MAAH Stone Book Award Shortlist 5 Books to Supercharge Your Skillset This Summer (American Planning Association) Central Illinois professor, author recognized for work 13 years in the making (WCIA) The post Professor Gus Wood’s Class Warfar…
“While loading an order only takes a few minutes, restaurants that receive lots of robot-delivered orders might have an incentive to outsource the task to DoorDash, said Robert Bruno, a professor of labor and employment relations at the Uni…
“New report reveals cost of Trump tariffs on Wisconsin households. President Donald Trump’s tariffs in 2025 have cost the average Wisconsin household $1,095 and caused the loss of 3,910 manufacturing jobs statewide, according to a new repor…
Hospitals are seeing an uptick in workers pushing to form new union locals, following a seeming lull in labor activity since the several high-profile strikes by nurses and other unionized workers during and immediately after the COVID-19 pa…
PROJECT FOR MIDDLE CLASS RENEWAL | Cracking Open the “Black Box”: Education Technology Use in Illinois K-12 Schools “A 2023 survey of roughly 350 K-12 Illinois public school teachers about the presence of educational technology in the class…
“A study published by researchers at the Illinois Economic Policy Institute and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign last month found the tax would generate $3.8 billion in its first full year and $4.2 billion by 2030 — revenue es…
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“Wage inequities persist in Illinois’ workforce, although data suggests the state, on average, is doing better than others, according to a new report from the University of Illinois. The gender wage gap appears to have moderately improved f…
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