Between 2018 and 2020, transaction volume on wage-access apps tripled from $3.2 billion to $9.5 billion, according to Datos Insights.
James Crumbley was sentenced earlier this week alongside his estranged wife Jennifer earlier this week, with authorities now releasing the phone calls he made while locked up.
The University of Iowa pays poverty-level wages to graduate workers despite incredible fundraising and an endowment of over $3 billion. The Board of Regents has increased tuition yet again and is desperately seeking funds from new private partnerships in order to “maintain academic excellence”. How can one school be so wealthy and yet so anxious
Remote workers about to get rude awakening (Second column, 15th story, link)
Restaurants and other service sector businesses often give workers their schedules with little notice, but that's changing in some places.
Around 20 NYU students representing the recently announced RA union Student Workers At NYU rallied in front of Bobst Library on Monday afternoon, demanding university recognition. The rally comes after the group asked NYU president Linda Mills to respond to its demand for recognition by today, April 23, in a letter delivered to her office This story RAs rally outside Bobst to call for university recognition appeared first on Washington Square News.
The following piece by Harold Meyerson appeared in The American Prospect. In Seattle, in 1999, Lefts Old and New converged to mount what is arguably the most far-reaching protest against the corporate domination of the planet. The protests extended well beyond the young enragés’ sit-down strike in the city’s streets, which made it impossible for the… Source
Apple TV+ hit "For All Mankind" has been renewed for a fifth season, and a spin-off is also going back to the beginning for a new look at the Soviet space race. The new "Star City" will go back to the beginning of "For All Mankind," and see life from the Soviet side "For All Mankind" was one of the first shows announced by Apple TV+ back at its launch in 2019, and is an alternative view of the space race. While it now seems a long way since its starting point of having the Soviets be the...
Jack Leiter, the son of Al Leiter and an ex-No. 2 overall pick in 2021, was called up by the Rangers and will make his big league debut on Thursday.
A federal judge has sentenced two former Cuyahoga County juvenile corrections officers to prison for illegal firearms sales. Several of the guns sold ended up on the streets and were used in crimes, authorities said.
The Colorado Rockies beat the Seattle Mariners on Sunday afternoon, 2-1 in 10 innings, during Game 1 of a doubleheader at Coors Field. The Rockies won because t
While the DOLE has an advisory for safety measures against heat stress, labor groups report exposed workers experiencing heat stroke, dehydration, and other heat-related ailments