The Workforce Pell Grant program, which goes into effect on July 1, expands the popular grants for low-income undergraduates into new territory, opening up eligibility to programs under 15 weeks. It’s ...

Even modern parents still debate over who works harder—the parent who works out of the home, or the parent who stays home with the kids. But experts say that conversations over who should take care ...

In a truly free market, there is no class conflict. In the presence of the state, however, things are different because various groups jockey with each other to ...

A federal grand jury in Michigan indicted a third defendant in an alleged forced labor conspiracy tied to the Kingdom of God Global Church, the Justice Department announced. Kathleen Klein, said to ...

Labor divided into the production of different goods or even into various tasks involved in the production of a single good is one of the earliest observations on the nature of human civilization.

The Department of Labor is under scrutiny after posting a social media message that closely mirrors a Nazi slogan. Experts have flagged other examples of the Trump administration echoing white ...

Roles of men and women at work. Image by Tim Sandle. Roles of men and women at work. Image by Tim Sandle. Global data appears to explain why cultural beliefs about the skills and personality traits of ...

The pace of job growth cooled through mid-2025, while the unemployment rate rose relatively little. This seeming puzzle is explained by an even stepdown of labor supply and demand, meaning slowing ...

This useful study develops an individual-based model to investigate the evolution of division of labor in vertebrates, comparing the contributions of group augmentation and kin selection. The model ...

US trade restrictions targeting labor rights concerns in foreign countries and their potential effects on US competitiveness have expanded again in recent months, widening the field of trade risks ...

The office of the Labor Department’s inspector general said Wednesday it was initiating a review of challenges the Bureau of Labor Statistics faces in collecting and reporting US economic data ...

In a rare near-unanimous vote, the U.S. Congress passed the landmark Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) in December 2021. Since coming into force in June 2022, the law has banned the import of ...