A new report by UMass Amherst’s Center for Employment Equity presents research findings that nearly two-thirds of employees who report workplace sexual harassment face retaliation from their employers. Co-authors Carly McCann, a doctoral student in economics, and Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, professor of sociology, discussed their findings in a segment of the nightly news program Connecting Point.

"Renewing America’s experiment with co-determination would help workers feel valued, and that is a necessary starting point for change."

Susan Holmberg, a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute and UMass Amherst Economics PhD alumna writes in The New York Times about the long history of co-determination in America and why it should be embraced.

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Leonce Ndikumana is interviewed about how the global tax system allows capital to flow from developing countries into global tax havens. He says globalized corporations take advantage of the patchwork of taxation policies that leads to loss of revenue for poorer countries where natural resources are mined or collected.

Michael A. Ash and James K. Boyce have published a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences which finds that for racial minorities, living near facilities such as gas or oil refineries or coal processing plants did not significantly bolster minority employment.