The real value of a $15 minimum wage depends on where you live
Although most Americans back a higher minimum wage, wide disparities in local living costs make finding an appropriate rate difficult.
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Although most Americans back a higher minimum wage, wide disparities in local living costs make finding an appropriate rate difficult.
The vast majority of proposed amendments die quiet, little-mourned deaths in committees and subcommittees.
As we approach the 10th anniversary of the start of the Great Recession, five ways in which the U.S. workforce has changed over the past decade.
The great majority of Americans who vote on Election Day will use one of two basic technologies: “fill-in-the-bubble” and other optical-scan ballots, or touch-screen computers and other direct recording electronic systems.
All but five states will hold at least one primary this year, cementing the primary’s dominance over the older caucus system in the presidential nominating process. But compared to 2008, the last time both parties had open nomination contests, the voting started later this year and is a bit more spread out.
What the data show on bullying, drug and alcohol use, depression, violence and other common sources of parental concern.
Social Security has developed into one of the most popular federal programs, though that popularity is tempered by concern over its long-term financial outlook.
Over the next decade or two, the spread of robotics and machine intelligence likely will affect millions of U.S. workers in jobs long thought to be relatively immune to computerization.
Technological change already has reshaped the U.S. workforce — creating new job categories while others fade away.
In 1982, researchers studying the impact of nascent electronic-information services predicted much of what has since become commonplace.
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