Labor Policy & Unemployment

A Women carries fire wood on her head as she walks below Eskom's Elecricity pylons in Soweto, South Africa. August 8,2016. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko - RTSMORN

Foresight Africa: Join the conversation on the top priorities for Africa in 2017

Monday, January 9, 2017

Foresight Africa: Top priorities for the continent in 2017

Monday, January 9, 2017

Increasing employment opportunities

Haroon Bhorat, Karmen Naidoo, and Arabo Ewinyu

Monday, January 9, 2017

A man shovels snow during a winter storm in Ottawa, Canada, February 16, 2016. REUTERS/Chris Wattie TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RTX279LK

Colder-than-normal December suppresses jobs growth

Jonathan Wright

Friday, January 6, 2017

Hutchins Roundup: Veterans’ disability benefits, neighborhood effects, and more

Anna Malinovskaya and David Wessel

Thursday, January 5, 2017

Angelica Cervantes, 36, (R) and her son Tomas Cervantes, 6, sit in a motel room, in Port Hueneme, some 65 miles northwest of Los Angeles, California February 28, 2012. Benita Guzman, 40, and her niece Cervantes are homeless but stick together in an effort to keep their children together as a family, and not taken away and separated in foster homes. After three weeks of sleeping at a campsite, the family could no longer afford a rental van to ferry the kids to school and had to find a cheap motel room for the night, so the children could walk to school. Picture taken February 28, 2012. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson (UNITED STATES - Tags: SOCIETY) - RTR2Z3W6

Helping work reduce poverty

Tuesday, January 3, 2017

A man walks his dog past a mural depicting factory workers in Chicago.

Job gains continued in 2016, but slow rebound in participation rate will limit future gains

Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Amazon employees are pictured outside the Amazon Go brick-and-mortar grocery store without lines or checkout counters, in Seattle Washington, U.S. December 5, 2016. REUTERS/Jason Redmond - RTSUU26

Automation beyond the factory

Jack Karsten and Darrell M. West

Thursday, December 15, 2016

Louisville Assembly Plant employees work to assemble the new 2013 Ford Escape on the production line in Louisville, Kentucky, June 13, 2012. REUTERS/John Sommers II/File Photo - RTSGGVI

Unusually warm November coupled with strong employment growth from a year ago distort November 2016 jobs report

Jonathan Wright

Friday, December 2, 2016

Fast food worker Rogelio Hernandez, 72, who works at Carl's Jr., has a wife and four kids, and earns roughly $290 every two weeks, participates in a "Fight for $15" wage protest in Los Angeles, California, U.S. November 29, 2016. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson - RTSTVCC

How Trump could unintentionally raise the minimum wage in your city

Harry J. Holzer

Tuesday, November 29, 2016