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To maintain productivity and safety, some jobs are installing robot coworkers. Labor unions worry that the robots will continue to occupy jobs after the pandemic ends while others say they will free up workers for other positions.
Postal services should be expanded for the public good, not diminished by special interests
Will fear, exaggerated threats, and pork-barrel politics be enough to keep the Pentagon and its contractors fat and happy, even as the urgent priorities of so many of the rest of us are starved of much-needed funding?
Union leaders hope Biden will be able to enact policies to reinvigorate the labor movement, bringing in more members, money, and political influence while dramatically expanding collective bargaining rights and protections from workplace abuse.
Overall, 661,000 jobs were added in the U.S. labor force between August and September — but women still left it at alarming numbers.
Author David Graeber passed away several days ago. We are reprinting this interview with him about his book, "Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
More jobs are disappearing for good, dashing hopes of a rapid economic rebound.
This is not the time to pull up the (national) hatches and speak simply of the fight against the virus inside our own borders.
A new Urban Institute study measures the spatial mismatch between where job seekers live and employment opportunities.
Partisan gap on dealing with climate change gets even wider
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