They say "labor shortage" like it's a bad thing. "America's labor shortage is approaching epidemic proportions, and it could be employers who end up paying," CNBC reported this week. That was before yet another monthly jobs report showing solid growth in jobs and wages. I always find this framing to be backward. A "labor shortage"... Continue Reading →

A beauty queen gave up her title after a skit was performed at the Miss Massachusetts competition that made fun of the #MeToo movement. Maude Gorman was one of the contestants in the Miss Massachusetts pageant earlier this month, when a crack about #MeToo was made on stage. Gorman, who said she was gang raped... Continue Reading →

The city of Fort Worth is paying homeless people to pick up trash as part of a unique program to clean up the city and turn lives around. Frank Crist, 53, earns $10 an hour to pick up litter in the area southeast of downtown where many homeless people live. He also gets paid vacation... Continue Reading →

These medical technologies are changing the future and providing alternatives for the medical world. Following is a transcript of the video. #1 The iWalk 2.0 is a hands-free crutch that helps with everyday tasks. It helps transfer the stress and strain of hands, wrists and underarms to your legs. #2 Bronchial Bronchial Thermoplasty System can... Continue Reading →

Surplus and Scarcity The planet is growing more food than ever, and yet millions of people continue to starve worldwide. People are hungry everywhere — in the country, in the suburbs. But increasingly, one of the front lines in the war against hunger is in cities. As urban populations grow, more people find themselves in... Continue Reading →

Timehop revealed that its security was breached and 21 million of its users' data was compromised. The company behind the app -- which shows what you shared, tweeted or Instagrammed in years past -- said it fought off a "network intrusion" on July 4, but the names, email addresses, and some phone numbers of its... Continue Reading →

Over the last decade we have become increasingly alarmed at the amount of plastic in our oceans. More than 8 million tons of it ends up in the ocean every year. If we continue to pollute at this rate, there will be more plastic than fish in the ocean by 2050. But where does all... Continue Reading →

Last Wednesday, researchers at Caltech announced that they created an artificial neural network from synthetic DNA that is able to recognize numbers coded in molecules. It’s a novel implementation of a classic machine learning test that demonstrates how the very building blocks of life can be harnessed as a computer. This is pretty mind blowing,... Continue Reading →

Social, economic, demographic, and public policy shifts have made Gen Xer and millennial retirement security a pressing concern. In this report, we combine data from multiple sources to project how various forces might play out over the next 30 years to shape the retirement security of late Gen Xers (born in the last half of... Continue Reading →

We’re now just four months, practically speaking, from the effective launch of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary season. As soon as the 2018 midterm election is in the books — win or lose — you’ll probably see a handful of the dozens of prospective candidates making moves or even launching campaigns to challenge President Trump.... Continue Reading →