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Automating Inequality
The State of Indiana denies one million applications for healthcare, foodstamps and cash benefits in three years―because a new computer system interprets any mistake as “failure to cooperate.” In Los...
Computers, Employment, Future of Work, Inequality, Unemployment  Virginia Eubanks
The full-time job is disappearing—is landing the right gig the new American Dream? One in three American workers is now a freelancer. This “gig economy”—one that provides neither the guarantee...
Forecasting, Future of Work, Inequality, Unemployment  Sarah Kessler
Every working person in the United States asks the same question, how secure is my job? For a generation, roughly from 1945 to 1970, business and government leaders embraced a...
Future of Work, Inequality, Unemployment  Louis Hyman
Robots, artificial intelligence, and driverless cars are no longer things of the distant future. They are with us today and will become increasingly common in coming years, along with virtual...
Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Employment, Future of Work, Robotics, Unemployment  Darrell M. West
Since 1973, our productivity has grown almost six times faster than our wages. Most of us rank so far below the top earners in the country that the "winners" might...
Economics, Employment, Future of Work, Unemployment  Ellen Ruppel Shell