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ATTENTION: ROBERT REICH TO SPEAK AT UC BERKELEY

05/02/00
Contact: Patricia McBroom
(510) 643-7944



WHAT:

A lecture at the University of California, Berkeley, by former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert B. Reich.

In his talk, "Wealth, Poverty and Alan Greenspan: Social Policy and Macro Economic Policy," Reich will discuss how an economic slow-down brought on by steady hikes in interest rates would affect America's poor and working class. This income group's only stake in the recovery - jobs - would be threatened as unemployment rises, and these individuals would spend a larger portion of their paychecks on interest and loans.

 
WHEN: 7 p.m., Tuesday, May 9, 2000.  
WHERE: Sibley Auditorium in Bechtel Hall, in the northeast quarter of campus.  
WHO:

Reich is the Maurice B. Hexter professor of social and economic policy at Brandeis University. His lecture is being sponsored by UC Berkeley's School of Social Welfare, with support from the Zellerbach Family Fund.

 

BACKGROUND: Reich is the author of seven books including "The Work of Nations" and the recent best-seller, "Locked in the Cabinet." He hosted a four-part PBS series, "Made in America," in 1992 and a PBS special, "At the Grass Roots," in 1998. His radio commentary can be heard every other Thursday evening on public radio's "Marketplace."

For more information on this event, please contact Maureen Hogan, assistant to the dean of the School of Social Welfare, at (510) 642-4408.

 



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