University of Amsterdam
The COVID-crisis has affected Amsterdam and the metropolitan area disproportionally: substantial unemployment, 5-10 months of backlog in children’s education, significant growth in households with debts, and an enormous backlog in health care. Urgent and explicit choices need to be made towards achieving a future proof metropole.
Several professors of the UvA and VU (Barbara Baarsma, Willemijn van Dolen, Henri de Groot, Mirjam van Praag en Marc Salomon) together with Boston Consulting Group have holistically analyzed the societal and economic impact of the COVID-crisis. Based on this, they present several vistas for how the metropole could develop and make suggestions for critical policy choices. In their advice, they build on existing impact analyses and future scenarios. This is a unique collaboration between professors from UvA and VU and BCG-written on their own initiative based on their commitment to city and region. The report was handed to mayor and
After retiring from a long career in construction, John Pereira wanted to enjoy the benefits of retirement without too much financial stress. He took to driving passengers using the rideshare app Lyft, a job he says gives him the flexibility of a retired lifestyle while helping to pay the bills.
“I am my own boss,” he said. “When I feel like going, I go.”
Uber and Lyft, the two largest rideshare companies in the U.S., currently classify their drivers as independent contractors, rather than as employees. This distinction allows workers to create their own hours but doesn’t guarantee them minimum wage, overtime, earned sick time and other benefits.
As jobless benefit ends, Massachusetts recipients worry about their next steps
By Nick Stoico Globe Correspondent,Updated December 26, 2020, 5:52 p.m.
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Since losing her job in March, the few hundred dollars Amber Duarte receives weekly through the federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program has been about the only income she can count on to support herself and her six children.
That was until Saturday, when the program hit its Dec. 26 endpoint with no law on the books to keep it running as President Trump refuses to sign Congressâs $900 billion pandemic relief bill.
The lapse in benefits affects millions of Americans, and hundreds of thousands in Massachusetts. More than 370,000 pandemic unemployment assistance