As Immigrant Farmworkers Become More Scarce, Robots Replace Humans
From today’s New York Times: As a boy, Abel Montoya remembers his father arriving home from the lettuce fields each evening, the picture of exhaustion, mud caked knee-high on his…
Google workers worldwide walk off job to protest its treatment of women
From today’s Los Angeles Times: Carrying signs with messages such as “Don’t be evil,” Google employees around the world are walking off the job Thursday in a protest against what…
Amazon is considering up to 3,000 cashierless AmazonGo stores by 2021
From today’s Los Angeles Times: Amazon.com Inc. is considering a plan to open as many as 3,000 new AmazonGo cashierless stores in the next few years, according to people familiar…
Why Are We All Still Using Venmo?
From today’s Wired Magazine: VENMO, THE POPULAR payment app owned by PayPal, has become the default way millions of Americans settle a check, pay a friend back for coffee, or…
Breaking: Uber Is Target of Sex Discrimination Inquiry by EEOC
From today’s New York Times: Federal officials are investigating allegations that Uber discriminated against women in hiring and pay, another federal inquiry into a company that has been rocked by…
In #MeToo Era Companies Embrace Rolling Background Checks at Work
From today’s Bloomberg News Service: Jay Cradeur takes pride in his 4.9 driver rating on Uber Technologies Inc.’s five-star scale and the almost 19,000 rides he’s given in the capital…
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Robots or Job Training: Manufacturers Struggle to Improve Economic Fortunes
From today’s New York Times: For Anthony Nighswander, rock-bottom unemployment is both a headache and an opportunity. For businesses and workers, it could be the key to reversing one of…
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The Case for a Federal Jobs Guarantee
From the New York Times “Opinion” Section by Eric Loomis: Employment numbers may look solid now, but economists, physicists and industrial engineers all say that automation will, in the not-so-distant…
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Public Servants Are Losing Their Foothold in the Middle Class
From today’s New York Times: The anxiety and seething anger that followed the disappearance of middle-income jobs in factory towns has helped reshape the American political map and topple longstanding…
The Cambridge Analytica-Facebook Scandal and the Coming Data Bust
From today’s New York Times: The queasy truth at the heart of Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal, which is so far the company’s defining disgrace of 2018, is that its genesis…