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Trump’s New Data Chief Will Face Intense Scrutiny and a Shrunken Workforce

Bloomberg
Erica Groshen, ILR senior labor market advisor and former Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, provides insight on the agency’s challenges and staffing constraints.
Trump’s New Data Chief Will Face Intense Scrutiny and a Shrunken Workforce

Cayuga Medical nurses overwhelmingly voted to unionize: Why this matters to us

The Ithaca Voice
In this op-ed, Rosemary Batt, ILR professor emerita, describes the benefits – to patients, nurses and health care systems – that nurses’ unions generally bring about and discusses benefits that could result from the recent unionization of nurses at Cayuga Medical Center. Batt also references data from ILR’s Labor Action Tracker.
Cayuga Medical nurses overwhelmingly voted to unionize: Why this matters to us

Research: Posting a Wide Salary Range Can Deter Women from Applying

Harvard Business Review
ILR Assistant Professor Alice Lee shares research findings that wide salary ranges in job postings can unintentionally perpetuate gender pay gaps.
Research: Posting a Wide Salary Range Can Deter Women from Applying