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The Economy & Innovation (page 8)

The Economy & Innovation

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AI is a totalitarian's dream

Simon McCarthy-Jones - The Conversation
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Trade deficit soars to 12-year high

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
Woman sitting on stairs, upset | Businessmen shaking hands while one man places money in the other's pocket (Getty Images/Salon)

Fed study: Wage growth an "illusion"

Igor Derysh
People walk by yachts moored at the Hercules Port in Monaco on September 25, 2019 during the 28th edition of the International Monaco Yacht Show. - The Monaco Yacht Show is considered the most prestigious pleasure boat show in the world with the exhibition of 500 major companies in luxury yachting and featuring over a hundred super and megayachts. (VALERY HACHE/AFP via Getty Images)

Study: The wealthy struggle with empathy

Matthew Rozsa
The anthropologist David Graeber speaking at The Baffler presents "No Future for You: David Graeber versus Peter Thiel" at General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen on Friday night, September 19, 2014. (Hiroyuki Ito/Getty Images)

"Debt" author David Graeber dies at 59

Matthew Rozsa
Eviction notice on door of house (Getty Images)

Trump's eviction moratorium falls short

Matthew Rozsa
Amazon workers arrive at the company's warehouse (ERIC PIERMONT/AFP via Getty Images)

Amazon's anti-union surveillance state

Matthew Rozsa
A worker wears a mask and gloves as she hands soft drinks to a customer at a McDonald's drive-thru on April 22, 2020 in Novato, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

McDonald's workers aren't loving it

Nicole Karlis
Staff of St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, test patients at a new COVID-19 testing clinic at East Sydney Community and Arts Centre, April 17, 2020. (Louise Kennerley/The Sydney Morning Herald via Getty Images)

Are you an expendable worker?

Bob Hennelly
Man staring at computer screen (Getty Stock)

Darknet sites dole out PPE and fraud

David Maimon - The Conversation
Donald Trump | Social Security checks are run through a printer at the U.S. Treasury printing facility (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Payroll tax cut imperils Social Security

Igor Derysh
Halo App and Halo Band (Amazon)

Amazon's smartwatch is always listening

Matthew Rozsa
An Uber Eats delivery person (Horacio Villalobos/Corbis via Getty Images)

Gig economy: paving the road to serfdom

Marshall Auerback - Independent Media Institute
Referees huddle on an empty court at game time of a scheduled game between the Milwaukee Bucks and the Orlando Magic for Game Five of the Eastern Conference First Round during the 2020 NBA Playoffs at AdventHealth Arena at ESPN Wide World Of Sports Complex on August 26, 2020 in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. (Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)

"Uncharted territory" for the NBA

Matthew Rozsa
Students of economics and business studies sit in a lecture hall, observing the distance rule, and wait for the exam to begin (Getty Images)

A no-win situation for US colleges

Matthew Rozsa
Inuit Eskimo Village in Alaska (Getty Images/Jim Simmen)

Alaska's basic income test case

Matthew Rozsa
President Donald Trump talks to journalists during a news conference about his administration's response to the ongoing global coronavirus pandemic in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House July 22, 2020 in Washington, DC. This is the second briefing the president has given in as many days. Poll numbers about his handling of COVID-19 have been falling as cases of deadly virus have spiked across the country. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

How Trump abandoned American workers

Tom Conway - Independent Media Institute
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Money could change confederate minds

Christian Grose, Jordan Carr Peterson - The Conversation
A Lyft branded car service picks up a passenger in San Francisco, CA (Ramin Talaie/Corbis via Getty Images)

Lyft's "capital strike," explained

Matthew Rozsa
People wait in line for help with unemployment benefits at the One-Stop Career Center, in Las Vegas, Nevada. (AP Photo/John Locher)

IRS: Jobs will be missing for years

Matthew Rozsa
Unemployed man holding "OUT OF WORK" sign (Getty/Spencer Platt)

Initial jobless claims skyrocket

Matthew Rozsa
Rideshare drivers demonstrate against rideshare companies Uber and Lyft during a car caravan protest on August 6, 2020 (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

Drivers dismayed over Uber's win

Nicole Karlis
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Facebook's threat to public health

Matthew Rozsa
An Uber Eats delivery person (Horacio Villalobos/Corbis via Getty Images)

An Uber Eats glitch underpays workers

Matthew Rozsa
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