More from Robert Reich

Robert Reich offers ten more reasons for modest optimism. That makes thirty. Here are the first ten and second ten.

[A modest, very modest reason for local optimism: more than fifty people showed up to speak to an aide at Mary Miller’s “office hours” this week. A typical session brings out a handful of people looking for help with Social Security or veterans’ benefits. The aide called D.C. and asked what to do. We were then asked to talk amongst ourselves while the aide met with individual attendees one by one. Two people in our group collected letters and took notes to later deliver to the aide. A larger gathering of dissenters is now in the works.]