sets to alice cornet. it s the first time in her career the 19 year old has lost the opening match of a grand slam event. now on bbc news, the dark side of direct sales. the world of door to door sales and selling on the street has been rebooted for the social media age. young people are being promised big money, glam work trips abroad and the chance to work with some of the biggest brands in the uk. but the reality can be very different. i m lora jones and, for the past year, i ve been investigating the dark side of the direct sales industry. are young people chasing a dream they can never achieve? just, like, chews you up and spits you out. i probably blew about £2,000 in, like, road trips and stuff. wow! and i don t think i made that in the whole three months i was there. can t afford shampoo. you were trying so hard to project a kind of wolf of wall street image. i don t want to sound dramatic but it was like selling your soul. and could direct sales companies be breakin
morning. they are a christian band. they have been here before. we welcome them back. they sing holy water. many of you know what that is. if you are downloading some of their music, they sing a beautiful version i found it on youtube the bills of god, famous song a lot of nondenominational songs sing. their version of it is to beautiful. steve: we know a lot of people signed up for it. if you didn t get the v.i.p. tickets, you could still come down to 48th and sixth avenue. ainsley: we will be out there. we would love to see you. brian: scandalous at all. steve: bootleg tickets? ainsley: i haven t heard that it has been. we have very honest fans. brian: look. steve: a jeweler loop? ainsley: why would you go to the counter of making a counterfeit ticket sign up for v.i.p. ticket and it s free. steve: think ahead. in addition to the ticket to come and stand there on the astro turf to watch this group you get free this morning the mclemores from master built a
prepandemic occupants on-site at some point during the week. online job postings also reflect differences in remote work between large and small cities. in san francisco, 26% of postings permit remote work. in birmingham, alabama, that number is just 10.4%. there s debate of what drives the difference. is it work habits? commutes? in a moment, i m going to ask scott calloway what he thinks. a second story caught my eye the same day. it had to do with friendship and economic mobility and so much more. raj chedy and colleagues released a study, the social met works of 2.2 million users between 25 and 54. the searchers didn t have names or identities, but they were able to use zip codes to estimate income, college, and other characteristics. the conclusion that drove the headlines was theis. for the poor, the best ticket out of poverty is having wealthy friends. it s called economic connectedness. the more connections between the rich and the poor, the better the neighborhood wa
understanding of our first black/indian/canadian vice president who also happens to identify as a woman. we have assumed that kamala harris was historically unpopular because she is historically incompetent and fake. we assume she earned her low approval numbers and we are not alone in that pair lots of other people have come to the very same conclusion. there is currently a debate among software engineers about whether paris is even of biological origin or the product of a governmental ai project online. we don t understand the answer but we understand the question, she is that synthetic. again, until the other day we assumed that people don t like kamala harris because she is highly unlikable. keep in mind that even her own husband kisses her with a mask on. to us, that seemed like a pretty clear sign. but we are here tonight to tell you that assumptions can change. even assumptions rooted in overwhelming evidence and observable reality. sometimes, and this happens, your en