Jobs

New research finds that people from communities that weren't close to a road were more skeptical about the prospect of a new one.

• By John C. Cannon

Polling is mixed on whether voters place much importance on the economy's performance.

• By Dwyer Gunn

Pacific Standard is looking for an experienced product manager—or an editorial leader with a background in Web development—to oversee the magazine's look and feel online.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Officials from the tribe worry about the economic impacts of closing the Navajo Generating Station, but water conservationists are pushing for the region to move on.

• By Debra Utacia Krol

Retail, construction, and health care post particularly strong employment gains.

• By Dwyer Gunn

News and notes from Pacific Standard staff and contributors.

• By Pacific Standard Staff
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An Indian laborer works in a brick kiln on the outskirts of Amritsar on April 30th, 2018, ahead of International Labor Day.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

A new World Bank report looks at how legislation in 189 countries affects women's access to jobs, property, justice, and credit.

• By Megan Clement

The labor market has changed over the last 40 years. It's time for labor laws and institutions to follow suit.

• By Dwyer Gunn

As states have stopped funding driver's education, participation has declined, with lower-income teens and teens of color missing out.

• By Kathi Valeii

On the myth of meritocracy.

• By Noah Berlatsky

Pacific Standard is looking for a digital writer-editor to build and execute an audience-first short-form editorial strategy.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Forget the tut-tutting of politicians: The skills you learn in the humanities are exactly the skills you use in a job search.

• By Ilana Gershon & Noah Berlatsky

Pacific Standard is looking for an experienced research editor to own the magazine's fact-checking operations and ensure the accuracy and integrity of our content.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

For Labor Day, a selection of our most recent stories on the American worker.

• By Varun Nayar

The jobs gap is finally closed. But there are still some glaring weaknesses in the economy.

• By Dwyer Gunn

This comes after a disappointing first quarter of 2017 that showed only 1.4 percent growth.

• By Jack Denton

Capitalism was supposed to create enough wealth to make jobs obsolete. Unfortunately, we're moving in the opposite direction.

• By Malcolm Harris

According to new research, racially discriminatory businesses were twice as likely to fail compared to those that were not identified as such.

• By Maura Ewing

Working at the cookie factory still stands as the worst job in a long line of worst jobs.

• By Erin Griffith

As the United States Justice Department plans to release about 6,000 non-violent drug offenders from federal prison, we talk with a researcher and former inmate about what should happen next.

• By Francie Diep

The latest entry in a special project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on the most consequential changes in the workplace.

• By Nils J. Nilsson

The latest entry in a special project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on the most consequential changes in the workplace.

• By Ryan Harper

The latest entry in a special project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on the most consequential changes in the workplace.

• By Jerry Kaplan