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Because names are among the first things you learn about someone, they can influence first impressions. That this is particularly true for names associated with Black people came to light in 2004 with the release of a study that found employers seeing identical resumes were 50% more likely to call back an applicant with
Because names are among the first things you learn about someone, they can influence first impressions. That this is particularly true for names associated with Black people came to light in 2004 with the release of a study that found employers seeing identical resumes were 50% more likely to call back an applicant with stereotypical […]
The nation’s labor market is stable and healthy, economists and policy experts say, although the unemployment rate ticked up in the month of August. The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ report released Friday showed that unemployment rose to 3.8% in August from 3.5% in July. Meanwhile the economy added 187,000 jobs, above expectations of 170,000 jobs […]
Receive free Chinese economy updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Chinese economy news every morning. For investors and policymakers worldwide, China’s quarterly economic data is a starting point in decoding the state of the world’s second-largest economy, but the latest figures contained a puzzle of their own. The […]
The five economists who will determine just how much the state will pay black Californians for historic injustices include a professor who has called for nationwide reparations of up to $14trillion. Other members of the expert panel advising California’s Reparations Task Force on what they believe would be a fair amount repaid to the descendants of […]
WASHINGTON, Oct 11 (Reuters) – A price cap on Russian seaborne oil deliveries being developed by the United States and G7 countries could significantly reduce Russia’s revenues while encouraging Moscow to continue to produce oil, 16 economists from top U.S. and British universities told U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. The cap, agreed in principle last […]
I have for a long time been an optimist when it comes to the economy. When others argued in the years following the 2008 financial crisis that a recession was nigh, I maintained an upbeat economic view. More recently, I’ve generally been
That’s because, in the United States, the economy isn’t broadly and officially considered to be in a recession until a relatively unknown group of eight economists says so. There is a clear lack of racial diversity amongst the eight members, who are experts in macroeconomics and business cycle research. Each is over 60 years old, […]
Two economists tell us what we know about rising inflation and the economy right now NPR Source link
Black researchers made up about 1.5 percent of the Federal Reserve system’s 945-person staff of doctorate-level economists at the end of 2021, a number that highlights the central bank’s ongoing struggle to improve racial and ethnic diversity in its ranks. Data that the Fed on Thursday published publicly for the first time showed that 72 […]