For some Americans, dignity isn’t a right so much as it’s a commodity. Or at least it is according to Arthur Brooks, the president of the American Enterprise Institute, who makes this argument in his article for Foreign Affairs, “The Dignity Deficit: Reclaiming Americans’ Sense of Purpose.” Marketplace host Kai Ryssdal spoke to Brooks about the article, and about where he thinks American culture is heading.
“Returnships” for People Returning to Work
Utah Governor Spencer Cox and Lieutenant Governor Deidre Henderson recently signed an executive order requiring most state agencies to "identify new ways to provide meaningful returnship opportunities to those individuals returning to the labor force" and to "start...
