Robert Schrank has been deeply involved in workplace issues for most of his 94-plus years.  This excerpt from one of his blog entries in 2009 is priceless.

How one perceives what is going on in society depends on one's "frame of reference."  For example, in my years of working on employment policy, I was often asked if a particular workplace "was a a good place to work?"  My standard…

In January I posted "He's right. And he's right. And he's right, too!", which dealt with some of the complexities of globalization  One of the resources I highlighted was "Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory," which aired on the public radio program…

(Apologies for the long interval between posts.  I was working on another project and haven't mastered the art of multi-tasking.)

This one is for all of you who, like me, despair at the prospect of slogging through economics papers filled with equations and Greek letters.  (I mean, really, Adam Smith did just fine without any of that.)

VisualizingEconomics.com is "dedicated to publishing…

Another interesting item on NPR's Planet Money Blog ...

What America Buys focuses on two questions:  "How do ordinary Americans spend their money?  And how has spending changed over time?"

One of the more striking findings is the comparison between the percentage of household income spent on food and clothing in 1949 and 2011:

• In 1949 Americans…