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Robert Reich was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania in 1946, and grew up in the rural community of South Salem, New York State. He was born with Fairbanks disease , which left him half-an-inch taller than a technical dwarf (4-foot-10½-inches). His father owned a retail clothing stores.
He went on to graduate from Dartmouth College in 1968, obtained an M.A. as a Rhodes Scholar at University CollegeUniversity College (corporate name, "The Master and Fellows of the College of the Great Hall of the University, commonly known as University College in the University of Oxford", usually known by its derivative, "Univ"), is the oldest of the constituent c of Oxford University, and a J.D. from Yale Law SchoolYale Law School is one of the professional schools of Yale University, and is the most selective law school in the United States, according to US News. It offers the following degrees: J. It also has a visiting scholars program and is home to a number of in 1973Events January events January 1 United Kingdom, Ireland, and Denmark enter the European Economic Community now known as the European Union January 3 Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) sells the New York Yankees for $10 million to a 12-person syndicate led.
For more than 20 years, he has lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts2000 Cambridge is a city in the greater Boston area in Massachusetts, United States. It was named in honor of Cambridge, England, the town where its founding fathers had studied ( Cambridge University). Cambridge is perhaps most famous for three things: H with his wife, Clare Dalton , a law professor at Northeastern UniversityThis article is about the American institution. For the Chinese institution of the same name, see Northeastern University (Liaoning). Northeastern University is a private university in Boston, Massachusetts. Its athletic mascot is the Husky. It is located who started and runs Northeastern's Center on Domestic Violence. He also has two sons, Sam and Adam.
He has worked as a faculty member at Harvard UniversityHarvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. It was founded on September 8, 1636 by a vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, making it the oldest post-secondary s's Kennedy School of Government, director of Policy Planning Staff of the Federal Trade Commission under Carter, assistant to the Solicitor General under Ford, and former chairman of the political magazine The American Prospect, which he co-founded.
A longtime friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton going back to their days together at Oxford, he was invited to head Clinton's economic transition team. He later joined the administration as Secretary of Labor. During his tenure, he implemented the Family and Medical Leave Act , fought sweatshops, increased the minimum wage, and launched a number of job training programs.
At the same time, he lobbied Clinton to address big issues like the increasing gap between the wealthy and the poor. He had only moderate success before the 1996 campaign begun, and Clinton fell under the sway of pollster Dick Morris, who convinced him to move right and promote policies that appealed to the suburban swing voter.
In 1997, soon after Clinton's second inauguration, he decided to leave the department to spend more time with his now-teenage sons. He published his experiences working for the Clinton administration as Locked in the Cabinet.
In 2002, he ran for Governor of Massachusetts. He also published an associated campaign book, I'll Be Short. Although his campaign had hardly any money, he came in second in the Democratic primary, with 25% of the vote.
In 2004, he published Reason, a handbook on how liberals can forcefully argue for their position in a country increasingly dominated by what he calls "radcons", or radical conservatives.
In addition to his professorial role, he is a regular contributer to the American Public Media public radio program Marketplace.