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The Numbers Behind Workplace Equality For roughly sixty years, the federal government has required many American employers to report basic demographic information about the people working inside their organizations. The best-known of these reports is the EEO-1, which generally covers private employers with at least 100 employees along with certain federal contractors with 50 or

When the Numbers Become Part of the War There comes a troubling point in a prolonged war when the argument is no longer only about strategy, territory, diplomacy, or who believes they are winning. It also becomes an argument about how we count the people who have already paid the price. That question now sits

Orwell’s Most Frightening Machine Was Almost Ordinary One of the most disturbing ideas in George Orwell’s 1984 was not some massive weapon, secret prison, or complicated torture machine. It was something almost ordinary called the Memory Hole. In Orwell’s fictional world, documents that contradicted the government’s newest version of reality could simply be dropped into

The Viral Claim Needs an Important Correction A message circulating online claims that people born before 1963 may have more than $22,000 waiting for them through Social Security. That sounds exciting, but the claim leaves out the most important part of the story. Age alone does not qualify somebody for this money. The real issue