If you work in Silicon Valley, you’ll be unemployed in middle age, predicts Ted Rall. Silicon Valley Ageism: Special Report. aNewDomain — Most people know that Silicon Valley has a diversity problem. Women and ethnic minorities are underrepresented in Big Tech. Racist

Employees work at an assembly line in the Toyota manufacturing plant located in Chachoengsao province, east of Bangkok. Mr. Siu thinks jobs have been taken away by automation, more than by outsourcing. While some manufacturing jobs have clearly gone overseas, “it’s

Tesla is building a massive gigafactory in northern Nevada. Tesla will build the batteries for its electric cars there, and while the factory is still years from being operational, a report in the Reno Gazette-Journal on Sunday discusses the impact the factory is

If you have an aptitude for high-level math, you relish the challenge of constantly changing assignments, you’re a strong communicator and you work well on a team, consider a career as an actuary, a job that involves calculating the probability

Dan Price, C.E.O. of Gravity Payments, surprised his 120-person staff by announcing that he planned over the next three years to raise the salary of every employee to $70,000 a year.  By Matthew Williams The idea began percolating, said Dan

One successful program pays for an intensive training class, subsidizes wages for the jobless, and has an 80 percent placement rate. Can it be scaled? ALANA SEMUELS LAS VEGAS—Long-term unemployment was a phrase you heard a lot about during the

The sputtering U.S. economy created just 126,000 jobs in March as bad weather, weak consumer spending and flailing corporate profits resulted in the worst report since December 2013. Economists expected nonfarm payrolls to rise 245,000 in March, with the unemployment

It has been estimated that by 2045 robots will be able to perform every job that humans can. But does this mean humans should worry about being replaced by machines? Many experts believe the future actually lies in a more

From kindergarten through high school, some of the most effective classrooms operating within the California public school system use light-on-their-feet, intuitive concepts and technological platforms kids are eager to embrace. One of these is Schoology, an award-winning learning management system particularly appealing to

Women who work in the high-tech industry gather for LeadOn, a conference held in February in Santa Clara, California.CREDITPHOTOGRAPH BY MARLA AUFMUTH/GETTY FOR LEADON Amy Wibowo, a graduate of M.I.T. and a software engineer at Airbnb, wears pastel-colored floral dresses,