AI Already Impacting Labor Market, Starting With Young Tech Workers
From today’s CNBC News: Changes to the American labor market brought on by the arrival of generative AI are already showing up in employment data, according to a Goldman Sachs…
California Passes Law Allowing Workers On Strike To Qualify For Unemployment
From today’s Sacramento Bee: Striking California workers are one gubernatorial signature away from being able to apply for and receive state-funded aid after a last-minute push by lawmakers. The California…
Ex-Twitter Workers Feared Meager Severance Deals and Elon Musk Set the Bar Even Lower
From today’s Los Angeles Times: After months of waiting, hundreds of Twitter employees laid off by Elon Musk in early November received their separation agreements by email Saturday morning. The…
Confusion and Frustration Reign as Elon Musk Cuts Half of Twitter’s Staff
From today’s New York Times: When the ax came down at Twitter on Friday, it did not fall smoothly. The first sign that some of the company’s 7,500 employees had…
More U.S. Workers Quit in February as Job Openings Remained High
From today’s New York Times: Job openings last month remained near record levels, and the number of workers voluntarily leaving their positions increased, the Labor Department said on Tuesday. The…
Post-COVID, Americans Don’t Want to Return to Lousy Low Wage Jobs
From today’s New York Times: The hopes for a booming pandemic recovery — growth led by jobs gains in the millions every month — were dealt a blow in recent…
The Jobs the Pandemic May Devastate
From todays’ New York Times: Projecting how many people will work in hundreds of detailed occupations in 2029 is a bold exercise — even without the uncertainty of the pandemic.…
CA lawmakers propose slate of reforms for troubled unemployment agency
From today’s Los Angeles Times: After a pair of scathing audits confirmed California’s troubled unemployment agency has been plagued by years of mismanagement, state lawmakers on Thursday announced a raft…
CA’s unemployment fraud may top $9 billion, doubling estimate, expert warns
From today’s Los Angeles Times: As an army of investigators tries to pin down the scope of unemployment benefit fraud in California, the head of a security firm working for…
OnlyFans: Jobless from the Pandemic, Selling Nudes Online and Still Struggling
From today’s New York Tiimes: Savannah Benavidez stopped working at her job as a medical biller in June to take care of her 2-year-old son after his day care shut…