Recode Decode: How to save American jobs in the age of disruption

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.2 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2018

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about "The Work Ahead," a new report, sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations, on the 21st century American workforce. Pritzker co-chaired the committee that developed the report along with fellow business leader John Engler. "The Work Ahead" recommends a nationwide re-evaluation of education, training and how to think about working alongside machines. Pritzker also talks about why President Trump can't run the country like a business and why her hometown of Chicago should be the site of Amazon's second headquarters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Kair Swisher, Editor at Large at Recode.
0:03.6	You may know me as someone who can't be replaced by a machine, but in my spare time I talk
0:07.4	tech and you're listening to Recode Decode from the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:12.0	Today in the Red Chair is Penny Pritzker, the former U.S. Secretary of Commerce in the
0:16.1	Obama administration.
0:17.1	She's also the co-author of the Work ahead, a report about the American workplace in
0:21.6	the 21st century that was sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations.
0:25.6	It calls for fundamental policy changes to better support U.S. workers.
0:29.4	Penny, welcome back to Recode Decode.
0:31.4	Thanks.
0:32.4	Will you, Commerce Secretary, when I had you on the L.S.
0:33.5	Yes, there was.
0:34.5	Yes, there was.
0:35.5	You were in the previous administration.
0:36.5	Glad to be here.
0:37.5	So, let's talk about your background.
0:39.9	Just give you a very quick, so people may not have listened to that.
0:42.7	You were a real estate developer.
0:44.6	Basically, I've been in business for 30 years and over 30 years, actually.
0:49.9	And then President Obama asked me, I'm not a politician, asked me if I would come in.
0:55.0	You were an early supporter?
0:56.0	Yes, I had to come in.
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