Next Tuesday (May 21st) Robert Reich, Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and former Secretary of Labour in the Clinton administration, will be speaking at the TUC, and holding an interview with Channel 4’s Economics Editor, Faisal Islam.
In advance of his appearance Professor Reich has recorded this short video clip setting out his views on the state of the UK economy.
Time magazine named Professor Reich one of the ten most effective cabinet secretaries of the last century. He is a best-selling author of thirteen books including Aftershock and The Work of Nations.
He features in ‘Inequality for All’, a film about widening US income inequality and winner of the 2013 Sundance Festival Special Jury Award.