“If unions can’t figure out how to organize those workers, the numbers are just going to go down further,” says Ileen DeVault, professor in the ILR School. “This is the future. They know how to organize people working in grocery stores; they don’t know how to organize automatic checkout lines.” 

“Generally speaking, wage inflation lags consumer price inflation,” says Erica Groshen, senior labor economics advisor. “Conditions are probably better than we’ve seen in a very long time for that to happen. Employers perceive a labor shortage. I’m not sure I would call it that, but in some ways, the chickens are coming home to roost for the lack of real wage growth for this very long period of time.” 

“For some people this is a life-or-death situation without a doubt,” says Natalie Mahowald, professor in engineering and report lead author. 

“Management clearly loses because the workers aren’t working. There’s lost production and lost income and profits from that lost production,” says Harry Katz, professor in the ILR School. 

“If you add up that legal disability that’s unique to the imperial family’s women, with the intense media scrutiny, and the incredible degree of control that they’re subjected to from a very conservative, elderly, masculine government, I think those women are exposed to pressures that would actually be unfathomable to most people in Japan, or outside Japan,” says Kristin Roebuck, assistant professor of history.

“Don’t have hand sanitizer at the tables. It sends the message that dining out is not that safe and it constantly makes the pandemic top of mind—and this is counter to the reason they are going out,” says Stephani Robson, a senior lecturer emerita. “A discreet dispenser by the door is fine, but that’s it. You want to send the message to diners that once you pass through our portal, you are in a safe place.”

“As the economy has been recovering from the pandemic and labor is tight, that certainly strengthens labor’s position at the bargaining table,” says Harry Katz, professor in the ILR School. 

“It’s like a patient. You can monitor how it evolves but saying exactly when it will die is extremely difficult,” says Esteban Gazel, associate professor of earth and atmospheric sciences. “It’s a process that is connected to so many other dimensions of the inside of the planet.” 

“Kavanaugh is probably the most susceptible to changing positions, mostly because I see him as most closely aligned with the chief’s institutional-protection instincts,” says Michael C. Dorf, professor of law. “But I don’t think he’s very susceptible.”

Dan Alpert, visiting fellow at the Law School, explains that working Americans are taking their time to look for better jobs. 

“This cryptocurrency joins a long and growing list of digital coins and tokens that piggyback on random memes or cultural phenomena,” says Eswar Prasad, professor of economics and international trade policy. “Remarkably, many such coins rapidly catch investors’ fancy, leading to wildly inflated valuations. Naïve retail investors who get caught up in such speculative frenzies face the risk of substantial losses.” 

“This is an exploration into the unknown parts of Jupiter,” says Jonathan Lunine, professor of astronomy. “And it’s exciting to be able to probe that with Juno.”