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Robert Reich
Robert Bernard Reich is an American professor, author, lawyer, and political commentator. He worked in the administrations of Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, and served as Secretary of Labor from 1993 to 1997 in the cabinet of President Bill Clinton. He was also a member of President Barack Obama's economic transition advisory board. Reich has been the Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley since January 2006. He was formerly a lecturer at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and a professor of social and economic policy at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management of Brandeis University.
Meryl Streep’s eery reincarnation of Margaret Thatcher in “The Iron Lady” brings to mind Thatcher’s most famous quip, “there is no such…
What kind of society, exactly, do modern Republicans want? I've been listening to Republican candidates in an effort to discern an overall…
The biggest question in America these days is how to revive the economy. The biggest question among activists now occupying Wall Street…
One universe is the one in which most Americans live. In it, almost 15 million people are unemployed, wages are declining (adjusted…
The U.S. economy continues to stagnate. It's growing at the rate of 1.8 percent, which is barely growing at all. Consumer spending…
Paul Ryan says his budget plan will cut $4.4 trillion over ten years. The President says his new plan will cut $4…
The Republican strategy is to split the vast middle and working class — pitting unionized workers against non- unionized, public-sector workers against…
We’re not in a double-dip recession yet. We’re in a one and a half dip recession. Consumer confidence is down. Retail…
The former labor secretary says that by buying off Big Pharma in return for its support on health-care reform, the president has…