Scholar who advocates increasing unemployment is shocked that Americans are dying early due to poverty

It's actually worse than that, this guy served as Treasury Secretary in 1999-2001 under Clinton and director of the National Economic Council under Obama. He is literally the man responsible for the austerity measures imposed on the working class of the US and many other countries, dubbed the Great Recession, in response to the bank collapse. He was also the President of Harvard, in charge of reproducing Bourgeois ideology.