Today on Lever Time, David Sirota speaks with Robert Reich, former Labor Secretary and economics professor, about what he’s learned from working in multiple presidential administrations, where he believes that American politics went wrong, and what the Democratic Party needs to do to save itself — and the country.

Click here for more of this interview, in which Reich explains how the Baby Boomer generation failed America.

You can check out Reich’s new memoir, Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America, here. 

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