The last time the labor-participation rate was as low as June 2015 was almost 40 years ago. Who was working and where back then? DAVID A. GRAHAM As long as you don’t look too far into it, Thursday’s June jobs report looks

No-rent home provides teaching opportunity for Superintendent Bob Horan’s students By: Ariana Rawls Fine District Administration, July 2015 Faced with a nearly 40 percent decrease in enrollment and a middle school at 33 percent capacity, Superintendent Bob Horan of Schodack

MADELINE STONE A recent study by real-estate brokerage Redfin showed that more people are looking to move out of the Bay Area than ever before. Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman said that tech workers and their high salaries could be responsible for making Silicon Valley

Tad Milbourn (@tadmilbourn) Contract work is becoming the new normal. Consider Uber: The ride-sharing startup has 160,000 contractors, but just 2,000 employees. That’s an astonishing ratio of 80 to 1. And when it comes to a focus on contract labor, Uber isn’t

By Rebecca Smith Many companies that are part of the on-demand economy have adopted business models that unfairly pass the costs of doing business onto its workers. It’s graduation season. Time for lofty speeches about the bright future, punctuated with thanks

by Sean Gallagher (@HiEdStrat) According to the Labor Department, the U.S. economy is in its strongest stretch in corporate hiring since 1997. Given the rapidly escalating competition for talent, it is important for employers, job seekers, and policy leaders to understand the dynamics