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What it means to close the 'dignity gap'

by Kai Ryssdal

Mar 7, 2017

AEI president argues that the poor need an American culture that values them.

"Something like a third of the American population is starting to express pretty grave doubts in their ability to earn their success in the United States," says Arthur Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute. Above, people wait in line at a jobs fair in Sunrise, Florida.

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