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
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Teachers, social workers, public lawyers who bring companies to justice, government accountants who try to make sure money is spent as it should be - all need at least four years of college.
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Official boundaries are often hard to see. If you head north on Woodward Avenue, away from downtown Detroit, you wouldn't know exactly when you left the city and crossed over into Oakland County - except for a small sign that tells you.
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A Democratic president should propose a major permanent tax reduction on the middle class and working class. I suspect most of the public would find this attractive.
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The curious thing is Americans don't mind individual mandates when they come in the form of payroll taxes to buy mandatory public insurance. In fact, that's the system we call Social Security and Medicare, and both are so popular politicians dare not touch them.
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Economies are risky. Some industries rise, and others implode, like housing. Some places get richer, and others drop, like Atlantic City. Some people get new jobs that pay better, many lose their jobs or their wages.
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What someone is paid has little or no relationship to what their work is worth to society.
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We don't have to sit by and watch our meritocracy be replaced by a permanent aristocracy, and our democracy be undermined by dynastic wealth.
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Those who take their money abroad in an effort to avoid paying American taxes should lose their American citizenship.
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Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just like all employees do.
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Media outlets that are exploiting Ebola because they want a sensational story and politicians using it to their own ends ought to be ashamed.
Increasingly, corporate nationality is whatever a corporation decides it is.
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In reality, most of America's poor work hard, often in two or more jobs.
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In America, people with lots of money can easily avoid the consequences of bad bets and big losses by cashing out at the first sign of trouble.
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As we segregate by income into different communities, schools in lower-income areas have fewer resources than ever.