This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. High rates of teacher turnover are among the greatest barriers to building high-quality early childhood education (ECE) systems. In the United States, teachers working with the youngest learners turn over at much higher…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Before the 2020-21 school year, Christa Talbott, a 20-year veteran of New Orleans schools, had never considered leaving the profession she loved this early. But then came a dispiriting spring…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. An analysis of 1 million doctoral dissertations finds widespread bias against research that just seems feminine, even if it’s not explicitly about women or gender. For more than a decade,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When Sophia Huston started working as a hotshot — a specialized wildland firefighter with advanced technical training — she was 19 and didn’t know what she was getting herself into.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It is widely known that the earnings of workers without college degrees have stagnated in recent years and employment rates, especially among men, have strongly declined (Groshen and Holzer, 2021;…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Every year, 3.7 million students graduate from American high schools, and most head directly into the workforce, the military or a postsecondary learning experience. In June, 2021, 8.7 million Americans were…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The daily economic news cycle is awash with stories these days about the threat of automation and artificial intelligence to the future of work for hundreds of millions of U.S.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In a rare look at LGBTQ+ earnings, new data find that workers in the U.S. who identify as LGBTQ+ earn, on average, about 90 cents for every dollar the average worker makes. The…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Medical laboratory professionals form the backbone of health care and the public health system. They conduct some 13 billion laboratory medicine tests annually in the U.S. As of January 2022,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Despite a national nursing shortage in the United States, over 80,000 qualified applications were not accepted at U.S. nursing schools in 2020, according to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. This was due…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Monopsony occurs when employers are able to exploit labor market conditions to pay workers less than the value they contribute. Mounting evidence suggests more workers are subject to big employer…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In nearly every profession, women are paid less than men. In medicine, where detailed data on doctors’ productivity, hours worked, education, and experience are available and gender differences in these have been…