Robert Reich

University Professor at Brandeis University in Massachusetts, founder of the Center on Jobs, the Economy and Society, formerly President Bill Clinton’s first Secretary of Labour.
Author of “The Work of Nations”.
He went to Brandeis to establish a Center on Jobs, the Economy, and Society that is based at the Heller Graduate School. Reich continues his research into the causes and consequences of widening inequality in the United States and in other nations, and into the future of work. Photo Credit: Reich by David Burnett/PNI

“I have dedicated my life to ensuring that the economy works for everyone. A central tenet of my writings and the policies I put into place as labor secretary is that our ability to thrive as a nation depends on the capacities of our people who work productively together - both as participants in an economy and as members of a society.”
-- Robert Reich

  • ABOUT ROBERT REICH
    A graduate of Dartmouth College, Reich obtained an M.A. as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University and has a J.D. from Yale Law School. Before becoming Secretary of Labor in 1993, Reich lectured for 12 years at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. His career in public service included a stint as Assistant to the Solicitor General, during which he represented the United States before the Supreme Court, and Director of the Policy Planning Staff of the Federal Trade Commission.

    In his four years in Washington, Reich fought for pension-plan protections and a higher minimum wage, earning a reputation as an outspoken liberal voice in the Clinton Cabinet.

    Reich will establish a Center on Jobs, the Economy and Society based at Brandeis university's Heller Graduate School for Advanced Studies in Social Welfare, continuing the work that has filled his career, first at Harvard University and later in the Cabinet.

    He is the author of five books: The Work of Nations, which has been translated into 14 languages; The Power of Public Ideas; Tales of a New America; New Deals: The Chrysler Revival and the American System; and The Next American Frontier. He has honorary degrees from Dartmouth College, the University of Maryland, and the University of California at Berkeley.

    Reich lives in Cambridge, Mass., with his wife, Professor Clare Dalton an associate dean at Northeastern University Law School in Boston, and their two sons, Adam and Sam aged 12 and 15.
    (1997)

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