Both of these can be true: The labor market is currently healthy, and many workers are feeling stuck. Workers and economists interact with the labor market in quite different ways. This contrast can ...

The recurring theme is that it’s a tale of two cities for job seekers. Those who know how A.I. works, specifically A.I.

Will skilled union workers starve to protect the wage scales which Labor has struggled 50 years to build? That question was put to a test in New York City last week when some 2,000 union bricklayers, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Adia Harvey Wingfield is an author and a professor of sociology. Union membership has been on the decline for some time. The ...

Summer is the busiest time of the year for immigrant day laborers outside Home Depot, picking up jobs as roofers, painters and construction workers. But the usual crowd of both legal and undocumented ...

How many graduates of Buena Vista Elementary and Lowell High School in San Francisco have become labor book authors? Probably not many–other than Eric Blanc, whose mother taught in that city’s public ...

On a national level, the U.S. offers few legal protections for its workers. The federal minimum wage has remained $7.25 per hour since 2009, for example, and, though there is federal protection for ...

How a long-standing federal program allows thousands of workers to earn subminimum wages. By Caitlin Gilbert , Amanda Morris and Jacqueline Alemany August 30, 2024 at ...