Robert Reich, US Secretaryof Labor, has advocated on behalf of the Clinton administration for upgrading worker skills through continuing education and on-the-job training, raising the minimum wage, protecting retirement benefits, enhancing workplace safety, providing family and medical leave, and many other initiatives designed to improve job opportunities for all Americans. One of America's foremost political economists, Secretary Reich is the author of The Work of Nations: Preparing Ourselves for 21st-Century Capitalism, and The Next American Frontier. Prior to his cabinet appointment by President Clinton, Reich was a member of the faculty of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. He is a former Rhodes Scholar from Dartmouth College and a graduate of Yale Law School, and he also served as Assistant to the Solicitor General in the Ford Administration and as the Director of Policy Planning for the Federal Trade Commission in the Carter Administration.