Robert Reich in Los Angeles on Income Inequality

Robert Reich, Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and former Secretary of Labor, discussed the state of income inequality, the Trump presidency, the new steel and aluminum tariffs and the promising future of today's high school and college students.

[@leealexander3507]

Since I started using Facebook and Twitter once in awhile I've learned how terribly under educated so many people in our country are. We need to do something about that. We especially need civics and foreign policy classes from elementary school through college. Both need to be required courses.

[@davidfaubion1720]

Robert Reich now there is a sense of humor, history and the now.

[@mallory5872]

If everybody had healthcare we'd be more productive.

[@fluxcapacitor1621]

Tying healthcare to employment with a large company discourages entrepreneurs.

[@hitreset0291]

Correct...I live in Australia and recently I had an accident which involved emergency room, stitches, several attendants, nurses doctors etc. All up it cost me $12 for the script of penicillin. MediCare for All??? What do you think? As an, and from a, ex-US serviceman...get your shit together America before it's too late.

[@fritzforsthoefel8031]

Will you pay for it

[@fritzforsthoefel8031]

But yet you won't send half your income to pay for it just add it to the debt our children will have to pay for

[@steppenwolf3252]

I remember our 1960's generation selling out too. I thought we were evolving and had such high hopes. I couldn't believe they elected some dumb actor who didn't care about love, peace and ideals. Trickle down...and I wondered what happened to us too.I honestly thought we were evolving. I watched Reaganomics take us down to hell.

[@leealexander3507]

We need to break up the monopolies and start enforcing anti-trust laws.

[@zehrajafri9252]

Great job as alway's. Keep the truth alive for humanity and the planet and to wake up humanity. ❤ ❤ ❤

[@davidfaubion1720]

"You don't know what you've got til its gone, they paved Paradise put up a parking lot." Joni Mitchell

[@troubledsole9104]

John Dwyer “And they charged all the people a dollar and a half to see 'em...”

[@hitreset0291]

Great song...

[@leealexander3507]

We need another FDR type President but he needs to be more inclusive. Unfortunately the new deal left a lot of Americans out, mostly POC but farmers and a few other groups. There was also the internment of Japanese Americans during the war.

[@garystracener8319]

Has there been some movement On the removal of Corprate influence?

[@donblack1571]

I’ve met folks from Massachusetts, many of them are about 5’ tall.

[@homayounshirazi9550]

If you are taking a jab at Mr. Reich, he has a genetic skeletal issue that is responsible for his stature.

[@alistairmackintosh9412]

It's all the low ceilings in the old buildings...

[@leealexander3507]

If public servants are going to become lobbyist Bernie Sanders should finish his term then become a lobbyist for the lower and middle classes. With such a large number of us we could certainly fund a lobbyist of our own. It wouldn't have to be Bernie. I just can't think of anyone better for the job. Maybe Reverend Barbar or Dr. Cornell West.

[@alisonmcrae1281]

This is two year's old and the elite wiped out the FDR candidate & here we see the idiocy of the current elite we are still in the new gilded age.

[@wilhelmsarasalo3546]

Oklahoma City? What is wrong with I-80?

[@zehrajafri9252]

The importance of good education is so necessary, can be seen from the wisdom professors impart on U tube etc. If these professors were in control of the world it would look so different. The crooks at the top should study under them. Instead their persecuted, lose jobs, their programs are cancelled, their countries and people are deprived of the knowledge they can bring to the masses.

[@CartoonManWhoo]

UBI is the only way to improve income inequality under capitalism! This is a problem that will never go away until $$$$ is abolished.

[@fritzforsthoefel8031]

So a surgeon and a fast food worker should have no income gap

[@Pamela-tn1vf]

Funny haha

[@PeggyJame]

To get insulin from Canada.

[@saidtweini1422]

Listening to Robert Reich is the equivalent of listening to a flat earther giving lectures on geography.

[@svs8909]

just another gov mouthpiece

[@sa-iw4dr]

Love Robert's humor; informative goes good with learning. We need to put this man back in the Jump Seat!

[@AlexisMorton]

That question toward the end about a generation being co-opted by the seduction of money is one that needs to be addressed. The desire for money and the ability to be seduced by it is bred by a system that does not offer alternatives. It is a systemic problem that I'd like to hear Robert Reich address at some point.

[@brandymadison4290]

I don't feel much in the way of hope yet and I'm wondering what we teens can do to help make the system more equitable for everybody. My teachers aren't much help -- I started to talk about this video with my history teacher and all he said was, "Oh. That Commie." There's a lot of resistance to overcome.

[@williambunting803]

To plagiarise the words of another great person, in just on a month from now my father will be 100 years old,.....and he were still alive he would have been delighted by this talk, every bit as much as I was. Thank you, Robert.

[@carolgates5297]

Thanks to the man who speaks with optimism

[@troubledsole9104]

We need more Reichs talking to us.

[@leealexander3507]

Until we do something about our own country we have no business meddling in the affairs of other countries. Far too many Americans have slid into poverty with many living in 3rd world conditions. Our infrastructure is rated D-. The global oligarchy are hollowing the country out in their pursuit of profit at the expense of the country.

[@davidkaser7423]

If you create 1 billion jobs, not one of them is any good if the pay is shit, like it has been since 1964

[@davidfaubion1720]

What would big money do if were excluded from politics and denied mega merger as an antitrust violation?

[@davidfaubion1720]

A living treasure, Robert Reich.

[@davidfaubion1720]

Big money would hide more of it from taxation, give more in philanthropy and let more of the dough sit and rot.

[@glennoropeza3545]

Served under 4 presidents and a professor for the University of Berkeley, I'd say Robert Reich is more qualified as the 'smartguy' in the room!

[@wesleymercer7496]

Rex Tillerson was a conflict of interest, being The former CEO of ExxonMobil

[@vincentfalsitta5332]

I agree rex Tillerson will buy his way out of his mess. Big money always beats the system. JUSTICE systems have been broken. Our government has always worked for the richest people. Just like president Trump said that he could walk out on fifth Avenue and shoot someone and get away with it. And he is doing just that. Our government is broken. How is it where the banks have played Russian roulette with our financial system get away without going to prison for what thay have done .credit cards should not be away to support anyone's credit. If there is a sale at a store and we don't have the money it shouldn't be put on a credit card period. Thay have sceemed all of us into using credit cards.you don't have it you don't boy it.

[@antonionalesnik4706]

This comes from the guy who earns between 30,000 to 100,000 for one hour to talk about wealth income inequality 😅

[@SolidAir54321]

@6:46 The U.S. is like a game of musical chairs. Everyone gets an equal opportunity. But not everyone gets a chair.

[@zehrajafri9252]

Hillary could have been more human and a supporter of justice. Sad.

[@mikestaihr5183]

Towards the end when they were discussing participation and putting lives on the line they failed to acknowledge the sacrifices in the early 1900's of the striking workers that faced government machine guns fighting for the rights of labor... Just a thought....

[@dancooper5714]

but those machine guns were on behalf of the big business robber barons of the time.

[@mikestaihr5183]

Absolutely, coal, automobile, railroad, etc...... I just wanted to make sure that people understood that the 60's weren't the ultimate example of "participation".

[@vincentfalsitta5332]

We all know that who ever wins as president nothing will change. Both Democrats and Republicans used ileigle labore to bring down pay rates and take away all that the labore movement had won. Both parties have hurt our economy. Now there coming after our social security. Thay took away our health care from work places. But health care system is a right for all Americans. Not anymore we the people have to pay .and are not allowed to right that cost off on our taxes. Our mortgages we can't right off taxes the upkeep of our homes we can't right off taxes. So now both party's whent to fix what'. It's all broken. Bill Collins said thay want everything that we gained threw the labore laws back. The American workers are being over taxed because the 1 percent doesn't want to pay there fair share.

[@garystracener8319]

Your time working For us and admired You. Thank you!

[@johndavis8669]

LA has a large homeless population. Due to the fact many can't afford a place to live. A minority are homeless due to being addicted to drugs.

[@fritzforsthoefel8031]

Isn't la a liberal Democrat area

[@kampdavies]

Are Lawyers living things?

[@PeggyJame]

The Great Wall of China was just a wall. They had their own airplanes and trains and the best medical system in the world. But we foreigners had to stand in line. And learn the Chinese languages

[@joesonjoel4610]

Thank you Robert...

[@Pamela-tn1vf]

We are also being starved to death.

[@lestertm7944]

A prolific scholar.

[@roscocostco8586]

I never got a job from a poor man.

[@mallory5872]

I ate a lot of Hershey bars trying to win a mini Cooper.

[@robertwhite952]

Had to stop watching when he mentioned that Berkley was the best in the world. The man is delusional. he is a good talker though.

[@tvdv3416]

46:30 The disdain in this man's voice and the spiteful nature of his question is appalling. He seems offended that Secretary Reich, man who observes and speaks to each successive generation one class year at time, would have the nerve to suggest that this generation was at as politically active as those of the 60's. He seems aware that in only a matter of a few years that his generation went from being very socially conscious to very selfish but, I don't really think he grasps the negative impact those that were on the college campuses in the 60's has had on this world. It's amazing to me that someone who is clearly very proud of what they did when they werebin their 20's so obviously has no time to listen to the young adults of today.

[@clarestucki5151]

People are born into the world with massive inequality - inequality of talent, inequality of skill, inequality of ambition, etc. Why are people surprised and dismayed that all that natural inequality leads to inequality of income and wealth??