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‘AI is going to create a labor shortage’: Jeff Bezos thinks AI will create more jobs, not less
For months, fearmongers have warned of AI’s “doomsday,” how it could eventually render whole swaths of the labor force unemployed…
There’s angst in the air on college campuses and in offices across the country. Successive warnings on AI’s looming threat…
TV host Mike Rowe slams schools for portraying skilled trades as a ‘consolation prize’—when he’s met data center electricians making up to $280,000 a year
For many decades, students have been steered toward a singular path: go to college, or risk falling behind. It’s a…
Meet a 55-year-old automotive technician in Arkansas who didn’t care if his kids went to college
When something breaks—whether it’s the plumbing or a car—the first call most people make is to a blue-collar worker. That…
Meet the millennial father of six who went from homelessness to building a thriving trades business—and a blueprint for America’s reskilling revolution
Arkeem Sturgis is only 33 years old, but he speaks with the wisdom of someone who has lived many lives.…
High school students are totally behind and addicted to their phones—it’s making teachers crazy and driving them to quit
Gen Z and Gen Alpha’s obsession with social media, like doomscrolling on TikTok, is making the classroom a living nightmare…
FAA says controller shortage and tech issues mean Newark airport flight limits will extend into June
The flight restrictions that have been in place at New Jersey’s largest airport ever since air traffic controllers first lost their…
Rich, western countries face a stark choice: 6-day workweeks or more immigration, top economist warns
A specter is haunting Europe — the specter of aging. Many Western countries are facing what the World Bank calls…
H1-B visas are the lifeblood of U.S. tech innovation–and the shortcut to semiconductor supremacy
In December, Samsung delayed a Texas-based chip manufacturing facility’s start date. In January, the Taiwanese chip manufacturing company TSMC pushed back one of its…
Immigration, productivity, inflation: Why finding the pandemic’s ‘missing women’ could be the solution to almost every challenge facing the U.S. economy today
In the face of sticky inflation and a persistently tight labor market, policymakers and economists have proposed various solutions, from…












