Will Robots Take Our Children’s Jobs?
From today’s New York Times: Like a lot of children, my sons, Toby, 7, and Anton, 4, are obsessed with robots. In the children’s books they devour at bedtime, happy,…
How To Make a Flexible Work Culture Work For All Employees in a Firm
From today’s Forbes: Imagine a work culture in which team members can connect, regardless of where, when and how they work. The traditional workspace is rapidly changing, and today’s businesses…
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Is it responsible government spending? GOP tax plan gives billions back to billionaires, adds trillions to the deficit
From today’s New York Times: A Republican requirement that Congress consider the full cost of major legislation threatened to derail the party’s $1.5 trillion tax rewrite last week. So lawmakers…
Risky GOP tax cuts won’t trickle down, may lead to economic disaster in future
From today’s Politico News: Republicans are on the cusp of passing the biggest corporate tax cut in American history, betting it will ignite an economic boom that creates better jobs…
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Proof Retail Jobs Don’t Need to Be Bad
From today’s New York Times by Eduardo Porter Bethamy Magrow is grateful that the minimum wage in New York City is rising to $13 at the end of next month.…
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Bad news for American consumer rights, as CFPB director announces departure
Richard Cordray, the head of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is stepping down at the end of the month. The bureau was created in the wake of the financial crisis and…
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Employees do want their job to matter, but meaning at work can be hard to find
From today’s Chicago Tribune by Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz: Jennifer Ruiz holds her patient’s trembling hand as she presses a stethoscope to the frail woman’s chest and belly. She compliments the woman…
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House GOP passes bill that rolls back “joint employer” protections for workers
From yesterday’s New York Times by Christine Owens: House Republicans on Tuesday took another step in their campaign to cheat workers out of fair pay and workplace rights. On a…
WeWork and the Death of Leisure
From today’s New York Times “Opinion” by Ginia Bellafante This past week, Hudson’s Bay, whose story begins 347 years ago in the fur trade, making it the oldest company in…
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Pence casts deciding vote in Senate to deny consumers rights to sue banks
From today’s Washington Post by Ken Sweet: Call it a win for “the swamp.” President Trump and Republicans in Congress handed Wall Street banks a big victory by effectively killing…