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Economist Betsey Stevenson: Dads Seeking Time With Kids Will Drive Workplace Change
In a trend that has surprised social scientists, fathers are seeking better work/life balance and rejecting their pre-pandemic status as secondary parents – a movement that’s good for moms, too.
Mzukisi Qobo: The Old Mantra About Growth Has Reached Exhaustion
In this interview, Dr. Folashadé Soulé and Dr. Camilla Toulmin speak with Pr. Mzukisi Qobo. Pr Qobo is the Head of the Wits School of Governance, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa.
“We Are Running a Giant Experiment on Children”: Covid Deniers Put Kids at Risk
“Just learn to live with it” policies subject children to an experiment with a systemic disease that does serious and lasting damage, warns former NASA and DARPA technologist
Why Did the Taliban Take Over Afghanistan So Fast?
The Taliban was strategic in its use of violence, exercising restraint to influence military assessments of their capabilities in order to encourage more rapid withdrawals.
The One-Earth Balance Sheet
The Bureau of Labor Statistics Counted Only Eight Strikes in 2020, Payday Report Counted 1,200
In the era of COVID and digital movements, strikes look radically different from traditional labor strikes
The Economic Mechanism Behind the Populist Backlash to Globalization
The increase in populism that import competition causes has its roots in import competition’s adverse effects on local labor markets
Top Economist: As Pandemic Recedes, a Chance to Rethink Unemployment
Canadian economist Mario Seccareccia, recipient of this year’s John Kenneth Galbraith Prize in Economics, says it’s time to reconsider the idea of full employment. He spoke to Lynn Parramore of the Institute for New Economic Thinking about why 2021 offers a rare opportunity to rebalance the economy in favor of Main Street.
How Greedy Corporations Turn the Black American Dream into a Nightmare
The plight of white blue-collar workers is well-known, but Blacks in that category were feeling the squeeze long before their white counterparts.
America Hasn’t Reckoned with the Coup That Blasted the Black Middle Class
In 1898, upwardly mobile Blacks in Wilmington, NC were terrorized and slaughtered in a violent insurrection that set the stage for Jim Crow – and the next 123 years. Hardly anyone really knows about it.