Most of the residents of this predominantly Black city have been without safe tap water this week. The infrastructure problems that triggered this situation aren’t unique.
The homelessness crisis is being punctuated in the nation’s most populous city by sky-high rents and rising prices, says the CEO of the Bowery Mission, a New York City-based nonprofit.
Gig workers, like those who drive for Uber and deliver for DoorDash, occupy a murky position between employee and independent contractor as defined by labor laws.
Here’s why a 1920 law established to protect the U.S. shipbuilding and merchant marine industry is making it more difficult to get fuel shipped to New England.
Jodi Kantor from The New York Times describes how companies are increasingly using new software tools to evaluate how hard their employees are working.
