It took a 9-day hunger strike by students to get Georgetown to commit to a Just Employment Policy for janitors and other workers on campus 19 years ago. Despite the policy, this week Georgetown promotes a new "Uber for Business" plan and offers staff a $20 credit for rides.
"This question of migration and the gig economy is not only showing up here; it is showing up across the world as sort of the new Ellis Island, so to speak, for migrant workers." - my take www.businessinsider.com/uber-lyft-fl...
Business Insider spoke to a dozen recent immigrants who rely heavily on driving for Uber and Lyft to make ends meet.
I'm thrilled to share our new essay. We write: "That legislators in cities and states across the country have keeled over to meet [Uber's] demands reveals how feeble our public infrastructure and governance systems have become." www.nybooks.com/online/2024/...
In 2016, near the end of his second term as president, Barack Obama was asked what he planned to do on returning to civilian life. He gave a one-word
"Trump’s response...: You all are wealthy enough, he said, that you should raise $1 billion to return me to the White House. At the dinner, he vowed to immediately reverse dozens of President Biden’s environmental rules and policies and stop new ones..." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Donald Trump has pledged to scrap President Biden’s policies on electric vehicles and wind energy, and other initiatives opposed by the fossil fuel industry.
This article suggests that Ivy League presidents have a broader constituency than public school leaders, but I think what we saw is they are good at telling powerful people what they want to hear, whereas school leaders are skilled at politics. We need more of the later in U administration.
Mixing it up a bit, schools leaders showed, can go far toward neutralizing a Congress with a craving to make a point.
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First-quarter operating profit sharply misses analysts’ expectations after payouts related to driver lawsuits
you keep good company.
It's hard to think about geography or grad school or learning to really see the world without the writings of Brett Christophers. An honor to hear him speak. Thx @pmbigger.bsky.social. .
yeah. the risks are not small. nice dc piece this week, though they leave out all of these physical risks let alone the financial ones: www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
A wave of new Venezuelan immigrants have turned to food delivery on mopeds as a way to make a living in the D.C. region.