“Why Aren’t Americans Happier about the Economy? Asks Robert Reich. I’ll Tell You Why, Bob …
Bob Reich is a right-minded guy and I like him, but there are caveats.
Bob’s a career professor and political advisor and his credentials are superb: Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley since January 2006. 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. He has also been a contributing editor of The New Republic, The American Prospect (also chairman and founding editor), Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. CVs don’t come any stronger than that.
But, like the man who identified 3,000 positions for sex, Reich doesn’t know any women
Obviously I say that metaphorically, but his life history puts him academically close to the disadvantaged but I doubt he’s ever spent any time walking in their shoes. The very question of his artic…