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'Eyes off the prize': Robert Reich explains how Baby Boomers led to 'bully-in-chief' Trump

UNITED STATES, AUG 6 – Robert Reich argues Baby Boomers’ wage stagnation and weakened labor unions fueled inequality, creating conditions that enabled Donald Trump’s rise as a divisive political figure.

Summary by Alternet
We speak with former Labor Secretary Robert Reich about his new memoir, Coming Up Short, which tells his life story alongside the growth of inequality in America. Reich was born in 1946 as part of the baby-boom generation that enjoyed unprecedented levels of prosperity and social mobility in the decades after World War II. But he says those conditions were squandered as wealth concentration grew worse, labor unions were gutted and wages stagnate…

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Democracy Now! broke the news in New York, United States on Wednesday, August 6, 2025.
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