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Rejecting Immigrants and Refugees Could Create a Labor Shortage
Case Farms' history shows how many sectors, like meatpacking, depend on immigrants and refugees. Now business leaders fear Trump's policies will create a labor shortage.
A Jobless Future Everyone Can Love
Capitalism was supposed to create enough wealth to make jobs obsolete. Unfortunately, we're moving in the opposite direction.
The Intersection of Policy and Practice in the Office
It’s up to all of us to close the gap between workplace code and culture. By Tami M.…
Whose Responsibility Are the Working Poor?
A new report highlights the relationship between the wages of low-income workers and government spending on public benefits for the working poor.
The Future of Work: Rebooting Work—Programming the Economy for People
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.
The Destruction of Workers’ Compensation
Over the past 25 years, the giant meatpacking company Tyson Foods has taken a lead in pushing for changes in workers’ comp in state after state—often to the detriment of workers.
The Future of Work: This Is Your Job in 20 Years
World-famous scientists, CEOs, academics, and journalists on what to fear—and what to celebrate—in the new labor economy.
The Future of Work: The Digital Hustle
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.
The Future of Work: Which Seeds We Plant
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.