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Not Just a Job: New Evidence on the Quality of Work in the United States
Tracy Williams shares insights on the Great Jobs Survey, providing a new job quality index that goes beyond wages and benefits.
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Restoring Public Trust to Build a Better Economic Future
How can we work towards building an economy that works for everyone? Joelle Gamble shares insights on restoring public trust, key structural changes, and economic policy.
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What Happens When a Community Commits to Strengthen ID Systems Around the World? Why We Invested in the #GoodID Movement
At Omidyar Network, we are humbled to be part of such a committed movement. Abiah Weaver shares insights on why we invested in the #GoodID Movement.
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While unemployment rates are at a
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Healthy economies, societies, and democracies are only possible when workers are empowered to
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Why We are Investing in the Anti-Monopoly Fund
Decades of deregulation and lax antitrust enforcement have created a massive market concentration problem in the American economy. Read more from Gus ROSSI ON why we are investing in the Anti-Monopoly Fund
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Doing Business with Privacy at the Core
Subhashish Bhadra sat down with the new CEO of Terbium Labs, Pat Clawson, to learn more about this portfolio company’s expanding role in the digital risk protection landscape.
READ ONA Privacy-Conscious Population: Why We Funded the Busara Center for Behavioral Economics and Ashoka's Centre for Social and Behaviour Change
Over the past few years, privacy has exploded as a public policy concern — in regulatory chambers, in courts, on our televisions, and on the Internet.
READ ONOpen Questions on Good ID: When should Digital ID be Avoided?
In this new series, we will tackle open questions, one at a time, to share our perspective and invite others to offer theirs — all with the goal of adding more clarity on Good ID and finding the ideas that will move Good ID into practice.
READ ONOpen Questions on Good ID: What is Bad ID?
Good ID unlocks opportunities fairly, enabling all of us to engage in society on our own terms and safeguard our identities against misuse. In the second post in this series, we wanted to take the opportunity to start a conversation on bad ID.
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More Than Half Of U.S. Workers are Unhappy in Their Jobs: Here’s Why and What Needs to be Done Now
Omidyar Network, Lumina Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Gallup recently surveyed 6,600 workers about factors that matter most for overall job quality. Forbes shares additional insights in a recent article.
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This Observation Tool Is Helping Teachers Improve Their Interactions with Children
EdSurge continues their series on ECE Voices by exploring Louisiana’s CLASS observation system—a quality rating system focused solely on teacher observation. Learn how it works and what teachers really think of it.
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New Benchmark Initiative to Explore the Ethical Application of Location Data
The new Geovation Benchmark Initiative will link the geospatial community with businesses, public bodies, researchers, media, and the public to promote a better, wider understanding of the power and influence of location data.
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