This Week’s Top Hits

No car sold in the U.S. is entirely made in America using only parts made in America. "How could we re-source 30,000 parts?" Art Wheaton asked rhetorically. "It couldn't be done in 10 years."

Most vending tickets are issued in predominantly white and affluent areas to immigrant and minority sellers living in much poorer outer borough neighborhoods, according to a new report by Andrew Wolf, assistant professor.

“Companies have enormous leeway in what they report. It’s enormously difficult to compare within firms across years. Between firms, impossible. Companies are able to pick and choose how they tell their story,” says Jason Judd, executive director of the Global Labor Institute.

This piece references new research published by the Global Labor Institute.

In this opinion piece, the author references Fred Kotler’s 2009 research paper entitled, “Project Labor Agreements in New York State: In the Public Interest.”

Cathy Creighton, Director of the Buffalo Co-Lab, and Rusty Weaver, the Director of Research sat down with Jay Moran to discuss the report, “Lower pay and greater barriers to success: an examination of gender inequality in the Erie County, NY labor market."