Quick facts about Robert Reich

Korrie Bysted

Former labor secretary Robert Reich was in Ames this past weekend. Reich has accomplished many things in his career, including:

  • Chancellor’s professor of Public policy at University of California at Berkeley
  • Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies
  • Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration
  • Named by Timer Magazine as one of the ten most effective cabinet secretaries of the twentieth century
  • Author of thirteen books
  • Founding editor of the American Prospect magazine
  • Chairman of Common Cause
  • His new film is “Inequality for All”
  • Awarded the Vaclav Havel Vision Foundation Prize