Charisse Jones USA TODAY April 29th, 2020 Roughly 3.8 million people filed for unemployment last week alone, the Labor Department said Thursday, fewer than the 4.4 million who filed the week before and down from the all-time high of 6.86 million applications in late March. Jobless claims provide the best… Read More »Jobless claims climb to 30 million in six weeks as COVID-19 layoffs continue to rise
by Fred Foldvary and Nicolaus Tideman Governments owe compensation for the losses that individuals and companies incur from the temporary shutdowns that they, these governments, have imposed in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The compensation they owe must be on-going compensation rather than the one-time… Read More »Compensating for Lost Revenue During COVID 19
Coronavirus is a global economic catastrophe. By Ezra Klein@ezraklein Mar 23, 2020, 9:20am EDT As the COVID-19 pandemic worsens, it’s hard to decide which are scarier: the conversations I’m having with epidemiologists or the conversations I’m having with economists. “This is an economic… Read More »How the Covid-19 recession could become a depression
Wages from $29 working for GM to $9 working at a “Fuyao Glass” Chinese-owned glass factory in Dayton, Ohio Exclusive: The Obamas’ Netflix doc ‘American Factory’ to launch nationwide social-impact tour Participant Media and its partners in this searing documentary about the future of work… Read More »This Oscar Winner might be the best movie ever on globalization and the future of work
By: Josie Faass, Executive Director Here in the northeast, the days are short and cold, and the respite of a good book and a warm cup of tea is hard to resist. But resist we must (unless it’s a book from our bookstore, then by… Read More »Winter is No Time to Hibernate
By Annalisa MerelliJanuary 4, 2020 Picture San Francisco. It has become, in recent years, the epitome of inequality: a city where the tech industry has brought incredible wealth, where the median price for a home is $1.3 million, yet 20% of the households earn just… Read More »US cities are growing more unequal between one another, and that’s bad for the country
Photo: Baldwin, Fla., is surrounded by farm country, and in late October, local green beans, tomatoes, peanuts, cabbage and milk filled the shelves of the Baldwin Market, which is owned by the town. (Antonia Noori Farzan) By Antonia Noori Farzan November 22, 2019 at 5:03 a.m. EST… Read More »When a deep red town’s only grocery closed, city hall opened its own store. Just don’t call it ‘socialism.’
Allana Akhtar Oct 7, 2019 Top Image by sujin soman from Pixabay Automation and AI will disrupt — meaning kill or replace with lower-paying work — 4.5 million jobs held by African Americans by 2030, the consultancy McKinsey estimates. African American workers are at a… Read More »Artificial intelligence is slated to disrupt 4.5 million jobs for African Americans, who have a 10% greater likelihood of automation-based job loss than other workers
Photo by Lerone Pieters on Unsplash In many large American cities that regulate the number of taxi cabs allowed to operate commercially on their streets, taxi cab permits take the form of a medallion bolted to the hood of the taxi. New York City instituted its taxi medallion… Read More »New York City Taxi Medallions
HOW TO USE MARKETS TO ENCOURAGE USE OF EXISTING LOCALES AND INFRASTRUCTURE On October 7th, 2019, Josie Faass (RSF ED), Josh Vincent (Center for the Study of Economics ED), and Marty Rowland participated in an expert panel presentation, moderated by Alan Feinberg, titled, “Negotiating Change:… Read More »LAND AS LEVERAGE
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