Robert Reich: Why U.S. Election Day Should Be a Federal Holiday

Robert Reich, 72, held important posts in three past U.S. Administrations. For more than a decade, he has been a professor of Public Policy at U.C. Berkeley. Reich has authored 18 books — several of them best-sellers — and is a frequent commentator in print and on TV. Nowadays, he is a vocal advocate of making U.S. Election Day a national holiday.
 
Quote: “Obviously, personal responsibility is important. But there’s no evidence that people who are poor are less ambitious than anyone else. In fact, many work long hours at backbreaking jobs.”
 
Quote: “To get back to the kind of shared prosperity and upward mobility we once considered normal will require another era of fundamental reform, of both our economy and our democracy.”
 
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Watch a brief video of Robert Reich laying out three reasons Election Day should be a national holiday [1:43]. >>
 
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