2020-05-01 07:24
More views of where we are now, and where we will be when this thing eases, are coming forward. First, “America’s real coronavirus job losses could be worse than we thought… Read More
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2020-04-24 07:17
Now that we have settled into the pandemic, we are getting more material on its greater implications.Since last week, two such articles came out. The first was “How the Coronavir… Read More
2020-04-17 07:15
This week we’ve had a flurry of views on the steps we as a nation – and as states and groupings of states – should take after the pandemic, which, with a noteworthy lack of… Read More
2020-04-10 07:13
Over the past week-plus we have seen innumerable articles on our public health crisis. Most is perishable, if not outright obsolete by the time it hits electronic print. Yet on t… Read More
2020-04-03 13:50
This morning’s jobs statistics are almost worthless.The reason is that it came from surveys around the middle of March, when the crisis was only starting to show in employment, and the… Read More
2020-03-27 07:26
Over the past week, there have been a wide range of forecasts, possibilities, expectations, timelines, and statements about when we can expect American life to return to normal. Some are rea… Read More
2020-03-20 07:29
I almost titled this post “Only One Possible Topic This Week.” It’s been sudden. I read three small local newspapers here in the Catskills and Poconos, and betw… Read More
2020-03-13 07:37
It’s been months now, years really, since driverless cars got a lot of press. There were, though, a string of small articles in the past two months. In “When will the… Read More
2020-03-06 14:33
The employment situation has faltered over the past two weeks – all we don’t know is how much. For now, though, we have our report on how things were about three weeks ago… Read More
2020-02-28 08:40
We now know that tracking and identifying people, both by determining their positions through their cellphones and recognizing their faces, is not only consistently possible but is almost as… Read More
2020-02-21 08:12
We saw last week new and often hyper-accurate ways that people can be tracked. What is happening with companies providing this technology, the laws, and our government’s involvem… Read More
2020-02-14 08:30
Do you know you are being tracked?If you carry a smartphone, you are probably at least vaguely aware of that. But do you understand the extent? How about the number of times each… Read More
2020-02-07 14:14
I read a projection of 164,000 net new nonfarm positions for this morning’s Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Situation Summary, and thought that might be high. It wasn&rsquo&hell…Read More
2020-01-31 08:15
A true epidemic involving drugs is in progress in the US. Products containing opium, including heroin, methadone, painkillers, and the extremely powerful Fentanyl, were responsible for… Read More
2020-01-24 08:08
It’s been a while since I’ve seen “Big Brother” invoked in a headline or even an article. Maybe George Orwell’s 1984, which was itself shorthand for the s… Read More
2020-01-10 14:25
This morning’s Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Situation Summary, with two published projections of 160,000 additional jobs and one with the 3.5% unemployment rate going unchange… Read More
2020-01-03 08:06
A fine choice of publications for a quick glance at anything is The Week. It is a newsmagazine with an especially compact format, excerpts from other periodicals, and pithy original ar… Read More
2019-12-27 08:15
As I have written many times, my employment bias is in favor of the maximum number of work opportunities. People’s wants and needs vary so much that it is inappropriate… Read More
2019-12-20 08:30
When I got a message containing an annual summary of what happened this year in artificial intelligence from an organization I thought to be only an academic think tank, I was expecting to r… Read More
2019-12-13 08:34
I’m surprised to see how long it has been since I wrote on universal basic income (UBI). I made the main points about it long ago: it would be expensive but much of its cos… Read More
2019-12-06 14:30
I wasn’t sure about this morning’s Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Situation Summary. This edition, from November, could have been much the same as October’s, a… Read More
2019-11-29 14:21
An article in the December Atlantic considered whether “a tectonic demographic shift” will manage to ruin the United States. Yoni Appelbaum’s “How America Ends… Read More
2019-11-22 08:28
Eight days ago I sought out and visited Chandler, Arizona. With 65 square miles and over a quarter million people, that Phoenix satellite is one of the newer huge suburbs, such as Hend… Read More
2019-11-08 08:31
Three months ago I posted on why self-driving car progress was stalling out, and how we could get it moving again. Since then, the situation has changed – it’s become worse… Read More
2019-11-01 13:22
This morning’s Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Situation Summary was supposed to be a stinker, or at least only somewhat unfavorable. Did that happen?I saw four forecasts o… Read More
2019-10-25 07:19
I got into business writing from sociology, in which I got my bachelor’s degree and spent an ill-fated graduate year. Since then, as I showed in my books and elsewhere, I have tr… Read More
2019-10-18 07:21
I had just finished looking over a piece from Slate, September 19th’s “You Don’t Want Facebook Involved With Your Health Care” by Kirsten Ostherr, when I discovered a… Read More
2019-10-11 07:29
Since the last week of August, we’ve had all three of the above. What am I talking about?In TechCrunch on August 28th, we learned from Megan Rose Dickey that “Uber proposes… Read More
2019-10-04 13:31
At first glance, this morning’s Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Situation Summary looked as expected. The number of net new nonfarm positions couldn’t have been much… Read More
2019-09-27 07:24
It’s not a common subject on this blog, but for a couple of decades I have been visiting places around the globe. I have now set foot in 58 countries, in all of the continental g… Read More
2019-09-20 21:38
It’s not looking good for America’s premier gypsy cab companies.In the December 5thFoxNews.com, we saw “Uber, Lyft drivers get $17.22 hourly wage guarantee in New York afte… Read More
2019-09-06 13:25
This morning’s Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Situation Summary was another mixed bag. The headline number of net new nonfarm positions didn’t make its published 158… Read More
2019-08-30 07:32
There may be no area of employment more modern, substantial, and promising than catering to people traveling for pleasure. For all the beefing about air travel conditions, fares are lo… Read More
2019-08-23 09:22
Yes, the United States has a culture. For those of us living here it may seem transparent, but there are ways in which we part company with even our most comparable countries. On… Read More
2019-08-16 07:22
The August Northeast Pennsylvania Business Journalhad a 16-page section headlined its “2019 Adult Education Guide.” It presented articles provided by a variety of learning… Read More
2019-08-09 07:45
Per recent posts, the past year has been rather disheartening for those of us who think we need progress on self-driving cars. What has been the problem, and how can they get moving ag… Read More
2019-08-02 13:23
According to two published new-positions projections, this morning’s Bureau of Labor Statistics data wasn’t supposed to do anything spectacular either way. It didn’t… Read More
2019-07-26 07:37
Straight, no chaser:The May 18thNew York Times included KJ Dell’Antonia’s “How High School Ruined Leisure.” The author is a novelist, but this story was hardly… Read More
2019-07-19 07:22
This past week I was thoughtfully informed of a report that came out earlier this month. McKinsey Global Institute, and especially authors Susan Lund, James Manyika, Liz Hilton Segel… Read More
2019-07-12 07:40
One topic I have written on several times is different average earnings between men and women. My first such post was from March 2015, in which I explained that while most women had th… Read More
2019-07-05 13:22
As May’s job growth lagged, this morning’s Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Situation Summary was especially important. A subpar gain in the number of Americans workin… Read More
2019-06-28 07:43
Autonomous vehicle technology implementation and commentary since our July 11, 2018 issue has been discouraging. What effect has that had on its projected proliferation dates, and on f… Read More
2019-06-21 07:30
Driverless cars are not the only area where less of substance is being communicated than a year or two ago. This combined field, which is now hard to split into its two parts and withi… Read More
2019-06-14 07:39
Three weeks ago, this venerable publication had quite a cover. It had a headline “the great jobs boom,” and a cartoon showing dozens of people at work, from a travel hawker… Read More
2019-06-07 13:21
Expectations for this morning’s Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Situation Summary, if the identical-to-April Fox News projection of 185,000 net new nonfarm positions is a good in… Read More
2019-05-31 08:06
Six weeks, five New York Times pieces on employment. What did they say?The headline of the April 21st “Why ‘Find Your Passion’ Is Such Terrible Advice” didn&rsq&hell…Read More
2019-05-24 07:22
Two weeks ago The New York Times printed a guest op-ed piece from pertinent company co-founder Chris Hughes, opining that “It’s Time to Break Up Facebook.” It was lon… Read More
2019-05-17 09:18
Since March, despite the general slowdown in driverless car progress and stories about it, some noteworthy articles have been published. Several reveal another reason why we are now of… Read More
2019-05-03 13:47
In advance of this morning’s Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Situation Summary, Fox News predicted 185,000 more jobs. Once again, we blew the projection away.We added 263,0… Read More
2019-04-26 07:10
Since early December, something has been missing. The weekly and sometimes even daily updates on technical, legal, and organizational driverless car progress have disappeared. Th… Read More
2019-04-19 07:21
It was quite a news item last month that some of our country’s most selective universities had been taking bribes to admit students with more family money than credentials. Sever… Read More
2019-04-12 07:43
Our country is in pain. There are plenty of perspectives from which we can say that, with the most obvious our political polarization, widespread opioid abuse, and the seeming reductio… Read More
2019-04-05 13:22
Most of us eagerly anticipated February’s data, as it showed the state of the economy better than January’s shutdown-marred edition, so what about March’s? Heading th… Read More
2019-03-29 07:47
What is the purpose of vocational education? How can we achieve it? Kevin Carey, in the March 1stNew York Times “A Well-Meaning Job Training Bill That May Hurt… Read More
2019-03-22 07:15
Over the past few months the subject of human-replacing technology articles has shifted. From constant progress reports, autonomous vehicle news is down to a trickle, but artificial in… Read More
2019-03-15 09:09
A fascinating New York Times article came out February 7th. Written by clinical psychologist Lisa Damour, “Why Girls Beat Boys at School and Lose to Them at the Office” con… Read More
2019-03-08 14:27
This morning’s Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Situation Summary was special. Not that there was anything noteworthy about the numbers – they were duller than usual … Read More
2019-03-01 08:28
This past week offered me, on the surface, several opportunities to write a post from one published piece. It didn’t work out that way. Why not?Most with potential were in… Read More
2019-02-22 08:23
“Amazon on Thursday canceled its plans to build an expansive corporate campus in New York City after facing an unexpectedly fierce backlash from lawmakers, progressive activists and un… Read More
2019-02-15 09:30
Another good drawing festooned a provocative article late last month. This, on the cover of the January 26th-February 1stEconomist, was of a snail with its shell replaced by a view of… Read More
2019-02-08 08:43
The top two-thirds of the front page of the January 27thNew York Times business section showed a bold picture. Drawn in red, yellow, and black Soviet-mural style, it had three present… Read More
2019-02-01 14:30
Before we consider the data, we need to look at the caveats the Bureau of Labor Statistics put on this morning’s Employment Situation Summary. They were “workers who indica… Read More
2019-01-25 08:40
A piece came out in the December 4thNew York Times with a title intriguing to me. Unfortunately, Katie Robertson’s “Why the World Needs to Rethink Retirement,” after… Read More
2019-01-10 08:05
In the Big Cat Republic, deep in the wild jungle, two different types of animals live together. The lions and leopards generally get along well, often sharing dens and living happily e… Read More
December Jobs Data: Another Strange But Good Month – Per AJSN, We’re Now 15.8 Million Jobs Short
2019-01-04 14:41
The headline number in this morning’s Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Situation Summary was indeed an eye-grabber. With economic and governmental turmoil and a sharply drop… Read More
2018-12-28 08:11
In 1976, the Hudson Institute, now a multicity conservative think tank, released The Next 200 Years, a look at major trends in population, work activities, and general prosperity around the… Read More
2018-12-21 07:57
Yes, in amount of recent press, AI has gone past guaranteed income, driverless cars, minimum wages, and even robotics. It’s sort of an oxymoron, as it still seems to use only alg… Read More
2018-12-14 08:09
I last published on this topic June 28th, wrapping up the previous 12 months, and July 11th, with projections on the shares of vehicles reaching certain technological points in the USA and e… Read More
2018-12-07 14:25
My first thought as I went through this morning’s Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Situation Summary was that November was a flatline month. Nonfarm payroll employment gaine… Read More
2018-11-30 08:11
Four months ago I started a three-part series on a longstanding social problem only then starting to graze national media’s consciousness. Titled “For Free Thinkers Only:&n&hell…Read More
2018-11-21 08:15
Two yahoo.comstories appeared this year about a potentially revolutionary travel method that could shake up American employment. Their titles were sort of out of order, with “Hyp… Read More
2018-11-16 08:36
Over the past few years, the federal $7.25 lowest hourly pay level has stayed the same, but many cities and states have installed higher ones.A good look at what happened this year was Paul… Read More
2018-11-09 09:20
Four years ago September I posted about the subject of a recent article, a vast social program designed to kill off unemployment forever. That was not a guaranteed basic income, on whi… Read More
2018-11-02 13:19
Once again, this morning’s Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Situation Summary not only exceeded expectations but showed our labor market is still improving. Net nonfarm payr… Read More
2018-10-26 07:41
A fourth article is yet another behind the curve, but in some respects a useful review. Ben Casselman’s June 25thNew York Times “Robots or Job Training: Manufacturers… Read More
2018-10-19 07:11
Five pieces published a few months ago helped us. Not by giving views we could all agree with, but by adding to our necessary national dialogue and refreshing us on what’s been h… Read More
2018-10-05 13:40
This morning’s was another one-of-a-kind Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Situation Summary.I didn’t see a projected number for net new nonfarm payroll positions, and it did… Read More
2018-09-28 08:40
While we all know that private companies create the vast bulk of jobs, public policy can influence how many there are. Over the past year, people have proposed four changes which may… Read More
2018-09-21 07:03
On December 13, 2013 I published a post with the first half of the title above. It has been read over 2,000 times and has drawn various comments. Much has changed in the economy… Read More
2018-09-14 07:37
What has been the underside of the decades-low official jobless rate and the recent 49-year low in unemployment claims? A septet of widely varying pieces over the past 21 months tells… Read More
2018-09-07 13:34
In this morning’s Bureau of Labor Statistics monthly Employment Situation Summary, one thing surprised me. I had just commented that the projected number of net new nonfarm posit… Read More
2018-08-31 08:20
Last week I posted on reports that Sullivan County, New York’s Resorts World Catskills (RWC), though an unqualified success at bringing jobs to its area, was falling way short of finan… Read More
2018-08-24 07:20
Five years ago this fall, New York State had a referendum on the legalization of several new casinos. I supported it, as did many, and the measure passed. One result was Empire R… Read More
2018-08-17 07:13
Spearheaded but hardly originated by New York Times columnist Ross Douthat’s May 2nd issue, we have had more intelligent, if highly controversial, discussion on a real deficiency of th… Read More
2018-08-10 08:28
Two weeks ago, I started a series based on Ross Douthat’s May 2ndNew York Times“Redistribution of Sex.” It considered whether the peak romantic activity should be mor… Read More
2018-08-03 13:09
Not much happened with this morning’s Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Situation Summary, and not much was supposed to.We gained 157,000 net new nonfarm payroll positions, less th… Read More
2018-07-27 07:33
Almost three months ago, New York Times columnist Ross Douthat came out with “The Redistribution of Sex,” in which he, oddly one of the few social conservatives writing for a gen… Read More
2018-07-11 07:42
Many factors in the self-driving industry have happened as I anticipated. Consortia have formed, solidified, and dissolved. Lawsuits have popped up. A great bull market for… Read More
2018-07-06 13:25
This was quite a Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report this morning. It wasn’t clearly bad, but in some ways the brakes of ever-better reports slammed on. With 213,00… Read More
2018-06-29 06:34
In less than two weeks I will post my current projected numbers of taxi and truck driving jobs, with expected driverless car saturation dates. To clear the way, here is what has happen… Read More
2018-06-22 06:43
Why, despite money supply numbers going well up year after year, is there so little inflation? Because money, instead of circulating, is pooling up in the largest corporations and many… Read More
2018-06-15 06:51
This week’s jobs-related news featured some surprising and controversial Bureau of Labor Statistics research on non-payroll employment. First though, a few items on how this sect… Read More
2018-06-08 07:09
As described in my May 25th post, the development and implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) is growing, expected to be massive, and is bringing numerous old and new issues to the fo… Read More
2018-06-01 13:34
The strength of several, maybe most, of the past year’s Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Situation Summaries has been debatable. This morning’s, though, was not.It sta… Read More
2018-05-25 06:36
In some ways, this is an old topic. At least as far back as the 1960s, many people have been concerned that computers, robots, and other technology manifestations have potential to do… Read More
2018-05-11 07:22
Here are two strongly jobs-related topics on which I have written over 10,000 words. We know by now that robots and other mechanical systems are continuing, irregularly, to replace hum… Read More
2018-05-04 13:33
Once again, the American employment situation improved, though not in the ways we expected.Again we didn’t make the projected increase in net new nonfarm payroll positions. It wa… Read More
2018-04-27 07:31
Autonomous vehicle progress, which was cruising along at highway speeds, hit a bump on March 18th, when a self-driving Uber hit and killed a Tempe, Arizona pedestrian. Although media a… Read More
2018-04-20 07:18
It’s now been a hair under four months since I concluded months of reporting on autonomous vehicles with ten central ideas. Those points are still valid, but since then there has… Read More
2018-04-13 07:28
Here is my file of odds and ends, for your consideration, agreement, disagreement, or just plain thought provocation.One problem with reading too much into the extremely broad statistic that… Read More
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