Views Differ on How ACA Repeal Could Affect Employment

The ACA and the Labor Market: Why Full-Time Employment Growth Hasn't Stalled

Full-time workers have not faced a dramatic decrease in hours. Learn why the ACA and the labor market haven't changed as dramatically as predicted.

The Facts on Employment

How The Sexes Differ On Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Big tech companies and their CEOs are celebrating new 100% Work From Home policies. But new research indicates dark costs to adopting such policies.

Why has employment been so slow to recover?

Work is fundamental to American society and human flourishing. That is why today’s labor shortage and low labor force participation rate are so troubling.

Why the road to full employment is lined with food banks

Economists say a low joblessness rate is not necessarily a sign of a healthy economy

The Return of Self-Employment?

Most people in the United States work for someone else, but a portion of the population works only for themselves. Despite the many...

Should I sign that employment contract?

What to do if a company asks you and other new employees to sign away your rights

Are Your Employment Policies Too “Chilling?”

An increasingly proactive National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB“) has struck down several common workplace employment policies followed by many...

Does everyone really need a job? Why we should question full employment

Does everybody really need to work? What three philosophers have to say about our dedication to finding everybody a job.

Are We At Full Employment? State EPOPs Suggest Otherwise

CEPR is a non-partisan think tank focused on providing data based analysis of the most important economic and social issues.

How Schools Are Failing Workers—And 10 Ways to Fix It

Express Employment Professionals is releasing 10 recommendations today to help schools better train students for the demands of the modern workforce. According to the latest report from the Bureau …

Does Age Discrimination Contribute to America's Employment Problem?

The labor participation rate is much lower than it has been in thirty years. There is a record number of people that have given up looking for work.

The Effects of a Minimum-Wage Increase on Employment and Family Income

Raising the minimum wage would increase family income for many low-wage workers, moving some of them out of poverty. But some jobs for low-wage workers would probably be eliminated and the income of those workers would fall substantially.

How would a Right-to-Work law benefit Delawareans?

Manufacturing employment was one of Delaware’s strengths. Today, only 6% of our workers are employed in manufacturing, compared with more than 12% on average in other states.

This Is How Millennials View Work (Infographic)

A new survey explores how the increasingly influential generation sees their contributions to the working world.

Where Did We Go Wrong? Planning for issues in employment agreements

When drafting executive agreements, it is easy to focus almost exclusively on benefits and wages, the popular areas, without properly addressing some...

Are we there yet? Full employment draws closer, one jobs report at a time

Job creation has been stronger than expected but is starting to bump up against the limits of what’s possible, economists say.

Research shows minimum wage hikes were followed by employment increases

An incredibly simplistic argument breaks out every time liberal groups push to raise the federal minimum wage.

What are unions hiding on minimum wage? Our view

In L.A., labor wants to exempt unionized workplaces. Similar exemptions are being inserted into minimum wage laws in other places.

Our View: Sick-time compromise shows how government is supposed to work

A bipartisan agreement on an issue that matters to people's lives represents a giant step away from legislative dysfunction.