Editing Robert Reich (section)

== Early life and career ==
Reich was born to a Jewish family in [[Scranton, Pennsylvania]], the son of Mildred Freshman (née Dorf) (1919–2006) and Edwin Saul Reich (1914–2016), who owned a women's clothing store.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mHRmAAAAMAAJ&q=Robert+Reich+scranton |title=Newsmakers: the people behind today's headlines: 1995 cumulation, includes ... – Louise Mooney Collins, Gale Research Inc – Google Books |access-date=November 9, 2012|isbn=9780810357457 |year=1995 |author1=Lins |publisher=Gale Research }}</ref> As a teenager, he was diagnosed with [[multiple epiphyseal dysplasia]], also known as Fairbank's disease, a genetic disorder that results in short stature and other symptoms. This condition made Reich a target for bullies and he sought out the protection of older boys; one of them was [[Michael Schwerner]], who was one of the three civil rights workers [[murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner|murdered in Mississippi]] by the [[Ku Klux Klan]] in 1964 for the registration of African-American voters. Reich cites this event as an inspiration to "fight the bullies, to protect the powerless, to make sure that the people without a voice have a voice".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dailycal.org/2011/11/18/transcript-robert-reichs-speech-at/|title=Transcript: Robert Reich's speech at Occupy Cal|first=Robert | last=Reich|publisher=[[The Daily Californian]]|date=November 18, 2011|access-date=September 11, 2013}}</ref>

Reich attended [[John Jay High School (Cross River, New York)|John Jay High School]] in [[Cross River, New York]], where he received a [[National Merit Scholarship Program|National Merit Scholarship]]. He graduated from [[Dartmouth College]] in 1968 with a [[bachelor's degree]] in history, ''[[summa cum laude]]''.<ref name=":0" /> While at Dartmouth, Reich went on a date with [[Hillary Clinton|Hillary Rodham (later Clinton)]], then an undergraduate at [[Wellesley College]].<ref name="Date with Hillary">{{cite web |author1=Phillips, Kate |author2=Bumiller, Elisabeth |name-list-style=amp |date=August 6, 2007 <!-- 9:39 pm --> |title=The Caucus: Taking the Mystery Out of a Date |url=http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/06/hillary-date-2/?_php=true&_type=blogs |access-date=August 12, 2014 |work=The New York Times; The Caucus, The Politics and Government Blog of The Times}}</ref> He won a [[Rhodes Scholarship]] to study [[Philosophy, Politics, and Economics]] at [[University College, Oxford]].<ref name=":0">{{cite web | last=Turco | first=Al | url=http://www.stonehamindependent.com/archives/2002/03/20/2 | title=Democrat Robert Reich says he's prepared to make a difference in Mass | work=[[Stoneham Independent]] | date=March 20, 2002 | access-date=April 21, 2008 | quote=Reich started out as a graduate of John Jay High School, a regional public high school in small-town Cross River, New York. Reich then earned a [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] degree from Dartmouth College in 1968 and won a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford where he received degrees in philosophy, politics and economics. | archive-date=October 22, 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022135213/http://www.stonehamindependent.com/archives/2002/03/20/2 | url-status=dead }}</ref> While studying at Oxford, Reich first met [[Bill Clinton]], also a Rhodes Scholar. Although Reich was drafted to serve in the [[Vietnam War]], he did not pass the physical examination; due to his dysplasia condition, Reich is only {{convert|4|ft|11|in|m}} tall, shorter than the required minimum height of {{height|ft=5|in=0}}.<ref>{{cite book | last=Maraniss | first=David | title=First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton. |publisher=Simon & Schuster | date=1995 | isbn=9780684818900 |url=https://archive.org/details/firstinhisclass00davi }}</ref> Reich received his [[Master of Arts (Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin)|M.A.]] degree from the [[University of Oxford]] in 1970.<ref>[https://gspp.berkeley.edu/assets/uploads/faculty/cv/Robert_B._Reich_CV_%282_19%29_.pdf CV Robert B. Reich] - website of the [[Goldman School of Public Policy]]</ref> He subsequently earned a [[Juris Doctor|J.D.]] from [[Yale Law School]], where he was an editor of the ''[[Yale Law Journal]]''. At Yale, he was a classmate of Bill Clinton, Hillary Rodham, [[Clarence Thomas]], [[Michael Medved]], and [[Richard Blumenthal]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/clinton/interviews/reich.html |title=Interviews – Robert Reich &#124; The Clinton Years &#124; FRONTLINE |publisher=PBS |date=January 16, 2001 |access-date=May 26, 2012}}</ref>

From 1973 to 1974, Reich served as a law clerk to Judge [[Frank M. Coffin]], chief judge of the [[U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit]]. From 1974 to 1976, he was an assistant to [[U.S. Solicitor General]] [[Robert Bork]], under whom he had studied [[antitrust law]] while at Yale.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLfO-2t1qPQ&t=7m54s The Monopolization of America], published on Robert Reich's YouTube channel (May 6, 2018)</ref> In 1977, President [[Jimmy Carter]] appointed him director of the Policy Planning Staff at the [[Federal Trade Commission]]. From 1980 until 1992, Reich taught at the [[John F. Kennedy School of Government]] at Harvard University, where he wrote a series of books and articles, including ''The Next American Frontier'' and ''The Work of Nations''.