Tag: Jobs
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....
Why states and cities should stop handing out billions in economic...
Nathan Jensen, University of Texas at Austin
U.S. states and cities hand out tens of billions in taxpayer dollars every year to companies as economic...
Zero-hour contracts take a huge mental and physical toll – poor...
Ernestine Gheyoh Ndzi, University of Hertfordshire and Janet Barlow, University of Hertfordshire
The number of workers on zero-hours contracts continues to rise in the UK....
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...
Most of America’s rural areas are doomed to decline
David Swenson, Iowa State University
Since the Great Recession, most of the nation’s rural counties have struggled to recover lost jobs and retain their people....
3 ways $2 trillion for infrastructure can fight inequality too
Steven Pressman, Colorado State University
Imagine you have US$2 trillion to spend on patching up America’s crumbling roads, levees and other infrastructure. What would you...
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...
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...
