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The Political Failure of Bidenomics
After Hillary Clinton’s defeat in 2016, most sensible Democrats realized they had a problem. The party was hemorrhaging support from the white working class. More than 60 percent of Americans over 25 do not have a four-year college degree; it’s very ...
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40 Years Ago, This Ad Changed the Super Bowl Forever
An oral history of Apple’s groundbreaking “1984” spot, which helped to establish the Super Bowl as TV’s biggest commercial showcase.
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Wanted: ‘New Collar’ Workers
The jobs require advanced skills but not necessarily advanced degrees, especially in emerging high-tech fields like A.I., electric vehicles and robotics.
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Former Coal Towns Get Money for Clean-Energy Factories
An Energy Department program designed to create jobs and manufacturing in communities reliant on fossil fuels is backing projects in West Virginia, Colorado and elsewhere.
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A Tale of Two Recoveries
The city has regained its lost private-sector jobs, but the new jobs don’t pay as well as the old ones, and middle-income New Yorkers are struggling.
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New York Has Regained Its Lost Jobs. Why Doesn’t It Feel That Way?
Mayor Eric Adams announced last week that the city recovered all of the jobs lost during the pandemic. Analysts say that’s only part of the story.
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Labor Groups Target Hyundai — and Biden — Over Transition to Electric
A coalition of unions and civic groups is pushing one of the world’s largest automakers to protect and train workers in return for federal money under President Biden’s signature laws.
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How to Make the Labor Market Work for More Americans
In one of the richest nations on earth, the path to prosperity has narrowed significantly in recent decades — especially for those without a college education. More than 62 percent of Americans ages 25 and up do not hold bachelor’s degrees, and the ...
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As Infrastructure Money Lands, the Job Dividends Begin
It has never exactly been boom times for the archaeology profession, but this past year comes close — thanks to Congress. Kim Redman runs Alpine Archaeological Consultants, a firm that searches for historically or culturally valuable artifacts in the ...
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Does ChatGPT Mean Robots Are Coming For the Skilled Jobs?
Will robots take away our jobs? People have been asking that question for an astonishingly long time. The Regency-era British economist David Ricardo added to the third edition of his classic “Principles of Political Economy,” published in 1821, a ...
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