by dankeelan | Jun 17, 2025 | Skilled Trades, U.S. Economy
Trumpian types are unanimous: America needs factories. The president describes how workers have “watched in anguish as foreign leaders have stolen our jobs, foreign cheaters have ransacked our factories and foreign scavengers have torn apart our once beautiful...
by dankeelan | Jun 17, 2025 | Featured, Gig Workers, Human Rights
The agreement by the International Labour Organization (ILO) on June 13, 2025, to develop binding global standards on decent work in the “platform economy,” or gig work, is a positive breakthrough, Human Rights Watch said today. A majority of ILO member states and the...
by dankeelan | Jun 17, 2025 | Gig Workers, Media, Social Media
Meta is reportedly set to invest $15 billion to acquire a 49% stake in Scale AI, in a deal that would make Scale CEO Alexandr Wang head of the tech giant’s new AI unit dedicated to pursuing “superintelligence.” Scale AI, founded in 2016, is a leading data...
by dankeelan | Jun 10, 2025 | Jobs, Tariffs, U.S. Economy
U.S. job growth slowed in May amid uncertainty about the Trump administration’s import tariffs, but solid wage growth should keep the economic expansion on track and potentially allow the Federal Reserve to delay resuming its interest rate cuts. The ebbing labor...
by dankeelan | Jun 10, 2025 | Career, Featured, U.S. Economy
Nowadays, when Americans switch jobs, they’re not just making changes around the edges. Sixty-four percent of workers who switched jobs from 2022 to 2024 also changed careers, according to an Indeed study of 35 million profiles on the leading job site....
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