2016-04-20 08:23
In December 2013 I published “Six Points Against a Higher Minimum Wage.” It became one of my most-read Work’s New Age blog posts, with more than 2,000 views to date… Read More
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2016-04-15 09:59
Last week I wrote about a new expression – the “gig economy” and proposed it be used not as a synonym for sharing resources other than labor, but for employment of sorts th… Read More
2016-04-08 08:18
A new phrase hit the news earlier this year – the “gig economy.” Like many neologisms, it is sort of catchy, evoking entertainment bookings and, with it, something of… Read More
2016-04-01 13:38
The Bureau of Labor Statistics March employment and unemployment data has arrived. The bad news was that official joblessness ticked up to 5.0%, taking its first worsening since May to… Read More
2016-03-25 09:59
I’m going off jobs this week, though this material is strongly if peripherally related. Here are some thoughts on Nick Bostrom’s Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, St… Read More
2016-03-18 08:23
Last week’s post was about Robert J. Gordon’s large, comprehensive, and stunning Rise and Fall of American Growth, which made the case that our country is economically and techno… Read More
2016-03-11 10:37
More than four-fifths of 2016 still remains, but we already have a strong candidate for the book of the year. Northwestern professor Robert J. Gordon, cited by Bloomberg Markets… Read More
2016-03-04 14:33
According to at least one story issued late last night, our stock market was hoping for a “Goldilocks” jobs report. That means not too bad (giving bad tidings of the econom… Read More
2016-02-26 10:26
Only weeks after the last batch, more stories about the latest in employment interviews crossed my computer. Unlike those from December and earlier in January, not all are favorable fo… Read More
2016-02-19 10:14
In July of 2014 I posted a rough view of how a new Works Public Administration, or WPA, program might be put together. The need for improvements in the areas of roads, bridges, ports… Read More
2016-02-12 09:31
When we consider the jobs crisis, it has implications for sources of tax revenue. If fewer people are earning income, then income tax may not be as good a primary source of government… Read More
2016-02-05 14:30
I didn’t know what to expect with this morning’s jobs numbers – and, looking over the press, most others didn’t either. We’re creeping closer to recession… Read More
2016-02-01 08:39
We have heard quite a bit about that string of grapes across the Atlantic, and most has not been good. The refugee situation has magnified their long-term individually debated and addr… Read More
2016-01-20 08:29
Over the last two months we’ve had a nice little flurry of worthwhile thoughts on employment. Before that, though, let’s have a brief look through that same prism at Presid… Read More
2016-01-15 09:38
Half a dozen New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal articles on robots at work have appeared over the past two-plus months. I’m glad to see this issue getting a… Read More
2016-01-08 14:53
With the Chinese stock implosion and corresponding market nosedive here, we especially needed good Bureau of Labor Statistics employment data. And we got it – on the surface.&nbs&hell…Read More
2015-12-31 10:27
Our annual promises to ourselves have three requirements which are both necessary and sufficient. First, they must be things we can personally control – no fair, for example, res… Read More
2015-12-23 09:56
Historians, if they care, will say that 2015 was a slow year on the employment front. It was more than that, though, and those of us who lived through it know what else was afoot. &hell…Read More
2015-12-18 10:31
Remember the excitement of the New York state casino referendum? We had discussion, editorials, public comments, and people taking sides. The Yes one prevailed, with the shares o… Read More
2015-12-11 09:57
Two weeks ago I wrote about the findings of professor and author Peter Cappelli in his recent book, Will College Pay Off?, on what is happening with American higher education and how it has… Read More
2015-12-04 14:42
When I read this morning’s Bureau of Labor Statistics Economic News Release, I thought the American Job Shortage Number would stay about the same as last month’s 17.485 million… Read More
2015-11-25 11:07
American college attendance has had a good, long run. Per the National Center for Education Statistics, in 1869 and 1870 only 1.3% of those aged 18 to 24 were enrolled in post-high-sch… Read More
2015-11-20 21:06
Two large articles and one small one about a new technology area hit the press last week. The first, in The Economist, “If Autonomous Vehicles Rule the World from Horseless to Dr… Read More
2015-11-13 12:00
Tuesday’s main Republican presidential candidate debate was the most substantive of the four so far. It was run by Fox Business, which apparently was determined to avoid personal… Read More
2015-11-07 12:12
Yesterday morning’s Bureau of Labor Statistics data release was a good one. The headline seasonally adjusted official unemployment rate reached another post-recession low of 5.0%… Read More
2015-11-02 11:24
On Thursday evening, I will be giving a presentation, “How to Find a Lasting Career in the New Age of Work,” at Waubonsee Community College west of Chicago. Unfortunately I… Read More
2015-10-30 10:38
This post concludes a three-part series. On October 16 I wrote about the public health problem of too many Americans being shot to death, identified it as needing a solution catering t… Read More
2015-10-23 22:56
Last week I introduced the public health problem of too many American gunshot victims, and said I would dedicate the next two weeks’ posts to evaluate suggestions for dealing with it m… Read More
2015-10-19 14:50
For the next three weeks, I go off the topic of jobs. As Americans, we have a major issue which badly needs attention from the center. Except for possibly abortion, it is the mos… Read More
2015-10-09 09:44
Finding work is hard, but with 149 million Americans employed it can be done. How can those looking for jobs avoid being overwhelmed and bewildered, and instead focus on what’s i… Read More
2015-10-09 09:42
Beyond the unchanged 5.1% marquee jobless rate, a lot happened in September.On the good side, unadjusted unemployment hit an almost eight-year low at 4.9%. The economy added 142,000 ne… Read More
2015-09-25 09:48
The Fed dodged its own bullet last week.About a year and a half ago, I wrote that Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen, who took the position in February 2014, had the right attitude for this… Read More
2015-09-20 14:29
This morning, we got a particularly important set of Bureau of Labor Statistics employment numbers. Articles had popped up all week about how they would affect the Federal Reserve&rsqu&hell…Read More
2015-09-18 10:19
Poverty: “The state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support; condition of being poor.” – From dictionary.reference.com.But, as we define… Read More
2015-09-11 09:25
American employment, at first glance, has looked good lately. Official joblessness keeps dropping, more net new positions are added almost every month than the population increase can… Read More
2015-08-28 09:06
One year ago this month I published a post on the effects of the Internet on jobs, especially in artistic fields. Using books from 2013 and 2014 I assessed the situation, concluding it… Read More
2015-08-21 09:32
After my complaint last week about the lack of recent attention to employment-related issues, one became the big story last weekend. That, specifically what it is like to be an Amazon… Read More
2015-08-14 10:48
On one day last week we had two fine debates among 2016 Republican presidential hopefuls, with a sad but understandable omission. American employment, just about out of the news otherw… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I have previously identified three things with potential to end the permanent work shortage. They are guaranteed income, shorter work hours, and payment for Internet information. … Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Now let’s take a little break, from real-life Tom Clancy thrillers about disappearing airplanes, and from foreign despots doing remarkably accurate Adolf Hitler imitations (the electio… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
When Janet L. Yellen’s name first reached the general public, it was because she was a novelty. It’s sad that 2014 someone’s sex is more important than his or her qua… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Dull. Nondescript. Undistinctive. Unsurprising. Inconclusive. Those words could be used to describe this morning’s Bureau of Labor Statistics federal empl… Read More
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