Jan 12 4 economists evaluate Obama's economic legacy By Kristen Doerer Economics correspondent Paul Solman sat down with four economists to discuss President Obama's economic legacy. Continue reading
Jan 12 Column: Here's how Trump could tackle America's largest economic issues By Jim Stone Here are some directional shifts to hope for and some to fear in my five selected policy areas. Continue reading
Jan 10 Column: Social Security will reduce paper statements in 2017. Here's why it shouldn't By Philip Moeller The Social Security Administration just announced it would curtail sending paper statements to many people in order to save money. This is as bad an idea now as it was the last time the agency did this several years ago. Continue reading
Jan 09 The earnings gap between black and white men has barely shrunk in 30 years. Why? By Making Sen$e Editor Over the past 75 years, the racial gap in economic rank has narrowed sharply among men at the top of the earnings ladder, but changed very little among those at the middle and bottom. Continue reading
Jan 08 Prison strike organizers to protest food giant Aramark By Kamala Kelkar The people who organized the country’s biggest prison strike against what they call modern-day slavery have planned a protest of corporate food service company Aramark. Continue reading
Jan 06 Watch 7:50 Can the seafood industry get Americans to eat local fish? By PBS News Hour Off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, there’s not much cod left, but there’s plenty of dogfish. It’s a creature most Americans have never heard of, much less consumed. Instead, Americans are eating imported tuna, salmon and shrimp, in a… Continue watching
Jan 06 Column: Is the startup that calculates your expected salary gamification or Big Brother? By Wahyd Vannoni Most job hunting sites simply ask an applicant to upload a resume and then allow both applicants and recruiters to find the ideal match through searching for keywords. Adzuna, on the other hand, evaluates your resume in seconds and comes… Continue reading
Jan 06 Final jobs report under Obama shows slow, steady growth By Kristen Doerer That’s a wrap. December’s jobs report is the last for the Obama administration, and it ends on a high (if also predictable) note. Continue reading
Jan 05 Watch 8:28 How employers kill worker motivation and what they can do to change By PBS News Hour Bemoaning America’s productivity slowdown, behavioral economist Dan Ariely set out to find what really motivates us. Behavior is driven by emotion, he concluded, not rewards like money; the ability to help other people, feel that we’re useful, feel that we’re… Continue watching
Jan 05 Column: What I learned about motivation from being a teenage burn victim By Dan Ariely When behavioral psychologist Dan Ariely was asked to share his experience as a teenage burn victim, he couldn't say no. But he wondered: What could possibly motivate him to revisit the suffering he had endured?… Continue reading