Tag: Jobs
Job policies that offer generous unemployment benefits create more happiness –...
Robson Hiroshi Hatsukami Morgan, Minerva Schools at KGI and Kelsey O'Connor, National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies
Losing one’s job undoubtedly makes someone less...
Street vendors make cities livelier, safer and fairer – here’s why...
John Rennie Short, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Cities around the world are emerging from pandemic shutdowns and gradually allowing activities to resume. National leaders...
Why having fewer OSHA inspectors matters
David Weil, Brandeis University
CC BY-NDIn many industries, such as construction, transportation, warehousing and health care, the workplace is dangerous. In 2018 alone, 5,250 workers...
Very good dogs don’t necessarily make very good co-workers
Jessica Myrick, Pennsylvania State University
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us are working from home in close proximity to our human children or...
Why having fewer OSHA inspectors matters
David Weil, Brandeis University
CC BY-NDIn many industries, such as construction, transportation, warehousing and health care, the workplace is dangerous. In 2018 alone, 5,250 workers...
Transgender Americans are more likely to be unemployed and poor
Christopher Carpenter, Vanderbilt University and Gilbert Gonzales, Vanderbilt University
The United States Supreme Court will issue a ruling this year in a landmark case that...
Myths around mental illness cause high rates of unemployment
Bandy X. Lee, Yale University
Even though mental illness affects one in five adults – and depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide –...
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...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
