Fast food workers I know are proud of the fact that their stores provide a fresh start for newly released inmates. May they someday welcome Trump.
When I worked as a delivery driver at Pizza Hut in Seattle in the early ā80s, all the cooks were recently released ex-cons. Nothing but respect for them and their work, but their probation officers made sure they showed up each day.
Similar result when I Googled āpumpkin treeā decorative branches sold at Trader Joeās. I learned I tās actually a Thai eggplant bush, but the follow up gave the growing time for the squash.
āAbout 11,000 people filed for bankruptcy, some lost their homes, and others disproportionately divorced or died by suicide. These are just a handful of the āsocial elementsā that pop up when automated technologies are hastily integrated into every facet of life.ā
In the fifth essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series, Ruha Benjamin explores how AI evangelists wrap their self-interest in a cloak of humanistic concern.
Buying the same groceries now requires fewer hours of work than in 2019 because wages have risen faster than grocery prices.
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My maternal grandmother was born in 1903 in rural Virginia, near Roanoke. I remember her saying in her 80s that she didn't vote because she didn't think women should. But if she did vote, she added, she would vote for the Democrats, because during the Great Depression FDR gave her husband a job.
