US income inequality
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In a pilot study influential incubator Y Combinator will hand over cash monthly to 100 families in Oakland, California. What’s UBI’s payoff for tech entrepreneurs?
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Ed Rensi mentions bringing in robots as thousands of McDonald’s workers demand a union and $15 an hour minimum wage at the shareholders meeting
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The excess stock is lowering US prices. But I can think of a few ways to fix that, starting with donating that cheese to people in need
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Analysis by the AFL-CIO union found that chief executive officers of the top 500 companies took home $12.4m on average while they exported jobs overseas
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Democratic frontrunner rules out cabinet position for former president but tackling income inequality has become priority amid trajectory of 2016 race
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Nine months ago Birmingham became first city in the Deep South to raise the minimum wage, then saw it overturned by law described as ‘a slap in the face’
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A new University of California study has found that subcontracted jobs have expanded rapidly, offering low wages to predominantly black and Latino workers
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Work is scant in the Hamptons’ winter months. Its usual crowd of New York’s mega-rich are back home, leaving the area’s yearlong residents to scrounge for money and jobs
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Each of us earns over $665K a year. We can afford to give more to help children in poverty, the homeless and people on low incomes
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Everyone under age 35 is struggling, but men are also grappling with not being able to measure up to antiquated gender expectations
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The radical idea of handing cash to citizens regardless of whether they work has taken root in Europe. Now America’s tech elite is backing the concept – but why?
The 1% are recovering from 2008 recession while 99% are still waiting