No economy can continue to function when the vast middle class and everybody else don't have enough purchasing … - Robert Reich

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Robert Reich

No economy can continue to function when the vast middle class and everybody else don't have enough purchasing power to buy what the economy is capable of producing without going deeper and deeper into debt.

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The only way to grow the economy in a way that benefits the bottom 90 percent is to change the structure of the economy. At the least, this requires stronger unions and a higher minimum wage.

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A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term.

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Averages don't always reveal the most telling realities. You know, Shaquille O'Neal and I have an average height of 6 feet.

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We're the richest economy in the history of the world. For the majority of Americans not to get the benefits of this extraordinarily prosperous economy, there's something fundamentally wrong.

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Corporations don't create jobs, customers do. So when all the economic gains go to the top, as they're doing now, the vast majority of Americans don't have enough purchasing power to buy the things corporations want to sell - which means businesses stop creating enough jobs.

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