The Washington Post | Catherine Rampell
Employers are increasingly requiring a bachelor’s degree for positions that didn’t used to require baccalaureate education.
USA Today | Lisa Kiplinger
More than 6 in 10 people ages 18 to 29 don’t have a single credit card in their wallets.
The New York Times | David Leonhardt
Over the last decade, dozens of colleges have proclaimed that recruiting a more economically diverse student body was a top priority.
Center for Global Business and Government | Matthew Slaughter and Matthew Rees
At the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Annual Symposium, leading academics puzzled about the health-or lack thereof-in labor markets.
Fortune | Chris Matthews
GDP growth has been tepid since 2009, but the decline in the unemployment rate has been relatively swift.
WGBH | Boston Public Radio Staff
People are using services like Rent the Runway, Zipcar, and Airbnb to create value in dormant property, and to have use of valuable property at less cost.
Federal Reserve Bank of New York | Jaison R. Abel and Richard Deitz
Today, many people are uncertain whether going to college is such a wise decision.
The Washington Post | Dominic Basulto
All the hot areas of the technology industry – from big data to computer search algorithms – draw intensely on the field of mathematics.
The New York Times | Joe Nocera
Beth Macy’s new book highlights the effects of globalization where furniture making was once king.
Los Angeles Times | Sara Horowitz
The 40-hour workweek and its employer-provided benefits – were the foundation of our economy. That was then. Now, independent work is the new normal.
Gallup | Rebecca Riffkin
College graduates are the most likely group to get a sense of identity from their job, perhaps because education opens up job opportunities.
The New York Times | Neil Irwin
It is easier to see the jobs that are endangered by emerging technologies than it is the opportunities for new jobs those technologies will create.
Wall Street Journal | John Doerr
This year more than 750 million educational apps will be installed world-wide.
Harvard Business Review | Karen Mills
The health of American small businesses depends significantly on credit.
Wall Street Journal | Josh Zumbrun
The Skills Gap” rest with employers
The New York Times | David L. Kirp
The process of teaching and learning is an intimate act that neither computers nor markets can hope to replicate.
The Washington Post | Joel Kotkin
Opportunity cities” offer urbanity as an engine of upward mobility for the middle and working classes.
Global Innovation Index | Soumitra Dutta, Bruno Lanvin, and Sacha Wunsch-Vincent
Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and Sweden topped this year’s Global Innovation Index. The U.S. comes in at number six.
Fast Company | Dr. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
Millennials want to work on their own terms–without a bad boss micromanaging their every move.
The Atlantic | Graeme Wood
A tech entrepreneur thinks he can reinvent higher education.
The New York Times | Molly Wood
With these new personalized shopping sites, the magic comes from data.
The Washington Post | Dana Milbank
This fractious nation is united by one thing: lost faith in the United States.
The New York Times | Room for Debate
It’s still unclear exactly how and when 3-D printing will have an impact on our daily lives.
NPR | Elise Hu
Unlocking the data in the comments-using technology to show relationships between them and high occurrences of them-helped amplify some arguments.
The Week | Sarah Jaffe
People who lose full-time jobs aren’t the only unemployed Americans who need help.
FiveThirtyEight | Ben Casselman
There are now two unemployed workers for every job opening, down from about seven at the height of the unemployment crisis.
The New York Times | Quentin Hardy
Today’s dominant industrial ecosystem demands newer and better ways of collecting, shipping, and processing data.
Wired | Marcus Wohlsen
If we didn’t have to work anymore, what would we do?
Harvard Business Review | Andrew McAfee
Technology is leaving a lot of workers behind. Entrepreneurship and business innovation should be our first response to this phenomenon.
The New York Times | Paul Krugman
American inequality has become so extreme that it’s inflicting a lot of economic damage.
The Washington Post | Dominic Basulto
Researchers are developing RoboBees that would fly from flower to flower, picking up and then depositing pollen the way a real honeybee would.
Re/code | Amy Schatz
President Obama said that he’s uncomfortable with the idea of allowing Internet providers to sell fast-lane access to content companies.
Pew Research Center | Drew DeSilver
We can look to the recent past to get a sense for how technological change already has reshaped the U.S. workforce.
