busymom
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Post by busymom on Dec 9, 2019 9:18:08 GMT -5
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OldCoyote
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Post by OldCoyote on Dec 9, 2019 9:44:07 GMT -5
Tell them come to Phoenix, Lot's of trucks with signs, Now Hiring!! Some say up to a $2000 signing bonus!!! 6800 driver's stuck somewhere. maybe. Out of 15.5 million trucks!! That is kinda like the 24 farmers that declared bankruptcy out of 100,000!
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weltschmerz
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Post by weltschmerz on Dec 13, 2019 13:10:21 GMT -5
The gig is up: America’s booming economy is built on hollow promises Uber just filed its first quarterly report as a publicly traded company. Although it lost $1bn, investors may still do well because the losses appear to be declining. Uber drivers, on the other hand, aren’t doing well. According to a recent study, about half of New York’s Uber drivers are supporting families with children, yet 40% depend on Medicaid and another 18% on food stamps. It’s similar elsewhere in the new American economy. Last week, the New York Times reported that fewer than half of Google workers are full-time employees. Most are temps and contractors receiving a fraction of the wages and benefits of full-time Googlers, with no job security. At the rate gig work is growing, future generations won’t have a minimum wage, unemployment insurance, worker’s compensation for injuries, employer-provided social security, overtime, family and medical leave, disability insurance, or the right to form unions and collectively bargain. amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/02/gig-economy-us-trump-uber-california-robert-reich?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=quora
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weltschmerz
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Post by weltschmerz on Dec 13, 2019 13:15:26 GMT -5
A booming economy, but people still can't feed their families or afford health care. What's wrong with this picture?
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djAdvocate
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Post by djAdvocate on Dec 15, 2019 1:10:48 GMT -5
I might point out that the administration chose to use the internal numbers this time rather than relying on ADP's. this is me praising them for that. but with a caveat: the ADP numbers were atrocious.
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