Wages And Inflation Rise

Wages are up 4.5% in the US! Inflation is up 7.9%. Oops. Accounting for both, real wages are down 2.6%. Continue reading →

Data That Matters December 2021

In the most recent year, companies increased robot purchases by 37%, which may displace 85,000,000 jobs by 2025, but is Continue reading →

Robots Changing Workplace – December 2021

Robots began entering the workplace about sixty years ago. Since then, the trend has been accelerating. Technology advances have helped, Continue reading →

Data That Matters September 2021

Whether from a long-term separation between worker productivity and compensation, or due to the pandemic, etc., approximately 40% of US Continue reading →

Overwork Quantified

Some affects are so ubiquitous that we accept them without question or challenge. Of course many people complain about having Continue reading →

Data That Matters July 2020

Since data collection began, over half a million people (534,000) have died from Covid-19. The US ’employment-population’ ratio dropped to Continue reading →

Truly Unemployed US Citizens

The traditional unemployment numbers come with so many asterisks that we’re accustomed to ignore them. While the official US unemployment Continue reading →

Record US Unemployment May 1 2020

Every week has added to last month’s record US unemployment. Some recent weeks have singly been ten times the previous Continue reading →