in a wakeup call to america former labor secretary robert reich takes his lifelong fight for economic fairness to the big screen in the documentary inequality for all he believes the growing income gap threatens the american way of life unless citizens take action to lay out the problems the potential solutions and explain why some as things are still optimistic about the united states robert reich on politics with. politicking with larry king and joining me from new york old friend robert reich she was bill clinton's secretary of labor also served under gerald ford and jimmy carter and he's now professor at the university of california berkeley and the bestselling author of more than a dozen books and the start of a brilliant new documentary inequality for all and equality for all opens across the united states this friday has already picked up a special jury award at the sundance film festival we'll talk a lot about that film a little while robert joins us from new york for some other things robert the federal government shutdown looms will the government be open after september thi

odds are you know of robert reich. perhaps as the public servant he was under three administrations -- for his work as president clinton's secretary of labor, "time magazine" called him one of the best cabinet secretaries of the 20th century. he's written thirteen books, including his latest, "beyond outrage: what has gone wrong with our economy and our democracy, and how to fix it." but you're about to see professor reich who teaches public policy at the university of california, berkeley, in a wholly new light. as the star of a dynamic, witty, and entertaining new film to be released next week in theatres across the country. it's called "inequality for all,' and was directed by jacob kornbluth. here's the trailer. >> now the thing you want to know about this mini cooper is it is small. we are in proportion, me and my car. my name is robert reich, i was secretary of labor under bill clinton. before that the carter administration. before that i was a special aidt to abraham lincoln. of all developed nations the united

all right robert reich. is he a communist, right? >> communist,/socialist. >> bill: i said to robert reich i called him a communist with lou dobbs and huffington post there it is o'reilly called him a columnist. he writes a column about it is he so indignant. obviously i was giving him some jazz and i thought that was it he wrote his column on the huffington post, he didn't like it. fine. reich couldn't let it go. yesterday he wrote a column a year or so ago, actually it was 18 months, professor, bill o'reilly did say on his fox news show that i was a communist. i couldn't imagine what i could have done to provoke his ire except appear on several tv shows for arguing higher taxes for the wealthy. this was an example of uncivil society that i viciously attacked him and then some guy at an airport called him a communist as well. joining us now from north carolina purveyor of bernard goldberg.com. mr. goldberg. here is what i don't get. he drags this up 18 months after the fact. he has already done the huffington post thing. why is he d

in a wakeup call to america for the labor secretary robert reich takes his lifelong fight for economic fairness to the big screen in the documentary inequality for all he believes the growing income gap threatens the american way of life unless citizens . get a lay out the problems the potential solutions that explain why sometimes things are still optimistic about the united states robert reich on politics with. politicking with larry king and joining me from new york old friend robert reich she was bill clinton's secretary of labor also served under gerald ford and jimmy carter and he's now professor at the university of california berkeley and the bestselling author of more than a dozen books and the start of a brilliant new documentary inequality for all inequality for all opens across the united states this friday and it's already picked up a special jury award at the sundance film festival we'll talk a lot about that film a little while robert joins us from new york for some other things robert the federal government shutdown looms will the government be open after september thir

i thinking with larry king and joining me from new york old friend robert reich she was bill clinton's secretary of labor also served under gerald ford and jimmy carter and he's now professor at the university of california berkeley the bestselling author of more than a dozen books and the start of a brilliant new documentary inequality for all inequality for all opens across the united states this friday it's already picked up a special jury award at the sundance film festival we'll talk a lot about that film a little while robert joins us from new york for some other things robert the federal government shutdown looms will the government be open after the september thirtieth yes or no well my betting is yes larry because the republicans don't really want to fall out they know what happened in one nine hundred ninety five ninety ninety six people are looking for a way out on the other hand the very conservative tea party republicans don't want to compromise so inside the republican party there is a civil war going on and the result of that civil war will probably dictate what happens

would larry king and joining me from new york old friend robert reich she was bill clinton's secretary of labor also served under gerald ford and jimmy carter and he's now professor at the university of california berkeley the bestselling author of more than a dozen books and the start of a brilliant new documentary inequality for all inequality for all opens across the united states this friday has already picked up a special jury award at the sundance film festival we'll talk a lot about that film a little while robert joins us from new york for some other thing is robert the federal government shutdown looms will the government be open after september thirtieth yes or no well my betting is yes larry because the republicans don't really want the fall out they know what happened in one thousand ninety five ninety ninety six people are looking for a way out on the other hand the very conservative tea party republicans don't want to compromise so inside the republican party there is a civil war going on and the result of that civil war will probably dictate what happens after september

in a wakeup call to america for the labor secretary robert reich takes his lifelong fight for economic fairness to the big screen in the documentary inequality for all he believes the growing income gap threatens the american way of life unless citizens take back. to lay out the problems the potential solutions that explain why sometimes things are still optimistic about the united states robert reich on politicking with. politicking with larry king and joining me from new york old friend robert reich she was bill clinton's secretary of labor also served under gerald ford and jimmy carter and he's now professor at the university of california berkeley and the bestselling author of more than a dozen books and the start of a brilliant new documentary inequality for all inequality for all opens across the united states this friday and it's already picked up a special jury award at the sundance film.

in a wakeup call to america for the labor secretary robert reich takes his lifelong fight for economic fairness to the big screen in the documentary inequality for all he believes the growing income gap threatens the american way of life unless citizens . you lay out the problems the potential solutions and explain why some as things are still optimistic about the united states robert reich on politics with. politicking with larry king and joining me from new york old friend robert reich she was bill clinton's secretary of labor also served under gerald ford and jimmy carter and he's now professor at the university of california berkeley and the bestselling author of more than a dozen books and the start of a brilliant new documentary inequality for all inequality for all opens across the united states this friday and it's already picked up a special jury award at the sundance film festival we'll talk a lot about that film a little while robert joins us from new york for some other things robert the federal government shutdown looms will the government be open after september thirtieth

in a wakeup call to america for the labor secretary robert reich takes his lifelong fight for economic fairness to the big screen in the documentary inequality for all he believes the growing income gap threatens the american way of life unless citizens take action to lay out the problems the potential solutions that explain why the stuff is things are still optimistic about the united states robert reich on politicking with. politicking with larry king and joining me from new york old friend robert reich she was bill clinton's secretary of labor also served under gerald ford and jimmy carter and he's now professor at the university of california berkeley and the bestselling author of more than a dozen books and the start of a brilliant new documentary inequality for all inequality for all opens across the united states this friday has already picked up a special jury award at the sundance film festival we'll talk.

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my name is robert reich i was secretary of labor under bill clinton before that the carter administration before that i was a special aide to abraham lincoln. of all develop the united states as the most unequal distribution of income were surging toward even greater inequality. nine hundred twenty eight and two thousand and seven become the peak years for income concentration and looks like a suspension bridge. last year and leave me thirty six thousand got my makeshift child working seventy hours a week the middle class is struggling the people occasionally say to me what nation does about the answer is united states in the decades after world war two the economy boom but you have very low inequality you know i do and he's a communist when i was a kid bigger boys were coming i think it changed my life i had to protect people from the people who would beat them up economically who is actually looking out for the american worker the answer is no but. wealthy british style. markets. can find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred. global financial headlines

reich take a look. all developed the united states has the most money in distribution of income were surging toward even greater inequality. between twenty eight and two thousand and seven become the peak years for income concentration it looks like the suspension brings. us here we need thirty six thousand government to make it work seventy hours a week. earlier i spoke with the director of the film jacob kornbluth i first asked him why all americans should care about the growing economic inequality gap. when the economy is so out of balance when the structural foundation of how the economy is organized is so out of whack this isn't just a moral question it's not just not fair that the rich have so much of the income it also affects our economy overall our economy is stagnant now at the same time the incomes are so disproportionately divided and that's because of this income inequality and secondly it's because it also affects our democracy so our economy and our democracy are both in shambles because

in a wakeup call to america former labor secretary robert reich takes his lifelong fight for economic fairness to the big screen in the documentary inequality for all he believes the growing income gap threatens the american way of life unless citizens take action to lay out the problems the potential solutions and explain why the stumbles things are still optimistic about the united states robert reich on politicking with. politicking with larry king and joining me from new york old friend robert reich she was bill clinton's secretary of labor also served under gerald ford and.

you know i think anytime you make a film called any quality for all and you put somebody like robert reich at the center of it there's a danger that it gets sort of trapped in the same partisan bickering that i was trying to avoid by making this film but the way we approach this issue is to try and take a big picture of you we step out of the sort of partisan fights of the moment and we try and look at say the last forty years or even the last hundred years and sort of look at the shape of the economy and what you see that is something that republicans have had issues with and democrats and liberals and conservatives this when it kind of he gets this on structured as it did in one nine hundred twenty eight and again as it didn't two thousand and seven in both of those two years those were the two peak years of income inequality and the economy had its two biggest crashes of the last century right after both of those years so this is something that concerns both republicans and democrats and when you step out of the sort of day to day twenty four hour news cycle into a larger picture

reich take a look. all developed the united states has the most money distribution if you were surging toward even greater inequality. in the june twenty eighth two thousand and seven become the peak years for income concentration it looks like the suspension bridge. last year we made thirty six thousand government to make it work seventy hours. earlier i spoke with the director of the film jacob kornbluth i first asked him why all americans should care about the growing economic inequality gap. when the economy is so out of balance when the structural foundation of how the economy is organized is so out of whack this isn't just a moral question it's not just not fair that the rich have so much of the income it also affects our economy overall our economy is stagnant now at the same time the incomes are so disproportionately divided and that's because of this income inequality and secondly it's because it also affects our democracy so our economy and our democracy are both in shambles because as partial

my name is robert reich, i was secretary of labor under bill clinton. before that the carter administration. before that i was a special aid to abraham lincoln. of all developed nations, the united states has the most unequal distribution of income and we're surging toward even greater inequality. 1928 and 2007 become the peak years for income concentration, it looks like a suspension bridge. >> last year we made $36,000. >> think i probably make $50,000 a year working 70 hours a week. >> the middle class is struggling. people occasionally say to me, "now what nation does it better?" the answer is, the united states. in the decades after world war ii, the economy boomed but you had very low inequality. >> do you know robert reich? >> i do. >> he's a communist. >> when i was a kid, bigger boys would pick on me. i think it changed my life. i had to protect people from the people who would beat them up economically. who is actually looking out for the american worker? the answer is, nobody. if workers don't have power, if they don't have a voice, their wag

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>> i think robert reich is trying to make a bigger point about the culture. >> are you? and if so, what is the bigger point you're trying to make? >> the bigger point is that we are at logger heads in this culture in this society now, a lot of anger, a lot of bitterness. mainly because people are not getting ahead. but it's being fueled, that anger and bitterness, is also being fueled by the name-calling that we find -- likes of bill o'reilly saying i'm a communist. and that name-calling, that kind of vitriol in which one side is basically talking to its audience, the other side is talking to their audience, well, it's splitting america at a time, honestly, when we have to come together. if we're ever going to solve these problems, we've got to just stop all of the bickering. >> could i add to that? >> you grew up, jay, in a family where you received state support in terms of free school lunches and so on. was your mother a moocher? were your parents free loaders who were fraudsteres, trying to steal from the government? >> my mother was a hard-working, wonderful person.

. >>> joining me is robert reich. his new film, which is excellent, "in equality for all" is out friday. suzy khimm is with us as well. she wrote a great piece and the cruz cam goes up and if any dr. seuss classics are read, we will be sure to go to that live. robert, before he was reading dr. seuss, ted cruz was making an argument that you hear from the right, which is basically an argument about the fact that the affordable care act has broken the labor market. that there are all these things wrong with the labor market that we haven't seen a very robust recovery, there's too many people doing part-time work, that we have -- you know, we have employers that are anxious about the future. does that argument hold up? is that the reason the labor market is broken because of obama care? >> no, chris. the labor market is broken because almost all the gains since the recession have gone to the top 1%. so most people don't have the money to turn around and spend to create jobs. you know, the job creators in this country are

. >>> joining me is robert reich. his new film, which is excellent, "in equality for all" is out friday. susie is with us as well. she broet a great piece and the cruz cam goes up and if any dr. seuss classics are read, we will be sure to go to that live. robert, before he was reading dr. seuss, ted cruz was making an argument that you hear from the right, which is basically an argument about the fact that the affordable care act has broken the labor market. that there are all these things wrong with the labor market that we haven't seen a very robust recovery, there's too many people doing part-time work, that we have -- you know, we have employers that are anxious about the future. does that argument hold up? is that the reason the labor market is broken because of obama care? >> no, chris. the labor market is broken because almost all the gains since the recession have gone to the top 1%. so most people don't have the money to turn around and spend to create jobs. you know, the job creators in this country are not

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featuring former labor secretary robert reich. >> the u.s. has the most unequaled this division of income. we are surging to word -- toward even greater inequality. 1928 and 2007 become the peak years for income concentration. it looks like a suspension bridge. we made 36,000. >> we will probably make 50,000 year making -- working. >> i asked him why all americans should care about the growing economic inequality gap. >> when the economy so out of balance, when the structural foundation is so out of whack, this is not just a moral question. it is not just not fair that the rich have so much of the income. it affects our economy overall. our economy is stagnant now at the same time the incomes are disproportionately divided.pthae inequality and it also affects our democracy. our economy and our democracy are both in shambles because partially as a result of this income inequality we're seeing. >> this week marks two years since the rise of occupy wall street, a movement that tried to tell the story of inequality for all. the criticism was that

yesterday aired my interview with robert reich has named communications professor and author of the book dollar ocracy about the money and media elections complex and how it profits off the erosion of democracy but i also had the chance to talk to him about his other book digital disconnect which explores the effect technology has on our lives and the relationship between capitalism and public participation in it he talks about the initial development of a neutral internet and how drastically it's changed since its inception i asked him how this evolution occurred and why it's so destructive to the principles of democracy. for the striking feature of the internet is that it's really a testament to public policy to public sector spending even a testament to socialism if you will i mean for decades the internet was created it's on developed by basic research and support exclusively paid for by the u.s. government both through the military and one hamon through our leading public research institutions and nonprofit research institutions funded by federal dollars in fact the story goes that

yesterday aired my interview with robert reich has named communications professor and author of the book dollar ocracy about the money and media elections complex and how it profits off the erosion of democracy but i also had the chance to talk to him about his other book digital disconnect which explores the effect technology has on our lives and the relationship between capitalism and public participation in it he talks about the initial development of a neutral internet and how drastically it's changed since its inception i asked him how this evolution occurred and why it's so destructive to the principles of democracy. it was striking features of the internet is that it's really a testament to public policy public sector spending even a testament to socialism if you will i mean for decades the internet was created it's on developed by basic research and support exclusively paid for by the u.s. government both through the military and one hand and through our leading public research institutions and nonprofit research institutions funded by federal dollars in fact the story goes that

yesterday aired my interview with robert reich has named communications professor and author of the book dollar ocracy about the money and media elections complex and how it profits off the erosion of democracy but i also had the chance to talk to him about his other book digital disconnect which explores the effect technology has on our lives and the relationship between capitalism and public participation in it he talks about the initial development of a neutral internet and how drastically it's changed since its inception i asked him how this evolution occurred and why it's so destructive to the principles of democracy. it was striking feature of the internet is that it's really a testament to public policy to public sector spending even a testament to socialism if you will i mean for decades the internet was created it's on developed by basic research and support exclusively paid for by the u.s. government both through the military and one hamon through our leading public research institutions and nonprofit research institutions funded by federal dollars in fact the story goes that i