Word: reich
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Despite the combined appeal of former Vermont Gov. Howard B. Dean and former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich, controversial filmmaker Michael Moore—the director of the box-office hit Fahrenheit 9/11, which casts a sharply critical eye on President Bush and his policies—upstaged them as the main attraction at Tuesday’s “Take America Back” events, sponsored by the Campaign for America’s Future...
...There is no economic recovery,” Reich said...
Former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich told a crowd of hundreds of liberals at the Campaign for America’s Future “Take Back America” events Tuesday that he would teach them an entire economics course in 10 minutes to debunk myths about a recovery propagated by the Bush administration...
Reich—who spoke immediately after former Vermont Gov. Howard B. Dean at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge—said adults experiencing difficulty finding jobs with benefits mistakenly believe that the problem lies only with themselves. Rather, Reich said, the economy has lost one million jobs over the course of Bush’s presidency—a problem compounded by the need to create 125,000 jobs a month just to keep up with current population growth rates, he said...
...Reich added that wages for 80 percent of Americans have dropped since Bush took office in 2001, and that many employers have shifted the burden of paying for health care to workers...