First of its kind industry report shows New York City’s App-based delivery workers experience harsh working conditions
Los Deliveristas / Worker's Justice Project and Cornell ILR’s Worker Institute released a new report titled, “Essential but Unprotected: App-based Food Couriers in New York City.” The report examines the harsh and unregulated working conditions of app-based delivery workers engaged by digital platforms.
What Are Rights? This Is What the American Founders Believed | Dan Sanchez
By “rights,” the American founders did not mean government-granted entitlements. Indeed they would have rejected such entitlements as incompatible with true rights. Government can only enforce someone’s phony “right” to welfare, health care, education, or internet access by depriving someone else of their genuine rights: either by seizing their earnings or commandeering their labor.
What the American Founders Meant by Equality | Dan Sanchez
Egalitarians today invoke “equality” to deny any variation in qualities among individuals, or in the resulting qualitative tendencies among sets of similar individuals. They condemn any acknowledgment of differences in aptitude, ability, character, and accomplishment as an affront to equality.
But this is far removed from the kind of equality that the authors of the Declaration of Independence were referring to.
US consumer inflation eased to 7.7% over past 12 months
WASHINGTON (AP) — Price increases moderated in the United States last month in the latest sign that the inflation pressures that have gripped the nation might be easing as the economy slows. Consumer inflation reached 7.7% in October from a year earlier and 0.4% from September, the government said Thursday.
Venture Valley
Celebrate the entrepreneurial spirit in schools and equip students with financial literacy and entrepreneurship skills they can use to win the game of life with standards-aligned resources for grades 6–12. Discover Venture Valley empowers middle and high school students to embrace everyday business skills and become the boss of their own brand using the financial and business basics explored in the Venture Valley game.
Interactive: What makes for a better life? - Blog
Pretty provocative question, huh? Using this interactive, your students will grapple with this question and learn how residents in other countries contemplate it too. This interactive takes a step back from talking about money and forces students to think about what they value most when it comes to life. It will also allow them to 1) see what countries match up best with their definition of a better life 2) see how their answers compare with others in the U.S. and 3) have them think about the relative strengths and weaknesses of the U.S.