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...
But this perspective is muddled considerably if the lens is extended beyond short-term rates. Real 10-year yields are now at a 5-month low, during which period the S&P500 has climbed by 6%, taking it close to an all-time high. Financial conditions have hence eased considerably, while the...
It’s now been ten days since the United States assassinated top Iranian General Qasem Soleimani near the Baghdad airport, and we still have no coherent explanation of why it was done, why it was legal, and what strategy the assassination is a piece of. Apparently even Congress hasn’t bee...
day strike by 200 nurses at Montefiore Health Sys- tem's hospital in New Rochelle Dec. 1 and 2, the New York State Nurses Association and the bosses are back at the negotiating table. Front and center is the nurses' fight for more hiring and the safety of their patients and themselves....
#ByeIvanka is a bit harsh, but you have to wonder at the administration’s decision to make her the face of skills-based hiring. The implication seems clear: The federal government is doing away with “outdated career or licensure requirements” so that it can hire more relatives of well-...
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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 ...
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...
Two aspects of the problem are more complicated than just changing a few rules and hiring better people: The institutional culture of police departments needs to change. The tasks that belong to police departments need to be rethought. Both of these are too big for a few paragraphs at the en...