by Amy E. Slaton | Jan 18, 2010 | Higher Ed
MIT has just issued a lengthy report on its hiring and promotion of underrepresented minority faculty, a document several years in the making. I will be writing more about this report in the next few days, trying to put it in historical perspective. MIT may be...
by Amy E. Slaton | Jan 6, 2010 | Job Creation, Policy
In a piece on NPR the other day on Where the Jobs Will be This Decade, Harvard labor economist Lawrence Katz made a vital point about the “polarization” of American labor markets. That term might sound dry or technical, but Katz guides us towards some...