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Why You’re Not Getting a Raise
By Nikos Bourtzis. Much of the developed world has experienced stubbornly low real wage growth since the financial crisis of 2007. Currently, the British people are seeing their earnings
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Think Uber’s Problems Stop at Its Management and Culture? Think Again.
Keep track of all of Uber’s problems with The Big List of Uber’s Controversies. In February 2017, Susan Fowler published a blog post detailing the sexual harassment and gender discrimination
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What is the Minimum Wage that Will Employ Everyone?
It is official, the unemployment rate in the US has dropped to its lowest level in 16 years. Economists all around the country must be tapping themselves in the back
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Brazil Suffers Under a Leader that Believes in Fairies
Brazil’s current economic policy follows the logic of a fairytale. And unless President Temer wakes up to reality, the Brazilian people will continue to suffer the consequences. In conservative circles,
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The Automation Grift: From Flying Cars to Ordering Cat Food on the Internet – Part 2
It’s conventional wisdom among pundits that automation will cause mass unemployment in the near future, fundamentally changing work and the social relations that underpin it. Part 1 of this series
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The Automation Grift: Robots Are Hiding From The Data But Not From The Pundits –Part 1
It’s conventional wisdom among pundits that automation will cause mass unemployment in the near future, fundamentally changing work and the social relations that underpin it. But the data that should
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Female employment rates are rising across the world, but not in the US. Why?
Japan is not exactly the country that comes to mind as a model of gender equality and high labor force participation for women. In 1995, the OECD estimated women’s employment rate in
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A Green Job Program Will Help Workers, the Economy, and the Planet
There’s been much talk about Trump’s plan for jobs and infrastructure that entails over one trillion dollars in new spending (without tax increases) and promises to employ thousands of American
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The Basic Income and Job Guarantees are Complementary, not Opposing Policies.
It’s disappointing to see debates between proponents of the Basic Income Guarantee (BIG) and the Job Guarantee (JG). These discussions detract from the fact that both of these ideal policies
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Women should be running things. They actually care.
The jobs in our society that focus on caring for others are often held by women. Women hold 70% of teaching jobs, 90% of nurses are female, social workers, childcare,
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