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Could Indiana’s greatest economic strengths be its greatest weakness? It turns out that the sectors where Indiana is strongest are those most vulnerable to automation.
Many of us haven’t been to the office, eaten in a restaurant, attended a play, concert, or sporting event, or perhaps even shopped in person since the COVID-19 crisis fully emerged in March. While we yearn to go back to normal, we should use this disruptive slowdown to burnish our civic square.
For years, we’ve heard dire warnings that technology poses a threat to millions of workers’ jobs. But during the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve seen that technology can enable human work, the work of the future.
Forced by the COVID crisis to reassess how they serve their communities, our nation’s public libraries are finding new, innovative ways to enhance and expand their roles in our civic life.
See more on the work of the future—and how people can find and keep good jobs in an age of smart machines and artificial intelligence—in the new Jamie Merisotis book “Human Work in the Age of Smart Machines.” Coal didn’t come back. And it won’t. Efforts to revive industries that are being transformed by automation, […]
Not having the education required for today’s jobs poses a threat not only to our citizens but to our democracy. There is a strong correlation between levels of education and the allure of authoritarianism.
The COVID-19 pandemic has been devastating to millions of workers who have been furloughed from their jobs—or even worse, are now facing permanent job loss. The effects have been worst on those with the misfortune to work in travel, hospitality and leisure, and food service, but every American worker has been affected.
A recent report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics has affirmed one of the already-enduring legacies of the pandemic: If you have a college degree, your work makes you safer from the risks that COVID presents.
As some states begin sending out $300 supplemental unemployment checks to make up for the loss of extra federal benefit payments that ended in July, several—including New York and Pennsylvania—are boosting investments in new strategies for integrating work and learning.
Political and cultural divides are sharply defined right now, and they’re reinforced constantly—often corrosively—by our social media feeds. It’s a troubling time, one that makes many of us wonder if we’ll ever again be able to honestly use the language of America’s birth: One nation. Indivisible. E pluribus unum.