Due to issues around sample size, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics does not include Native Americans in its monthly jobs report. Gabriel Sanchez, Robert Maxim, and Raymond Foxworth explain why this exclusion is harmful and help fill in the gaps on how these communities are doing in the economic recovery.
Based on conventional wisdom, one would expect that most people prefer humans to be the primary decisionmakers on issues, but in actuality, people opt for algorithms far more often than expected. Paying attention to what consumers want and why from decisionmaking algorithms will generate both better code and better governance, write Derek Bambauer and Michael Risch.
On the latest episode of the Brookings Cafeteria podcast, Fiona Hill and Angela Stent discuss Russia's re-emergence as a great power, and how economic change, deindustrialization, and other forces open doors for populist leaders to rise in places like Russia, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
Over the last two-plus decades, the narrative surrounding America's cities has changed dramatically. Places that were once looked at as sources of the nation's problems are now key leaders in national efforts to build a more equitable economy.
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