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JUST what is the point of a minimum wage? It seems a straightforward enough question to answer. Minimum wages are designed to protect vulnerable workers who might otherwise lack the bargaining power to command a decent pay package. They are a means to limit severe poverty among those in work. Yet they also attract opposition […]
The pair discussed the heat rule that says a female competitor can take a 10 minute break between the second and third sets if the temperature rises over 30.1 degrees, but it did not end friendly. “The most glaring example of rampant sexism I’ve ever seen,” Piers called the ruling. He began to say that […]
So, my question for Lana Del Rey — or whoever is behind “Lana Del Rey” as a concept/persona/whatever — is this: how seriously are we supposed to take this shit? It seems clear these days that everyone who took her completely seriously, thus sparking the Great Lana Del Rey Tumblr War of 2012 — a dark time […]
Internet providers are continuing to argue that they should be free to share and sell your web browsing history without permission because it isn’t “sensitive information.” The latest group to make that argument is the CTIA, an industry association that represents AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint, among others. In a filing with the FCC last […]
COMPETITION from Chinese imports may have cost some Americans jobs, but economists have done pretty well out of it. Since 2013 David Autor, David Dorn and Gordon Hanson have published nine separate studies digging into the costs of trade. They have found that, of the fall in manufacturing jobs between 1990 and 2007, one-quarter could […]
