the book inequality matters the growing economic divide in america and its poisonous consequences leo hindery is the chairman of the economic growth smart globalization initiative at the new america foundation and a member of the council on foreign relations leo is currently an investment investor in media companies and is the former c.e.o. of telecommunications and liberty media and their successor eighteen t. broadband natalie foster is the co-founder of rebuild the dream an organization focused on strengthening working families by creating good jobs and making sure that all americans pay their fair share of taxes natalie was pivotal in organizing more than nine hundred house meetings across the united states' image ally for those attending selected priority issues and created the contract for the american dream and finally joining us from university of california berkeley is robert reich the chancellor is professor of public policy at u.c. berkeley and former secretary of labor under president bill clinton he's the author of thirteen books books including his most recent aftershock the nex

better opportunity to actually rebuild this infrastructure to create an infrastructure bank that leo hindery is has championed to put the resources in to do to modernize the base of this economy and the base of the public health systems that are vital to the people. robert rice secretary on paying people a fair wage i remember back in the sixty's there in mechanization and automation and all this stuff was coming along time magazine actually did a special. on the new leisure society that was supposed to be coming the jetsons cartoon george jetson complained that the his his boss mr space lee was a slave driver because he had to push the button three times a day. there but instead as we've seen with charter fourteen as productivity surged upward wages stayed stagnant all that extra wealth that was created by that extra productivity didn't go to the workers that went to the shareholders so how do we give workers the income they've earned and utilize automation to pray a leisure society or at least a more prosperous middle class. well i think the key to the key question tom is how do you make s

co-director of the campaign for america's future heather mcghee director of deimos his washington office leo hindery chairman of the economic growth smart globalization initiative at the new america foundation and a member of the council on foreign relations natalie foster co-founder of the rebuild the dream organization and from the university of california berkeley former labor secretary robert reich so welcome back so far we've looked deep into the abyss into which the american people are plunged in two thousand and eight in the really scary prospects for countries of conservative ideology prevails going forward so let's shift gears now and focus on solutions that could actually work in the novel idea what's going to take to turn our economy around what's it going to take to rebuild the military the middle class and create greater opportunities for all of us moving forward so to kick start this conversation to play a video made by natalie your organization rebuild the dream here take a look at this. project for the american dream has. all right now marijuana and invest in america's infrastructure