Over the past three to four years, Facebook, Amazon, and Google have laid off tens of thousands of employees.

The University of Texas at Dallas has a video game program that enrolls hundreds of students.

Public opinion polls typically show that 67% to 70% of Americans support unions, yet only about 10% of American workers are union members.

For Black individuals born in the 1990s, the lifetime financial return on a college degree is indistinguishable from zero once student debt is factored in, according to research from the Federal Reser...

The percentage of the US population with a four-year college degree increased from the low 30s to nearly 40% over the last 10 to 15 years.

As early as 2017-2018, fashion buyers at large retailers like Nordstrom and Bloomingdale's were using AI to anticipate fashion trends, a task that was previously a high-paying human job.

Activist investors tend to punish publicly traded companies for increasing labor costs, even if those investments lead to higher profitability.

The job of a web developer has become increasingly commodified over the past 10 years, transitioning from a seller's market with high salaries to a buyer's market where talent can be hired from countr...

The Obama administration increased scrutiny and regulation of for-profit universities toward the end of its term.

Over the past 10 to 20 years, major pharmacy chains Walgreens and CVS have massively acquired independent pharmacies, contributing to industry consolidation.

Research from economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis found that the lifetime return on a college degree has been steadily dropping generation by generation when student debt is included.

Data from the New York Fed shows that the number of good-paying, non-degree jobs began to decline rapidly around 2002-2004 and never recovered, even 10 years after the Great Recession.

According to labor economist Larry Katz of Harvard, the wage premium for college graduates began to show significant heterogeneity starting in the early to mid-2000s, with the specific school and majo...

Starbucks, under Howard Schultz, was an early adopter of offering health coverage to part-time workers and provided valuable company stock to employees for one to two decades after its IPO.

The U.S. Department of Education provides public data on the median wages of graduates by university and major, 10 years after they first enrolled.

A pre-pandemic pilot program at The Gap, which gave managers larger labor budgets, successfully resulted in lower turnover, higher productivity, and increased sales, but the company chose not to expan...