#Brookings Institution

Author: Ledyard King / Source: USA TODAY Stacey Abrams will deliver the Democratic response to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address. Here’s what you should know about her. USA TODAY WASHINGTON – Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams has a lot going for her: a national following, a

Author: Tom Simonite / Source: WIRED There’s no doubt technology is shaking up the American workplace. Amazon employs more than 100,000 robots in its US warehouses, alongside more than 125,000 human workers. Sears and Brookstone, icons of brick and mortar retailing, are both bankrupt. But as

Author: Avie Schneider / Source: NPR.org Updated at 9:16 a.m. ET The markets are a mess but companies are still hiring — a lot. The economy ended the year by adding a much-stronger-than-expected 312,000 jobs in December — the biggest gain in 10 months, the Labor Department said Friday.

Author: Emily Badger / Source: New York Times In the end, even Amazon has behaved according to this rule: In the modern tech economy, cities that already have wealth, opportunity, highly educated workers and high salaries will just keep attracting more of them. Of all its options across North

It has been a scorched earth weekend in the PR war between Donald Trump and the FBI. In the aftermath of the report that the FBI’s top lawyer - and suspected FBI leaker - James Baker, had been reassigned, and at the same time as news hit that FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was set to retire as