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David Brooks Says Real Inequality Is That Poor People Are Worthless
Tom Scocca · 01/17/14 01:45PMSelf-loathing New York Times thought-leader David Brooks has an admonition for everyone today: You do not understand this "income inequality" you are all talking about. People assume that just because the very richest people have ever more money, and the much greater numbers of poor people have less money, this constitutes a systemic problem:
Republicans Have Accidentally Solved Unemployment
Hamilton Nolan · 01/03/14 10:40AMThe Year in Hard Times
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How Much Higher Should the Minimum Wage Be? (Much Higher)
Hamilton Nolan · 12/02/13 10:59AMLast week, voters in SeaTac, Washington voted to raise the minimum wage for airport workers to $15 an hour. California recently approved a statewide minimum wage of $10. As low wage workers increasingly voice their frustration with their shitty lot in life, it's time to raise the minimum wage— everywhere.
Hamilton Nolan · 11/25/13 02:00PM
Your Number One Job: Getting Paid to Pee
Max Rivlin-Nadler · 11/24/13 01:35PMWhat Is the Whitest Job in America?
Lacey Donohue · 11/06/13 10:27PMIn a fantastic piece at The Atlantic, Derek Thompson uses U.S. Bureau of Labor data to highlight how the labor market is more stratified by race than you might imagine. According to the BLS, whites, on average, earn higher wages and face lower unemployment, while blacks and Latinos cluster in lower-paying jobs.
Hamilton Nolan · 11/04/13 05:07PM
Whining Millionaire Successfully Gets Bathroom Attendants Fired
Hamilton Nolan · 11/04/13 10:41AMFamous Data Leaker Hired to Work Around Russian Web Data
Cord Jefferson · 10/31/13 06:32PMA Lifestyle Is Not a Job
Hamilton Nolan · 10/28/13 10:36AMIf you are lucky enough to have financial means and plenty of leisure time and a lack of more pressing responsibilities, you may be able to focus all of your energies on designing your "lifestyle" to your own utmost satisfaction. Congratulations on your good fortune. This does not qualify as a "job."
All Workers Now Get The Comfort of Knowing the Boss Is Spying on Them
Hamilton Nolan · 10/23/13 10:23AMStudy: Low Fast Food Wages Cost Taxpayers $7 Billion Per Year
Hamilton Nolan · 10/15/13 12:11PMThe Machines Are Taking Over Job Interviews
Hamilton Nolan · 10/11/13 12:35PMWhat's the Best Way To Get a Drink At a Busy Bar?
Ken Layne · 09/19/13 04:30PMAn empty bar is best. You just pick a seat where there's light enough to read, and the bartender comes right over. Then there are the busy nights, when people crush around the bar three deep and getting a drink seems impossible. What kind of supernatural skills are necessary for getting a cocktail on a Saturday night?
At the New York City Fast Food Strike
Hamilton Nolan · 08/29/13 01:59PMToday, a right wing think tank ran a full page Wall Street Journal ad implying that a rise in the minimum wage would cause fast food workers to be replaced by robots. The prospect of robo-dystopia did not deter the hundreds of chanting protesters who bent the corner of Broadway and Nassau at 11:15 this morning.
Hamilton Nolan · 08/22/13 01:24PM
Someone Please Hire All the Teenagers
Hamilton Nolan · 08/21/13 09:56AMJust as "high school" was invented as a way to keep teenagers off the streets most of the year, "summer jobs" were invented as a way to keep them off the streets for the remainder of the year. But even five years after the Great Recession struck, summer jobs are as scarce as [reference to some teen-specific buzzword here]. Can someone hire these fucking kids, please?