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These latest cutbacks underline Clinton's challenge as he prepares to revive the economy. While GDP grew 3.8% in the fourth quarter and orders for durable goods rose more than 9% in December, continued job woes could choke off recovery. Speaking last Tuesday, Labor Secretary Robert Reich said the Administration now favors spending about $20 billion this year to keep the | recovery rolling. And to assist the growing army of laid-off workers, the Administration may seek to extend the period for collecting unemployment benefits, which now run out after 59 weeks...
...Kennedy School, traditionally a haven for government policy-makers both past and future, could lose at least two more faculty members to the Clinton team, which already includes former lecturer Robert B. Reich as Labor Secretary...
...Clinton is still struggling to understand the anger, he might want to talk to his own Labor Secretary, Robert Reich. In his book The Work of Nations: Preparing Ourselves for 21st Century Capitalism, Reich describes how America's new professional elite has grown ever more distant from the rest of society and disengaged itself from communal spaces, institutions and obligations. "The most skilled and insightful Americans," he wrote, "who are already positioned to thrive in the world market, are now able to slip the bonds of national allegiance, and by so doing disengage themselves from their less-favored fellows...
Robert B. Reich, a lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School of Government, was confirmed by the Senate last week as secretary of labor...
While it seemed that Clinton had merely adapted his campaign techniques to * reflect the fact that many people take their cues from television talk shows, he had actually (and typically) studied the problem of changing perceptions quite rigorously. A treatise Clinton has found particularly useful in this regard is Reich's book The Power of Public Ideas. The central tenet of Reich's argument is contained in two sentences: "The core responsibility of those who deal in public policy . . . is not simply to discover as objectively as possible what people want for themselves . . . It is also to provide the public...