We did a story that showed that six major cities had amazon primes oneday Delivery Service was available, but it was not available in predominantly black areas and was not the intention of amazon to discriminate but the results were there were these lines. In boston, it was extremely obvious because the Delivery Service excluded roxbury and was surrounded by areas that were able to get the prime one day service. There was a hoopla and the mayor asked questions and senator markey of massachusetts demanded answers. As of today, amazon have that backtracked and said roxbury will be getting this oneday service now. David in the Global Economic section, an amazing piece about wild cap minors going after amber in wildcat miners going after amber in ukraine. Ukraine is a bit of a mess. They have rebels backed by Russia Fighting in the east. There is a lot of tension still going on in the economy is really bad. In certain areas, people are illegally trying to mine amber , which is made of resi
As its confirmed an italian doctor has contracted the disease in sierra leone. A woman scorned. Frances former first lady tells the bbc about how she was left devastated by Francois Hollandes affair. Plus, huge economic potential for iran if those talks succeed. Iran has the largest gas reserves in the world. Its got the secondlargest oil reserves behind saudi arabia. And an established manufacturing base. So no wonder companies from all around the world are lining up to get their teeth into irans economy. Hello. Midday here in london. 7 00 a. M. In washington. 1 00 p. M. In vienna, where the prospect of a nuclear deal with iran is slipping farther away. The five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus germany have been locked in talks with iranian officials for months. With the aim of securing a deal by the end of monday. Foreign ministers of the p5 plus are considering an extension to those talks, an the crucial issue of uranium enrichment is still a Sticking Po
Get into them and the whole problem will go away. I think that is fundamentally an evasion of a profound social challenge. Raise the issue of the minimum wage and unions and Bargaining Power of workers, but it strikes me were faced with a conund rum in a sense these changes make the imperative of giving workers more sort of Bargaining Power and a higher minimum wage make that more compelling and important but at the same time those same technologies make it easier for employers to replace workers who become too expensive with machines, so how do we thread that needle . Well, i think that is a real challenge and one of the ways i think a lot of us have talked about, not just the minimum wage, but the earned income tax credit which is a way of encouraging people to work and sharing some of the benefits from the economy to people who are are working and maybe not making very high wages. Through the tax code, not the employer, employee relationship. One of the differences is that while it
Laura i have the honor of moderating the second panel of this amazing conversation. I want to start by really congratulation congratulating the hamilton project for putting a wonderful event together. If you have not read the age of working machines which i think you put together in record time if you want a summary of the issues that we are chance to discuss here is a very distinguished that of speakers read this. It is really a great overview and it links to everything you need to know. The fact that they brought everybody here you need to know right here i recommend this. Reading entire post on the subject. Laura i thought that was the price of admission that you had to read this. In any event, this panel is going to focus on business innovation. Is going to focus on in two ways. One is what technologies are we really talking about and how much is the conversation really about software coding, a little bit of robots thrown in there occasionally . What technologies are really transfo
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