Michael Bernick

While the idea of neurodiversity employment continues its momentum in 2022, hiring and retention numbers remain modest. One practitioner explains the obstacles and what it means for both the worker and the company to be “All-In”.

Approaching Labor Day 2022, it’s all about “quiet quitting”, a “Great Resignation”, and a general lackadaisical attitude toward jobs. Yet there is one segment of adults who are not lackadaisical or cavalier about jobs, even as they have the greatest difficulty finding and retaining jobs.

As we consider globalization, and its impacts on jobs and wages in 2022, post-Davos and post G-7 Summit, it is worth saying a word about one of the early and most unusual of the counter-movements: the “home economy” movement headed by Sir Oswald Mosley.

The worker-business coalition that toppled District Attorney Boudin last week is a model for other communities. It succeeded in taking action against a failed ideology, and in bringing together a multi-racial working class and middle class population.

On a recent podcast, Jordan Peterson and Glenn Loury raise the question of whether there can be jobs in the economy for those with limited cognitive skills. What’s the answer?

In Glengarry Glen Ross, Blake (Alec Baldwin) instructs the salesmen to “Always Be Closing”. That’s what is needed in the autism/neurodiversity employment field in 2022.

Since Joan Didion passed away last month, she has been widely praised for her writing and insights on California’s post World War II economy and suburbs. Yet, much of what she wrote on these subjects has been shown in recent years to be wrong.

The extensive federal Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits ended last week. What will it now take to hasten the return to work of workers no longer on UI rolls? Prior employment research offers ideas on abetting work return

Last week’s “60 Minutes” report, like most media reports on employment for adults with disabilities, gives little attention to the severely impacted--those with little language or severe cognitive deficits. Isn’t there a place in the job world for them?

While California’s tech aristocracy is pushing a government ‘guaranteed income’, a blue collar city in California, Long Beach, is testing an alternative jobs-based approach to assist low income residents. This approach leverages the growing demand for workers in the contingent economy.