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it's part of his ongoing series "making sense of financial news." >> my name is robert reich.f labor under bill clinton. before that the carter administration. before that i was a special aide to abraham lincoln. >> brown: the improbable star of an unlikely feature film, the chart-and graph-filled, often funny, sometimes sad documentary, inequality for all. >> of all developed nations the united states has the most unequal distribution of income. resurgent or even great inequality. >> reporter: robert reich, welcome. >> thank you. >> reporter: what's the basic argument here? >> the argument is that inequality is bad for everyone, not just the middle class and poor. 95% of the gains, the economic gains, since the recovery began in 2009 are going to the top 1%. meanwhile median household income keeps dropping, adjusted for inflation. well, where are people gonna get the money they need to keep the economy going? >> reporter: i first met you in early 1980s and you were already beginning to talk about this phenomenon of inequality right? >> i am so boring paul, i mean i really, i

joining us now for an assessment is former labor secretary robert reich who is now a professor of public policy at uc berkeley and author of "aftershock." , good to haveh you back on this program. what did you make of janet yellen's first press conference? what did you make of the aftershocks that hit wall street? >> there is not that much that the fed can do to stimulate the economy. the fed under ben bernanke has done a great deal, just about all he can do to bring long-term interest rates down, keep short-term interest rates down. janet yellen delivered the news that wall street was afraid of hearing. ,ventually, that bolstering keeping interest rates down, cannot continue infinitely. she is going to allow interest rates to rise. that is what ben bernanke was doing at the end of his tenure. she is going to continue the same policies. wall street got nervous because of -- of course if interest rates are allowed to rise, that means that bonds become more attractive. that in turn means that stocks become less attractive. that is what wall street has been living off of. the fumes, or you

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joining me now, former secretary of labor in the clinton administration, robert reich, he's a public policy professor. university of california at berkeley. here's what i think is crucial to understand about paul ryan. his budgets that he is so renowned for when you talk about poverty, in 2013, 2/3 of the huge budget cuts according to the center, 2/3 come from programs for low-income americans. he can say whatever he wants and make up whatever stories he wants. that is in the numbers where the priorities are. >> yes, but you see, chris, that's exactly what he wants to hide. i mean, what he wants to create. and if it requires a story that is made up, so much the better, i mean, if it makes the point he wants to make, is that welfare dependence is welfare dependence. that as nobody wants to make money from the government, well, it's true. people don't want to take money, but the fact is if they didn't have any alternative, these children would get paper bags without food in the paper bags. i mean, what paul ryan is doing is actually cutting the ability of so many millions of families t

. >> bergman: robert reich was secretary of labor under president clinton.he became deeply involved in the investigation of health and safety violations at decoster facilities. >> in my experience, when you have companies that disregard one set of laws, they are likely to be disregarding all laws. they are likely to create a culture that is not just one of illegality but one of crass disregard for the lives of employees. >> a serial violator... >> pleaded guilty to knowingly hiring illegal immigrants... >> bergman: paul schultz was the sheriff of wright county, iowa, and he became very familiar with decoster. >> they've earned the reputation, or made their own reputation, as far as the way they have treated workers. >> bergman: when immigration patrols reached wright county, decoster managers took steps to hide their illegal workforce. >> if they would hear of an immigration vehicle being around the area, they would lock the doors of the plant or post people at the exits of the plant so the people could not leave. >> bergman: decoster supervisors locked up t

the last point on this, i wanted to mention to you, i ran into robert reich the other day.is the same stormy we'll hear eve and over. we'll lose jobs, we'll lose jobs. when we raised the minimum wage with clinton we created 23 million jobs and reich said it was a great thing to do, and i think he has credibility. >> 70% of the american people that certainly want the minimum wage to move forward. interesting. i did a town hall down in florida last weekend, and there was a lot of support for raising the minimum wage but not everyone was convinced. >> if ten is a good idea, let's -- let's double down. >> rather not have the minimum wage moved? >> of course. it's a free market. >> no minimum wage at all? >> no new york, no. >> you don't have to take the job if you don't want it. >> isn't that what you need? passion of the people for this to happen? i was rather taken. it was no shoulder shrugging going on when i asked that question. i mean, they're into it. >> well, we need the passion of the people and we need the people to vote, ed. in this midterm election. these are the iss

do can you guys know who robert reich is? he's not a supply sider, let's just say that.arlie crist is running as a democrat. charlie crist was enforced by the senate republican committee. charlie crist was held up as the future of the gop. we had to be more like charlie crist in order to win. my favorite, of course, or hi worst nightmare was arlen specter. do you guys remember the first time pat toomey ran against arlen specker? the gop circled the wag gones. karl rove and the white house and senator rick santorum and just about everybody that was considered acceptable within the gop said the only guy that can win is arlen specter. if they hadn't weighed in, pat toomey would have won that fight. fast forward to the fight over obamacare. who was the 60th vote on obamacare? who left the gop at that very moment that he decided that he could win as a democrat, not as a republican? arlen specter. so our decisions matter a lot in public policy. we would not be fighting to repeal obamacare today if it wasn't the decision by some republican experts to save arlen specter. john bo

the guys know who robert reich is? he is not a supply cider. let's just say that. charlie crist is running for governor as a democrat. endorsed by the senate republican committee. hell of as the future of the gop. we had to be more like charlie christian order to win. my favorite, of course, was my worst nightmare to marlon specter. do you guys are rubber the first time pat to me ran against arlen specter? the gop circled the wagons. karl rove in the white house and senator rick santorum and just about everybody that was considered acceptable within the gop said the only guy that can win is allen specter. if they had not weighed in pat to me would have won that fight. the 60's folk, who led the gop at that very moment that he decided that he could win as a democrat, not a republican? so our decisions and politics matter a lot in public policy. we would not be fighting john banners best friend, former congressman, a lobbyist, defending ministry. i quote to beat this not out of the tea party. he is running ads in some of these, defending some of the biggest defenders

most important thing being being supported in japan i don't actually history expert i talked to robert reich of joining us live here on out today thank you gary. well israel says it regrets the killing of a palestinian judge after mistaking him for a terrorist investigation has been launched following the incident on the border crossing between jordan and the occupied west bank and the man was shot after an argument with israeli soldiers the full details of the story right now on our website r.t. dot com why is there this story is also for you the u.s. senate accuses the cia of hacking into a computer system used by congress and secretly removing classified documents some officials say the move violated the american constitution. it's waiting for you right now. for now in the program a u.n. official says britain's unmanned drone fleet could soon be redeployed to africa and the middle east is following the military's withdrawal from afghanistan and sparked fears of more collateral damage with some observers accusing the u.k. of failing to fully account for the civilian deaths already caused b