Robert Reich : Where is America Going?

Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor and now Professor of Public Policy at UC Berkeley, looks ahead at US economic trends , the impact of globalization, and future job prospects in this "Homecoming" address to parents of UC students. Reich doesn't promise perfect clairvoyance, but he does provide a way to think about the politico-economic issues that will shape this century. Series: "Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley" [11/2006] [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 12013]

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[jeff600]

left off at 27:07

[52111centrumcz]

@GOPkicksbutt

Actually what you will be doing will be lowering the living standards of most americans to the same that chineese have. That means working 100 hours a week for a wage that will earn you living worse than that presently considered undesirable (the projects). Also you have not left the 18th century (mentally). Most value added products no longer need large amounts of manual/other labor; its a function of a few highly inteligent people using machinery to produce goods. END OF STORY.

[Putaspellonyou]

@TheJoelef who said it was? but clearly your understanding of economics, market pressures, supply and demand, labor mobility, as well as let's face it basic human decency are so skewed as to make a well-reasoned debate about our economy a moot point. you want an adam smith-style free market? fine, then don't complain about production going oversees and illegal immigrants flooding into america for better jobs. in a totally free market, labor is mobile, as is capital. you cannot have it both ways.

[TheJoelef]

@Putaspellonyou its the not the governments job to pay your rent and buy your food.

[TheJoelef]

@GOPkicksbutt john boenhr is not a consrvative. He for raising the debt ceiling and for the tyrannical super congress

[Putaspellonyou]

@GOPkicksbutt people earning two bucks an hour? yeah, that would be better for all of us. that way, people can work six jobs just to afford rent, and another three to buy food. yeah, good plan. and while we're at it, let's be the only country in the world that goes back on the gold standard, so that the economy can't grow any faster than the supply of gold. good plan

[zg76]

Look for "The Truth About Robert Reich "

[poosta7]

150.000 "new" young men and women enter the labor market each month....in May 2011 America added 54,000 jobs...what happens to the 100,000 people EACH MONTH that didn't t get a job??? We are creating an ocean of unemployed and PERMANENTLY UNEMPLOYABLE citizens .... In most American cities the HS graduation rate is under 50%, kids can't read, write, compute or think critically and are obese...don't even quality for U.S. military service.

[kn9ioutom]

TAX CUTS FOR RICH ! CUTS FOR POOR ! IT'S IN GOP BIBLE

[GOPkicksbutt]

Thanks to liberal policies America can no longer afford to pay for medicare, social security, unemployment and many other services. We also need to lower the minimum wage to $2/hr in order to compete with China and bring jobs back home. Fiscally responsible conservatives like Paul Ryan and John Boehner know this and are currently

working to end these wasteful handout programs and bring the minimum wage down so that America can be great again. God bless the GOP!