Chettie McAfee, 58, of Seattle, was laid off in 2007 from a job she had held for 30 years and has not been employed since. Credit Ruth Fremson/The New York Times By PATRICIA COHEN The latest signs of an improving
By: Rick Newman The economy should muddle forward in 2016, with employers likely to match or exceed the 2.6 million jobs created during the last 12 months. But the mix of jobs will continue to shift, for one big reason
Editorial, Chase Norlin Every major presidential candidate, even those most beholden to Wall Street, says he or she opposes the offshoring of American jobs. Like vows to “defeat ISIS” and “repair our crumbling infrastructure,” the nationalist cri de couer against “shipping
by Aparna Mathur How do we address widening income inequality in America? Income inequality has widened considerably since 1979. Using data provided by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the figure below shows the increase in average (real) incomes for each
By: Judith Aquino Are humans becoming obsolete in the workforce? All signs point to “yes.” As IBM’s Watson proved on Jeopardy, robots are becoming smarter than people. They also make fewer mistakes and they don’t get bored. By 2013 there
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Some Uber drivers have been seeking to be treated like ordinary workers, with a group in San Francisco receiving class-action status for a suit against the ride-sharing company. Here, Uber drivers at a September hearing on the regulation of ride-sharing
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick ChinaFotoPress via Getty By: Noah Kulwin Politicians love praising the economic power of Silicon Valley, even though economists say startups that power the tech industry don’t create all that many jobs. Even as she noted the tenuous economic
The age of austerity has transformed work, but what it means to be a man has not caught up Labourers at lunch on the West Side, New York, 1967. Photo by Danny Lyon/Magnum By: Allison J Pugh When Gary Gilbert
CREDIT: Craig Hammond by: Casey Quinlan Ami Schneider wears her degree from the The Illinois Institute of Art Schaumburg in a frame tied around her neck emblazoned with one word written in red paint — “worthless.” Schneider, 29, is one
