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Tag: Labor Economics: Page 4
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Scholars: Despite Federal Economic Stimulus Package, Blacks and Hispanics Likely to Fare Worse
As talk of recession reached a fever pitch last week, lawmakers scrambled to re-energize a beleaguered economy by approving a $146 billion economic stimulus plan to get tax rebates to workers in May. But some scholars say other measures need to be taken to help minorities, who are being hardest hit by the mortgage meltdown and lack of jobs.
January 29, 2008
Community Colleges
Arkansas Community Colleges Team up for More Aviation Programs
NORTH LITTLE ROCK Ark. Several Arkansas community colleges are teaming up to increase aviation education in the state.
November 18, 2007
STEM
Inspiring the Next Generation of Scientists
If we want more minority STEM professionals, let’s address the dearth of minority math and science teachers who will serve as inspiration.
November 14, 2007
Students
Higher Education Must Fill the Void in Student Financial Management
This fall, thousands of college students started a new chapter in their lives. I can’t think of a better decision they could have made, because a college degree is an absolute necessity rather than a mere option.
October 16, 2007
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Income disparity raises gender role questions
More than 30 years after women entered the workplace en masse, they’re now out-enrolling men in colleges and sometimes out-earning their husbands in a fourth of American households in which both spouses work, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
September 17, 2007
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UC-Berkeley Study: Half of Black Employees in Low-Wage Jobs
The unemployment crisis in the Black community has been well documented. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in July that the Black unemployment rate was 8 percent, nearly twice the rate for Whites.
September 2, 2007
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Despite education, black workers still face challenges
With the unemployment rate at a twenty-eight-year low of 4.5 percent, and discussion of discrimination unpopula in this post-affirmative action era, scant attention has been focused on the unemployment rate gap and the differential status of African American workers. But yes, there is still an unemployment rate gap, and it widened — not narrowed — in the face of economic prosperity.
July 14, 2007
Latinx
Educated Immigrants Often Can’t Find Jobs that Match Skills
SAN FRANCISCO In Peru, Ines Gonzalez-Lehman directed a 14-person marketing team at a high-tech firm. After marrying an American and immigrating legally to the U.S., she found herself making copies and answering phones at the bottom of the corporate ladder.
July 12, 2007
STEM
Graduating in prosperous times
When Ed Wrenn pursued a bachelor’s degree in computer information systems at Florida A&M University, the young Boston-area native kept an unwavering watch on the job market. During his time at FAMU, Wrenn estimates that he had contact with nearly one hundred potential employers about jobs after college. By fall 1997, his last semester at FAMU. Wrenn had five job offers to consider.
July 12, 2007
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Academics shouldn’t be penalized for moving – that’s what Americans do
Perhaps more than any other country, American society gives its citizens freedom to move from place to place and from job to job. However in higher education, there is a strange irony. In a country which has one of the most mobile populations in the world (40 percent of the workforce changes jobs yearly), some faculty members, administrators, and board members look upon those who move frequently with a level of suspicion which denigrates otherwise excellent credentials. It seems that academia values freedom of thought only as long as all the thought is done in one place.
June 22, 2007
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21st century AD
Atlanta, GA When Morehouse College invited scholars to examine society’s lot, they passed the bitter sweet judgment that our age of technology is a double-edged sword. Responsible for the enhancement of life, new technology is also responsible for many unintended social consequences.
June 16, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Study: Immigrants Create Hi-Tech Firms, Not Take Jobs From Americans
In a new study, researchers from Duke University, the University of California-Berkeley, and the Kauffman Foundation show that there is a strong correlation between educational attainment in the STEM disciplines and innovation among immigrant founders of U.S.-based engineering and technology companies.
June 11, 2007
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