AI exploitation and surveillance are redefining work. Here’s how to reclaim human agency Step into the home office of an agent for a particular type of call center in the United States, one of thousands connected in an AI-laced web to a digital platform. Every moment of their workday is surveilled: every call, every keystroke, every mouse movement. Their tone … Read More
The Color of Wealth: The data behind the divide
Ten statistics that expose America’s inequality — and what can be done about it Today, the United States is arguably the wealthiest country in the history of the world, holding more than one-third of global liquid assets and producing 30% of global output. But its wealth distribution is so lopsided that it rivals the levels of inequality seen during the … Read More
The Missing ‘For All’ Program?
An inclusive city cannot be built on an exclusionary labor market. Jobs are the connective tissue binding housing, child care, transit, and education into a coherent vision of shared prosperity. If New York is serious about being a city “For All,” it must be willing to guarantee the most basic economic right of all: the right to dignified work at … Read More
Baby Bonds v. Trump Accounts
A new savings vehicle, dubbed “Trump accounts,” is designed to help the rising generation of American children build wealth into adulthood. Under the multitrillion-dollar tax and spending bill signed by President Donald Trump in July, the federal government will contribute $1,000 to accounts set up for every American baby born in the next few years. Darrick Hamilton, Henry Cohen Professor … Read More
Baristas Are the Brand
When unionized Starbucks baristas walked off the job this past November, they were asserting a fundamental truth about Starbucks itself: Workers are not incidental to the coffee chain’s experience. They are the experience. Source: https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/starbucks-workers-unions-labor-strikes