Tag: Workers
Fed rate cut is attempt to prevent recession without sending prices soaring
Ryan Herzog, Gonzaga University
The Federal Reserve on Sept. 17, 2025, cut its target interest rate as it shifts...
Fears that falling birth rates in US could lead to population...
Leslie Root, University of Colorado Boulder; Karen Benjamin Guzzo, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Shelley Clark, McGill University
Trump’s DOGE campaign accelerates 50-year trend of government privatization
Nathan Meyers, UMass Amherst
Since returning to office, President Donald Trump has aggressively moved to shrink the federal government....
Philadelphia’s minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 an hour since...
Michael O'Bryan, Drexel University and Alicia Atkinson, Drexel University
In Philadelphia, the poorest big city in the U.S., the...
Workers in their teens and early 20s are more likely to...
Diane Rohlman, University of Iowa
Think about your first job. Maybe it was delivering pizza, bagging groceries, busing tables...
How workplaces can create more inclusive environments for employees with deafness...
David C Baldridge, Oregon State University; Brent John Lyons, York University, Canada; Camellia Bryan, University of Toronto, and Liu-Qin Yang, Portland State...
Workplace discrimination saps everyone’s motivation − even if it works in...
Brent Simpson, University of South Carolina
When people work for discriminatory managers, they put in less effort. That’s true...
Railroads and unions reach deal to avert devastating strike, keeping America’s...
Jason Miller, Michigan State University
Most Americans may not appreciate the central role that private railroads play in supporting...
EXPLORING NATURE
Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...
Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma
