Economy
Why Stanford’s New Labor Lab Is Betting Big on Predicting the Next Job Crisis
The figures were discreetly delivered, tucked away in a Goldman Sachs report that most people ignored after skimming it. AI is cited as the main cause of the…
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Economy
What New Zealand’s Unemployment Surge Reveals About a Once-Booming Economy
In the March quarter, the unemployment rate in New Zealand decreased slightly to 5.3%. At first glance, that seems like good news. However, if you take a few…
Workforce
Why Sweden’s Workforce Database Is the Envy of Statisticians Worldwide
Statisticians avoid discussing a certain type of envy at conferences, at least not publicly. It appears in quiet moments, such as when a researcher in Seoul or Berlin…
Employment law and rights
The New Rule That Could Finally End Subminimum Wage for Disabled Workers
Somewhere in America, a worker with Down syndrome is stocking shelves at a grocery store, performing the same task as the person next to him. He may be…
News
Inside the Job Market Crisis Facing America’s Newest Lawyers
After the hundredth unanswered application, a certain kind of fatigue sets in. Not exactly rage. Something more subdued. a gradual loss of the self-assurance that got you through…
Workforce
Inside the New Reality for Workers Over 50 Trying to Re-Enter the Job Market
Sending out dozens of applications and receiving virtually no response can lead to a certain kind of frustration. That silence can be more powerful than any rejection letter…
Workforce
Inside the Quiet Boom in Skilled Trades as Office Jobs Disappear
One thing becomes clear when you stroll through a bustling data center outside of Chicago, past the server racks, cooling units, and tangled cables that run from floor…
Economy
Inside the Economic Fallout as China’s Property Crisis Drags Into Its Sixth Year
The evidence is easy to see if you stroll through a mid-tier Chinese city, not Beijing or Shanghai, but somewhere with a few million inhabitants and a skyline…
Economy
The Hidden Economic Impact of AI’s Massive Appetite for Electricity
Outside a big data center, there's a strange silence. No conveyor belts, no visible output, and no smokestacks. Only the faint vibration of something massive occurring inside and…
Workforce
Texas Workforce Commission Denison Texas: What Most Job Seekers in Grayson County Still Don’t Know
Most people only enter a particular type of office when they feel like they have no other option. One of those locations is the workforce center in Denison,…
