Corporations Are People: Under the Trump Tax Plan, We Might All Want to Become Corporations

Corporations Are People By NEIL IRWIN April 28, 2017 Corporations are people, Mitt Romney once told us. But if the Trump administration’s tax plan were to become law, in the future a whole lot of people may just become corporations. That’s...

Automation Nation: Evidence That Robots Are Winning the Race for American Jobs

Automation Nation By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER March 28, 2017 Who is winning the race for jobs between robots and humans? Last year, two leading economists described a future in which humans come out ahead. But now they’ve declared a different winner:...

Equal Pay for Men and Women? Iceland Wants Employers to Prove It

By LIZ ALDERMAN March 28, 2017 REYKJAVIK, Iceland — On a chilly afternoon in October, Frida Ros Valdimarsdottir, a former home-care worker turned women’s rights advocate, left her office at exactly 2:38 p.m. and headed to Reykjavik’s main...

Women’s Work: How to Close a Gender Gap: Let Employees Control Their Schedules

How to Close a Gender Gap: Let Employees Control Their Schedules By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER February 7, 2017 Erin Fahs, 33, works from her home in Fort Myers, Fla., while her daughter Amelia, 2, plays. She found the job through Werk, a job site for skilled...

Women’s Work: How to Close a Gender Gap: Let Employees Control Their Schedules

How to Close a Gender Gap: Let Employees Control Their Schedules By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER February 7, 2017 Erin Fahs, 33, works from her home in Fort Myers, Fla., while her daughter Amelia, 2, plays. She found the job through Werk, a job site for skilled...