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(Kaiser Health News) Health care in America: an employment bonanza and a runaway-cost crisis

In many ways, the health care industry has been a great friend to the U.S. economy. Its plentiful jobs helped lift the country out of the Great Recession and, partly...

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(Society for Human Resource Management) Job satisfaction high, but employees not content with pay or workplace trust level

Nearly 9 in 10 employees say they're satisfied overall with their jobs, with workers noting that respectful treatment of employees—at all levels—is the leading contributor to satisfaction.

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(New York Times) As retail goes, so goes the nation

The profile of today’s angry working-class voter is someone who has found that tickets to middle-class life have run out because manufacturing jobs they once could live on have given way to...

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(New York Times) Today’s energy jobs are in solar, not coal

Last year, the solar industry employed many more Americans than coal, while wind power topped 100,000 jobs.

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(New York Times) Trump saved Carrier jobs. These workers weren’t as lucky

During Mr. Trump’s campaign, the fate of more than 2,000 Carrier jobs that the company wanted to move to Mexico from Indiana, including those in Huntington, were Exhibit A in...

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(National Public Radio) From risking his life to saving lives, ex-coal miner is happy to take the paycut

One day, he came across an online job posting for an ambulance driver with STAT Emergency Medical Services in Pineville, W.V. Though he'd never worked in the medical field, Wiley...

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(PBS NewsHour) Missouri’s blue-city, red-state divide over minimum wage

Some of the fiercest political battles are taking place between Democratic-controlled cities and Republican-led state legislatures over issues like minimum wage and plastic bag bans. Increasingly, those issues are decided...

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(Economic Policy Institute) Unemployment rate by state, March 2017

The unemployment rate measures the share of jobless persons in the labor force (the sum of employment and unemployed persons) and not the entire population. Persons who are not actively looking...

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(Human Resource Executive) Pulling the plug on lifetime benefits

After a court ruled that Honeywell wrongly denied lifetime healthcare benefits to some retirees, experts say employers should think twice before attempting to end similar programs.

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(Bloomberg) Faculty Focus: Your work friends are faking it

Guest Jessica Methot, an expert on workplace relationships at Rutgers University, discusses the value of even surface-level work connections, and drops some surprising science about which coworkers exhaust us the...

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(Harvard Business Review) The countries most (and least) likely to be affected by automation

The pace and extent of adoption will vary from country to country, depending on factors including wage levels. But no geography and no sector will remain untouched.

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(Los Angeles Times) Immigrants flooded California construction. Worker pay sank. Here’s why

Construction in Los Angeles has shifted from a heavily unionized labor force that was two-thirds white to a largely non-union one that is 70% Latino and heavily immigrant.

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