The cost of a 2 bedroom apartment always costs what someone working for minimum wage makes plus $100. Why? Because landlords don’t want people making minimum wage living at their apartments - never mind the (perceived)increased maintenance and crime - people working minimum wage are people that don’t have income security and more likely to miss payments or need to be evicted.
If you raise minimum wage, the price of rent just goes up. Now that isn’t a argument against raising it more that an argument against renting and an argument for housing reform, but that is a whole different post.
As someone who is currently living in a 2 bedroom apartment and has seen the price change through out the years, I think I am in touch with what it costs.
It ain’t the “market” that sets prices, it’s the owners. The owners set prices to fill up the apartments, sure, but they would rather it sit empty then rent it out to someone that would cost more money to evict and repair then they would pay in rent.
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Let’s just jump to the end of this and turn the president into a prime minister. If the house has final say over electoral votes, then whomever wins the house wins the presidency. Gee, I wonder which party has an advantage in elections during presidential years?
New office buildings will be like new malls or new nuclear power plants. No one will want to build them, since businesses know WFH is cheaper. Just right now, they have a lease and they have to keep up the act but as soon as they can, they will cash out. After a generation, population growth will be enough to get the reduced office use back up to full, and then the people of this generation will swoop in with a office downsizing buzzword trend that will make “de-office-ing” the rad new thing once the leases terms are up and the company stands to SAVE money.
I would propose a $1.50 decrease in the minimum wage IF it was coupled with a pay for commute law. I would go down by $3 an hour if it also had a half pay for “on call” hours amendment.
Grindr has lost about 45% of its staff as it enforces a strict return-to-office policy that was introduced after a majority of employees announced a plan to unionize....
Surprised to see no one making the default joke about how “half of their staff is still 3 inches.” Guess people here actually care about the method that the people were laid off.
The left people want won’t win the presidency until they at least win a governorship or a senate seat. The last time we had a radical departure from those that came before them in the white house (politically speaking, not skin color) we had a 4 year long Civil War backlash.
Well, there was a war involved with that as well, but I would argue that the New Deal was a compromise moderate position to the alternative of complete communist revolt, which was starting to sweep the globe at the time.
Shucks, I thought he would out live Henry Kissinger. Still, quite a long time in hospice. Enough time to see a corrupt president get charged, even if it wasn’t the one that he followed. (Well, followed after his VP pardoned him and took over for a bit.)
Earlier in the pandemic many news and magazine organizations would proudly write about how working from home always actually can lead to over working and being too “productive”. I am yet to collect some evidence on it but I think we remember a good amount about this....
Then there is me, a professor, who works every day because students do homework on weekends and need help. I figure instead of a 4x10, I am doing a 7x5.
The 69 hours a week bill got defeated. Apparently someone suggested 69 as a way of getting more babies, and the PM was like “hours of work a week? Deal!”
When he took office, 700 people a day were dying of COVID. At the end of his first year, it peeked at 2000 a day. I wouldn’t call that an “unusually good situation.”
Conservative groups have crafted a plan for demolishing the federal government’s efforts to counter climate change — and it wouldn’t stop with President Joe Biden’s policies....
“The endgame is to allow things to drag on until union members start losing their apartments and losing their houses,” a studio executive told Deadline. Acknowledging the cold-as-ice approach, several other sources reiterated the statement. One insider called it “a cruel but necessary evil.”...
Is there anything stopping the writers from finally working on that next great American novel they all have collectively been putting off? If there isn’t something legally barring them, I expect the quality/quantity of books to increase soon.
*mic drop* ( lemmy.world )
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A Poultry Plant in Ohio Is Under Federal Investigation for Hiring 24 Children ( truthout.org )
“For too long this industry has been given carte blanche to disregard laws,” an advocate told Truthout....
Simple, right? ( lemmy.world )
Bosses and workers still can’t agree on whether the commute is part of the work day, and it’s creating a $578 billion productivity problem ( fortune.com )
Grindr loses nearly half its staff to strict return-to-work rule ( www.latimes.com )
Grindr has lost about 45% of its staff as it enforces a strict return-to-office policy that was introduced after a majority of employees announced a plan to unionize....
Bernie Sanders urges left to back Biden to stop ‘very dangerous’ Trump ( www.theguardian.com )
Leftwing senator advises ‘unification of progressive people in general’ because threat from Republican ex-president is too great...
What if employers could gauge the ‘moods’ of workers? A dangerous new tech gains ground in India ( scroll.in )
Emotion recognition systems are finding growing use, from monitoring customer responses to ads to scanning for ‘distressed’ women in danger.
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter in ‘final chapter’, ex-president’s grandson says ( www.theguardian.com )
The first three paragraphs:...
Almost all remote-work news is negative now but was positive in the beginning of the pandemic. Have you noticed this or am I going crazy?
Earlier in the pandemic many news and magazine organizations would proudly write about how working from home always actually can lead to over working and being too “productive”. I am yet to collect some evidence on it but I think we remember a good amount about this....
Push For A 4-Day Work Week Picks Up Steam — And Critics ( www.foxnews.com )
Study: Fewer Working Hours Propel Pregnancy Intentions Among Koreans ( stop-population-decline.ghost.io )
Where did it all go right for Biden? Facts blunt Republican attack lines ( www.theguardian.com )
Conservatives have already written a climate plan for Trump’s second term ( www.politico.com )
Conservative groups have crafted a plan for demolishing the federal government’s efforts to counter climate change — and it wouldn’t stop with President Joe Biden’s policies....
Hollywood Studios’ WGA Strike Endgame Is To Let Writers Go Broke Before Resuming Talks ( deadline.com )
“The endgame is to allow things to drag on until union members start losing their apartments and losing their houses,” a studio executive told Deadline. Acknowledging the cold-as-ice approach, several other sources reiterated the statement. One insider called it “a cruel but necessary evil.”...