Robert Bernard Reich (/raɪʃ/ RYSHE;[2] born June 24, 1946) is an American professor, author, lawyer, and political commentator.[3] 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.[4][5] He was also a member of President Barack Obama’s economic transition advisory board.[6]
Reich has been the Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley since January 2006.[7] He was formerly a lecturer at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government[8] and a professor of social and economic policy at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management of Brandeis University. In 2008, Time magazine named him one of the Ten Best Cabinet Members of the century,[9] and in the same year The Wall Street Journal placed him sixth on its list of Most Influential Business Thinkers.[10]
He has published 18 books which have been translated into 22 languages,[11] including the best-sellers The Work of Nations, Reason, Saving Capitalism, Supercapitalism, Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s Future, and a best-selling e-book, Beyond Outrage. He is also board chair emeritus of Common Cause and writes his own blog about the political economy at Robertreich.org.[12] The Robert Reich–Jacob Kornbluth film Saving Capitalism was selected to be a Netflix Original, and debuted in November 2017, and their film Inequality for All won a U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Achievement in Filmmaking at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival in Utah.[13][14]
In 2015, Reich and Kornbluth founded Inequality Media, a nonprofit digital media company.[15] Inequality Media’s videos feature Reich discussing topics relating to inequality and power primarily in the United States, including universal basic income, labor rights protection, the racial wealth gap, affordable housing, and gerrymandering.[16]
It’s any good parent’s pride and desire to tackle the harshness of the world, so that their children may realize their dreams without the obstacles they had to deal with themselves.
Is this Dropout.tv’s Sam Reich’s father?
Yes, it is. But more importantly:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Reich
In essence, he’s definitely someone worth paying attention to.
Must make his son Sam feel kind of inadaquate
I’ve met Sam. He seems to be fine emotionally. Also, he wanted to do comedy and that’s what he did.
My father was much more successful than I am too. But we both did what we wanted to do. Same with both Robert and Sam Reich.
It’s any good parent’s pride and desire to tackle the harshness of the world, so that their children may realize their dreams without the obstacles they had to deal with themselves.
He roasted Sam pretty hard for this segment of Breaking News, too. 🤣