#economy
# tech
Not only are robots stealing your job, more often than not, you're helping them with nowhere to go after receiving your pink slip...
# politics
Extreme inequality caused by runaway capital gains is eating away at the global economy. But high taxes on passive income won't be a panacea.
# tech
The next job in line to get automated seems to be line cooks, raising even more alarms about the future of work and the economy.
# politics
Companies are becoming so unreasonably picky that management experts and consultants are alarmed. Potential employees should be too.
# education
We're ignoring the fact that the professors who teach future generations are in deep financial holes and can't seem to get out.
# politics
People of faith contribute to society in countless ways. Fundamentalists, however, are a millstone around its neck.
# politics
Did the politicians and pundits who sing the virtues of corporate wisdom and privatization ever actually work for one?
# education
A study of over 2,000 students found some very disturbing facts about the American college system.
# politics
We know what ails us and how to solve it. We just seem unable and unwilling to take the next step and implement those fixes.
# tech
Being replaced by machines at work is no longer a utopian prediction. It's a grim reality for which our leaders haven't even tried to prepare.
# politics
Economic theory and reality keep colliding as the Great Recession unfolds, and Wall Street keeps pretending that the theory is winning.
# tech
If we want to guide out future and find our places in it, we need to take risks and dream big. Otherwise, we're doomed to decades of mediocrity.
# education
College was supposed to open doors to a bright future. Instead, it became a debt-generating Catch-22 for many.
# space
Exploring space creates new jobs and helps the economy. Simply going to space for the sake of going, doesn't.
# science
Politicians love to pretend the public's money is being wasted on pointless scientific experiments. In reality, all that research creates millions of jobs.
