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A Conversation about AI-Era Workforce Reallocation and Mobility
This research examines workforce reallocation driven by artificial intelligence and automation through 2035, challenging the common narrative of widespread job destruction by highlighting that net labor demand will actually expand. Drawing on research from the McKinsey Global Institute, the text emp...
A Debate about AI-Era Workforce Reallocation and Mobility
This research examines workforce reallocation driven by artificial intelligence and automation through 2035, challenging the common narrative of widespread job destruction by highlighting that net labor demand will actually expand. Drawing on research from the McKinsey Global Institute, the text emp...
The Most Dangerous Weeks of the Iran War Are Here | Robert Pape
We’re in the most dangerous weeks of the Iran war since March, and the midterms are the reason. Professor Robert Pape returns to explain the wicked incentives pushing President Trump toward escalation before November 3rd, and why every option likely landing on his desk hands Tehran the advantage. Pa...
Mobility, Not Scarcity: Why Employers Hold the Keys to the AI-Era Workforce Reallocation
Abstract: Much public commentary on artificial intelligence and employment forecasts large-scale job loss. A September 2026 report from the McKinsey Global Institute offers a more hopeful and more demanding picture (Ramírez et al., 2026). Its base estimate suggests that automation could reduce U.S. ...
The Pivot Effect: Leading with Faith, Kindness, and Community: Denise Melton's Path to House of Hope
What happens when the job you build to solve a problem turns into your calling? On this episode of The Pivot Effect, Teri Zipper and Susan Richards talk with Denise Melton, pastoral counselor and Executive Director of Cumberland Children's House of Hope and the Threads of Hope Thrift Store. De...
The Creative Advantage: How Organizations Can Future-Proof Their Workforce by Investing in Creativity
Abstract: This article examines the relationship between occupational creativity and resilience to automation, drawing on a landmark study by Bakhshi, Frey, and Osborne (2015) which found that 86–87 percent of workers in highly creative occupations face low or no risk of computerization. The article...





