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Robert Reich 22nd United States Secretary of Labor In office 1993 – 1997 President Bill Clinton Preceded by Lynn Morley Martin Succeeded by Alexis Herman Born June 24, 1946 (1946-06-24) (age 62) Political party Democratic Spouse Clare Dalton Alma mater Dartmouth College Oxford University Yale Law School Profession Robert Bernard Reich (born June 24, 1946) is a Jewish American politician, academic, writer, and political commentator. He served as the twenty-second United States Secretary of Labor, serving under President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997. A Dartmouth graduate, Reich is a former Harvard University professor and the former Maurice B. Hexter Professor of Social and Economic Policy at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University. He is currently a professor at the University of California, Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy. Reich is also on the board of directors of Tutor.com. He is a trustee of the Economists for Peace and Security. He is also an occasional political commentator, notably on Hardball with Chris Matthews, This Week with George Stephanopoulos , CNBC's Kudlow & Company, and National Public Radio. In 2008, Time Magazine named him one of the Ten Most Successful Cabinet Members of the century, [1] and the Wall Street Journal placed him among America's Top Ten Business Thinkers. [2] On November 7, 2008, he was selected by President-elect Barack Obama to be a member of the President-elect's economic transition advisory board.[3] Contents [hide] 1 Biography 2 After Biography Reich was born into a Jewish family, and he attended John Jay High School in Cross River, New York. He attended Dartmouth College, graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1968 and winning a Rhodes Scholarship to study Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Oxford.[4] Reich subsequently received a J.D. from Yale Law School. A longtime friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton (he revealed in his first video blog Vimeo.com on March 7, 2007 that he dated Hillary Clinton while in college), going back to their days together at Oxford, Yale, and the George McGovern presidential election campaign in Dallas, Texas, 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 (FMLA), successfully promoted increasing the minimum wage, successfully lobbied to pass the Pension Protection Act and the School-to-Work Jobs Act, and launched a number of job training programs. At the same time, he lobbied Clinton to address bigger societal issues, and pushed for improvement of conditions for those in poverty. In addition, Reich used the office as a platform for focusing the nation's attention on the need for American workers to adapt to the new | ||||
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