broken.

Robert Reich The Most Dangerous Corporation in America?

Billions of your tax dollars are going to Palantir Technologies, the backbone of Trump's anti-immigrant police state.

Robert Reich The Shady World of Surveillance Pricing (Ft. Lina Khan)

New York lawmakers have proposed requiring retailers to disclose when they use "surveillance pricing" tactics to gouge consumers.

It's a much-needed step towards reining in how companies can weaponize your personal data.

Watch Lina Khan explain how it works.

Robert Reich Did Trump Ruin Thanksgiving?

Rising grocery prices resulting from Trump’s failure to keep his biggest promise will hit all of us — no matter who we voted for.

Remember this at the Thanksgiving table this year.

Zohran Mamdani has called for a boycott of Starbucks until the company can bargain a fair contract with its striking workers. We joined members of the mayor-elect's team on the Starbucks picket line in NYC.

Robert Reich Our Economy Is in Danger. Here’s Why

America has always had a two-tiered economy.

But today’s widening gap between the richest Americans and everyone else is so extreme that even the CEOs of America’s largest corporations are worried.

Here’s why.

YouTube video by Robert Reich Why Corporate Media is Bending the Knee

NEW: Jimmy Kimmel is coming back on the air — less than a week after Disney caved to pressure from Trump's FCC Chair to silence him.

This is a testament to the power of consumer boycotts.

Today is Robert Reich's favorite holiday — National Voter Registration Day!

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YouTube video by Robert Reich Trump's Crypto Corruption, Explained

NEW: With Trump acting as both POTUS and as his own crypto brand ambassador, it’s hard to tell which job he’s doing at any given moment.

There’s no “potential conflict of interest” here. It’s pure corruption.

YouTube video by Robert Reich The Secret Behind High Gas Prices

NEW: Energy prices are soaring. So what is Trump doing about it?

Gutting clean energy projects while showering his Big Oil donors with billions of dollars in special tax breaks.

Robert Reich Trump’s Pay-to-Pardon Scheme

In Trump’s pay-to-play justice system, you can get away with defrauding nursing homes, skirting your taxes, and committing securities fraud.

So much for “law and order.”

YouTube video by Robert Reich Donald Trump’s New Enemy? Our National Parks

Our national parks generated $56 billion in visitor spending and supported 415,000 jobs in 2023.

The entire National Park Service budget was just $3.6 billion.

That’s some return on investment — so why is Donald Trump taking an axe to our parks?

Remember when all Trump talked about was how he would make groceries cheaper?

YouTube video by Robert Reich What is Due Process?

The cruel attempt to strip due process from immigrants is an attack on all of us.

If government can arbitrarily target one group today, they can target anyone tomorrow.

YouTube video by Robert Reich How to Take the Fight to the Oligarchy

Everyday Americans are tired of getting screwed over while the richest of the rich siphon off the economy’s gains.

Here's how we build a politics that puts working people first.

Here’s the real reason why DOGE is gutting the IRS. (Hint: it has nothing to do with “efficiency.”) How DOGE Helps Billionaires Evade Taxes

A top DOGE operative put the IRS' free tax filing tool on the chopping block just days after meeting with tax prep software lobbyists.

It's yet another example of how DOGE is putting the needs of billionaires and corporations ahead of the American people.

Why is Trump so hell-bent on defunding PBS? It’s part of a larger plan — one where he can control not just what we do, b Why Does Trump Hate Sesame Street?

Why is Trump so hell-bent on defunding PBS?

It’s part of a larger plan – one where he can control not just what we do, but what we think.

Remember this the next time the undocumented are called "freeloaders." [Via @_itep]

Should corporations be able to weaponize your personal data to rip you off? Well, they may already be doing that thanks The Shady World of Surveillance Pricing (Ft. Lina Khan)

NEW: Is your personal data being weaponized against you when you shop?

Are you paying a different price for products than anyone else?

Former FTC Chair Lina Khan explains the shady corporate tactic known as “surveillance pricing.”

Our latest video features the one and only Lina Khan, a true public servant and the oligarchy's worst nightmare!

"We seek not just equality as a right and a theory, but equality as a fact and equality as a result."

60 years ago today, LBJ explained what freedom really means.

A recent FTC report found that the "Big Three" pharmacy benefit managers — middlemen for 80% of prescriptions — jacked up the price of lifesaving medications by as much as 7,736%.

The result? $7.3 billion in extra revenue from 2017 through 2022.