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Breaking AI’s Black Box
There is a temptation to treat artificial intelligence policy as something distant—white papers, safety labs, summit communiqués. The real frontier is closer to home. It is in the quarterly calls where company after company, to Wall Street’s cheers, announces that AI will let it shrink its workforce.
Americans are working harder and making less. We need a new social safety net
By Gisele Huff and Andy Stern Workers need a Universal Basic Income -- and an angry middle-class just might deliver it Thousands of auto workers for the three-largest U.S. carmakers walked off the job last week because their pay has only increased fractionally in the wake of the auto companies' soaring profits. Meanwhile, the advent of streaming content -- coupled with AI and its impact on the creative class -- has spurred Hollywood writers and actors to remain on strike for months now.
Opinion: Americans are working harder and making less. We need a new social safety net
Your browser does not support the audio tag. This feature is powered by text-to-speech technology. Want to see it on more articles? Give your feedback below or email audiofeedback@marketwatch.com. Thousands of auto workers for the three-largest U.S. carmakers walked off the job last week because their pay has only increased fractionally in the wake of the auto companies’ soaring profits.
Three Books: Brian C. Johnson ’99 on Income Inequality
By Princeton Alumni Weekly Published online September 28, 2021 Brian C. Johnson ’99 Nathalie Rock In his new book, Our Fair Share: How One Small Change Can Create a More Equitable American Economy, Brian C. Johnson ’99, CEO of Equality Illinois, argues that when a tiny percentage of Americans hoards wealth, the bonds that hold America together go under siege.
Charter Schools Didn’t Change the World-Now Let’s Move Beyond That Tired Debate
The recent LA teachers strike, and the school board’s vote to recommend a moratorium on new charter schools, reignited the a long-standing debate on charter schools—one that seems so dated. The strike brought back memories of my first experiences with education policy as President of SEIU, America’s largest non-teaching union. It was around 2005.
Exploring the Benefits of Telehealth
Telehealth is changing health care delivery. Through videoconferencing, remote monitoring, electronic consults and wireless communications, telehealth expands patient access while improving patient outcomes and satisfaction. As hospitals and health systems continue to redefine what it means to be a hospital — or to “redefine the H” — telehealth is growing.
The Hospital Trustee’s Role in Advocacy
As community leaders, hospital trustees are a powerful voice for their hospitals or health systems when it comes to advocacy. They can offer legislators “real life” insights and perspectives into the challenges facing patients and community members in the hospital’s service area, as well as how legislation and regulation will affect the women and men who work every day to fulfill their hospital’s promise of help, hope, and healing.
Creating a 'Culture of Health'
Population health is a hot topic. But what does it mean in practical terms? Population health encompasses clinical and nonclinical approaches for improving health, preventing disease and reducing health disparities. It also means creating a society that gives all individuals an equal opportunity to live the healthiest life they can, whatever their ethnic, geographic, racial, socio-economic or physical circumstances may be. But hospitals cannot do it alone.
Leadership Summit to Offer New Opportunities
Health care is constantly changing. At perhaps no time in our history has that been truer as science and technology converge to transform not only how we deliver care but how patients experience it. How can health care trustees stay on top of these changes and help prepare for those that may lie around the bend? Education and networking are two of the most important tools at our disposal.
"We must attack poverty at its core." Is a universal basic income the answer?
In 2010, I seemed to be at the top of my game: leader of the US’s largest and most influential union, a central player in the most significant piece of social legislation since the establishment of Medicare, and appointed by President Barack Obama to sit on the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles Commission to propose an answer to the country’s long-term deficit problems. Despite this, I stepped down that year as president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).
Then-FBI Director James Comey Prodded Healthcare Industry to Take Cybersecurity Seriously
Just because the messenger was fired, doesn’t mean the message was wrong or forgotten. Politics aside for the moment, now-former FBI director James Comey has been trying to prod the healthcare industry take cybersecurity even more seriously. And, help the FBI find the “bad guys.” His message is the hackers, trolls and “nation states” are targeting the rich and vulnerable healthcare industry. It’s not really HIPAA violations but ransoms, valuable patient identities, and hijacking of medical devices.
Cato’s 40th Anniversary Celebration: The Future of Work
Featuring Nicholas Eberstadt, David R. Henderson, Brink Lindsey, Andy Stern, & Michael D. Tanner
Economists Can't Ignore the Problem of Automation for American Workers
That is just one reason more and more people from across the political spectrum are crying foul over the ever-increasing role of technology in our economy. Our country is manufacturing more than ever before, but we are doing it with fewer workers. But it's not just factories that are seeing losses – software and information technology are also having a dramatic impact on jobs most people think are secure from the forces of rapidly changing economy.
At Labor’s Crossroads
The Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the most important union in the country and one of the largest, is a pretty big deal, but it would be an even bigger deal if the American labor movement were not itself in such a tenuous state.
AHA Resources Focused on the Board
Last year, the American Hospital Association challenged itself to answer this question: “How can we best support good governance in the changing health care environment and reach the widest audience possible?” As a result of extensive study and feedback from the field, the AHA has refocused its trustee education efforts on the emerging challenges in health care, as well as the good governance practices crucial to success and advancing health in every community in America.
Americans deserve economic security, not anxiety
Since Election Day, Americans have become more anxious than ever. People from across the political spectrum are concerned about each successive appointment announced by Donald Trump Donald TrumpNY Democrats call for Cuomo to unite party Putin’s secret Santa is filling his wish list Reid backs electors' demand for intel briefing on Russia before vote MORE’s incoming administration.
Healthcare’s Patchwork of Regulations Adds Important Nuance to ‘Repeal and Replace’ of the ACA
The election is barely over and it seems that Chicken Little has taken over the public discussion on what the Trump Administration will do on every subject. And, no area has been more widely predicted than healthcare and the future of th Affordable Care Act.
In a Web of Conflicts, Trust Between the Public and Hospital Trustees Remains Paramount
For those of us of a certain age there are two old bromides that we know well: “perception is reality” and “life isn’t fair.” Both come into play upon reading a recent Wall Street Journal article detailing conflicts of interest among hospital trustees. The Journal article focused on examples of hospitals doing business—sometimes substantial—with a trustee.
Why we should give every adult $1,000/month for free
A tsunami of economic disruption is barreling toward the United States, and, as Pimco co-founder Bill Gross observed in his May "Investment Outlook," "No one in 2016 is really addressing the future as we are likely to experience it … Virtually every industry in existence is likely to become less labor-intensive in future years as new technology is assimilated into existing business models." A 2013 Oxford University study concluded that 47 percent of jobs in the U.S. are at risk of being...
Why We Should Give Every US Adult $1,000/Month
Ask Not What the President Can Do for the Economy Bryce Covert, NYT
Here's Why Everyone Should Get a Basic Income
Here's Why Everyone Should Get a Basic Income The following is an excerpt from the new book Raising the Floor by Andy Stern with Lee Kravitz (Public Affairs, 2016): At first blush it seems almost un-American—a universal basic income (UBI) that grants an income to every US citizen without any obligation to work or perform a socially mandated task.
Switzerland's UBI Referendum Points The Way To Making A Jobless Future Work
A national flag of Switzerland flies in front of a building of Swiss drugmaker Novartis in Basel, Switzerland in this January 29, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann/Files Yesterday, the Swiss made history by voting in the world’s first-ever election on a Universal Basic Income, the Swiss referendum proposed giving citizens a monthly check of $2500.
The best books on Bringing Change to America
You picked A Country That Works, which you wrote in 2006. It covers your own personal story, the story of many challenges America faces, including inequality, and it’s also a policy book. What do you think it says about progressivism today? What I think it says, about not just progressivism but about America, is that we are at a unique historical moment and this is not our fathers’ and grandfathers’ economy.
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