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Every month, the jobs report is reduced to two numbers: how many jobs the economy added and whether the unemployment…
How Americans define who is working class may have more to do with economic anxiety than income or education levels.…
There’s a version of American manhood that used to run on a simple script: leave home, get a job, build…
Economists have spent the past week arguing about why 720,000 people walked away from the labor force in a single…
AI could shave $2.2 trillion off the U.S. deficit by 2036. But according to a new working paper from economists…
The male labor force participation rate in the U.S. has been falling for generations, perplexing economists who have struggled to…
For months, fearmongers have warned of AI’s “doomsday,” how it could eventually render whole swaths of the labor force unemployed…
Trade jobs are having a moment. Touted as the smarter, safer alternative to “irrelevant” overpriced degrees and entry-level white-collar jobs…
Two of the most influential CEOs in tech spent the last year warning that AI would gut white-collar employment. Now…
The modern workforce has no shortage of white-collar tensions—from return-to-office mandates to AI anxiety and Slack etiquette wars. But another…