An Evening with Robert Reich (LAW '73)

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Date: Wednesday Nov 11

Time: 7 PM

Location: Villa Ragusa, 35 South 2nd Street, Campbell, CA

RSVP: If you would like information on pricing or to reserve tickets please send email to muyoung@aya.yale.edu

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Join us to hear Robert Reich, Former US Secretary of Labor, Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy, UC Berkeley, author of Saving Capitalism: For the Many, not the Few.

Reich argues that power and influence have created a new American oligarchy, a shrinking middle class, and the greatest income inequality and wealth disparity in 80 years. He says the veneration of the “free market” has masked the power of moneyed interests to tilt the market to their benefit.

Reich exposes what he calls the false myths that have been bolstered by huge corporations and the revolving door between Washington and Wall Street: that all workers are paid what they’re “worth,” that a higher minimum wage equals fewer jobs, and that corporations must serve shareholders before employees. To him, the critical choices ahead are about who government is for: that we must choose between a market organized for broad-based prosperity and one designed to deliver the most gains to the top. Reich presents a broad indictment of the economic status quo and a call to civic action.

This event is brought to the Yale community of northern California as part of YCSV's ongoing collaboration with the Commonwealth Club.