Robert B Reich Why The Rich Are Getting Richer

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Money is the Problem (An analysis of Robert B. Reich’s writing Why the Rich are Getting Richer, and the Poor, Poorer.) Why are the rich getting richer and the poor, poorer? This is a very perplexing question, that can be more thoroughly explained through Robert B. Reich’s literary work called Why the Rich are Getting Richer and the Poor, Poorer. Eduardo Porter gives us a little more background about the author, “Some scholars -- including Robert B. Reich, who served as Labor Secretary during the Clinton administration and now teaches at the University of California, Berkeley” (Eduardo Porter) Along with those accomplishments he was also the Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy, Time Magazine named him one of the ten most effective cabinet secretaries. He helped with the School-to-Work Opportunities Act; skill standards that clarify what level of skills a worker must have to be employed, linking unemployment, the…show more content…
Reich, Why the Rich are Getting Richer, and the Poor, Poorer, implies the inevitability of the rich becoming richer and the poor in more poverty. Reich talks about the fact that we can already see changes in this society, there is more technology being built. Going along with this new fad, more companies are embracing technology in their facilities; therefore they are buying machinery to do their work instead of using human labor. Not only that, but these companies are pulling in immigrants and paying these workers less than the minimum wage. That a big motive to how the rich to maintain and increase their wealth within in America. They get the workers to work the same hours for less, giving them more money and cause the poor to lose money or not have a job. An article writer by the name of Sean Gallup states, “The rich world's economies were either shrinking, or are close to it. Recent weeks have made a rich-world recession all but inevitable” (Sean Gallup). This is how the gap between the rich and the poor is
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