This Week’s Top Hits

Susanne Bruyère shares how engaging businesses can help to identify, reach, train, and support disabled populations who may have been previously overlooked to empower talent and provide them with employment opportunities.

"On the upside of that, our research also shows that there's a big return on investment for child care. It tends to have one of the highest economic multipliers of many industries," says Rusty Weaver.

"We're getting close to the bone now," says Erica Groshen, a former commissioner of BLS and ILR senior economics advisor. "So even if [the funding situation is] exactly the same, the impact is going to be worse" because of ongoing challenges with producing reliable data.

This piece, written by Professor Rosemary Batt and her longtime research partner, Eileen Appelbaum, explores a first-of-its-kind Massachusetts law aimed to rein in private-equity greed in health care, offer hope that the state can avoid similar future crises, and serve as a model for other states to build on.

This op-ed mentions a report produced by the ILR Buffalo Co-Lab that details the status of child care in New York State.

"Prospect Medical's bankruptcy is just another in a stream of failures involving sale-leaseback agreements with REITs," said Profesor Rosemary Batt. "Private equity firms enter into these agreements because the onerous conditions are put on the hospitals, while the PE firms will exit in a five-year window."