CHERRY HILL – When Larry Kotlikoff was 8 years old he worked in his family-owned department store for 25 cents an hour.
During the holiday season, when he wasn’t at Pennsauken Junior High, he’d be stuck inside the store, Kotlikoff’s, in East Camden day and night, helping customers, stocking shelves, and doing just about whatever else his father and uncles could get him to do.
“I think they violated child labor laws,” Kotlikoff joked.
Back then he wasn’t as savvy as he is now and couldn’t properly evaluate his financial stability as a low-wage earner. That’s not a mistake he would make today.
Nearly 60 years later Kotlikoff is a world-traveled economist teaching at Boston College. He has a doctorate in economics from Harvard University and is often featured in publications such as Forbes and Bloomberg as an economic contributor. He’s published 17 books, taught at Yale and UCLA, and served as a member of President Ronald Reagan’s Counsel of Economic Advisors.
But writing about the economy doesn’t seem to be affecting the direction of the country, so Kotlikoff is taking matters into his own hands.
He’s running for president.
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