Reich appears to exhibit a reflective level of judgement. Reich introduces the economic inequality crisis but most importantly considers and approaches the crisis based on the known evidence available. For example, Reich uses “… the latest data… IRS data going back to, really the beginning, 1913, the beginning of the progressive income tax” to support his conclusion of the growing economic equality in the U.S. Reich also reevaluated that same evidence when relevant new evidence became available “ [that] show that in the year 2012 inequality reached a new peak in the United States”. Reich came to the conclusion of economic inequality based on the evaluations of different sources of evidence and even reevaluated that evidence which is a perfect
