As Immigrant Farmworkers Become More Scarce, Robots Replace Humans
From today’s New York Times: As a boy, Abel Montoya remembers his father arriving home from the lettuce fields each evening, the picture of exhaustion, mud caked knee-high on his…
Miscarrying at Work: The Physical Toll of Pregnancy and Gender Discrimination
From today’s New York Times: If you are a Verizon customer on the East Coast, odds are good that your cellphone or tablet arrived by way of a beige, windowless…
Overworking is overrated and unhealthy. Why so hard to respect work-life balance?
From today’s Washington Post: Why does our society perpetuate the idea that people must be constantly working in order to be worthy of respect? I get tired of the way…
With 8 Years of Gains, Unemployment Is Lowest It Has Been Since 1969
From today’s New York Times: The unemployment rate fell to a nearly five-decade low in September, punctuating a remarkable rebound in the ten years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers…
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Amazon announces it’s raising minimum wage for U.S. workers to $15 per hour
From today’s Los Angeles Times: Amazon is boosting its minimum wage for all U.S. workers to $15 per hour starting next month. The company said Tuesday that the wage increase…
One Reason for Slow Wage Growth? More Benefits, Sort of
From today’s New York Times: One of the most perplexing questions about the nation’s economic recovery is why a tight labor market has not translated into faster wage growth. Part…
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The stock market boom has given CEOs a raise. What about average workers?
From today’s PBS News Hour: Over the past few years, many economic indicators have returned to where they were before the Great Recession — among them, the unemployment rate, which…
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Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Poverty. They’re Not.
From today’s New York Times: U.S. unemployment is down and jobs are going unfilled. But for people without much education, the real question is, Do those jobs pay enough to…
He said he refused his company’s Bible study. After being let go, he’s suing.
From today’s Washington Post: A 34-year-old painter is suing Dahled Up Construction, a company based south of Portland, Ore., for allegedly firing him after he refused to join a Christian…
On Labor Day and Your Day Off, Learn About the Work of Others
From today’s New York Times: For roughly five years, The New York Times has profiled people with a variety of jobs in its Vocations column. Some of those jobs are…