The Truth About Privatization, R. Reich (Schools, Healthcare, Postal Service, Medicare, Parks)

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Reich explains why using the private, for profit sector for government services can have more negative consequences. Inequality Media.

Reich is a former US Secretary of Labor, a professor of public policy at the Univ. of Calif., Berkeley and the author of 'Saving Capitalism for the Many, Not the Few,' and 'The Common Good.' His newest book is, 'The System, Who Rigged It and How Can We Fix It.'

He is a US columnist for The Guardian and his newsletter is at [e-mail].
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- Robert Bernard Reich (b. June 24, 1946) is an American professor, author, lawyer, & political commentator. He worked in the administrations of Presidents Gerald Ford & Jimmy Carter, & served as Secretary of Labor from 1993 to 1997 in the cabinet of President Bill Clinton. He was also a member of President Barack Obama's economic transition advisory board.

Reich has been the Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley since January 2006. He was formerly a Lecturer at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government & a professor of social & economic policy at the Heller School for Social Policy & Management of Brandeis University. He has also been a contributing editor of The New Republic, The American Prospect (also chairman & founding editor), Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, The New York Times, & The Wall Street Journal.

.. He has published 18 books which have been translated into 22 languages, including the best-sellers The Work of Nations, Reason, Saving Capitalism, Supercapitalism, Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future, and a best-selling e-book, Beyond Outrage. He is also board chair emeritus of Common Cause & writes his own blog about the political economy at Robertreich.org.
The Robert Reich–Jacob Kornbluth film Saving Capitalism was selected to be a Netflix Original, & debuted in Nov. 2017, & their film Inequality for All won a U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Achievement in Filmmaking at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival in Utah.

In 2015, Reich and Kornbluth founded Inequality Media, a nonprofit digital media company. Inequality Media's videos feature Reich discussing topics relating to inequality & power primarily in the U.S. including universal basic income, labor rights protection, the racial wealth gap, affordable housing, and gerrymandering... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Reich

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