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Sarah Damaske Lifts the Lid on America's Unemployment System
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Sarah Damaske Lifts the Lid on America's Unemployment System

In this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Sarah Damaske, the author of "The Tolls of Uncertainty: How Privilege and the Guilt Gap Shape Unemployment in America", to discuss the American unemployment system and the ways unemployment shapes families, finances, health, and the job hunt.

Sarah Damaske is a scholar of unemployment, work-family, and gender. She is an associate professor of sociology and labor and employment relations at Pennsylvania State University, where she serves as the Associate Director of the Population Research Institute. Dr. Damaske is the Vice President of the international organization, the Work-Family Researchers Network.

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