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...women and liberals and added several allies. Laura D'Andrea Tyson, 45, a Berkeley economics professor named to chair the President's Council of Economic Advisers, counseled Clinton during the campaign on trade and industrial policy, and recommends a larger role for government in directing the economy. Robert Reich, 46, a Harvard lecturer named Labor Secretary, has been a close friend of Clinton's since their time at Oxford University as Rhodes scholars. ^ Reich argues that deficit spending is justified if it is directed at such areas as public transportation and job training. But Alice Rivlin, 61, the first director...
Before he can forgo fiscal stimulus, Clinton "needs clear and convincing evidence that the jobs are coming back, and the reports we've seen so far just aren't enough," Reich explained last week. "It's not just the unemployed we're concerned about, but also the part-timers who want to work full time and the discouraged workers" -- those who have been looking for jobs so long that they have given up and fallen out of the statistics. Clinton voiced the same view, telling reporters, "We are nowhere near to knowing that this short-term recession . . . is over...
...Essex, Massachusetts, with his wife and four children, may soon get a chance to put some of his ideas into practice: several Clinton aides believe the President-elect will offer Osborne a White House job or the chair of a commission to "reinvent" the federal bureaucracy. Economic adviser Robert Reich cautions that some of Osborne's ideas "probably can't be implemented," but adds that "David thinks about government in fresh ways. He constantly asks how the public, as consumers of government services, can get the most for its money." Bruce Reed, another adviser to Clinton, notes that Osborne...
...spot in the new Economic Security Council is likely to go to investment banker Robert Rubin or Harvard lecturer and transition-team adviser Robert Reich, who is also a candidate for head of the Council of Economic Advisers. Clinton wants to get the team in place before the economic retreat scheduled for Dec. 14-15 in Little Rock...
When he joined the Clinton transition team lastmonth, Reich told reporters at the Taubman Centerhe was not seeking a position in the Clintonadministration. But few analysts ever doubted thatClinton would reward his long-time friend andadvisor with a position...