The saying "Youth is wasted on the young" may ring hollow to young workers who were unable to find work or begin building a career during the Great Recession. When hiring slows during recessions, the brunt of job losses is ...
Economics & Business
May 17, 2016
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Sarah Godoy realized that she wanted to devote her life to fighting human trafficking when, during a trip to India, she overheard a pimp speaking to a 10-year-old girl. The pimp was questioning where another girl, a 5-year-old, ...
Social Sciences
May 2, 2016
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In 2004, research found that resumes submitted by people with distinctly sounding African-American names were less likely to get callbacks regarding the job. Now, new research from the University of Missouri finds no evidence ...
Economics & Business
Apr 26, 2016
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A new study suggests that charter school students are more likely to do well at college and earn significantly more than their counterparts at other schools.
Social Sciences
Apr 25, 2016
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If you put water on the stove and heat it up, it will at first just get hotter and hotter. You may then conclude that heating water results only in hotter water. But at some point everything changes – the water starts to ...
Economics & Business
Apr 6, 2016
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The decline in the fluidity, or dynamism, of the U.S. labor market has been occurring along a number of dimensions—including the rate of job-to-job transition, hires and separations, and geographic movement across labor ...
Economics & Business
Mar 4, 2016
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The racial composition of a labor market plays a significant role in whether workers find out about job leads – regardless of the race of the worker, according to new research from Rice University and North Carolina State ...
Social Sciences
Jan 13, 2016
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The new year could be a safer one for workers. A law passed by Congress last October will increase civil fines for violators of workplace safety standards. And to boost accountability further, the Departments of Justice and ...
Other
Jan 13, 2016
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No one wants to knowingly buy products made with child labor or that harm the environment.
Social Sciences
Jan 4, 2016
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Asian countries are aging faster than has been seen anywhere else in the world, and they need to urgently reform pension systems and encourage more women to enter the labor force, the World Bank said in a report Wednesday.
Social Sciences
Dec 9, 2015
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