Robert Reich
Robert Reich
Robert Bernard Reichis an American political commentator, professor, and author. He served in the administrations of Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter and was Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEconomist
Date of Birth24 June 1946
CountryUnited States of America
jobs goal growth
The federal budget deficit isn't the nation's major economic problem and deficit reduction shouldn't be our major goal. Our problem is lack of good jobs and sufficient growth, and our goal must be to revive both.
doom-and-gloom may irrational
In the '90s it was irrational exuberance. Now it may be irrational doom and gloom.
concentration-of-wealth democracy concerned
Liberals are concerned about the concentration of wealth because it almost inevitably leads to a concentration of power that undermines democracy.
powerful class government
A smaller government reflecting the needs of the middle class and poor is superior to a big government reflecting the needs of the privileged and powerful.
jobs morality bedroom
There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms.
jobs data decision
The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.
running retirement jobs
When top executives get huge pay hikes at the same time as middle-level and hourly workers lose their jobs and retirement savings, or have to accept negligible pay raises and cuts in health and pension benefits, company morale plummets. I hear it all the time from employees: This company, they say, is being run only for the benefit of the people at the top. So why should we put in extra effort, commit extra hours, take on extra responsibilities? We'll do the minimum, even cut corners. This is often the death knell of a company.
police want bedroom
Radical conservatives want to police bedrooms.
dog opposites academia
In Washington, it's dog eat dog. In academia, it's exactly the opposite.
knows budgets
Those who analogize the federal budget to a family's budget must know nothing about either.
class america long
The only way America can reduce the long-term budget deficit, maintain vital services, protect Social Security and Medicare, invest more in education and infrastructure, and not raise taxes on the working middle class is by raising taxes on the super rich.
government people bedroom
It's not government's business what people do in their private bedrooms.
real taken years
The silent majority really is a liberal majority, even though the word liberal has taken a real beating over the last 20 years by radical conservatives.
moving people inspire
You can't inspire people if you are going to be uninspiring.