Job displacements hurt workers for a long time, lessons learned from the racial justice activism of 2020, and a setback for U.S. interests.
| Middle Eastern autocrats embarrassed Biden at will “The visit may have been pointless and performative, but it was also a major setback for American interests, confirming what many long suspected: Supposed allies can disrespect, embarrass, and undermine the United States at will,” argues Shadi Hamid in his latest op-ed about President Biden’s visit to the Middle East. Read more |
| Lessons learned from the post-George Floyd protests A lot has been written about the scope and scale of the protests after the murder of George Floyd, but much less is known about what led to the increased diversity of the participants who took to the streets. Dana Fisher discusses why these protests were so much bigger and more diverse than previous waves of activism in the United States. Read more |
| Job displacements hurt workers across the board Though all workers suffer profound immediate and long-term earnings effects when they are displaced, those effects are not distributed equally across U.S. demographic groups. Ariel Gelrud Shiro and Kristin Butcher explore the impact of a job displacement on earnings by a worker’s race, education level, and parental income. Read more |
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