How little would you work for? With unemployment here in the U-S hovering at 9.1 percent, and the global economy no better off, the folks at The Daily Beast conducted a social experiment to find out just how little money people would accept in order to do some of the most mundane jobs. How about, for example, listening to an hour of someone read Richard Nixon’s old Checkers speech … and having to count unusual words like ‘quintuplet’ and ‘pathological’? Tom Weber, managing editor and writer at Newsweek and The Daily Beast, joins us now.
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