The folks over at Adafruit had this idea to make “merit badges” for different achievements. One of the major achievements they mentioned was having your project posted to Hackaday. They asked ...

There was much more need in 1900 for unskilled labor than there is now, and no substantive gap then existed in education level between the immigrants and the general American population.

American merit a massive win October 30, 2024 6:00 am • Last Updated: October 29, 2024 8:15 pm When my son told me he wanted to go to Grasso Tech, I scoffed in haute derision and questioned, are ...

Should our efforts to bring in highly skilled immigrants rely on a random visa lottery and help companies deliberately replace native tech workers with cheaper foreign labor? That is an honest-to ...

When it comes to fortifying sanctimony with criminality, it is hard to beat the American labor movement, which we hear a great deal from on Labor Day weekend. The education monopolists may dabble ...

Labor Day was officially established and signed into law by President Grover Cleveland in 1894 to recognize the contributions of American workers. Smithsonian Libraries houses many books dealing with ...

There are many new realities confronting labor in the United States. Technology is redefining traditional employment, and globalization continues moving manufacturing as well as service jobs to ...

George Atala (left) earned all 137 merit badges offered by the Boy Scouts of America earlier this year, while Andrew (right) will soon. Contributed photo (Atala Family) This story is a part of our ...

Interview with American labor historian Clete Daniel, on the faculty at Cornell University. Q: When did the eight-hour day become U.S. law? During President Franklin Roosevelt's Administration ...

The first organization acting as a federation to encompass American unions was the National Labor Union which truly came into force after the Civil War but was reasonably short-lived. The largest ...

This year the average American worker will generate about $171,000 in economic output, compared with (on purchasing-parity terms) $120,000 in the euro area, $118,000 in Britain and $96,000 in Japan.