Uber is to guarantee its 70,000 UK drivers a minimum hourly wage, holiday pay and pensions after a landmark supreme court ruling. The ride-hailing app said drivers would start benefiting from the changes from Wednesday while retaining the right to …
Josh Sigurdson reports on the recent findings of a survey by Harri showing that higher minimum wages mean employers cut hours and raise prices. This is obvious to most of us, but still, many can’t comprehend the fact that profit …
via cbsnews: Wall Street bonuses fell 17 percent to an average of $153,700 last year. Despite the decline, Wall Street bonuses are 52 percent higher than a decade ago. If the minimum wage had kept pace with the same growth as …
Josh Sigurdson reports on the unmitigated disaster that is the $15/hour minimum wage hikes in many states across the United States. As the wages get hiked, enforced by the government, businesses are forced to close, lay people off, automate or …
•Indonesia and Myanmar to become new world breadbaskets •New food growing areas on our planet as GSM intensifies •Opportunity for distribution, shipping, ports, storage and ag supply chain into new grow zones •Massive explorations in the past coincided with Grand …
via pjmedia: Well, well, well. In a case of “we told you so,” liberals who work in the restaurant industry are finding that 2019 has brought them fewer hours at work. Sure, they now get that beloved $15 an hour (why …
Most of them probably voted for the people who implemented the new law. I don’t feel sorry for them. via dailycaller: New York City hiked its minimum wage for the third time in three years on Jan. 1 and small business …
via nbcnews: Millions of U.S. workers will see increased pay in 2019 due to minimum-wage hikes in 20 states and 21 cities. With the federal minimum wage stuck at $7.25 an hour since 2009, many states and cities have taken it …
by User_Name13 How come the corporate media never mentions or factors inflation into the lives of regular people? They completely ignore it as if it doesn’t exist at all. If you aren’t getting a 2% raise every year to account …
Bold move, gonna shave off quite a bit of Walmart’s top line this quarter since a big appeal of their eCommerce business is offering Free Shipping to customers without the need to buy a membership. Source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/nation-now/2018/11/05/amazon-drops-25-minimum-free-shipping-through-holiday-season/1889512002/ Target …
by howmuch One of the most hotly contested political debates in the United States is the minimum wage. Pro-business advocates say a high minimum wage hurts business, while pro-labor advocates say the minimum wage should be raised to help the working …
By Max Gulker via AIER.org: Many people assume that to raise wages, big companies must be dragged along by government policy. Amazon’s eye-opening announcement yesterday suggests otherwise. The online retail giant announced it would raise its company minimum wage to fifteen dollars per …
by Martin Armstron The sun is entering perhaps one of the deepest Solar Minima in thousands of years. Sunspots have been absent for most of 2018. This is really alarming. Since the start of 2018, there have been totally spotless days for weeks. The …
With the Indonesian 7.7 earthquake and tsunami, at the same time Krakatou awoke with over 50 eruptions in the W. Java island area. All time coldest days in Germany and Netherlands, snowiest September in Alberta and massive frost damage to …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XuXAh9MPhk Frank Camp for the Daily Wire reports, On Wednesday, PragerU uploaded a video in which Will Witt asks students at UCLA about the minimum wage. When Witt asked how high the minimum wage should be, the answers from students …
by Jeremiah Johnson In the article, “Earth’s Big Freeze Looms as Sun Remains Devoid of Sunspots for Most of 2018, the writer addressed an issue that we are perhaps beginning to see the start of right now. Throughout the United States, …
The intensification of extreme weather globally is apparent to everyone on our planet, but what is causing it and how much more intense will it become? I have put together this video to explain the causes to give you a …
Socialists don’t have time to be looking back at the blazing trail of destruction they leave in their wake. via reason: Before she was the rising star of the progressive left, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez worked shifts at the iconic Coffee Shop in Union Square, …
by ARIZaL_ McDonald’s bun are made in Ontario, California.. but 14.4 million buns per week using “a handful of workers” so if we say wow man, that must be employing 30 workers at minimum wage, and we double their salary.. that’s an …
I KEEP SEEING PEOPLE CIRCULATING THIS DUMB STUDY ON FACEBOOK, BUT WHEN WAS THE MINIMUM WAGE EVER ADVERTISED AS LETTING ONE PERSON RENT A TWO-BEDROOM APARTMENT? Minimum wage doesn’t cover the rent anywhere in the U.S. A minimum-wage worker …
by howmuch Driving can be extremely dangerous. Even though most car trips are uneventful, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that in 2015, the latest year for which full data is available, there were nearly 6.3 million crashes reported to the …
The Fed, in spite of the alleged “stable prices” mandate, is trying for a CPI of 2%-ish (meaning the real cost of living is much higher). Maybe we wouldn’t need a $15 an hour minimum wage if the Fed wasn’t …
Same things happen in most “developed” European countries. This is really unnerving. Something I would call “dark news” because it is not secret, just lying in the shadows. via thefreethoughtproject: Girls as young as ten are among more than 200,000 children …
This time from Minnesota: Following the minimum wage increases limited service restaurant employment fell by 4% in Minnesota relative to Wisconsin. Further, youth employment fell by 9% in Minnesota following the minimum wage increases, while it increased by 10.6% in …
The Legislature has reached an agreement on a deal to raise the minimum wage to $15, institute paid family and medical leave and create a permanent sales tax holiday, in an attempt to keep multiple proposed ballot questions off the …
by User_Name13 via theweek: As if apartment-hunting wasn’t already hard enough. The low minimum wage in cities across America has made it almost impossible for workers to find a decent place to call home, data released Wednesday by the National Low Income …
The signs of intensification of the Grand Solar Minimum are all around us, are you seeing?
by stockboardasset Coined shortly after the great financial crisis of 2007–2009, the so-called “gig economy” or “sharing economy” refers to the increasing list of companies like Airbnb, Doordash, Etsy, Lyft, Postmates, TaskRabbit, and Uber–platforms that hire temporary workers who provide an …
by Duane Norman, Free Market Shooter The impact of government raising the minimum wage seems fairly arbitrary – layoffs, increased responsibilities for existing employees, and automation of labor are all responses to the “market adjustment” made by employers to maintain …
A graphic to describe all of the changes we as a planetary civilization will see unfold over the next 7 years culminating in reduced global crop production. We collectively need to start the conversation so we can begin to find …