The aerospace and defense industry can close its talent gap by taking five actions to improve hiring, training, and workplace culture. Since the turn of the century, economists have crowned data as the new oil and the new gold. As business le...
Beyond inflation, economic activity indicators and labour market conditions should also play key roles in determining the path of interest rates. There isn’t much in support of rate cuts in the near term in that space. The US economy continues to grow at well over 2%, comfortably above trend...
Similarly, many professional-class people recall the low-paying jobs they held as teen-agers, or during the summers of their college years, and may regard the experience as a harmless hazing that welcomes young people into the workforce. But Vanessa is 33, and is not on the road to some ...
Post-slavery, whites provided low-paying, dangerous jobs for blacks, and generously treated some of them like human beings (as long as they behaved themselves). Since the Great Society, white taxes have paid the lion’s share of various forms of government assistance that help blacks survive ...
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Some significant changes need to be announced immediately, while the crowds are still in the streets. But problems this deep and old resist quick fixes. So the country needs a long-term plan, but that plan has to visibly begin right now. In Minnesota. In the specific case of George Floyd...
More immediately, a rocket attack near Kirkuk by an Iran-backed Iraqi militia killed an American contractor a week ago; the US retaliated with an airstrike on a militia base that killed 25; and pro-Iranian protesters then mobbed the US embassy in Baghdad. So now we’ve killed a major fi...
Say you’re working a full-time minimum-wage job, plus odd jobs nights and weekends. You are a productive member of society. You are paying payroll taxes, sales taxes, vehicle registration fees and other government levies. Still, as hard as you work, you can’t make ends meet. You may...
Also, people are finally starting to pay attention to the fact that many of the financial manipulations leading up to the crash were illegal, and that the bankers/criminals are either getting away with it or paying wrist-slap fines far smaller than their ill-gotten gains. Sometimes stage 1 ...
So going forward, paying officials to do you a favor will only be a crime if you do it stupidly. (“No, no, I’m tipping you for last week’s decision. Tomorrow’s decision is completely up to you. Do whatever you think is best.”) There’s been a lot of conservative rhetoric ...