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…
Amazon is considering up to 3,000 cashierless AmazonGo stores by 2021
From today’s Los Angeles Times: Amazon.com Inc. is considering a plan to open as many as 3,000 new AmazonGo cashierless stores in the next few years, according to people familiar…
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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…
Why You Should Tell Your Co-Workers How Much Money You Make
From today’s New York Times: So how much do you make? It’s a loaded, deeply personal and often uncomfortable question. Along with our weight and age, our salary is a…
In victory for unions, judge overturns key parts of Trump executive orders
From today’s Washington Post: A federal judge late Friday dealt a victory to federal employees and the unions that represent them, invalidating overnight key provisions of a series of Trump…
The Wrong Way to Do Paid Family Leave
From today’s New York Times: Senator Marco Rubio just made a small bit of history: He became the first of his party to put forward a national paid family leave…
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In America, wage growth is getting wiped out entirely by inflation
From today’s Washington Post: Rising prices have erased U.S. workers’ meager wage gains, the latest sign strong economic growth has not translated into greater prosperity for the middle class and…