Should-Read: Nick Bunker: Weekend reading: “A jolt in the markets” edition: "This week marks the 25th anniversary of President Bill Clinton’s signing the Family and Medical Leave Act into law...
...As important as it has been, the FMLA alone does not meet the needs of today’s workers or the U.S. economy. Bridget Ansel and Heather Boushey argue that a “well-designed federal paid leave program based on a social insurance model” is the path forward. The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) released new data for December 2017 on Tuesday. Check out 4 key graphs on the labor market using data from the report. What would happen to the labor market if the federal government implemented a universal basic income? No one really knows. But new research looks at the labor market effects of an unconditional cash transfer program in Alaska – the Alaska Permanent Fund. As a part of an essay series on sexual discrimination and harassment in the new issue of The New Republic, Heather Boushey asks, “If men cannot overcome their sexism toward women when discussing the qualifications of female economists, then how can they assume that any job market—or any market—is free of discriminatory bias?”...
