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Anyone who was paying attention to COVID’s devastation, whether in terms of being exposed to the virus at work or deaths, could not miss the racial aspect of it. A new study of Americans over 50 confirms that Black and Hispanic workers, whose jobs often placed them on the front lines in the service industry,…

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During COVID, some companies that instituted remote work were almost giddy about the increase in employee productivity. Workers themselves were certainly convinced of this. But that view is being undermined by some high-quality research that benefits from having more data and perspective on this pandemic-era issue. U.S. economists studying productivity in India’s high-tech sector, and…