The New York Times | Neil Irwin
Inequality is being driven by the sharp upward movement of the very top of the income distribution.
The Guardian | Nicole Kobie
We need to decide now what the IoT will look like, how it will protect our privacy, and just how much help we really want from it.
The New York Times | Margaret Sanger-Katz
People in unequal communities were more likely to die before the age of 75 than people in more equal communities.
The Brookings Institution | Jonathan Rauch
The elements are already in place for a step-change in the years ahead.
U.S. News & World Report | Mort Zuckerman
Productivity has been rising for two decades but the benefit has been confined to the already well-off.
The Conversation | Jake Rosenfeld
Recent successes by these organizations reveal the importance of a revitalized labor movement for the nation’s economic and civic health.
The Washington Post | Ana Swanson
Home prices in cities around the U.S. have been growing at about 13 times faster than wages since rebounding in 2012.
Fast Company | Ainsley O’Connell
It’s called Designing Your Life
The New York Times | Thomas B. Edsall
There are disagreements over how many poor people there are and the conditions they live under.
Republic 3.0 | Anne Kim
Online education has become an increasingly mainstream part of the higher education landscape.
The Brookings Institution | Elizabeth Kneebone and Natalie Holmes
The Brookings Institution | Tom Loveless
The reports covers the gender gap in reading, reading achievement, and student engagement.
McKinsey & Company | Nicolas Denis, David Fiocco, and Jeremy Oppenheim
How to build a food sector that propels economic growth, meets demand, and helps to maintain social stability?
The Washington Post | Larry Downes
The National Broadband Plan defined and refined policies to accelerate broadband deployment, adoption and technical advancement.
The Conversation | Thomas More Smith
More than 50% of all workers are employed by very large companies.
The Brookings Institution | Kenan Fikri and Devashree Saha
Advanced industries are the driving force behind an innovative, inclusive, and prosperous U.S. economy.
The New York Times | Natasha Si
Is the digital revolution in the classroom giving the education technology industry carte blanche to exploit student data?
The Brookings Institution | Julia Gillard and Fred Dews
Former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard discusses overcoming barriers to achieving universal education and why quality of education matters.
Re/code | Ina Fried
Gates talked to Re/code about computers with greater-than-human intelligence.
MSNBC | Steve Benen
Target, along with several of the nation’s largest retailers, has raised its minimum wage.
Pew Research Center | Jacob Poushter
A report of 32 emerging and developing countries looks at how the increasing use of the internet affects people’s daily lives.
The Conversation | Alex Thomasson
Today’s agriculture has transformed into a high-tech enterprise that most 20th-century farmers might barely recognize.
The Brookings Institution | Jennifer Bradley
We must prepare America’s diverse workforce for tomorrow.
Forbes | Emma Johnson
Tonya Lanthier launched DentalPost.net, a job site for the dental industry.
Fast Company | Ben Schiller
The future grid could be like an energy Internet” where the traditional hierarchies are overturned.
The Brookings Institution | Kena Fedorschak, Kevin C. Desouza and Gregory Dawson
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and the Internet of Things (IoT) should change the way that government functions.
The Washington Post | Robert J. Samuelson
Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee: Progress is going to leave behind some people
The National Academies Press | Nicholas M. Donofrio and Kate S. Whitefoot
Collaborative actions between government, industry, and education institutions can help ensure that the U.S. thrives.
The Washington Post | Harold Meyerson
At the rate that new jobs are now popping up, we should be seeing at least some increase in Americans’ take-home pay.
McKinsey & Company | Luis Enriquez, Ina Kota, and Sven Smit
Despite tempered expectations, most forecasters see strong growth ahead, accelerating in 2016.
Forbes | Niall McCarthy
Today, the level of student debt across the United States stands at a whopping $1.3 trillion, possibly more than the rest of the world combined.
The New York Times | Joe Nocera
A new book is both a stinging indictment of the university business model and a prediction about how technology is likely to change it.
Center for Global Business and Government | Matthew Slaughter and Matthew Rees
The forces of creative destruction appear to be gathering, not waning, in higher education.
