Traffic Cameras Could Help Reduce Racism in Traffic Enforcement: Opinion July 13, 2020 By Justin Fox, Bloomberg Opinion Speed cameras made their U.S. debut in 1986 in Galveston County, Texas. The Swiss-made devices, dubbed “PhotoCops” by the local...
Trucking Can Be Deadly. And Not Just For Truckers.: Viewpoint February 28, 2020 By Justin Fox, Bloomberg Opinion Of the major industries for which the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported workplace fatality rates for 2018, truck transportation was...
Examining the Higher Death Rate for Older Workers: Viewpoint February 21, 2020 By Justin Fox, Bloomberg Opinion U.S. workplaces have gotten a lot safer over the course of the past century. In 1913, the Bureau of Labor...
Teens Still Not Driving Like Teens Used To: Viewpoint January 8, 2020 By Justin Fox, Bloomberg Opinion The much-discussed collapse in teenage driving in the U.S. seems to have ended a few years ago. But the less-discussed...
Financial Services Provides Plenty of Jobs – from Coast to Coast: Opinion June 24, 2019 By Justin Fox, Bloomberg Opinion There were 755,436 people working in financial activities in the New York metropolitan area last year, more than twice as...
Why the Missouri River Is Just Going to Keep On Flooding: Viewpoint April 30, 2019 By Justin Fox, Bloomberg Opinion The Missouri River used to be out of control. “It cuts corners, runs around at nights, fills itself with snags...
Connecticut’s Great Depression May Soon Be Over: Fox March 5, 2019 By Justin Fox, Bloomberg Opinion Big news! Going by third-quarter state gross domestic product data that were just released, Connecticut’s economy is on track to...
As On-Demand Economy Grows, Professor Sees New Kind of Capitalism Emerging June 16, 2016 By Justin Fox, Bloomberg Opinion It goes by many names: the “sharing economy,” the “gig economy,” the “on-demand economy.” Arun Sundararajan, a professor at New...
An Aging America Losing Its Appetite for Risk: Viewpoint January 4, 2016 By Justin Fox, Bloomberg Opinion Twenty years ago, Dutch journalist Sheila Sitalsing sat down with a demographer at the country’s statistics office to talk about...
Warming to Alternative Classifications for Gig Economy Workers December 10, 2015 By Justin Fox, Bloomberg Opinion Judges and juries around the country are being asked to decide whether Uber and Lyft drivers and other participants in...