Retiring Baby Boomers and lower-paid minorities will drive down median income over the next two decades, according to research by Richard Burkhauser and Jeff Larrimore.
Students throughout the College of Human Ecology participate in summer research that deepens their understanding of various fields and sometimes causes them to re-evaluate their career paths.
Professor Matthew Evangelista, in giving one of the Cornell Context lectures for the 2013 New Student Reading Project, said that human rights violations, such as the Japanese-American internment in World War II, persist today.
Community advocates and professionals received training at the ILR School July 29 in recognizing and fighting human trafficking in western New York, and related issues affecting immigrants and undocumented workers.
College of Human Ecology researchers have found that children who voluntarily give something valuable away are more likely to be generous in the future.
Much as Abigail Adams found solace in writing letters to her husband more than two centuries ago, today’s distant hearts grow closer in phone calls, video chat, texting and instant messages.
After finding low worker satisfaction in her country, Haitian student Nemdia Daceney continued her research at Cornell this summer hoping to show employers and government officials the human dimension of economic development policies.
