This Week’s Top Hits

Debora Wagner, senior extension associate with the Yang Tan Institute on Employment and Disability, discusses the challenges of using Supplemental Security Income.

“If this [ratification] does go through, it’ll be a major change,” said Kate Bronfenbrenner, Director of Labor Education Research.

Russell Weaver, an economic geographer at the Buffalo Co-Lab, says this jobs report, which showed an increase of 272,000 jobs – more than the 180,000 predicted – could show signs of “economic distress” and a mismatch between employers and household figures.

Erica Groshen, senior labor market advisor, discusses the two U.S. monthly jobs reports that show the labor market's performance.

To the extent that labor advocates are focused on AI, they are worried not mainly about job losses, but rather about potential AI-related harms, like algorithmic hiring bias and employer monitoring of workers, said Professor Virginia Doellgast.

According to John August, director of health care and partner programs, noncompetes have become “a big issue” in health care as physicians’ practices are being taken over by large health systems.