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Despite work experience and training for people who are incarcerated, many worry about finding employment once they get out. What, then, does rehabilitation ...

According to reporting by The New York Times, attrition at Amazon warehouses is much higher than is typical in the warehousing and retail industry. Among the...

Juneteenth, commemorating the end of slavery, is now a federal holiday. Many federal workers get the day off today, but what about private employers? Plus, t...

From the BBC World Service: That’s because millions of people bought pets when COVID struck and many workers were instructed to work from home. But who will ...

In June, our documentary film selection for the “Econ Extra Credit” series is “The Prison in Twelve Landscapes.” It takes the approach of “visual poetry” to ...

The Federal Reserve is not expected to raise interest rates. But it turns out some of the Fed’s peers around the world are starting to put away their pandemi...

There’s new data on the changing views of where people want to live and work, given the experience of the pandemic year. The trends are those we’ve heard ane...

More than a year into the pandemic, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has released emergency standards for the workplace, but they’re only fo...

From the BBC World Service: Leaders gathering in Britain for the G-7 summit are expected to pledge the shots for lower-income nations as part of a global pus...

With the main talks on fixing infrastructure at an impasse, a side group of 10 Democrats and Republicans in the Senate say they’ve come up with a deal, altho...

The company that was building the Keystone XL oil pipeline has canceled the project. President Joe Biden had already revoked the pipeline’s permit. Plus, G-7...

The latest data point when it comes to what the post-pandemic future of work will look like: Facebook is giving more employees the option to keep working rem...

The World Bank is warning that the human potential of nearly 2 billion young people could be wasted because they can’t get training to help them recover from...

For many Black workers, there are particular concerns about going back to inequitable workplaces. Plus, the U.S. has recovered some of the ransom paid to tho...

The world’s biggest economies have agreed on a global minimum corporate tax rate of at least 15%. Part of that agreement concerns how multinational corporati...

And with it, $1.5 million. The scientist and conservationist says some of the money will go to Roots & Shoots, the youth program Goodall founded in 1991 that...

From Christopher Low, chief economist at FHN Financial: “We went into this number with economists expecting 675,000 hires. We got 559,000. I’d say that’s sti...

Shares of the movie theater chain nearly doubled in value yesterday, driven in part by stock purchases from retail investors. In a regulatory filing today, A...

From the BBC World Service: Brazil’s JBS, the world’s largest meatpacker, suffered a targeted attack which disrupted its operations in Australia, Canada and ...

We’ll hear from one economist who says we could see more than 10% GDP growth in the second quarter on an annualized basis, along with a recovery for the serv...