Oct 06 What it's really like to be an Uber driver By Making Sen$e Editor You've heard about Uber taking business away from traditional taxicab drivers, and their ire toward the competition. But what is it like to drive an Uber, specifically your own car as an UberX? The drivers Making Sen$e spoke to gave… Continue reading
Oct 05 Watch New York City, LA among cities moving to raise minimum wage By PBS News Hour Matt Flegenheimer of the New York Times joins Hari Sreenivasan to talk about the U.S. cities moving to raise minimum wage on the local level, as the issue lingers in Congress. Continue watching
Oct 03 Watch Broad-based jobs growth signals stronger U.S. economy, but wages still lag By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Oct 03 Quiz: Do you know what these patented inventions do? By Laura Santhanam In this quiz, see if you can identify what some devices were designed to do based on renderings submitted to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Continue reading
Oct 03 A two-tiered jobs report for a two-tiered economy By Simone Pathe With the unemployment rate dipping below 6 percent for the first time since the summer of 2008, and payroll gains of 248,000, September's headline employment data points to a real economic recovery -- with jobs. But last month wasn't so… Continue reading
Oct 02 Watch Is the traditional taxicab an endangered species? By PBS News Hour Increasingly popular ride-sharing services have attracted customers at a rate that some say endangers the cab industry. Economics correspondent Paul Solman reports on the new surge of unregulated competition on the road. Continue watching
Oct 02 Uber the unfair? Are ride-sharing firms exploiting deregulation? By Simone Pathe Ride-sharing services like Uber and Lyft have responded to public demand in a way traditional taxi cabs have not been able to, says Hansu Kim, owner of San Francisco's third-largest taxi company. But that's come at the expense of passenger… Continue reading
Oct 01 Think tenure protects you? With wealthy donors and less public funding, think again By Denise Cummins Tenure isn't all it's cracked up to be, argues Denise Cummins. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where Cummins used to teach as an adjunct, recently rescinded a job offer made to professor Steven Salaita -- even though he had… Continue reading
Oct 01 Six years after Lehman, debating Fed independence and bank insolvency By Simone Pathe The six-year anniversary of the month when Lehman Brothers failed, and brought down much of the financial sector with it, was a rough one for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Continue reading
Sep 30 Obama, Modi tout deeper U.S.-India economic relation By Josh Lederman, Associated Press WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama and India's new Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Tuesday that "it is time to set a new agenda" between their countries, addressing concerns that the world's two largest democracies have grown apart. Continue reading