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On November 11, USC Professor and Talent Management Expert John Boudreau will share insights on the role of predictive analytics in optimizing talent decisions in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world. He will describe how HR leaders can match talent to needs, and will discuss how executives can better understand how to deploy and manage the growing number of contingent workers who are providing critical skills in a changing global economy.

And the eye-popping $4.4 billion we've already spent could just be the tip of the iceberg.

If the minimum wage were raised to $10.10 an hour, 1.7 million Americans would no longer rely on government assistance, and government spending on current income-support programs would decline by at least $7.6 billion per year. This money could then be repurposed into either new programs or expansions of existing programs to fight poverty.