This Week’s Top Hits

Erica Groshen, a senior economic adviser at ILR and a former commissioner of the BLS, explained that revisions to the job report are “not a bug; they are a feature” of the government’s data-gathering.

This opinion piece highlights an article written last year by Alexander Colvin, dean of ILR, which noted that in employment cases, employees do worse in arbitration than in court.

In this opinion piece, Susan Woods of the ILR Buffalo Co-Lab discusses The American Dream.

Art Wheaton, director of labor studies at the ILR Buffalo Co-Lab, says “If you had it for decades and you gave it up in the last negotiations, it's not unreasonable to ask to get it reinstated. But I don't think it's achievable.”

Harry Katz, professor of collective bargaining, discusses the ongoing Boeing labor negotiations.

The Yang Tan Institute on Employment and Disability says that about half of the adult blind U.S. population isn’t employed.