Tag: Employment
The future of work will still include plenty of jobs
Wayne Simpson, University of Manitoba
There is now widespread anxiety over the future of work, often accompanied by calls for a basic income to protect...
How Democrats can win back workers in 2020
Thomas Kochan, MIT Sloan School of Management
Labor unions and the workers they represent were once the heart and soul of the Democratic Party.
The 2016...
Opioid epidemic may have cost states at least $130 billion in...
Joel Segel, Pennsylvania State University; Douglas L. Leslie, Pennsylvania State University; Gary Zajac, Pennsylvania State University; Max Crowley, Pennsylvania State University, and Paul L....
What Amazon’s decision to retrain a third of its employees means...
Scott F. Latham, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Amazon’s announcement that it will invest US$700 million to retrain 100,000 employees – a third of its U.S....
May jobs report suggests a slowing economy – and possibly an...
Richard Grossman, Wesleyan University
The latest jobs data suggests an interest rate cut may be imminent.
The Labor Department reported on June 7 that U.S. nonfarm...
At work, women and people of color still have not broken...
Tesa Rigel Hines, Purdue University Northwest
Did you notice the race of your barista this morning? What about the sex of your mechanic?
I have observed...
How your employer uses perks like wellness programs, phones and free...
Elizabeth C. Tippett, University of Oregon
Companies offer all sorts of benefits and extras to attract the most favored workers, from health care and stock...
How a government shutdown affects the economy
Scott R. Baker, Northwestern University
Parts of the federal government have been closed since midnight on Dec. 22, making it the second-longest shutdown on record....
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
