The Atlantic: Business
- The TPP's Uneven Attempt at Labor Protection
Friday - 01/22/2016 - 11:21 AMA worker in a factory in Vietnam Nguyen Huy Kham / Reuters When the Obama administration finally reached an agreement with 11 other countries on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the president listed improving labor rights in other nations as one of the hallmarks of
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Ted Cruz Is Right. Yes, That Ted Cruz
Thursday - 01/21/2016 - 07:42 PMCorn in Iowa, ready to be turned into … fuel for your car! Like some 40% of the corn the U.S. grows, it will be turned into an ethanol additive for gasoline, under a program that Ted Cruz is the only major running-in-Iowa candidate brave or crazy enough to criticize.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Taxi Bigotry Isn't Black and White, Cont'd
Thursday - 01/21/2016 - 10:27 AMThis is a pretty great coda to our reader thread and the influential piece from Doug Glanville that inspired it. From the L.A. Times:
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Bright, Cozy AirBnB Listings in West Bank Settlements
Wednesday - 01/20/2016 - 01:55 PMRonen Zvulun / Reuters Since its inception or, perhaps, since it became profitable, AirBnB, the home-sharing behemoth, has been accused of everything from enabling its users to operating illegal hotels to driving up the cost of housing in cities around the world.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - China's Significant, Semi-Expected Slowdown
Tuesday - 01/19/2016 - 04:37 PMA Chinese flag is seen in front of the financial district of Shanghai on January 19, 2016.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Great Immigration-Data Debate
Tuesday - 01/19/2016 - 06:04 AMPeople rally for immigration reform outside of the Supreme Court. Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP In The Big Short, one of the characters explains how he discovered the worthlessness of the mortgages that supposedly undergirded Wall Street’s triple-A securities: “I read them.”
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Why Some States Want Strong Public-Sector Unions
Sunday - 01/17/2016 - 09:25 AMAn estimated 15,000 teachers, parents, and other supporters encircle City Hall in New York during a mass rally in support of an ongoing teachers' strike in 1968. AP As argument commenced at the Supreme Court last Monday, most eyes were on Justice Antonin Scalia.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Why Are So Many Zappos Employees Leaving?
Friday - 01/15/2016 - 11:28 AMFlat, flat, flat. Jorge Silva / Reuters The online shoe retailer Zappos has always stood out for its unconventional human-resources philosophy.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - What Is This ‘Wage Insurance’ Obama’s Talking About?
Thursday - 01/14/2016 - 12:52 PMEvan Vucci / AP In his State of the Union address this week, President Obama reinforced unemployment insurance and job-training programs as ways the government can help those in need of work.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Al Jazeera America Is Shutting Down
Wednesday - 01/13/2016 - 02:33 PMBebeto Matthews / AP Updated on January 13 at 2:25 p.m. ET Al Jazeera America is shutting down in April less than three years after it began broadcasting in this country, Al Anstey, CEO of Al Jazeera America, announced Wednesday.
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- Milk, Bread, and Eggs: The Trinity of Winter-Storm Panic-Shopping
Friday - 01/22/2016 - 07:30 AMA family walks home from the grocery store in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 2010.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Walmart Workers Get a Raise, But Is That Enough?
Thursday - 01/21/2016 - 02:33 PMSteven Senne / AP On Wednesday, Walmart announced that in mid-February, 1.2 million employees at its U.S. stores will be getting a small raise.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Anxiety at Davos
Wednesday - 01/20/2016 - 05:46 PMRuben Sprich / Reuters On Wednesday, the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting—a gathering of business and political elites from around the world—began in Davos, Switzerland.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Corporations Want Love (and Free Marketing on Instagram)
Wednesday - 01/20/2016 - 10:50 AMToru Hanai / Reuters Dining recently with friends, everything looked the way it always does. The menu boasted appealing but ordinary fare—antipasti and starters, wood-fired pizzas, freshly-made pastas, meaty mains.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- The Automation Paradox
Tuesday - 01/19/2016 - 11:28 AMLarry Stockett, the president of Micronet Inc., a company specializing in automation, in his office in 1979 Dave Taylor / AP Automation isn’t just for blue-collar workers anymore. Computers are now taking over tasks performed by professional workers, raising fears of massive unemployment.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Leafblower Legislation: the WaPo and the Current Weigh In
Monday - 01/18/2016 - 01:38 PMYou can never start them too young! Little Tikes’ Bubbling Leaf Blower, waiting for you at Target. Two updates on local coverage of the initiative I’ve been describing in the past few months: the D.C.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - All Hollowed Out
Saturday - 01/16/2016 - 09:33 AMEric Thayer / Reuters For the last several months, social scientists have been debating the striking findings of a study by the economists Susan Case and Angus Deaton.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Pinterest's Data-Driven Approach to Improving Diversity
Friday - 01/15/2016 - 10:26 AMA few locations of Pinterest offices in the U.S. Jeff Chiu / AP In October 2013, Pinterest became one of the first tech companies to share hard data on the demographic breakdown of its employees.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Volkswagen's Recall Proposal Isn't Good Enough for U.S. Government
Wednesday - 01/13/2016 - 03:03 PMVolkswagen CEO Matthias Mueller speaks at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit on January 10, 2016.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - What If You Bought All 292 Million of the Possible Powerball Combinations?
Wednesday - 01/13/2016 - 12:14 PMAlan Diaz / AP At the time of this writing, the Powerball jackpot is up to $1.5 billion. The cash grand prize is estimated at $930 million.
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- Could a Few Billionaires Close the World's Poverty Gap?
Friday - 01/22/2016 - 11:37 AMLuke MacGregor / Reuters This week, the richest business leaders and investors from around the world have gathered in Davos, Switzerland, for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- GE’s Relocation: Great for GE, Not as Great for Boston’s Taxpayers
Thursday - 01/21/2016 - 10:11 AMKindra Clineff / Massachusetts Office of Travel & Tourism General Electric is the latest company to give up the suburbs for the city. News of GE’s move from its 1970s-style corporate campus in suburban Fairfield, Connecticut, to downtown Boston’s Seaport District has urbanists like me swooning.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Upheaval in the Factories of Juarez
Thursday - 01/21/2016 - 05:03 AMAlana Semuels / The Atlantic CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Women and men, more than 70 of them, were fired on December 9th from the factory on the Mexican side of the Mexico-Texas border where they made printers for the American company Lexmark.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- If You're in Fresno, Please Stop in at Peeve's Public House
Tuesday - 01/19/2016 - 06:09 PMCraig Scharton (right) in 2014 at his Peeve’s Public House in downtown Fresno.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Where Is All the World’s Money Going?
Tuesday - 01/19/2016 - 02:49 PMYannis Behrakis / Reuters Wealth is only growing for the 62 richest people in the world. Collectively, this ultra-wealthy group controls $1.76 trillion, which is about the cumulative worth of the poorer half of the world’s population, or around 3.5 billion people.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Revisiting a Jim Crow-Era Guide for Traveling While Black
Monday - 01/18/2016 - 07:14 AMThe New York Public Library “The White traveler has had no difficulty in getting accommodations, but with the Negro, it has been different.” So reads the foreword of a series of travel guides called Green Books, created to help black Americans travel safely through a segregated and often unsaf
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Unfair Opacity of Credit Cards Peddled to the Poor
Sunday - 01/17/2016 - 08:24 AMMatt Rourke / AP When a company takes on the task of providing financial services to people overlooked by large banks, that would seem to be a good thing: Such customers need bank accounts, debit cards, and credit just like everyone else.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A Fairer System for Tipping
Friday - 01/15/2016 - 07:06 AMA waitress picks up lunch plates at Homegirl Cafe in Los Angeles in 2010. Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Consider two tables at a restaurant. One is a four-top of 30-something men.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Immigrants or Executives: Who’s to Blame for Wage Stagnation?
Wednesday - 01/13/2016 - 03:19 PMLynne Sladky / AP Are immigrants to blame for America’s economic rut?
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Rams Are Headed Back to LA
Wednesday - 01/13/2016 - 09:09 AMDamian Dovarganes / AP The Rams are returning to Los Angeles for the 2016 season, more than 20 years after they left the city to make St. Louis their home.
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