Women are losing jobs, leaving the workforce, and reporting high levels of financial insecurity.
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Posted inJuly/August 2023
The Founders Want You to Work From Home
The CEOs who would herd us back to the office are flouting a tradition of economic autonomy and productive leisure that stretches back to the American Revolution.
Posted inPolitical Animal, Politics
Facts That Challenge the Narrative About Angry Working Class Voters
Every presidential election narratives are developed that attempt to highlight significant groups of voters and explain their political choices. For example, do you remember “soccer moms” in 1996? With the candidacies of both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders this year, we are hearing a lot about “angry” and “working class” voters – with those two […]
Posted inEconomy, January/February 2016, Magazine
Benefits for the Rest of Us
The growing ranks of contingent workers need a new deal.
Posted inBooks, Magazine, November/December 2015
Drive By
How companies like Uber work around regulations, avoid paying taxes, and shaft their workers.
Posted inEducation, Higher Education, Magazine, September/October 2015
Stop Chiseling the Adjuncts
Colleges’ mistreatment of part-time professors shortchanges students too.
Posted inEducation, Higher Education, Magazine, September/October 2015
Why We Need a U.S. Department of Talent
If we want a Twenty-First-Century workforce, we need to tear up Washington’s org chart.
Posted inEconomy, Government
Volatile Schedules and No Safety Net
Denial of unemployment benefits is an all-too-common indignity for workers with irregular schedules.
Posted inEconomy
The Great Recession’s Last Casualties
For many Americans who’ve been out of work long-term, there may never be a recovery.
Posted inEconomy, June/July/August 2015, Magazine
The Post-Ownership Society
How the “sharing economy” allows Millennials to cope with downward mobility, and also makes them poorer.
