Robert Kuttner was a 20-year columnist for Business Week and The Boston Globe.
16 Facts About Robert Kuttner
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Robert Kuttner is one of five 1986 co-founders of the Economic Policy Institute, and currently serves on its executive committee.
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Between 2007 and 2014, Robert Kuttner joined the liberal Demos research and policy center as a Distinguished Senior Fellow.
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Robert Kuttner attended Oberlin College, the University of California, Berkeley, and the London School of Economics.
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Robert Kuttner currently holds the Meyer and Ida Kirstein Chair at Brandeis University as a professor of social policy.
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Robert Kuttner has been a John F Kennedy Fellow at Harvard University, a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at UC-Berkeley, a Guggenheim Fellow, a Wayne Morse Fellow, a German Marshall Fund Fellow, and a Radcliffe Public Policy Fellow.
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Robert Kuttner holds honorary degrees from Swarthmore College and Oberlin College.
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Robert Kuttner has had an extensive career as a writer and editor at various national publications.
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Robert Kuttner's magazine writing has appeared in The New York Review of Books, the New Yorker, the Atlantic, Harper's, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Harvard Business Review, Columbia Journalism Review, the Washington Monthly, Dissent, and Political Science Quarterly.
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Robert Kuttner is author of several books dealing with economics, politics, globalization and labor markets, as well as his political support for the revival of a robust labor-left agenda.
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Robert Kuttner has appeared as a commentator, usually offering a liberal view, on numerous public affairs and debate programs, including National Public Radio, the PBS Newshour, CNN, and MSNBC.
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Robert Kuttner has served in several capacities within the federal government, including as an investigator for the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, as well as serving as Executive Director of former President Carter's National Commission on Neighborhoods.
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At the Senate Banking Committee, Robert Kuttner conducted the investigations that led to the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, the Community Reinvestment Act, and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
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Robert Kuttner has been recognized by various organizations for his career as a journalist, such as by the Sidney Hillman Award, which he won twice, once for his 1997 book Everything For Sale and again in 2008 for Obama's Challenge.
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Robert Kuttner's first wife, the late Sharland Grace Trotter, was a psychotherapist and author.
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Robert Kuttner's daughter Jessica is a clinical social worker currently living in western Massachusetts, and his son Gabriel was a stage actor and director in Boston who died in October 2019.