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Robert Reich Retired from Teaching but Continues to Educate on Inequality, Corporate Power and Democracy in America

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Robert Reich speaks to Occupy Los Angeles protesters after the Move Your Money March through the downtown financial district. (David McNew/Getty Images)

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Political economist, educator, author, and former labor secretary, Robert Reich, has spent decades examining inequality as a way to make sense of the world. His career has focused on economic justice, the impacts of globalization and our shifting economy. We’ll talk with Reich, who recently retired from teaching at UC Berkeley, about the lessons he’s learned and taught, the influence of corporate power in America, and the ways in which wealth, poverty, and the widening income gap threaten our very democracy.

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Robert Reich, formerly the Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at UC Berkeley, he has served in three national administrations, most recently as secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton; his recent memoir is "Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America, and The Work of Nations" - and there's also a new movie featuring his last class at Berkeley, called "The Last Class"

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