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The recession caused by the COVID-19 pandemic hit employment in the service sector hardest, and the workforce is still feeling the effects,  Betsey Stevenson, professor of economics and public policy, told Mother Jones , "The pandemic created a...

This week, Betsey Stevenson helped make sense of the data coming from national jobs reports and unemployment numbers. "The percentage of Americans employed fell off a cliff in the early pandemic. We’re now 75 percent of the way back up that...

If the hacks can be tied back to Moscow, they are just the latest in a string of significant and aggressive cyber operations perpetrated by elements of the Russian government against local, state, and federal governments and corporate entities. “We...