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    <title>tante (@tante@tldr.nettime.org)</title>
    <dc:date>2024-07-21T00:58:16+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Unskilled labor" does not exist. That term is only used to push down wages.

https://mastodon.social/@Rhodium103/112794964008741795]]></description>
<dc:subject>labor employment economics</dc:subject>
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    <title>West Virginia poverty gets worse under Trump economy, not better</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-06T20:12:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/west-virginia-poverty-gets-worse-under-trump-economy-not-better/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[West Virginia has a growing poverty problem, and experts there who study the issue say Americans in every state should pay attention.

The Appalachian state is, along with Delaware, just one of two states where poverty rose last year, bucking the national trend of growing incomes and declining hardship, according to U.S. Census data released earlier this month. West Virginia's poverty rate climbed to 19.1 percent last year from 17.9 percent, making it just one of four states with a poverty rate above 18 percent.

President Donald Trump plans to visit West Virginia on Saturday, when he's expected to tout his economic accomplishments. The president has said he's "very proud" of the state and claimed that he "turned West Virginia around." His administration has focused on reviving jobs in the coal industry, which has added about 2,000 jobs across the U.S. since Mr. Trump's inauguration.

Mr. Trump has boasted about the state's GDP growth, but its economy grew by 1.3 percent in the first quarter, or 37th in the nation and lagging the national rate of 1.8 percent, according to government data. It had fared better in 2017: up 2.6 percent for the year, tenth among the 50 states, compared with 2.1 percent for the nation.

Coal "is a potent message," but it overlooks the reality of West Virginia's economy, said Sean O'Leary, senior policy analyst of the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy, a nonpartisan think tank. "The growth we've had is in low-wage industries. Folks who find jobs haven't found jobs that keep them out of poverty."]]></description>
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    <title>Arizona Will Be First State to Recognize Out-of-State Occupational Licenses - Hit &amp; Run : Reason.com</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-06T20:08:16+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Arizona is one signature away from becoming the first state in the country to recognize out-of-state occupational licenses. That means licensed workers will be able to move to Arizona and immediately find work without going through the expensive, time-consuming, and redundant process of getting re-licensed.

That's a big deal.

The state House and state Senate voted this week to pass a bill recognizing out-of-state licenses. Gov. Doug Ducey, a Republican, has championed the legislation throughout the process and is expected to sign it sometime next week.

"We've heard too many stories of licensed, experienced professionals denied the opportunity to work upon moving to Arizona," Ducey tells Reason. "With this first-in-the-nation reform, Arizonans who have recently moved here will be able to put their skills to work faster and without all the red tape."

The bill's passage is the culmination of a fight between reformers and Arizona's licensing boards. Ducey used his State of the State Address in 2017 to call licensing boards "a group of special interest bullies." He's saved his sharpest barbs for the Arizona State Board of Cosmetology, which has investigated students for giving free haircuts to the homeless and defended a rule requiring 1,000 hours of training before letting someone blow-dry hair for money. The board, Ducey said in 2017, "is going after people who simply want to make a living blow-drying hair. No scissors involved."]]></description>
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    <title>An Open Letter to Uber: We Need to Do Right By Our Drivers</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-28T23:57:45+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As an employee at the world’s leading ride-share company, I see firsthand not only the often meager earnings of our drivers, but also the exploitative labor practices imposed on a systemically disempowered workforce. I, therefore, stand with the striking drivers in calling for the implementation of RDU’s Drivers’ Bill of Rights. While ride-share executives continue to receive vast remuneration packages, and internal employees look forward to an IPO windfall at both Uber and Lyft, my sympathetic colleagues and I will not remain silent as drivers are squeezed in order to shore up initial offerings to investors.

Our drivers are the backbone of the platform. Without them — as these courageous strikes have demonstrated — our business would come to a standstill. For this reason, we will not stand by as those that work at the heart of our business are attacked and exploited. We demand that all of our drivers are fairly remunerated, that they gain greater transparency about how their earnings are calculated, that they are guaranteed greater protections, and that their collective voice is heard in the boardroom.

As tech workers, we share more in common with the drivers that support the platform than the company executives that spend millions ensuring that ride-share companies, and others in the so-called gig economy, can continue to bend the law and exploit workers. We, therefore, reject the two-tiered division of labor that denies drivers the basic workers’ rights afforded to internal employees and call for the full implementation of the Dynamex decision in California.

We call on all tech workers to support the actions of ride-share drivers in their mission for fair pay, dignity, and respect and we demand the immediate reversal of the pay cut imposed on drivers in Los Angeles and Orange Counties.]]></description>
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    <title>Extreme loneliness or the perfect balance? How to work from home and stay healthy</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-28T22:07:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/mar/25/extreme-loneliness-or-the-perfect-balance-how-to-work-from-home-and-stay-healthy</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[But after two years of working from home, Blanda, an editorial director for a tech company based in Philadelphia, knows only too well the many pitfalls of this way of life, with the greatest being isolation.

“You’ll need a lot of quiet self-confidence,” he recently wrote on Twitter. “You won’t get the positive reinforcement you’d normally rely on from body language and the ‘vibe’ from being in an office.”

Beyond the lack of interaction with colleagues – there are no ideas by osmosis, no overhearing others talking – there is also the lack of interaction with the wider world. “The main way most of us are connected to our local, geographical communities is through work,” Blanda says. “When you remove that – when you’re not commuting, you don’t bump shoulders, you don’t meet the guy who happens to have a cousin on your block and now you’re friends – you have to work harder to feel connected.”]]></description>
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    <title>Lawmaker proposes unemployment insurance payments for self-serve kiosks</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-26T21:37:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/lawmaker-proposes-unemployment-insurance-payments-for-self-serve-kiosks</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Nevada businesses such as grocery stores or movie theaters could be required to pay unemployment insurance for each self-service terminal or kiosk used by customers under a bill proposed by Democratic Assemblywoman Susie Martinez.

Introduced Friday, AB394 is short and straightforward, requiring all Nevada businesses with self-service terminals, kiosks or similar devices owned by an employer to pay into the state’s Unemployment Compensation Fund for each such device owned — and in an amount equal to the average contribution paid by the business for its other employees. Funds paid would go to an administrative budget account that administers the unemployment compensation program.

Martinez, a legislative freshman who works at the Flamingo and is a shop steward for Teamsters Local 986, said in an interview that she brought the bill forward based on her own experiences seeing the hotel industry replace front-desk workers with kiosks.

“I’ve seen it happening; it’s happening right now,” she said. “We had so many employees, and every time that machine keeps taking work from us. It’s like our jobs are being taken away by machines.”

The measure could spark a wider discussion as to how increased automation could affect Nevada’s workforce, which is overwhelmingly dominated by service-industry jobs and could see major disruptions from advancements in technology. McDonald’s, for example, announced last year it would spend up to $53 million to upgrade its restaurants with enhancements, including self-service kiosks.

Bryan Wachter, a lobbyist for the Retail Association of Nevada, said in an interview that he had serious concerns with the policy and implementation of the bill — which he called “almost a minimum wage on robots” — and said it would have a lopsided effect on businesses with large amounts of turnover because of how the state’s unemployment compensation formula works.]]></description>
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    <title>California accounted for nearly three-quarters of US jobs added in February</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-23T15:34:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/22/california-accounted-for-nearly-three-quarters-of-us-jobs-added-in-february.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[California accounted for nearly three out of every four nonfarm jobs created in the U.S. during February, according to data released Friday.

Employers in the state added 14,600 nonfarm payroll jobs last month, the California Employment Development Department reported Friday. Earlier this month, the U.S. government reported nonfarm payrolls in the U.S. rose by just 20,000 jobs in February, or the weakest national showing since September 2017.

"Whatever caused the nation as a whole to have a subpar job gain didn't have as much influence in California in February," said Aubrey Henry, a spokesman for the state's EDD agency.

Even so, Henry said California's February job gain was below trend for the state in terms of its average for the entire nine-year expansion. California — the fifth-largest economy in the world — has added more than 3.13 million jobs since the economic expansion began in February 2010.

The state official added that comparing California's share of the nation's job gains each month with its size in the national economy also shows many months when the state outperforms the nation and many when it lags.]]></description>
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    <title>Facebook won’t let employers, landlords or lenders discriminate in ads anymore — ProPublica</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-20T15:42:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-ads-discrimination-settlement-housing-employment-credit</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Facebook advertisers can no longer target users by age, gender and ZIP code for housing, employment and credit offers, the company announced Tuesday as part of a major settlement with civil rights organizations.

The wide-ranging agreement follows reporting by ProPublica since 2016 that found Facebook let advertisers exclude users by race and other categories that are protected by federal law. It is illegal for housing, job and credit advertisers to discriminate against protected groups.

ProPublica had been able to buy housing-related ads on Facebook that excluded groups such as African Americans and Jews, and it previously found job ads excluding users by age and gender placed by companies that are household names, like Uber and Verizon Wireless.

“This settlement is a shot across the bow to all tech companies and platforms,” said Peter Romer-Friedman, a lawyer with Outten & Golden in Washington who represented the plaintiffs along with the ACLU. “They need to understand that civil rights apply to the internet, and it’s not a civil rights-free zone.”]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/03/protecting-against-discrimination-in-ads/">
    <title>Doing More to Protect Against Discrimination in Housing, Employment and Credit Advertising | Facebook Newsroom</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-19T23:17:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/03/protecting-against-discrimination-in-ads/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Our policies already prohibit advertisers from using our tools to discriminate. We’ve removed thousands of categories from targeting related to protected classes such as race, ethnicity, sexual orientation and religion. But we can do better.

We believe that the changes we’re announcing today as part of our settlements with the NFHA, ACLU, CWA and other groups will better protect people on Facebook:

    Anyone who wants to run housing, employment or credit ads will no longer be allowed to target by age, gender or zip code.
    Advertisers offering housing, employment and credit opportunities will have a much smaller set of targeting categories to use in their campaigns overall. Multicultural affinity targeting will continue to be unavailable for these ads. Additionally, any detailed targeting option describing or appearing to relate to protected classes will also be unavailable.
    We’re building a tool so you can search for and view all current housing ads in the US targeted to different places across the country, regardless of whether the ads are shown to you.
]]></description>
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    <title>Facebook agrees to overhaul targeted advertising system for job, housing and loan ads after discrimination complaints</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-19T19:59:58+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Facebook on Tuesday agreed to overhaul its lucrative targeted advertising system to settle accusations that landlords, lenders and employers use the platform to…]]></description>
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    <title>9 Valuable Lessons I’ve Learned Working from Home</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-18T15:49:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://food52.com/blog/23900-working-from-home-lessons-tips</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This weekend, over a glass bottle of wine with a girlfriend, we started talking about the weird and wonderful world of working from home. “I can’t work…]]></description>
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    <title>Obama expanded overtime pay to 4 million workers. Now Trump is scaling that back.</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-13T02:28:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.vox.com/2019/3/12/18259816/obama-overtime-rule-trump-labor-department</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[With few exceptions, only workers who earn less than $23,000 a year can currently earn overtime pay under federal law. Overtime wages are defined as 50 percent extra hourly pay for employees who work more than 40 hours in a week.

In 2014, the Obama administration tried to double the threshold to include workers earning up to $47,000, tying future changes to the cost of living. The idea was that a dramatic expansion was needed because the government hasn’t raised the salary limit to keep up with inflation. For example, the $8,060 salary limit set in 1975 was the equivalent of about $50,440 in 2014 — far above the current $23,000 threshold. That means that over the years, more and more Americans have been working extra hours without getting paid for them, which is exactly what federal labor laws meant to prevent.

But Obama’s decision to double the limit created quite an uproar. In brief, here’s what followed: Powerful businesses groups freaked out. Then they joined 21 Republican-controlled states to sue the administration before the rule went into effect in 2016. The rule was put on hold during the legal dispute. A federal judge in Texas invalidated it in 2017, arguing that the Labor Department didn’t have the authority to make such a drastic change.

Companies were relieved, and workers were furious.

And instead of appealing the Texas court’s ruling, Trump’s labor secretary, Alexander Acosta, said he would create a watered-down version of Obama’s rule. Now the agency is only lifting the salary limit from $23,000 to $35,000 and scrapping the cost-of-living increases; that means about 2.8 million of the 4 million workers who expected to get overtime benefits won’t get them.

Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO labor federation, called the new rule “disgraceful.”

“[This] is part of a growing list of policies from the Trump administration aimed at undermining the economic stability of America’s working people,” he tweeted on Friday.

The public can comment on the rule proposal for 60 days before the Department of Labor sends a final version to the White House for review. If the White House approves the new rule, which is likely, it will be the Trump administration’s latest victory in its quest to undo Obama-era regulations meant to benefit workers.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-08/u-s-payroll-gains-plunge-to-20-000-while-wages-top-estimates">
    <title>U.S. Payrolls Shock Suggests Dawn of a Long-Forecast Slowdown</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-09T06:28:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-08/u-s-payroll-gains-plunge-to-20-000-while-wages-top-estimates</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The U.S. labor market may not be as weak as February’s payrolls number suggested, but the report provides a reality check that a long-forecast slowdown is arriving.

Employers added 20,000 jobs during the month, the fewest since September 2017, missing all economist estimates and bucking a recent trend of strong February readings. Analysts said the unexpectedly low figure doesn’t mean conditions rapidly deteriorated -- citing weather effects and payback from outsize gains in prior months -- but they pointed to the likelihood of a moderation in job gains this year as economic growth cools.]]></description>
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    <title>US jobs shock as growth slows</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-09T02:51:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47499326</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The US economy created the lowest number of jobs for a year-and-a-half in February, well below forecasts.

Just 20,000 new jobs were created last month against expectations of a 180,000 increase, official figures show.

It is the lowest growth in non-farm payrolls since September 2017 when employment was affected by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.

However, the small rise followed a sharp increase in new jobs in January, which was revised up to 311,000.

Ian Shepherdson, chief economist Pantheon Macroeconomics, said that the expectation for 180,000 new positions in February was too high because the figures at the beginning of the year doubled-counted government workers who took second jobs during the US Government shutdown.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/08/upshot/february-jobs-report-hiring-down.html">
    <title>Sharp Drop in Hiring Brings Dose of Realism</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-09T00:04:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/08/upshot/february-jobs-report-hiring-down.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The clunker of a report on job growth that the Labor Department published Friday morning is telling us something we should have already suspected.

Specifically, that recent blockbuster readings on U.S. job creation were a little too good to be true. American employers, while still adding to their payrolls, have not been on the epic hiring spree previous reports had suggested.

So while the mere 20,000 jobs added in February (the lowest number since September 2017) is a big disappointment, compared both with what economists had forecast and with recent hiring numbers, it’s useful to think of it is as a corrective to some of the more buoyant possibilities the same data series in late 2018 and January 2019 had been pointing toward.

Essentially, two of the last four months’ hiring numbers (October and January) may have been statistical aberrations on the high side, and the terrible February number is most likely an aberration on the low end, pulling the average over the last few months to something more realistic, given where things stand in the decade-old economic expansion.

With a single report, the six-month average rate of job growth has fallen to 190,000 from 234,000. That lower number is a better fit with everything else we know about the state of the economy — particularly a 3.8 percent unemployment rate and lots of anecdotal reports of scarce workers. Businesses can’t add people to the payrolls who don’t exist.

Add in the ample evidence that the overall rate of growth is shifting down as trade wars continue to disrupt industries and the impact of tax cuts fade, and a more modest rate of job creation makes sense.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/08/business/economy/jobs-report.html">
    <title>The Jobs Report Was the Weakest in Months. Here’s Why.</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-09T00:04:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/08/business/economy/jobs-report.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The economy’s remarkably steady job-creation machine sputtered in February and produced a mere 20,000 jobs. It was the smallest gain in well over a year and came on top of other signs that the economy was off to a sluggish start in 2019.

For months, the labor market could be counted on for an upbeat counterpoint to negative developments, including a fragile global economy weighed down by trade tensions. In the United States, growth for the first quarter is expected to dance around the 1 percent bar, as the shot of adrenaline delivered by last year’s tax cuts fades.

Carl Tannenbaum, chief economist at Northern Trust in Chicago, said Friday’s news from the Labor Department was worrisome. “This is a disappointing report,” he said. “I don’t think there’s any way to sugarcoat it.”

But the longer-term trend is what matters, and there were competing interpretations of whether the report was a troubling omen or a fluke.

Beyond the month’s payroll figure, the report offered some unambiguously good news, including 3.4 percent year-over-year wage growth, the strongest in a decade. Revisions to previous months’ estimates added 12,000 jobs, bringing the average gains for December, January and February to 186,000. The official jobless rate fell to 3.8 percent, from 4 percent in January.

A broader measure of employment that includes part-timers who would prefer full-time work and those too discouraged to search fell to 7.3 percent from 8.1 percent. “That’s a year’s worth of improvement in one month,” said G. Scott Clemons, chief investment strategist at the private bank Brown Brothers Harriman.

Aftereffects of the government shutdown and wretched weather may have contributed to anomalies in the report. “This is the strangest jobs report I’ve seen in a long time,” Mr. Clemons said. “It’s bizarre. I can’t help but think there is noise in there.”

During the decade-long expansion, the economy has churned out 20 million jobs. The anemic job creation and rising wages could indicate that the pool of available workers was drying up, and employers were having trouble filling openings.]]></description>
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    <title>Analysis | The very good news buried in an otherwise mediocre jobs report</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-08T16:49:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/03/08/very-good-news-buried-an-otherwise-mediocre-jobs-report/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[On its surface, the Department of Labor’s report on February employment may seem troubling. The country added only 20,000 jobs last month, well below what had been added in earlier months. Thanks in part to the devastation the recession wrought on employment a decade ago, we’ve taken to looking at jobs numbers as a barometer of the economy, meaning that a 20,000-job gain can look worrisome.

There is a point, though, at which the country will theoretically approach full employment — everyone who wants a job can get one. Our economy is based on supply and demand, as you likely learned in middle school, but that works for jobs, too. Because so many people are employed, the supply of workers is low, and employers are having trouble filling jobs. So employers will theoretically increase demand for the jobs they want to fill: by raising wages.]]></description>
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    <title>Uber and Lyft Said to Offer Drivers a Chance to Participate in I.P.O.s</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-01T04:24:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/technology/uber-lyft-drivers-ipos.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Uber and Lyft drivers are classified as independent contractors, making them ineligible to receive stock grants from the companies. Credit Christie Hemm Klok…]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.wsj.com/articles/fbis-most-wanted-more-applicants-for-special-agents-11551023975">
    <title>FBI’s Most Wanted: More Applicants for Special Agents</title>
    <dc:date>2019-02-26T05:58:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.wsj.com/articles/fbis-most-wanted-more-applicants-for-special-agents-11551023975</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><dc:subject>fbi employment economics business government</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.hamiltonproject.org/blog/household_income_likely_continued_to_grow_as_employment_and_wage_gains_lift">
    <title>Employment and Wage Gains Lifted Household Incomes in Late 2018 | The Hamilton Project</title>
    <dc:date>2019-02-22T03:37:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.hamiltonproject.org/blog/household_income_likely_continued_to_grow_as_employment_and_wage_gains_lift</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[You have JavaScript turned off! Javascript is required for the best experience on this site. Papers Papers THP collaborates with leading experts to produce…]]></description>
<dc:subject>economics usa statistics research income employment</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/19/trade-and-the-decline-of-us-manufacturing-employment/">
    <title>Trade and the Decline of US Manufacturing Employment</title>
    <dc:date>2015-12-20T22:21:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/19/trade-and-the-decline-of-us-manufacturing-employment/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[For the most part, in other words, declining manufacturing employment isn’t due to trade. Again, that doesn’t mean that trade deficits are OK, or that trade hasn’t had other effects. But even if we’d had a highly protectionist world or in some other way had blocked the move into trade deficit, we’d still have seen most of the great decline in industrial jobs.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://tinyletter.com/mattyglesias/letters/left-a-good-job-in-the-city">
    <title>Left a good job in the city</title>
    <dc:date>2015-11-26T23:31:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://tinyletter.com/mattyglesias/letters/left-a-good-job-in-the-city</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The conventional solution to a labor supply crunch is to offer to pay people more money. But here's the problem. A person with the skills that a high-flying tech company is looking for has plenty of perfectly good employment options outside the realm of high-flying tech companies. Lots of companies are looking to employ computer programmers, and lots of those companies aren't engaged in the same kind of frenetic competition as the high-fliers. Yes, they won't pay you as much. But you'd work shorter, less-intense hours and likely live in a cheaper city with shorter commutes. And you'd still be making a very decent living.

It's just not clear that there's any amount of money you could really pay an already comfortable person with a family to switch into a role that requires 70-hour workweeks. Worse than that, if someone was clearly reluctant to go switch into your more-demanding job, you would be reluctant to tempt him into it with an insane salary offer -- worrying that he wouldn't really have his heart in it and would end up being a drain on team morale.

By the same token, the premium placed on long working hours leads to placing a premium on "culture" and morale which tends, in practice, to mean a homogeneous workplace. When people are in the office all the time, they need to be buddies which further narrows down your pool of workers. Last but by no means least, someone with the combination of skills and work-appetite to thrive in a high-flying environment is likely going to want to go and found his own company. And the more money you pay him, the quicker you are simply putting him in a position to quit!

This whole dynamic is going to look to employers and their funders like a skills shortage, but it's also not going to generate skyrocketing wages.]]></description>
<dc:subject>software engineering softwareengineering employment economics business startup culture</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/07/upshot/is-the-economy-overheating-heres-why-its-so-hard-to-say.html">
    <title>Is the Economy Overheating? Here’s Why It’s So Hard to Say</title>
    <dc:date>2015-11-07T01:41:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/07/upshot/is-the-economy-overheating-heres-why-its-so-hard-to-say.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[So, should policy makers be pleased by current low levels of inflation — as the inflation targeters would suggest — or are the accelerationists right to be worried by the fact that wage growth may be rising?

My reading of the evidence is that the accelerationist model fit the data pretty well through until the late 1980s or early 1990s. But over the past 20 years the Phillips curve appears to have changed in exactly the way the inflation targeters predicted would happen as the Fed gained a reputation for ensuring that inflation remained low and stable. The key variable to accelerationists — changes in inflation (or wage growth) — no longer appears to bear much relationship to the excess capacity in the economy. Inflation barely changed in response to the economy’s cratering in 2008; nor has it risen much in response to the recovery.

However, while a couple of decades is a long time in human years, it’s not much in statistician years, and so it bears emphasizing that the data aren’t entirely conclusive.

What does this mean for the Fed? It’s too simple to characterize the current debate as one between hawks who dislike inflation and doves who are more concerned about unemployment. Rather, the main divide may be between accelerationists worried that rising wage growth signals an economy at full capacity, versus inflation targeters, who argue that weak wage growth signals that unemployment remains too high. And in the next few weeks, we’ll find out who’s winning that argument.]]></description>
<dc:subject>inflation economics economy politics government budget employment</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://twitter.com/satellitehigh/status/646751909441892352">
    <title>j. w. friedman on Twitter: &quot;in the tech world ‘bad culture fit’ means ‘we don’t like you for reasons that would be illegal if we explained them clearly’&quot;</title>
    <dc:date>2015-09-24T00:20:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://twitter.com/satellitehigh/status/646751909441892352</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[in the tech world ‘bad culture fit’ means ‘we don’t like you for reasons that would be illegal if we explained them clearly’

— j. w. friedman (@satellitehigh) September 23, 2015]]></description>
<dc:subject>legal employment technology business discrimination</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-34210002">
    <title>Travelling to work 'is work', European court rules - BBC News</title>
    <dc:date>2015-09-11T03:21:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-34210002</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Time spent travelling to and from first and last appointments by workers without a fixed office should be regarded as working time, the European Court of Justice has ruled.
This time has not previously been considered as work by many employers.
It means firms including those employing care workers, gas fitters and sales reps may be in breach of EU working time regulations.
BBC legal correspondent Clive Coleman said it could have a "huge effect".
"Employers may have to organise work schedules to ensure workers' first and last appointments are close to their homes," he added.]]></description>
<dc:subject>EuropeanUnion employment legal labor</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.vox.com/2014/4/24/5647300/being-a-college-professor-isnt-really-a-cushy-job">
    <title>Being a college professor isn't really a cushy job</title>
    <dc:date>2015-08-31T01:20:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.vox.com/2014/4/24/5647300/being-a-college-professor-isnt-really-a-cushy-job</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Boise State University anthropologist John Ziker has spent much of his career studying the cultural practices of indigenous people in Siberia (sample paper title: “‘Horseradish Is No Sweeter than Turnips’: Entitlements and Sustainability in the Taimyr Autonomous Region, Northern Russia”). Now chair of his department, he’s started doing fieldwork on something a bit closer to home: the practices of academics at Boise State.

His research suggests that his colleagues work fairly long hours (61 hours a week, on average), and that they spend, on average, only about 35 percent of their work weeks teaching:]]></description>
<dc:subject>employment college statistics research</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.vox.com/2014/12/19/7420729/nlrb-browning-ferris-employer">
    <title>The government just redefined what it means to be an employer. It's a huge deal.</title>
    <dc:date>2015-08-29T23:57:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.vox.com/2014/12/19/7420729/nlrb-browning-ferris-employer</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[On Thursday, the National Labor Relations Board issued what observers are already calling its most significant ruling in 35 years. It ruled that the company Browning-Ferris Industries of California is a “joint employer” of workers it hired through a temp agency. The company had contended that the fact that the workers were directly employed by the temp agency, a contractor, meant that it could not be considered their employer for the purpose of unionization. NLRB rejected that reasoning.

Browning-Ferris is not super important as a company. But the NLRB’s reasoning opens the door for labor organizing in industries that had previously been resistant. Big franchisers like McDonald’s could be targeted. So could big non-unionized government contractors like Booz Allen Hamilton. It’s too early to say what the ruling’s precise implications will be, but if the ruling holds, they could be massive.]]></description>
<dc:subject>employment business economics union collectivebargining NationalLaborRelationsBoard</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/appeals-court-reinstates-wage-rules-home-care-workers-33227162">
    <title>Appeals Court Reinstates Wage Rules for Home Care Workers</title>
    <dc:date>2015-08-23T02:31:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/appeals-court-reinstates-wage-rules-home-care-workers-33227162</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A federal appeals court on Friday revived Obama administration regulations that guarantee overtime and minimum wage protection to nearly 2 million home health care workers.

The ruling was a victory for worker advocacy groups and labor unions that have long sought higher wages for domestic workers who help the elderly and disabled with everyday tasks such as bathing or taking medicine.

It also was a win for the White House, which proposed the rules four years ago as part of an effort to go around an unwilling Congress in a bid to help low-wage workers through executive action.

A federal judge had scrapped the Labor Department rules earlier this year after finding that the agency had overstepped its authority. Since 1974, federal law has exempted home care workers hired through third-party staffing agencies from wage and overtime requirements.

But the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said the Labor Department has the power to interpret the law to change that exemption.

Writing for a unanimous three-judge panel, Judge Sri Srinivasan cited a “dramatic transformation” of the home care industry over the past four decades as a valid reason for the change. While most caregivers used to be directly employed by individual households, the vast majority of workers now work for staffing companies that service hundreds or thousands of customers, Srinivasan said.

He also noted a massive shift to providing care for the elderly in their own homes rather than in nursing homes, which requires workers to offer more advanced medical care and assistance to clients than the mere “companionship” services envisioned in 1974.

Two judges on the panel, Srinivasan and Nina Pillard, were appointed by President Barack Obama. Judge Thomas Griffith was appointed by President George W. Bush.

In a statement, the Labor Department said the wage rules are “the right thing to do — both for employees, whose demanding work merits these fundamental wage guarantees, and for recipients of services, who deserve a stable and professional workforce allowing them to remain in their homes and communities.”

Home health care companies employing many of the workers have said overtime requirements would make it tougher for families to afford home care for aging parents.]]></description>
<dc:subject>legal DeptOfLabor employment lawsuit usa government congress</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/08/upshot/why-a-boring-jobs-report-is-great-news-for-the-fed.html?_r=0">
    <title>Why a Boring Jobs Report Is Great News for the Fed</title>
    <dc:date>2015-08-08T20:42:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/08/upshot/why-a-boring-jobs-report-is-great-news-for-the-fed.html?_r=0</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The numbers for July and the last few months have been strikingly consistent both internally (meaning the different portions of the 38-page jobs report make sense relative to one another) and externally (the jobs numbers make sense relative to other economic indicators, such as surveys of business activity).

There are no great mysteries for Janet Yellen and her colleagues to sort out. The economy, and the job market, are improving at the same steady, consistent, gradual rate they have been for half a decade or so. The judgment call to make relies not on parsing confusing or contradictory data, but in whether is time to raise rates to prevent the economy from overheating down the road.

The Fed seems to be gliding toward a rate increase quite soon. If it is wrong — if rate increases are premature and inflation doesn’t return to the 2 percent the central bank targets, and workers never see the meaningful raises they’ve been awaiting — then Fed officials will have only themselves to blame. The culprit will be an analytical mistake, not a problem of incomplete, hard-to-parse data.

All that said, if you’re a decision maker in the economy, whether Ms. Yellen, the Fed’s chairwoman, or a C.E.O. deciding whether to make a big investment, you’d certainly prefer this type of economic data — consistent, even a little boring — to the alternative. Economic data in 2009 wasn’t boring, and we’d all be better off if it had been.

But with the Fed’s next policy meeting barely a month away, and only one more jobs report to be issued before then, Ms. Yellen has a looming deadline. And the latest numbers suggest that whatever she was planning to do when she woke up this morning, she should also be planning to do now.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.bbc.com/news/business-33823904">
    <title>US economy adds 215,000 jobs in July - BBC News</title>
    <dc:date>2015-08-08T17:17:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bbc.com/news/business-33823904</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The US economy added 215,000 jobs in July, while the unemployment rate held at a seven-year-low of 5.3%.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics said job gains came in retail trade, health care, professional and technical services, and financial activities.
The jobs figures are a seen as a significant gauge of the health of the economy.
Analysts said the figures meant a US interest rate rise in September remained a possibility.]]></description>
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    <title>The Open-Office Trap - The New Yorker</title>
    <dc:date>2015-08-03T02:09:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/the-open-office-trap</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Though multitasking millennials seem to be more open to distraction as a workplace norm, the wholehearted embrace of open offices may be ingraining a cycle of underperformance in their generation: they enjoy, build, and proselytize for open offices, but may also suffer the most from them in the long run.]]></description>
<dc:subject>openoffice productivity business employment economics statistics research culture</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/17/opinion/paul-krugman-liberals-and-wages.html">
    <title>Liberals and Wages</title>
    <dc:date>2015-07-19T01:57:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/17/opinion/paul-krugman-liberals-and-wages.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The direct takeaway from this intellectual revolution is, of course, that we should raise minimum wages. But there are broader implications, too: Once you take what we’ve learned from minimum-wage studies seriously, you realize that they’re not relevant just to the lowest-paid workers.

For employers always face a trade-off between low-wage and higher-wage strategies — between, say, the traditional Walmart model of paying as little as possible and accepting high turnover and low morale, and the Costco model of higher pay and benefits leading to a more stable work force. And there’s every reason to believe that public policy can, in a variety of ways — including making it easier for workers to organize — encourage more firms to choose the good-wage strategy.

So there was a lot more behind Hillary’s speech than I suspect most commentators realized. And for those trying to play gotcha by pointing out that some of what she said differed from ideas that prevailed when her husband was president, well, many liberals have changed their views in response to new evidence. It’s an interesting experience; conservatives should try it some time.]]></description>
<dc:subject>economics labor inequality employment statistics research wages minimumwage</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.allenpike.com/2015/supply-side-blues/">
    <title>The Supply-side Blues - Allen Pike</title>
    <dc:date>2015-07-04T20:39:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.allenpike.com/2015/supply-side-blues/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Of course, app development isn’t as pure a creative outlet as, say, theatre is, and correspondingly the app development business isn’t the horror that the theatre business is. There are various success stories, and an endless supply of jobs just adjacent to the “do it for the love” indie app dream, where you can build nice software for real businesses that have real revenues - or, at least, the funding to try something crazy.

However, when expressing frustration with the current economics of the App Store, we need to consider the effect of this mass supply of enthusiastic, creative developers. As it gets ever easier to write apps, and we’re more able to express our creativity by building apps, the market suffers more from the economic problems of other creative fields.

The good news and the bad news are the same: we’re extremely lucky to be paid to do this. In our careers as software designers and developers, we’re able to create and share things we love, and we’re able to make a decent living. With luck, we’ll still be able to do both at once.]]></description>
<dc:subject>programming art creativity employment work business</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/07/02/4-percent-unemployment-might-be-the-new-5-percent-unemployment/">
    <title>4 percent unemployment might be the new 5 percent unemployment</title>
    <dc:date>2015-07-02T19:07:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/07/02/4-percent-unemployment-might-be-the-new-5-percent-unemployment/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Unemployment is finally low enough that companies should have to start competing over workers by paying them more. But that assumes we really are close to what economists call “full employment.”

Maybe we’re not. What does that mean? Well, that’s the point at which pushing unemployment down any more would also push inflation up. In other words, it’s the most jobs we can have while keeping the inflation genie in the bottle. So central bankers, who take their jobs as the guardians of price stability as seriously as can be, want to steer the economy there and no further. Right now, the Federal Reserve thinks that’s at 5.2 percent unemployment.

At a moment like this, it seems very hard to conclude that’s right. The fact that wage growth is still so low tells us that there must be enough slack left in the labor market that employers aren’t jockeying over workers yet. So do the relatively low levels of employment for so-called prime-age workers between 25 and 54 years old, who, for the most part, are too old to be in school but too young to be retired. Then there are the millions of people who want full-time jobs but can only find part-time ones. Add it all up, and the jobs gap is a lot bigger than the unemployment rate would lead you to believe. Not only that, though, but the “normal” unemployment rate should be falling anyway now that the baby boomers are retiring and there aren’t as many people looking for jobs. Four percent unemployment might be the new 5 percent unemployment. In other words, the recovery still might have a long way to go.

The most important word there is “might.” Nobody knows how low unemployment can go before inflation picks up. Everybody, including the Fed, is just guessing. The only thing we do know is that we’re not there now. And that’s why there’s a strong case for the Fed to wait until we get there — or at least until the data says we’re getting close — before raising rates. The Fed has said it might start doing so in September, but where’s the rush? There’s barely any inflation or wage pressure.

The recovery still has miles to go before it sleeps.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://recode.net/2015/06/22/as-uber-feels-regulatory-heat-instacart-reclassifies-some-contractors-as-employees/">
    <title>As Uber Feels Regulatory Heat, Instacart Reclassifies Some Contractors as Employees | Re/code</title>
    <dc:date>2015-06-22T18:44:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://recode.net/2015/06/22/as-uber-feels-regulatory-heat-instacart-reclassifies-some-contractors-as-employees/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Is this the beginning of a trend?

Same-day delivery company Instacart announced Monday that it had started to reclassify some of its giant workforce as part-time employees in a bid to improve the selection of food delivered to its customers.

But the announcement also comes as regulatory agencies are scrutinizing companies such as Uber and Lyft, which have classified their massive workforces as contractors, allowing these venture-backed heavyweights to avoid the costs of payroll taxes and employee benefits.

“When you look at the difficulty of shopping, picking and delivering items such as fruit or eggs that need to be carefully selected, you realize that grocery shopping can be complicated,” CEO Apoorva Mehta said in a press release. “For this reason, we want to provide supervision and training, which can only be done with employees.”

Instacart has been testing the move in Boston, where it has allowed the contractors who pick and pack the customer orders the option to switch to part-time employee status. As of today, it is making the same switch in Chicago and expects about three-quarters of its personal shoppers to make the switch based on the Boston pilot test. Instacart says it will roll out the option to more of the 16 cities it operates in coming months. Instacart also has contractors who work as drivers; they haven’t been given this option.]]></description>
<dc:subject>regulation employment business Instacart</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jun/17/goldman-sachs-interns-work-hours">
    <title>Goldman Sachs restricts intern workday to 17 hours in wake of burnout death</title>
    <dc:date>2015-06-19T00:19:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jun/17/goldman-sachs-interns-work-hours</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The new rules, introduced for this summer’s crop of investment banking interns, have been introduced “to improve the overall work experience of our interns”, a Goldman Sachs spokesman said. All of its summer interns across the world were informed of the new working hours rule on their first day in the office earlier this month.

Wall Street’s shift to caring capitalism comes in the wake of the death of a 21-year-old Bank of America Merrill Lynch intern who had regularly pulled all-nighters in a desperate bid to impress his bosses.

Moritz Erhardt was found dead in the shower at his London accommodation after working 72 hours straight. An inquest found he died of an epileptic seizure that could have been a triggered by his long working hours.

Shortly after Erhardt’s death, Goldman Sach’s chief executive Lloyd Blankfein told his interns that they shouldn’t give over their whole lives to the firm. “You have to be interesting, you have to have interests away from the narrow thing of what you do,” he said. “You have to be somebody who somebody else wants to talk to.”]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-33171508">
    <title>Uber dealt blow in US court over 'employee' drivers - BBC News</title>
    <dc:date>2015-06-17T16:12:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-33171508</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Uber drivers are employees not contractors, a US court has ruled, in a move that could mean higher costs for the app-based taxi service.
The decision by the California Labor Commission, which was filed in a state court, disputes Uber's previous claims that its drivers are contractors.
It could mean extra costs such as social security, compensation and unemployment insurance.
There could also be implications for firms with a similar business model.
Uber is "involved in every aspect of the operation", according to the ruling, which was sparked by a San Francisco-based Uber driver.
The company is now appealing against the award of $4,000 (£2,544) in expenses.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://twitter.com/JustinWolfers/status/606843322024476672">
    <title>Justin Wolfers on Twitter: &quot;Total jobs created during this recovery: Full-time: 8,657,000 Part-time: 47,000 (Time to retire the &quot;they're all part-time&quot; talking point.)&quot;</title>
    <dc:date>2015-06-05T15:50:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://twitter.com/JustinWolfers/status/606843322024476672</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Total jobs created during this recovery: Full-time: 8,657,000 Part-time: 47,000 (Time to retire the "they're all part-time" talking point.)

— Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) June 5, 2015]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/15/broken-windows-and-american-oligarchy/">
    <title>Broken Windows and American Oligarchy</title>
    <dc:date>2015-05-17T21:43:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/15/broken-windows-and-american-oligarchy/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[OK, you don’t have to place sole emphasis, or any emphasis at all, on football. The real point here is that the eruption of top incomes that began around 40 years ago need not have solid causes — it could be a case of contagious norms-breaking. This might also explain why movements of top incomes are so different in different countries, with the most obvious determinant being whether you speak English; think of it as an epidemic of broken windows in the United States, which spreads to countries that are culturally close to America but not so much elsewhere.]]></description>
<dc:subject>economics inequality wealth politics employment</dc:subject>
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    <title>Women Started Smaller Percentage of U.S. Businesses in 2014</title>
    <dc:date>2015-05-17T19:52:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.wsj.com/articles/women-started-smaller-percentage-of-u-s-businesses-in-2014-1431560888</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The share of new businesses started by women fell last year to its second lowest level in nearly two decades, a sign that the entrepreneurial gender gap widened last year.

Women opened just 36.8% of new U.S. businesses in 2014, according to new data.

That is down from an average of 40.7% over the last 19 years—and almost at the low point of 36.7% reached in 2007.

The latest numbers likely reflect both broad macroeconomic factors, such as the construction rebound, and the obstacles facing women entrepreneurs, analysts say.

In all, men started an average of roughly 337,000 U.S. businesses a month last year, up 21% from 2013, according to an annual index of startup activity that will be released later this month by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, a Kansas City, Mo., nonprofit.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/13/8597081/worker-gps-fired-myrna-arias-xora">
    <title>Woman fired after disabling work app that tracked her movements 24/7</title>
    <dc:date>2015-05-14T01:45:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/13/8597081/worker-gps-fired-myrna-arias-xora</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A woman in California claims to have been fired from her job after uninstalling an app on her smartphone that her employer used to track her movements 24 hours a day. Myrna Arias, a former employee of money transfer firm Intermex, says she was told to keep her phone on at all times and was dismissed weeks after being “scolded” for uninstalling the app. She’s now suing Intermex for violating her privacy and wrongful termination, among other allegations.

“[Arias’ boss] Stubits admitted that employees would be monitored while off duty, and bragged that he knew how fast she was driving at specific moments ever since she had installed the app on her phone,” reads the complaint, filed in Kern County Superior Court and spotted by ArsTechnica.

“[Arias] expressed that she had no problem with the app’s GPS function during work hours, but she objected to the monitoring of her location during non-work hours,” says the filing. “She likened the app to a prisoner’s ankle bracelet and informed Stubits that his actions were illegal. Stubits replied that she should tolerate the illegal intrusion because Intermix was paying [her more than her previous employer].”]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.bbc.com/news/business-32731206">
    <title>White House backs new Facebook $15 minimum wage policy - BBC News</title>
    <dc:date>2015-05-14T01:33:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bbc.com/news/business-32731206</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The White House has praised Facebook's new policy to require a $15-per-hour (£9.53) minimum wage for contractors who do a "substantial amount of work" for the firm.
Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg made the announcement on Tuesday.
Contractors will have to provide 15 days leave and child benefit payments.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the move is an example of leadership on the topic of pay.
"This broader group will include workers who do substantial work for Facebook and who are employed by companies based in the US with more than 25 employees supporting Facebook," Ms Sandberg wrote in her blog.
"Research also shows that providing adequate benefits contributes to a happier and ultimately more productive workforce," she added.]]></description>
<dc:subject>facebook business employment economics</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.bbc.com/news/32650336">
    <title>US firms add 223,000 jobs in April - BBC News</title>
    <dc:date>2015-05-10T03:12:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bbc.com/news/32650336</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Employers in the US created 223,000 new jobs in April, a much larger increase than the month before.
At the same time, the US Department of Labor said the unemployment rate dropped to a seven-year low of 5.4%, down from 5.5% in March. Big job gains in the service sector helped to offset weakness in mining,
Investors welcomed the report, sending shares broadly higher on Wall Street.
Many see the report as a sign of solid strength in the economy.]]></description>
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    <title>What Carly Fiorina gets wrong about about why women earn less in the workplace</title>
    <dc:date>2015-05-10T02:50:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/05/05/what-carly-fiorina-gets-wrong-about-about-why-women-earn-less-in-the-workplace/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[But by blaming this phenomenon on unions, Fiorina really goes astray. First, Biggs noted that only a fraction of the workforce is unionized. Only 13.5 percent of women are represented by a union, according to federal data, so it is hard to see how organized labor could be an important part of the reason for the gap overall.

In fact, even if mothers in unions aren’t being paid what they deserve, many of them may still be better off than they would be outside of a union. The federal data show that women actually make more money if they’re in unions, both in absolute terms and relative to men.

Full-time female employees who were represented by unions were paid 91 cents for every dollar their male colleagues earned in 2013, compared to 81 cents for those women who were not. The typical female worker in this category made $893 a week, compared to $676 for a woman working without labor representation.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/enough-already-about-the-job-hopping-millennials/">
    <title>Enough Already About The Job-Hopping Millennials</title>
    <dc:date>2015-05-10T02:23:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/enough-already-about-the-job-hopping-millennials/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The myth of the job-hopping millennial is just that — a myth. The data consistently shows that today’s young people are actually less professionally itinerant than previous generations. In fact, millennials — and the U.S. economy as a whole — would be better off if they’d live up to the stereotype and start switching jobs more often.

To support its case, the Journal (where I was a reporter from 2006 to 2013) cites Bureau of Labor Statistics data showing that the typical worker aged 20 to 24 has been in their job for about 16 months. “For those aged 25 to 34, it was three years,” the Journal continues, “still far short of the 5.5-year median tenure for all workers age 25 and over.”

But those numbers are highly misleading. Sure, most people in their early 20s are fairly new to their jobs, but most of them are fairly new to the workforce, period.

More importantly, comparing today’s 20-somethings to today’s 30- and 40-somethings misses the point. Younger workers do tend to change jobs more often than older workers, but that’s always been true. Numbers on job tenure for Americans in their 20s were almost exactly the same in the 1980s as they are today. Monthly data tells a similar story, as the chart below shows: Every month, about 3 percent of young workers (defined here as those between 22 and 29) change jobs, compared to about 4 percent in the mid-1990s.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/11/nyregion/nail-salon-workers-in-nyc-face-hazardous-chemicals.html">
    <title>Perfect Nails, Poisoned Workers</title>
    <dc:date>2015-05-10T00:39:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/11/nyregion/nail-salon-workers-in-nyc-face-hazardous-chemicals.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A growing body of medical research shows a link between the chemicals that make nail and beauty products useful — the ingredients that make them chip-resistant and pliable, quick to dry and brightly colored, for example — and serious health problems.

Whatever the threat the typical customer enjoying her weekly French tips might face, it is a different order of magnitude, advocates say, for manicurists who handle the chemicals and breathe their fumes for hours on end, day after day.

The prevalence of respiratory and skin ailments among nail salon workers is widely acknowledged. More uncertain, however, is their risk for direr medical issues. Some of the chemicals in nail products are known to cause cancer; others have been linked to abnormal fetal development, miscarriages and other harm to reproductive health.

A number of studies have also found that cosmetologists — a group that includes manicurists, as well as hairdressers and makeup artists — have elevated rates of death from Hodgkin’s disease, of low birth-weight babies and of multiple myeloma, a form of cancer.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015/04/08/is-your-job-routine-if-so-its-probably-disappearing/">
    <title>Is Your Job ‘Routine’? If So, It’s Probably Disappearing</title>
    <dc:date>2015-04-27T03:07:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015/04/08/is-your-job-routine-if-so-its-probably-disappearing/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[New research from Henry Siu at the University of British Columbia and Nir Jaimovich from Duke University shows just how much the world of routine work has collapsed. The economists released a paper today, published by the centrist Democratic think tank Third Way, showing that over the course of the last two recessions and recoveries, a period beginning in 2001, the economy’s job growth has come entirely from nonroutine work.

To derive this data, Mr. Siu and Mr. Jaimovich classified jobs by whether their tasks are routine or nonroutine and also whether the work is cognitive or manual. Examples of routine manual jobs in their classification system include rules-based and physical tasks, such as factory workers who operate welding or metal-press machines, forklift operators or home appliance repairers. Routine cognitive jobs include tasks done by secretaries, bookkeepers, filing clerks or bank tellers. Nonroutine manual jobs include occupations like janitors or home-health aides. Finally, nonroutine cognitive jobs include tasks like public relations, financial analysis or computer programming.

While many jobs have a mix of routine and nonroutine tasks, the basic classification that Mr. Siu and Mr. Jaimovich use is clear, and the results when jobs are sorted along these lines are striking. In the most recent recession, routine jobs collapsed and simply have not recovered, with employment in both cognitive and manual jobs down by more than 5% if the tasks are mostly routine.

“Historically these occupations rebounded,” Mr. Siu said. “It suggests a startling fundamental shift in the way the labor market is behaving.”

In recessions of the 1960s and 1970s, routine jobs would fall during the recession but quickly snap back. But after the recession in 1990, something changed. Routine jobs fell and, as a share of the population, never recovered. In the recessions in 2001 and in 2007-09 they fell even further. The snapback never occurred, suggesting that many firms began coping with recessions by scrapping tasks that could be automated or more easily outsourced.

For his part, Mr. Siu thinks jobs have been taken away by automation, more than by outsourcing. While some manufacturing jobs have clearly gone overseas, “it’s hard to offshore a secretary.” These tasks more likely became unnecessary due to improving technology, he said.]]></description>
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    <title>Starbucks Offers More Proof That Obamacare Is Helping the Economy</title>
    <dc:date>2015-04-25T23:04:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/121636/starbucks-employees-receive-discount-tuition-because-obamacare</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Instead, CBO said that workers will cut back their hours for two reasons. First, workers may cut back their own hours because Obamacare’s benefits discourage work. Second, they may reduce their hours because they no longer need to work to receive health insurance.

Starbucks’s new program is, in part, a response to that latter reason. Obamacare has made Starbucks workers less dependent on their employer for health insurance, forcing Schultz to find other ways to entice new workers to join the company and to retain its current employees. This is undoubtedly a good thing. Not only is Obamacare giving workers more power, but Starbucks’s reaction—by creating a program to help with tuition—will lead to a better educated workforce. That’s good for the economy, too. Just don’t expect Republicans to acknowledge that anytime soon.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.shakelaw.com/blog/at-will-employment/">
    <title>No Reason at All: The At-Will Employment Relationship - Shake | Free Legal Contracts</title>
    <dc:date>2015-04-25T20:15:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.shakelaw.com/blog/at-will-employment/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Certain personal characteristics, known as protected classes, are never acceptable reasons for termination. At the federal level, a person’s race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information are all protected classes. Some states have expanded upon the federal protected classes and also prohibit employment decisions made on the basis of sexual orientation, medical conditions (including HIV/AIDS), political affiliations, marital status, and more.

This mean, for example, that a person can’t be let go simply because she’s “too old,” follows a certain religion, or is pregnant.  This isn’t to say that an employer can’t let anyone over 40 or who is pregnant go, only that the reason for termination can’t be related to these characteristics. If a terminated employee were to challenge the decision, the employer would need to prove that age or pregnancy was not involved in the decision.

Given how many protected classes exist, it is always in an employer’s best interest to keep detailed records of employee performance and negative reviews. It is equally important that the employee keep his or her own records. If you are let go and think that the termination violates your non at-will employment, or was because you are a member of a protected class, talk to an attorney immediately — there are time limits on filing a claim.]]></description>
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    <title>Democrats Are Rallying Around $12 Minimum Wage</title>
    <dc:date>2015-04-24T02:12:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/23/business/economy/democrats-are-rallying-around-12-wage-floor.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Democrats in Congress are uniting around a proposal to raise the federal minimum wage to $12 an hour.

Within the next several days, Senator Patty Murray, the top Democrat on the Senate committee that deals with labor issues, plans to introduce a bill to increase the minimum wage, in steps, from its current level of $7.25 to $12 by 2020.

The measure has little chance of passing the Republican-controlled Congress in the near future, but it is the latest indication of Democrats’ rising ambitions for lifting the wage floor, an issue with considerable popular support in an era of increasing income inequality. The party is determined to elevate the issue in next year’s congressional and presidential elections.

Senator Murray’s forthcoming bill, and a companion measure by Representative Robert C. Scott in the House, have considerable support within the party, according to congressional aides. Among the 15 to 20 Democrats who already back the effort in the Senate are Harry Reid of Nevada, the Democratic leader, and Charles E. Schumer of New York, his chosen successor.

“The politics, substance and morality coincide to make it a winner issue for us in 2016,” Senator Schumer said. “It appeals not just to the people who would benefit,” he added. “Polling data shows it appeals to middle-class people, people of high income.”

The speed with which Democrats and activists have strengthened their demands for minimum-wage hikes poses some complications for both the White House, which has yet to take a position on the Murray plan, and for Hillary Rodham Clinton, who in response to last week’s national protests by low-wage workers wrote on Twitter: “Fast food & child care workers shouldn’t have to march in streets for living wages.”

Mrs. Clinton has a long record of supporting minimum-wage increases, but her recently begun presidential campaign has preferred to ease into revealing the details of her policy positions, the minimum wage included.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://medium.com/matter/what-strippers-can-teach-uber-1f5b15e5b427#882a--share-384-455">
    <title>What Strippers Can Teach Uber — Matter — Medium</title>
    <dc:date>2015-04-21T01:06:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://medium.com/matter/what-strippers-can-teach-uber-1f5b15e5b427#882a--share-384-455</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Whether they’re happy or not, these workers are at the center of a complicated legal landscape in which federal and state laws and years of court cases spell out different tests for whether a worker is a employee or a contractor.

Generally, the IRS advises that employers can control the method of work, while businesses hiring contractors can only control the result. Yet running a successful business means the customer’s experience has to be controlled pretty tightly. So the app industry is contorting itself to keep workers content, loyal, on-message and on their best behavior, all while steering clear of employer-like traits — even if only in semantics.Uber calls itself a car service in its ads, but it calls drivers “partners” and makes them pay for a driving skills course. It also offers them various “suggestions,” as Uber put it in court filings: how to dress, how clean to keep their car, to play NPR or jazz on the radio. Homejoy cleaners make an hourly rate while cleaning, but no overtime or compensation for travel time between jobs. Postmates offers “soft” benefits: liability insurance tailored for couriers, free enrollment in a medical care service, and bike gear.

Federal judges have questioned whether a new class of worker may be needed for these people who can work whenever they want, perhaps even for two competing apps at once (something that’s frowned upon by the companies but frequently done). In one Lyft ruling, a judge wrote that “the jury in this case will be handed a square peg and asked to choose between two round holes…. Perhaps Lyft drivers who work more than a certain number of hours should be employees, while the others should be independent contractors. Or perhaps Lyft drivers should be considered a new category of worker altogether, requiring a different set of protections.”]]></description>
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    <title>Get a Job? Most Welfare Recipients Already Have One</title>
    <dc:date>2015-04-14T03:51:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015/04/13/get-a-job-most-welfare-recipients-already-have-one/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It’s poor-paying jobs, not unemployment, that strains the welfare system.

That’s one key finding from a study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, that showed the majority of households receiving government assistance are headed by a working adult.

The study found that 56% of federal and state dollars spent between 2009 and 2011 on welfare programs — including Medicaid, food stamps and the Earned Income Tax Credit — flowed to working families and individuals with jobs. In some industries, about half the workforce relies on welfare.

“When companies pay too little for workers to provide for their families, workers rely on public assistance programs to meet their basic needs,” said Ken Jacobs, chairman of the university’s Center for Labor Research and Education and one of the report’s authors.

More than half of front-line fast-food workers receive some form of government assistance.]]></description>
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    <title>To Raise Productivity, Let More Employees Work from Home</title>
    <dc:date>2015-04-14T02:06:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://hbr.org/2014/01/to-raise-productivity-let-more-employees-work-from-home</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The study: Nicholas Bloom and graduate student James Liang, who is also a cofounder of the Chinese travel website Ctrip, gave the staff at Ctrip’s call center the opportunity to volunteer to work from home for nine months. Half the volunteers were allowed to telecommute; the rest remained in the office as a control group. Survey responses and performance data collected at the conclusion of the study revealed that, in comparison with the employees who came into the office, the at-home workers were not only happier and less likely to quit but also more productive.]]></description>
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    <title>Why Low Growth in Health Costs Still Stings</title>
    <dc:date>2015-04-11T20:58:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2015/04/08/why-low-growth-in-health-costs-still-stings/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In my last Think Tank piece, I reported that just 3% of Americans felt health costs had been rising more slowly than usual, even though they have been growing at record low rates in recent years. The chart above shows why that might be the case: The gap is widening between growth in wages and what workers pay for health premiums and deductibles. The gap between deductibles and wages is especially yawning, reflecting the steady growth in deductibles seen in recent years. Since 2006 wages have grown 23% while deductibles for single coverage have risen 108%.

The rate of increase in health spending and premiums in recent years is about as low as I have ever seen it. But for most people the pain from health-care costs is more intense, because the divide between out-of-pocket health costs and individuals’ wage growth has widened. Deductibles in particular could be the emerging issue in health policy.

An improving economy with, one hopes, more robust wage growth would help ease the sting of out-of-pocket health costs. But all signs suggest that out-of-pocket health costs will continue to rise faster than worker earnings. No employer I know wants to increase deductibles, if only because raising cost-sharing is so unpopular with employees. But employers have limited options to forestall premium increases, and they know that unless they do so their health premiums will continue to rise and it will be more difficult to raise wages and hire more workers. Ultimately, employers need better ways to control health-care costs.]]></description>
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    <title>Matter Over Mind</title>
    <dc:date>2015-04-11T20:33:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/11/matter-over-mind/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Or as one friend described it at the time, my thesis was that we’ll always need maids and gardeners.

And it’s happening. I missed this paper by Beaudry, Green, and Sand when it was first circulated, but it’s right on that issue:

[W]e argue that in about the year 2000, the demand for skill (or, more specifically, for cognitive tasks often associated with high educational skill) underwent a reversal. Many researchers have documented a strong, ongoing increase in the demand for skills in the decades leading up to 2000. In this paper, we document a decline in that demand in the years since 2000, even as the supply of high education workers continues to grow. We go on to show that, in response to this demand reversal, high-skilled workers have moved down the occupational ladder and have begun to perform jobs traditionally performed by lower-skilled workers.
An obvious implication is that belief that income inequality is all about, and can be fixed by, education is even more wrong than you thought.]]></description>
<dc:subject>economics economy education research inequality wealth politics government employment technology</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.vox.com/2015/4/7/8363463/job-openings-have-come-back-since-the-recession-why-not-hiring">
    <title>Job openings have come back since the recession. Why not hiring? - Vox</title>
    <dc:date>2015-04-08T03:08:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.vox.com/2015/4/7/8363463/job-openings-have-come-back-since-the-recession-why-not-hiring</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This continues a trend that my colleague Matt Yglesias pointed out last fall. So what's going on? It might be that there's a skill mismatch — that the workers who are available just aren't qualified for the work employers are offering. And that's probably true in some higher-skill industries.

But a lot of it is probably also hesitancy from employers. Clearly they are open to hiring (hence all the job postings), but they're taking their time doing it  — and not raising wages much in an attempt to lure in workers. One possibility is that employers, who still have a huge number of unemployed and underemployed Americans out there to pick from, are still waiting for perfect candidates to come along. This has been a problem throughout the recovery.

Last Friday's jobs report was also something of a disappointment, showing that hiring slowed way down in March. One disappointing jobs report doesn't necessarily spell doom ... but what this data does make clear is that there's plenty of room for more hiring, and it's not happening.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://colorlines.com/archives/2015/04/virginia_latest_state_to_ban-the-box_on_employment_apps.html">
    <title>Virginia Latest State to Ban-the-Box on Employment Apps - COLORLINES</title>
    <dc:date>2015-04-07T20:45:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://colorlines.com/archives/2015/04/virginia_latest_state_to_ban-the-box_on_employment_apps.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Virginia last Friday became the newest state to ban the question about criminal history on employment applications for most state jobs. For candidates with either past arrests or convictions, that means less immediate discrimination and a greater chance of proceeding through the application process based on their qualifications. Inquiries about criminal history can be made after a person is determined a good candidate for the position.

At least 14 other states and a growing number of municipalities now ban the criminal history question. Discriminating against those with criminal records often means denying employment to a population the size of a major U.S. city. It also means denying stable income or housing options to the families who depend on them.

More than 650,000 individuals are released from prison into their communities each year. About 7 million people, roughly the population of New York City, are currently under some form of correctional supervision, the lowest number observed by the Bureau of Justice Statistics since 2000. 

Virginia’s executive order does not apply to private businesses.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-02/traders-are-now-expecting-the-fed-to-raise-rates-later-than-ever-before">
    <title>Traders Are Now Expecting the Fed to Raise Rates Later Than Ever Before</title>
    <dc:date>2015-04-05T20:45:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-02/traders-are-now-expecting-the-fed-to-raise-rates-later-than-ever-before</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Ahead of the March jobs report, traders are expecting the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates later than ever before. 

As of Wednesday’s close, Federal funds futures implied liftoff from zero in the final week of November, according to an index maintained by analysts at Morgan Stanley. That’s been pushed back from September as of two weeks ago, before the policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee’s March meeting.

Why the delay? Fed officials have expressed concern about the effects of the strong dollar, which is weighing on the outlook for economic growth and inflation. Some policy makers also cut their estimates of the unemployment rate below which price increases should accelerate, implying the economy is further away from their goals than previously thought.

Moreover, economists say the pace of job gains — the U.S. economy has added 275,000 workers each month on average over the past year — probably needs to come down to reconcile with a slower pace of underlying economic growth. ]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/03/opinion/paul-krugman-power-and-paychecks.html">
    <title>Power and Paychecks</title>
    <dc:date>2015-04-04T05:42:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/03/opinion/paul-krugman-power-and-paychecks.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[And this, in turn, suggests that it shouldn’t be all that hard to raise wages across the board. Suppose that we were to give workers some bargaining power by raising minimum wages, making it easier for them to organize, and, crucially, aiming for full employment rather than finding reasons to choke off recovery despite low inflation. Given what we now know about labor markets, the results might be surprisingly big — because a moderate push might be all it takes to persuade much of American business to turn away from the low-wage strategy that has dominated our society for so many years.

There’s historical precedent for this kind of wage push. The middle-class society now dwindling in our rearview mirrors didn’t emerge spontaneously; it was largely created by the “great compression” of wages that took place during World War II, with effects that lasted for more than a generation.

So can we repeat this achievement? The pay raises at Walmart and McDonald’s — brought on by a tightening job market plus activist pressure — offer a small taste of what could happen on a vastly larger scale. There’s no excuse for wage fatalism. We can give American workers a raise if we want to.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.bbc.com/news/32169145">
    <title>US hiring slows, adding 126,000 jobs in March - BBC News</title>
    <dc:date>2015-04-04T03:47:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bbc.com/news/32169145</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Employers in the United States added 126,000 jobs in March - a gain far lower than previous months.
The slower gains mark a break from a 12-month streak where employers added over 200,000 jobs each month.
Severe winter weather, factory slowdowns, and dull construction activity contributed to the lacklustre numbers.
The US unemployment rate held at 5.5%, the US Department of Labor said.
"A range of factors including the weather and the global economic slowdown have affected economic data for the first quarter," said Jason Furman, Chairman of the White House's Council of Economic Advisers.
Additionally, the job statistics for January and February were revised down by a combined 69,000 jobs.
Factories shed 1,000 jobs after 19-months of hiring, while the construction industry broke a 15-month streak with same number of losses.
Restaurant hiring took a sharp downward turn, while the sector for mining, logging, and oil drilling lost 11,000 jobs.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/03/arawc-walmart-campaign-against-workers-compensation">
    <title>Walmart, Lowe's, Safeway, and Nordstrom Are Bankrolling a Nationwide Campaign to Gut Workers' Comp</title>
    <dc:date>2015-03-29T23:22:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/03/arawc-walmart-campaign-against-workers-compensation</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Nearly two dozen major corporations, including Walmart, Nordstrom, and Safeway, are bankrolling a quiet, multistate lobbying effort to make it harder for workers hurt on the job to access lost wages and medical care—the benefits collectively known as workers’ compensation.

The companies have financed a lobbying group, the Association for Responsible Alternatives to Workers’ Compensation (ARAWC), that has already helped write legislation in one state, Tennessee. Richard Evans, the group’s executive director, told an insurance journal in November that the corporations ultimately want to change workers’ comp laws in all 50 states. Lowe’s, Macy’s, Kohl’s, Sysco Food Services, and several insurance companies are also part of the year-old effort.

Laws mandating workers’ comp arose at the turn of the 20th century as a bargain between employees and employers: If a worker suffered an injury on the job, the employer would pay his medical bills and part of his wages while he recovered. In exchange, the worker gave up his right to sue for negligence.

ARAWC’s mission is to pass laws allowing private employers to opt out of the traditional workers’ compensation plans that almost every state requires businesses to carry. Employers that opt out would still be compelled to purchase workers’ comp plans. But they would be allowed to write their own rules governing when, for how long, and for which reasons an injured employee can access medical benefits and wages.

In recent years, companies have used that freedom to severely curtail long-standing benefits.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/27/amazon-remove-noncompete-clause-contracts-hourly-workers">
    <title>Amazon to remove non-compete clause from contracts for hourly workers</title>
    <dc:date>2015-03-29T04:47:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/27/amazon-remove-noncompete-clause-contracts-hourly-workers</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Amazon is to remove a “non-compete” clause from its employment contracts for US workers paid by the hour after criticism that it is unreasonable to prevent such employees from finding other work.

A company spokeswoman confirmed to the Guardian that the clause would be cut.

“That clause hasn’t been applied to hourly associates, and we’re removing it,” she said.

In the past, Amazon has required its US employees, including seasonal workers, to sign non-compete contracts which cover a period of more than 18 months after the employee has separated with the company, the Verge reported on Thursday.

According to a contract obtained by the Verge, Amazon workers that signed it pledged not to “engage in or support the development, manufacture, marketing, or sale of any product or service that competes or is intended to compete with any product or service sold, offered, or otherwise provided by Amazon (or intended to be sold, offered, or otherwise provided by Amazon in the future) that employee worked on or supported, or about which employee obtained or received confidential information”.

Typically, non-compete contracts are part of the hiring process for white-collar, highly skilled employees privy to trade secrets.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.vox.com/2015/3/26/8291889/suburban-sprawl-economy">
    <title>Suburban sprawl is stifling the US economy</title>
    <dc:date>2015-03-29T01:42:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.vox.com/2015/3/26/8291889/suburban-sprawl-economy</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[One big contributor to that trend in hard-to-reach jobs also appears to be sprawl. The distance between people and work grew partly because in large metro areas nationwide, jobs both moved to the suburbs and spread out more, Brookings explains.Between 2002 and 2012, the number of jobs in urban areas fell by nearly 2 percent, but the number in suburban areas grew by more than 4 percent. However, the density of jobs in suburban areas fell, meaning that even as the number of jobs grew, they also spread even farther apart.

This paper deals in the broader phenomenon of the distance between workers and jobs, and not sprawl, per se, but it’s true that the trend of far-flung jobs also grew over this time period. Other Brookings research found that between 2000 and 2010, the share of jobs located within three miles of downtown cities declined in 91 out of the 100 largest metro areas. Meanwhile, the share of jobs located 10 or more miles away from those city centers grew in 85 out of 100 metro areas.

This has implications far beyond long commute times; it matters because living farther from jobs tends to mean a longer job search, as researchers found in a 2014 NBER working paper. It also means longer stretches of unemployment — so even as jobs came back during the recent recovery, they didn’t all return in places where unemployed Americans could reach them.]]></description>
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    <title>Exclusive: Amazon makes even temporary warehouse workers sign 18-month non-competes | The Verge</title>
    <dc:date>2015-03-26T21:06:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.theverge.com/2015/3/26/8280309/amazon-warehouse-jobs-exclusive-noncompete-contracts</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Noncompete agreements have traditionally been associated with highly skilled, white collar jobs where, in exchange for signing a restrictive contract, employees might gain specialized training and learn trade secrets that enable professional advancement. More recently, such contracts have been seeping into low-skilled and low-wage occupations that require little on-the-job training.

This trend is likely occurring at least in part because employers know they can get away with it in today’s economy, where jobs are scarce, says Charlotte Garden, a law professor at Seattle University School of Law. "When you have a more vulnerable workforce applying for jobs," Garden says, "they’re not going to attempt to negotiate the terms of the contract they’re handed."

The expansion of noncompetes into low-wage work came to national attention last year, when the Huffington Post reported that Jimmy John’s had some of its permanent workers sign noncompete agreements that covered sandwich sellers within three miles of Jimmy John’s locations. US Congress members called for a federal investigation into the sandwich chain's use of the agreements. The Amazon contract appears more extreme: it is not only being pushed on temporary workers, who will have their opportunities inevitably constrained upon their planned dismissal, but it is also explicit in its potentially limitless geographic reach.]]></description>
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    <title>I Drive SF: From Rideshare to Taxi</title>
    <dc:date>2015-03-26T04:27:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://brokeassstuart.com/blog/2015/03/25/i-drive-sf-from-rideshare-to-taxi/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It’s inevitable.  Now that I drive a taxi, I regularly field the inquiry:  “So… have you thought about driving for Uber?”  When I tell my passengers that I did the Lyft and Uber thing before switching to taxi driving, they’re usually shocked.  “Don’t you make more money with Lyft and Uber?”  Maybe some do, I’ll say, but I never did. After eleven months of mostly full time driving, my bank account was overdrawn, my credit cards were maxed out, the backseat of my car looked like I’d been transporting farm animals and I was riddled with self-loathing.  I was basically subsidizing multi-million—or, in Uber’s case, multi-billion—dollar companies.  And for what? Empty promises and a sense of community?  What bullshit.  I never felt like anything but an underpaid, untrained and unregulated cab driver.

I could go on ad nauseam, detailing the moral bankruptcy of the Lyft and Uber systems, but now that I’ve been a real taxi driver for two months, I try to deflect the Uber/Lyft question.  It’s boring.  I’m sick of talking about fucking Uber in my cab!  And to be honest, I’m not proud to have driven for them as long as I did.  In fact, I’m ashamed of it.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.newsweek.com/what-has-obamacare-done-jobs-316195">
    <title>What Has Obamacare Done for Jobs?</title>
    <dc:date>2015-03-26T02:01:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newsweek.com/what-has-obamacare-done-jobs-316195</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The question is, has the ACA increased part-time work among people who would prefer to hold full-time jobs? The severity of the Great Recession makes it hard to answer this question with much confidence. The percentage of job holders who have part-time jobs but who would prefer full-time work has dropped in recent months, even as the employer penalties have gone into effect. (Figure 2). However, the percentage remains stubbornly higher than it was the last time the unemployment rate was 5.5 percent.  

If the entire gap is traceable to the impact of the ACA, the law has increased the number of workers who involuntarily hold part-time jobs by more than 1 million.  My guess is that the number of workers who involuntarily hold part-time jobs has remained high because of the weakness of the economic recovery rather than the effect of the ACA. It is not easy to devise a statistical test that allows us to confirm this suspicion, however.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://medium.com/dear-design-student/why-gender-balance-is-important-to-us-1ebda68f070">
    <title>Why Gender Balance Is Important to Us — Dear Design Student — Medium</title>
    <dc:date>2015-03-26T01:47:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://medium.com/dear-design-student/why-gender-balance-is-important-to-us-1ebda68f070</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A: Absolutely. From the get-go Mule was 50% female. Which is easy to do when there are two of you and one is female. But as we’ve grown we’ve tried very consciously to maintain a good balance. And never, not once, have we not hired the best person for the job. And we’ve never decided ahead of time that we needed to hire a woman or a man for a particular role. What we’ve done is make sure that everyone has an equal opportunity to be hired. And lo and behold, we’ve found that when you give a population that’s roughly 50% female an equal chance you end up with a roughly 50% female staff. It fluctuates from time to time, we’re currently at 36%, and we’ve been as high as 80%. (Ironically, we’re also currently at our whitest, a fact I’m sure you’ll be glad to point out to me in the comments.) But the point isn’t to aim for a certain percentage. The point is to foster an environment where different viewpoints are not just welcomed, but encouraged. And when women apply here they see themselves reflected in who’s interviewing them, making this feel like a more welcoming place.]]></description>
<dc:subject>employment gender feminism culture diversity</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.bbc.com/news/business-31957015">
    <title>BBC News - Target follows rival Walmart in wage increase</title>
    <dc:date>2015-03-20T05:50:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bbc.com/news/business-31957015</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[US retail giant Target will raise the minimum wage it pays its employees to $9 (£6) an hour after rivals announced similar moves, according to reports.

The wage rise would begin at all of its 1,800 US stores in April.

The move follows announcements of wage increases by the world's biggest retailer Walmart and TJ Maxx owner TJX last month.

US labour groups have been petitioning for a "living wage" at retailers and fast food restaurants.

The US federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour has not increased since 2009 despite efforts by US President Barack Obama to boost workers' earnings.

Target has said that it pays higher than the federal minimum wage in all its stores.

The company did not respond to BBC requests for comment.]]></description>
<dc:subject>target business employment economics economy inflation</dc:subject>
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    <title>The Fed won’t be ‘patient’ anymore. Here’s what that really means.</title>
    <dc:date>2015-03-19T01:39:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/03/18/how-to-understand-what-the-federal-reserve-really-said/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In all, it’s been a pretty masterful end to the Fed’s forward guidance. That started in December 2012, when it told markets it wouldn’t raise rates above zero before unemployment fell below 6.5 percent. It continued last year, when unemployment had almost fallen to 6.5 percent, and it said it wouldn’t raise rates above zero until a “considerable time” after it finished buying bonds. Then in December, after it’d finished buying bonds, it said it would be “patient” about raising rates above zero. And now even that’s gone. The Fed is back to, well, normal monetary policy where we don’t know what it will or won’t do every meeting. That the Fed’s been able to pull this off without freaking out markets any step of the way is pretty impressive.

But let’s see how markets handle it when the Fed does raise rates—although that might not be for awhile longer.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://esoltas.blogspot.com/2015/03/sleepless-over-seattle.html">
    <title>Evan Soltas</title>
    <dc:date>2015-03-18T04:06:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://esoltas.blogspot.com/2015/03/sleepless-over-seattle.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Here's the bottom line: The current data don't show declines in food-service employment or in food-service establishments in Seattle. Maybe they will in the future, or maybe they won't. I will be watching both measures and will keep you posted.]]></description>
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