Ray Madoff, Boston College
Ray Madoff, a Boston College law professor, has written a new book: “The Second Estate: How the Tax Code Made an American Aristocracy.” She recently spoke to Kara Miller, host...
Jen Zamzow, University of California, Los Angeles; Concordia University Irvine
As child care costs outpace wages, more families are facing difficult decisions about whether to scale back work in order to care for loved...
Jennifer C. Greenfield, University of Denver; Kaitlyn M. Sims, University of Denver; Institute for Humane Studies, and Stefan Chavez-Norgaard, University of Denver
In Colorado, full-time workers need to earn an hourly wage of at...
Matthew Jordan, Penn State
News of Netflix’s bid to buy Warner Bros. last week sent shock waves through the media ecosystem.
The pending US$83 billion deal is being described as an...
Kelly Droege, University of Wisconsin-Stout and Laura Reisinger, University of Wisconsin-Stout
For decades, a four-year college degree was widely seen as the standard path to getting most midlevel jobs in the United States. It...
Anne Pisor, Penn State
Imagine going from having a book club with your co-workers to seeing them only on a Signal chat where every member has to be vetted – and the main conversation...
Ramesh Agarwal, Washington University in St. Louis
As AI data centers spring up across the country, their energy demand and resulting greenhouse gas emissions are raising concerns. With servers and energy-intensive cooling systems constantly...
Vitaliy Skorodziyevskiy, University of Louisville; Hanqing "Chevy" Fang, Missouri University of Science and Technology, and Jim Chrisman, Mississippi State University
When you hear the phrase “family business,” you might think of the backstabbing Roys...
