RIWI’s Danielle Goldfarb spoke to attendees at the Toronto Machine Learning Summit (TMLS) Annual Conference about the importance of including the disengaged in data sets. Danielle explains that to reliably...
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As we prepare to leave 2020 behind, RIWI’s Danielle Goldfarb along with other economic experts share charts showing what they’ll watch for in the economy in the coming year in Maclean’s magazine‘s “Charts to Watch in 2021”. The data in RIWI’s chart show notable skepticism about vaccines in Canada, the U.S., and other countries, even in the face […]
1 in 3 post-secondary students who sought mental health services at their school in Canada and the U.S. report waiting weeks or months, part of the findings from a new RIWI x Toronto Star front page investigation, “Generation Distress”. To find out the true incidence of mental health problems and student’s experiences of mental health […]
A high number of these are repeat layoffs, Goldfarb said. A survey from RIWI and Cornell University released last month found that, among an estimated 36 million workers called back to their jobs after a layoff this year, 27% have been laid off again, while another 36% were told they could still be laid off again.
A new study in partnership with the U.S. Private Sector Job Quality Index and Cornell Law School Senior Fellow and Adjunct Professor, Daniel Alpert shows that a substantial portion of the reported job growth in the official data (May/June/July 2020) reflected workers put back on payroll due to the U.S. Government’s Paycheck Protection Program, who are […]
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