San Francisco The Inland Empire is largely Riverside and San Bernardino Counties in southern California east of Los Angeles. Warehouses and distribution centers are the kings of this empire, workers and communities are too often the serfs and poor villagers. In the last decade since the Great Recession new work in this section brought in …
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White Collar Blues is an Unaddressed Economic and Political Issue
Washington A line in an Associated Press story in the local papers caught my eye: “Since 2008, roughly a third of major US metro areas lost a great percentage of white-collar jobs than blue-collar jobs.” That’s not the political and economic headliner that most people are following. The Trump administration is trying to save the …
The Achilles Heel of the Gig Economy is that Workers Can’t Make Enough Money
New Orleans Uber is the canary in the coal mine. After years of listening to the reports that held up Uber as the herald of the future, creating a new business model where an application would substitute for an employer, the accounting is finally coming due. Its drivers were touted as the vanguard of …