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I'm David Serota.

It's one thing to be an everyday American, feeling

the ripple effects of decades of bad decisions by your government. It's another thing to be

one of the people in the room where those decisions were being made. Robert Reich is one of those

people. He was a member of three presidential administrations,

including a stint as U.S. Labor Secretary. Reich is kind of like this Forrest Gump figure,

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