Impact of Automation & Artificial Intelligence on the Workforce
February 15, 2019
A new Brookings report forecasts automation’s sizable impacts on the American workforce through 2030, the authors find demographic and geographic variation in susceptibility throughout the United States based on analysis of over 300 occupations.
Automation & Artificial Intelligence: How Machines Are Affecting People and Places
February 14, 2019
This report details how automation and AI will likely have many positive impacts on the U.S. economy, despite the uncertainty and disquiet they are currently engendering, the trick is going to be to recall as a nation that technological change doesn’t “just happen” but that it can be shaped.
What’s Behind America’s Disappearing Workforce?
October 2, 2017
The labor force participation rate in the United States peaked at 67.3 percent in early 2000 and has declined at a more or less continuous pace since then, reaching a near 40-year low of 62.4 percent in September 2015.
Where Have All the Workers Gone?
September 30, 2017
This paper is "An Inquiry into the Decline of the U.S. Labor Force Participation Rate" from the BPEA Conference Drafts, September 7-8, 2017.
Rise of Robots Will Change Future Jobs Reports
April 10, 2017
Ten years from now, the jobs report may look very different, CNBC's Deirdre Bosa explores how automation and robotics will change the future of the U.S. workforce.
America’s Advanced Industries: What They Are, Where They Are, and Why They Matter
April 9, 2017
This report identifies a distinct yet overlooked part of the economy, the advanced industries sector, that is at once critical to national wellbeing and under pressure from eroding competitiveness and national economic drift.
Beyond Shovel-Ready: The Extent and Impact of U.S. Infrastructure Jobs
April 6, 2017
This report sheds new light on the widespread contributions that infrastructure jobs make to the nation’s economy, including their importance at the metropolitan level.
Mapping Freight: The Highly Concentrated Nature of Goods Trade in the United States
April 6, 2017
This report explores the major trade corridors connecting different regions of the country, revealing the importance of particular places in the nation’s freight network.
Autonomous Trucking Overlooks Skilled Labor Need
April 6, 2017
Analysts expect automated trucks to proliferate in the next five to ten years, leading to significant job losses in the process, but the problem is the numbers do not clearly back up the predictions.
Why Old-Fashioned Manufacturing Jobs Won’t Be Returning to the Western World
January 23, 2017
Manufacturing is no longer just about the production line, manufacturing, and jobs in manufacturing, have changed in ways that mean that the old jobs will never return to the rich world, and because of these changes, working out how many people are employed in manufacturing is difficult.