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Robert Bernard Reich (born June 24, 1946) was the twenty-second United States Secretary of Labor, serving under President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997. He is currently on the faculty of Brandeis University.
Early life and career
Robert Reich was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania in 1946, and grew up in the rural community of South Salem, New York State. He was born with Fairbanks disease, which left him half-an-inch taller than a technical dwarf (4-foot-10½-inches). His father owned a retail clothing store.
He went on to graduate from Dartmouth College in 1968, obtained an M.A. as a Rhodes Scholar at University College of Oxford University, and a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1973.
For more than 20 years, he has lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts with his wife, Clare Dalton, a law professor at Northeastern University, Boston who started and runs Northeastern's Center on Domestic Violence. He also has two sons, Sam and Adam.
He has worked as a faculty member at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, director of Policy Planning Staff of the Federal Trade Commission under Carter, assistant to the Solicitor General under Ford, and former chairman of the political magazine The American Prospect, which he co-founded.
In 1992 Reich hosted the PBS documentary miniseries Made In America, an in-depth look at the then-current difficulties of American manufacturing in the face of stiff competition from overseas, particularly Japan, and what American companies could do to become more competitive.
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