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Concierges, adjunct professors, potato chip tasters: US employers are relying more and more on 'disposable' workers - Paul Osterman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

1 day ago

The typical gig worker is changing – and struggling more than ever to make ends meet -- Jacob Lederman, University of Michigan Flint

1 day ago

Trump administration's Freedom 250 organization allegedly misdirected donors away from bipartisan America250 charity -- Sarah Webber, University of Dayton

5 days ago

Family feud over Chadwick Boseman's estate highlights 3 lessons for grieving families -- Reid Kress Weisbord, Rutgers University - Newark and Naomi Cahn, University of Virginia

14 days ago

Before Trump, some states had already ended affirmative action for contractors – here's what happened -- Ben Rosa, University of Michigan

5 days ago

What critics of college athletes making money get wrong about name, image and likeness policies -- Brennan Berg, University of Mississippi

5 days ago

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6 months ago

Oil shortages escalate from wars in Iran and Ukraine, with few signs of relief -- Amy Myers Jaffe, New York University; Tufts University

5 days ago

Emerging Houthi–Al-Shabaab co-operation and the growing threat to Red Sea shipping -- Brendon Novel, Université de Montréal

2 months ago

What's in the price of a gallon of gas? -- Robert I. Harris, Georgia Institute of Technology

3 months ago

War in the Middle East made the case for renewables – what's happening in each country tells a harder story -- Ezgi Canpolat, Harvard University

4 months ago

UAE's OPEC exit has been long in the works – and may mark the beginning of a Gulf realignment -- Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Rice University

3 months ago

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4 months ago

Americans feel the sting of high prices every day, so why does the Fed need so many ways to measure inflation? -- Brandy Hadley, Appalachian State University and D. Brian Blank, Mississippi State University

11 days ago

A government fund of AI stocks to benefit all Americans is a good idea, but hard to pull off -- Patrick J. Schena, Tufts University

10 days ago

Why many older Americans are losing ground even with an 80-year-old president -- Nina A. Kohn, Syracuse University and Naomi Cahn, University of Virginia

1 month ago

Trump administration changes to 'public charge' rule could keep millions of immigrants – and their US citizen kids – from getting healthcare they need -- Medha D. Makhlouf, Penn State and Nicole Kreisberg, Penn State

15 days ago

Featuring Trump on US coins and bills would put America in rare company -- Jacques Hymans, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences; University of Southern California

23 days ago

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2 years ago

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1 year ago

There's a business case for companies to embrace sustainability – if it's pitched the right way -- Israa Ameen Thiab, Rochester Institute of Technology and Clyde Eiríkur Hull, Rochester Institute of Technology

14 days ago

Why employers still place a premium on people skills, not AI, when they make hiring decisions -- Murugan Anandarajan, Drexel University and Cuneyt Gozu, Drexel University

21 days ago

AI data center boom is leaving consumer electronics short of chips − even though they don't use the same kinds -- Vidya Mani, University of Virginia; Cornell University

3 months ago

Longtime Exxon CEO Lee Raymond's legacy of climate denial and misinformation lives on – a psychologist offers ways to counter it -- Joe Árvai, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

1 month ago

Surge pricing is broken – but there's a smarter way to match gig workers with consumers -- Christopher S. Tang, University of California, Los Angeles; David Dobrzykowski, Auburn University, and Nicolo Masorgo, Miami University

1 month ago

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2 years ago

Most American workers are checked out, and like 'The Office,' their bosses are the last to know -- Bob Batchelor, Coastal Carolina University

1 month ago

So your new 'co-worker' is an AI agent – here's how to make the best of your human-machine relationship -- Nigel Melville, University of Michigan

3 months ago

For the nearly 1 in 4 US adults with chronic pain, employers' expectations of a healthy body can lead to shame -- Beth Schinoff, University of Delaware and Elana Feldman, UMass Lowell

4 months ago

Hybrid work is not always the golden compromise employees expect – even as more companies implement it -- Radostina Purvanova, Drake University and Alanah Mitchell, Drake University

2 months ago

Workplace relief is coming for employees with symptoms of menstruation, perimenopause and menopause in Philly -- Ann Juliano, Villanova University

4 months ago

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2 years ago

Got money questions? How to get chatbots to give you accurate answers -- Pawan Jain, University of Michigan Flint

10 days ago

Your bank's AI just blocked your payment – what can you do? -- Pragati Awasthi, Drexel University

2 months ago

What oil, stocks and bonds are telling us about the Iran conflict and how long it might last -- Daniele D'Alvia, Queen Mary University of London

5 months ago

When managing your money, take a chatbot's 'confidence' with a grain of salt -- Pawan Jain, University of Michigan

1 month ago

International aid groups are dealing with the pain of slashed USAID funding by cutting staff, localizing and coordinating better -- Sarah Stroup, Middlebury College and Jennifer Hadden, Brown University

6 months ago

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1 year ago

US giving grew 3% in 2025, crossing the $600B mark for the first time -- Jon Bergdoll, Indiana University

1 month ago

Nonprofit fraud: Amid high-profile prosecutions, an accountant explains what's really going on -- Sarah Webber, University of Dayton

2 months ago

Why Americans give: New research finds 5 distinct profiles for generosity -- George E. Mitchell, Baruch College, CUNY

4 months ago

America's nonprofit sector is pushing back against an 'authoritarian playbook' -- Christopher Justin Einolf, Northern Illinois University

2 months ago

Getting $750 a month didn't end homelessness – but our study shows it still improved the lives of homeless people -- Benjamin F. Henwood, University of Southern California

4 months ago

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1 year ago

Trump administration is withholding more than $1B in Medicaid funds from California and Minnesota, in latest example of weaponizing real and imagined fraud -- Ben Zdencanovic, University of Cambridge

8 days ago

Florida's proposed property tax amendment will require trade-offs – and some residents could end up with higher costs -- Abigail Hall, University of Tampa

12 days ago