Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers argues that robotization will benefit society, but only if workers are protected.

With its aging population and falling birth rate, Japan’s embrace of the robotics revolution reveals ominous signs for employment.

This Chicago Tribune article on the city’s decaying bridges points up the need for infrastructure spending across the country.

Without social democratic protections, the digital workplace will not lead to better lives for workers.

Anti-Mexico trade rhetoric ignores the large amount of manufacturing displacement occurring within the U.S. In particular, Southern states are draining manufacturing jobs from traditional Midwestern manufacturing centers.

So argues former Italian Treasury official Laura Pennachi in this article for the website Social Europe. Pennachi argues instead for guaranteed jobs.

If you let a chimpanzee go at a typewriter keyboard long enough, he will eventually write Hamlet, it is said. Likewise, even the Accidental President, in his errant flailings, may inadvertently do something helpful for American workers. This Washington Post piece looks at a possible timetable for the implementation of Trump’s promised trillion-dollar infrastructure plan.

California agriculturalists face a labor shortage without the immigrants who make up ½ of their labor force, half of them undocumented. Native-born Americans cannot be lured into the fields, farm and vineyard owners tell the L.A. Times, in spite of wages of $15 per hour and more.

Exurban logistics centers offer employment opportunities, but inner-city job seekers lack transportation. (The Social Democrat would employ active labor market initiatives to connect the jobless with opportunities, including adequate transportation, if necessary.)

6.4 million American workers can find only part-time employment. This “involuntary part-time” workforce is 44% higher than in 2007.

Though several states have raised their minimum wage rates above the federal level, only a substantially increased federal minimum will bring fairness to American workers.

Sears has not made a profit since 2011 and has shed a large number of stores. Fate of employees?

Testimony of Jared Bernstein, former chief economic advisor to Vice President Joe Biden, before Congress’s Joint Economic Committee, on barriers to full economic inclusion in the United States.

A very comprehensive treatment, from the Economic Policy Institute, of the differential in wages between men and women.