good review of that era > kind of a longish read but all the points are in there of time lines 80's / 90's > https://www.brookings.edu/articles/a-surplus-if-we-can-keep-it-how-the-federal-budget-surplus-happened/ Reich bio > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Reich#:~:text=During%20his%20tenure%2C%20he%20implemented,increase%20the%20national%20minimum%20wage.