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The Future of Work

Vol. XXXV, No. 1, Fall 2018

Recent technological advances have generated widespread anxiety about the future nature of work, the number of jobs that will be available, the skills that will be needed, and the salaries they will command. A special editorial package in the Fall 2018 issue explores the future of work and the policy options that might help society successfully navigate this changing employment landscape.

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  • Eased Regulations Won’t Boost Coal Power

    December 10, 2018

    The Environmental Protection Agency is forecasting that despite a Trump administration regulatory rollback aimed at making coal-fired power plants easier to build, no new plants will be built in the United States, primarily because of the ready availability of cheap natural gas. This prediction aligns with a century-long timeline presented recently in Issues showing how economic, technological, and social forces, not political factors, have combined to drive down the nation’s reliance on coal as an energy resource.

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    December 5, 2018

    “The three of us working on space projects, we can do it for a fraction of the price that governments can do it,” Richard Branson, the founder of Virgin Galactic who hopes to send astronauts into space by Christmas, recently said about himself; Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX and chief executive of Tesla; and Jeff Bezos, the founder of the space technology company Blue Origin and head of Amazon. The efforts of these “space barons” were recently recounted in a book review in Issues, which has also examined how private industries are reshaping traditional government-led space programs.

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