Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Submitted by Dark Bid In society, exclusivity creates desirability. Whether it’s that special country club or elite college, privilege is defined by the rejection rate. In the previous era, the Ivy League was one of those prized organizations, and McDonald’s was the exact opposite. Now, the New Normal has seized our social convention and turned…
Every jobs report there remains a cohort of people who say, “There’s still no evidence of wage growth, and plenty of evidence that lots of labor slack remains.” It’s based primarily on these three charts. 1) Average Hourly Earnings (I prefer to use the series with production and nonsupervisory employees since the data goes back farther):…
The women begin to arrive just before 8 a.m., every day and without fail, until there are thickets of young Asian and Hispanic women on nearly every street corner along the main roads of Flushing, Queens. As if on cue, cavalcades of battered Ford Econoline vans grumble to the curbs, and the women jump in….
BALTIMORE—Sinai Hospital in Northwest Baltimore received no credible threats in the wake of violent clashes between residents and police on Monday. So there were no National Guard soldiers or armored vehicles stationed out front, like there were at Johns Hopkins Hospital in East Baltimore. But it was far from business as usual at Sinai. Things…
I was asleep when I heard the door rattle against the frame. My eyes flashed open and I sprung upright in my under-desk sleep space. Was it all over? Had someone come to work early? I peered over my desk, afraid of what I might see. The morning sun burned through the chicken-scratch graffiti of…
The future is looking bright The Sharing Economy is Extremely Good — The Nib — Medium.
Photo In Brooklyn, signs for demonstrators seeking higher wages are stored along Flatbush Avenue. Credit Lucas Jackson/Reuters Some 15 years ago, searching for a consistent way to compare wages of equivalent workers across the world, Orley Ashenfelter, an economics professor at Princeton University, came upon McDonald’s. The uniform, highly scripted production methods used throughout the…
In 1998, Carnegie Mellon researchers warned that the internet could make us into hermits. They released a study monitoring the social behavior of 169 people making their first forays online. The web-surfers started talking less with family and friends, and grew more isolated and depressed. “We were surprised to find that what is a social…
paging_filterOn Thursday afternoon, Gawker senior writer Hamilton Nolan announced that Gawker’s editorial staff had decided to try to form a union. The day before, Nolan wrote, Gawker staffers had met with representatives of the Writers Guild of America. Shortly after Nolan’s post was published, Gawker employees discussed the potential union during their weekly “all-hands” editorial meeting. A…
One of today’s Pulitzer winners for local reporting isn’t actually a reporter anymore. The Daily Breeze’s Rob Kuznia won the prize alongside Rebecca Kimitch for a series on corruption in the Torrance, California school district. Now the former reporter, who had more than 15 years’ experience covering local affairs, is celebrating the career high in…