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 growth problem
The problem right now is jobs. The problem right now is the economy and economic growth.
technology important world
Our moral authority is as important, if not more important, than our troop strength or our high-tech weapons. We are rapidly losing that moral authority, not only in the Arab world but all over the world.
real class america
America's real business leaders understand unless or until the middle class regains its footing and its faith, capitalism remains vulnerable.
real funny-things people
A funny thing happened to the First Amendment on its way to the public forum. According to the Supreme Court, money is now speech and corporations are now people. But when real people without money assemble to express their dissatisfaction with the political consequences of this, they’re treated as public nuisances and evicted.
fighting bully impossible
It is impossible to fight bullies merely by saying they're going too far.
thinking wish politics
I wish it were simply a nightmare, but I think that any reasonable person watching American politics would come to the conclusion that a second Bush administration would in fact incorporate a more radicalized version of what we've seen in the first administration.
government america house
And now we're suffering the logical culmination of all this: the largest group of government-hati ng, racist, homophobic, misogynistic know-nothing, climate-change denying, evolution-denyi ng, science-denying , anti-immigrant House Republicans in history, bent on taking America back to the 19th century.
mean coherence obscurity
I mean, you hear the word 'globalization' over and over and over again. Globalization, globalization, globalization. Rarely has a word gone so directly from obscurity to meaninglessness without any intervening period of coherence.
jobs creating people
We are creating a one size fits all system that needlessly brands many young people as failures, when they might thrive if offered a different education whose progress was measured differently. Paradoxically we're embracing standardized tests just when the economy is eliminating standardized jobs.
faces terrorism danger
Terrorism itself is not the greatest danger we face,
united-states dropping inflation
Most Americans are on a downward escalator. Median wage in the United States, adjusted for inflation, keeps on dropping.
memorial-day america remembrance
True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going.
gay economic-value issues
A lot of attention has been going to social values - abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues - but economic values are equally important.
years income life-is
I'm 40 years old. What I have seen my whole life is widening income inequality.