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Robert Bernard Reich (/ ˈ r aɪ ʃ /; [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 , [ 4 ] and served as Secretary of Labor from 1993 to 1997 in the cabinet of President Bill Clinton .
Alan Greenspan. Alan Greenspan (born March 6, 1926) is an American economist who served as the 13th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006. He worked as a private adviser and provided consulting for firms through his company, Greenspan Associates LLC. First nominated to the Federal Reserve by President Ronald Reagan in August 1987 ...
Inequality for All is a 2013 documentary film directed by Jacob Kornbluth and narrated by American economist, author and professor Robert Reich. Based on Reich's 2010 book Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future, the film examines widening income inequality in the United States. Reich publicly argued about the issue for decades, and ...
Getty Images Former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich at hearings on income inequality in January. On my radio show Work with Marty Nemko I recently had my second hour-long conversation with ...
The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 (or OBRA-93) was a federal law that was enacted by the 103rd United States Congress and signed into law by President Bill Clinton on August 10, 1993. It has also been unofficially referred to as the Deficit Reduction Act of 1993. Part XIII of the law is also called the Revenue Reconciliation Act of ...
The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World is a 2007 memoir of former chairman of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan, co-authored by Peter Petre, a former executive editor at Fortune magazine. [1][2] Published on September 17, 2007, the book debuted at the top of the New York Times Bestseller list for hardcover nonfiction. [3]
Reich says it is bad that billionaires "get money from rich relatives." But the biggest study of millionaires found few do. Bezos got some money from his parents, but most of what he needed to ...
The Great Regression refers to worsening economic conditions affecting lower earning sections of the population in the United States, Western Europe and other advanced economies starting around 1981. These deteriorating conditions include rising inequality; and falling or stagnating real wages, pensions, unemployment insurance, and welfare ...