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Employment Rate

Uber and Lyft drivers doing gig work as independent contractors. | Photo by Thought Catalog on Unsplash

Regulation

California's Attack on Gig Work Predictably Drove Workers Out of Jobs

Self-employment in California fell by 10.5 percent and overall employment tumbled by 4.4 percent after A.B. 5's implementation.

Eric Boehm | 1.18.2024 11:45 AM

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Marijuana

Drugs, Debt, and Masculinity

Plus: The editors wade into the conversation surrounding the modern dilemmas men face.

Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman | 10.10.2022 5:10 PM

U.S. workforce participation drops | Illustration: Lex Villena; Jhanganu

Unemployment

Americans Are Losing Their Work Ethic

Even reduced immigration and job openings for miles aren't luring America's ever-growing workforce dropouts back in.

Matt Welch | 10.7.2022 10:58 AM

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Employment

Two California Lawmakers Want To Mandate 32-Hour Workweeks

It’s great when innovations let us work less, but top-down, inflexible government demands are not the way to get there.

Scott Shackford | 4.11.2022 2:55 PM

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Reason Roundup

States Hope Labor Shortage Will Shrink as They Ditch Federal Unemployment Benefits

Plus: Remembering "sexual-subculture pioneer" Pat Bond, debunking gender gap hyperbole around jobs, and more...

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 5.12.2021 9:35 AM

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Coronavirus

Pandemic-Related Unemployment and Shutdowns Are a Recipe for Social Unrest

That's a huge concern as forecasters expect the U.S. unemployment rate in the months to come to surpass that seen during the depths of the Great Depression.

J.D. Tuccille | 3.27.2020 11:10 AM

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Women

There's a New Wage-Gap Myth Going Around and It Makes Women's Work Life Look Grim

But don't believe the dire diagnosis. New research shows a mixed bag of pay patterns for women-and men-over the past 50 years.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 12.4.2018 10:50 AM

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Occupational Licensing

Want More Jobs? Fight Occupational Licensing!

Eric Boehm | 12.10.2017 6:00 AM

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