Americans hold up 'I want to work' placards as they join a protest of several thousand people demanding jobs outside City Hall in Los Angeles on August 13, 2010.

Protecting Jobs in the Digital Age, the Shocking Legacy of the American Eugenics Movement

The Leonard Lopate Show | Mar 11, 2016

How Americans can protect the jobs threatened by new technology, the digital age and corporate control. Behind the 1924 Supreme Court decision that authorized the forced sterilization of American citizens who were declared “imbeciles.” Israeli mandolinist Avi Avital discusses his music and performs selections from his new album "Between Worlds." Sean Carroll on the rules that regulate life - from the number of animal and plant species in an ecosystem, to the number of molecules in our bodies. 

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