Defending the Rights of Freelancers, Uncovering Abuse Allegations in Chabad Schools

The Leonard Lopate Show | Mar 4, 2016

Looking at trends in the growing contingent workforce, and the issues facing freelance workers. Married couple Ed Harris and Amy Madigan play a struggling husband and wife in Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Buried Child." Susan Jacoby explores the history of forced conversions, and those undertaken for political advantage, economic opportunities and intermarriage. Newsweek's Elijah Wolfson investigates new allegations of physical and sexual abuse within the Chabad school system.

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