The immigration decline over the first two years of the coronavirus pandemic led to an annual 1.1% GDP reduction, an economist estimates.
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After studying this #MeToo problem for years, two researchers have drafted a toolkit to help nonprofits address it.
Successful union drives at two of America’s biggest companies were led by committed individuals, rather than established unions.
Nearly all of the 129 aid workers killed on the job in 2021 were from the countries where they lost their lives.
A sports economist explains how the deal leaves players with a fundamentally different – and in many ways, worse – arrangement than their counterparts in the other major US sports leagues.
Before the Civil War, US activists sought to combat slavery through sugar boycotts. Instead, consumption grew.
Union membership has dwindled over the past five decades. But could a flurry of positive headlines over union drives help reverse this trend?
Employment and wages soared in the latest labor report, but that’s small comfort for the many workers with a job that doesn’t pay a living wage.
While women felt more included when they perceived male colleagues as allies, men who saw themselves that way reported more personal growth as a result.
While noncompetes may make sense for well-paid executives who possess trade secrets, they make less sense for low-paid workers – yet many are subject to the agreements.
Workers who filed complaints faced retaliation and rarely got a favorable result from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
An experimental study found that the vast majority of women didn’t support a pay policy that corrected for an advantage they received, slightly more than men in the same position.
The wealthy textile manufacturer harbored ambitions that went far beyond the well-being of his own workforce and depleted his fortune.
Polls have consistently found robust support for this benefit, with a growing share of the public approving of paid time off for dads.
Can companies legally require workers to get vaccinated? Employers have gotten so good at finding ways to get employees to comply with their policies that it may not matter.
Single mothers need more of a break than they get under current laws.
Not all Americans can take paid leave, and some workers can’t take any time off at all if they or their loved ones get sick. Those are big problems during pandemics.
A scholar of the American safety net explains how, through her own brother, she’s getting a personal window into what it means to face COVID-19 as a worker in the gig economy.
Forty percent of US babies are born to unmarried parents. But the new paid leave policy for most federal workers disadvantages single parents.
Research suggests that kids benefit when there are fewer of them in a classroom. But quickly reducing class size can cause new problems as schools scramble to hire new teachers.
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