Robert Reich

Known for ActingBorn 1946-06-24 (age 79)Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA

Robert Bernard Reich (born June 24, 1946) is an American professor, author, lawyer, and political commentator. 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. He was also a member of President Barack Obama's economic transition advisory board. Reich has been the Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley since January 2006. He was formerly a lecturer at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government 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, and in the same year The Wall Street Journal placed him sixth on its list of Most Influential Business Thinkers. He has published 18 books which have been translated into 22 languages, 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. 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. In 2015, Reich and Kornbluth founded Inequality Media, a nonprofit digital media company. 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Breaking News: No Laugh Newsroom

The Century of the Self

Game Changer

A Dangerous Idea

The Simpsons

Landslide: A Portrait of President Herbert Hoover

Firing Line with Margaret Hoover

Inequality for All

Conan

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Saving Capitalism

Money Monster

The Daily Show

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Real Time with Bill Maher

Fired!

What's Next? The Future with Bill Gates

At This Hour with Kate Bolduan

Love & Taxes

The Last Class

The Borking of America

Is It Inflation? Or Is It Greedflation?

This One Thing Would Increase Wages By $300 Billion

Busting the “Paid What You’re Worth” Myth

America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump

The Clinton Years