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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Regardless of how you interpret the facts, you have to come to the conclusion that inequality is widening in the US and in almost every other country.
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We used to be so proud that our country offered far more economic opportunities than the feudal system in Great Britain, with its royal family, princesses and dukes. But social mobility in the UK is higher than in the US. Our social rift is as big as it was in the 1920s.
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America has become the most unequal society among advanced countries, and rich people are now free to spend as much money on political campaigns as they wish.
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I think re-engineering or restructuring or downsizing or rightsizing or whatever you want to call it, it's basically firing, has gone way too far. Employees, as I've talked to them across the country, feel that they are not respected, they are not valued, they are worried about their jobs. They simply feel that the company is no longer loyal to them. Why should they be loyal to the company, they ask me. Why should I go the extra mile? Why should I care?
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is designed for the working poor and the poor. If we are not happy about the results, then the real question we ought to be asking ourselves is whether we should be changing the rules. Wal-Mart is an invitation to have that debate.
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As digital equipment replaces the jobs of routine workers and lower-level professionals, technicians are needed to install, monitor, repair, test, and upgrade all the equipment.
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Government subsidies to elite private universities take the form of tax deductions for people who make charitable contributions to them.
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If we give up on politics, we're done for. Powerlessness is a self-fulfilling prophesy.
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Bankruptcy laws allow companies to smoothly reorganize, but not college graduates burdened by student loans.
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We need a national infrastructure bank to rebuild our crumbling highways and water and sewer systems, thereby putting additional people back to work.
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Our young people - their capacities to think, understand, investigate, and innovate - are America's future.
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Average working people need more fresh starts. Big corporations, banks, and Donald Trump need fewer.
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America is one of few advanced nations that allow direct advertising of prescription drugs.
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Those at the top would do better with a smaller share of a booming economy that elicits a positive politics than they will do with an ever-larger share of an anemic economy that fuels the politics of anger.