https://www.wsj.com/articles/global-food-prices-surge-as-inflation-spreads-11636119367 Global Food Prices Surge as Inflation Spreads From Peru to the Philippines, bad harvests and supply bottlenecks are leaving poor families hungry By Samantha Pearson and Luciana Magalhaes | Photographs by Dado Galdieri for The Wall Street JournalNov. 5, 2021 9:36 am ET SÃO PAULO—Earlier this year, Celia Matos, a single mother from São Paulo’s Paraisópolis favela, could afford … Continue reading Inflation in food prices having a global impact
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Early resignations during pandemic causing employer panic in a time of reduced immigration and fewer skilled workers
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/nov/01/great-resignation-employers-sweating-time-to-escalate-pressure The Great Resignation has employers sweating. It’s time to escalate the pressure Erika Rodriguez This is a once-in-a-generation ‘take this job and shove it’ moment – which gives workers an upper hand. Let’s demand better hours, pay and work-life balance ‘2.9% of the workforce have quit their jobs in the past few months.’ Photograph: Keith … Continue reading Early resignations during pandemic causing employer panic in a time of reduced immigration and fewer skilled workers
Will supply problems (goods and workers) spoil Christmas in the U.K.?
http://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-uk/will-supply-chain-issues-ruin-christmas? Will Supply-Chain Issues Ruin Christmas? By Anna Russell November 2, 2021 In recent weeks, an acute labor shortage in the U.K.’s farming and agricultural sector has cast a decidedly unfestive pall over seasonal preparations.Photograph by Hollie Adams / Getty The run-up to the Christmas season in London—manic, festooned—begins exceptionally early. The lights over Regent Street … Continue reading Will supply problems (goods and workers) spoil Christmas in the U.K.?
Prohibition against refusing to accept cash catches upscale Van Leeuwen ice cream shop
https://ny.eater.com/2021/10/29/22752696/van-leeuwen-ice-cream-cashless-ban-fines-nyc NYC Fines Upscale Ice Cream Shop Van Leeuwen for Violating Cashless Ban The fancy ice cream purveyor was charged with 17 violations of the law in 2021by Erika Adams Oct 29, 2021, 4:03pm EDT Van Leeuwen on the Upper West Side. Van Leeuwen’s cashless days appear to be over. The fancy, minimalist ice cream purveyor has … Continue reading Prohibition against refusing to accept cash catches upscale Van Leeuwen ice cream shop
How employers can get workers back into office
https://www.wsj.com/articles/boss-get-remote-workers-back-office-11635531138?mod=hp_lead_pos7 How Bosses Can Lure Remote Workers Back to the Office Sure, companies can insist. But there are also things they can do that will make employees want to return. By Alexandra SamuelOct. 30, 2021 10:00 am ET There is a magical land where the temperature is always 72 degrees, the Wi-Fi never goes down, and … Continue reading How employers can get workers back into office
The U.S. is behind the entire E.U. in how it takes care of its citizens — Michael Moore gives us details
It's becoming more and more difficult to come up with any measure by which the United States comes within even the top ten -- whether it's the number of women who die giving birth, the expense of college, childcare and so many other measures. Instead we bleed off our wealth into the hands of those … Continue reading The U.S. is behind the entire E.U. in how it takes care of its citizens — Michael Moore gives us details
Why isn’t anyone talking about how Amazon has changed the process and selling of books?
The Strange State of the Novel in the “Age of Amazon” A conversation with Mark McGurl about how the company changed the way books are written and the consequences of a service oriented reading culture. By Hannah Gold October 28, 2021 5am EDT The Amazon Books retail store in Pacific Palisades, Calif., 2020. (Photo by AaronP/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images) … Continue reading Why isn’t anyone talking about how Amazon has changed the process and selling of books?
The hidden costs of living alone are myriad
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/10/living-alone-couple-partner-single/620434/ The Hidden Costs of Living Alone In ways both large and small, American society still assumes that the default adult has a partner and that the default household contains multiple people.By Joe Pinsker OCTOBER 20, 2021SHARE If you were to look under the roofs of American homes at random, it wouldn’t take long to find … Continue reading The hidden costs of living alone are myriad
If you don’t remember inflation, a few lessons from the past
http://www.wsj.com/articles/inflation-money-illusion-11634049585? As Inflation Rises, Beware of the Money Illusion. It May Cost You a Lot. WSJ · by Shlomo Benartzi Updated Oct. 15, 2021 5:38 pm ET As inflation rises in the U.S., a blind spot known as the money illusion could lead many people to make serious financial mistakes. Put simply, the money illusion refers to … Continue reading If you don’t remember inflation, a few lessons from the past
Which real estate markets are hottest in Manhattan? Two lead
UWS Leads NYC In Recent Home Sales By Staggering Amount: Study The UWS and UES each had over 600 more home sales from July 1 to Sept. 30 than the next closest neighborhood in New York City. Gus Saltonstall,Patch Staff Posted Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 10:29 am ET|Updated Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 10:30 am An … Continue reading Which real estate markets are hottest in Manhattan? Two lead
The true cost of frequently upgrading your iPhone
The True Cost of Upgrading Your Phone Buying a $1,000 iPhone can be equivalent to giving up $17,000 in retirement savings or 2,500 cups of coffee. Credit...Glenn Harvey By Brian X. ChenOct. 20, 2021, 3:06 p.m. ET Let’s talk about buying an iPhone for $1,000. Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive, once compared this eye-popping price tag to buying a … Continue reading The true cost of frequently upgrading your iPhone
Grocery shortages to be expected due to supply chain disruptions arising from COVID
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2021/10/15/grocery-shortage-toilet-paper-coffee-chicken-hard-find/8455259002/ Grocery store shelves bare? These products may be hard to find due to supply chain issues Naomi LudlowUSA TODAYAD0:10SKIPhttps://imasdk.googleapis.com/js/core/bridge3.485.1_en.html#goog_287816022https://imasdk.googleapis.com/js/core/bridge3.485.1_en.html#goog_1039038476 Can't find what you need at the store again? You're not alone. As the world reaches the two-year mark of the COVID-19 pandemic, more items are becoming scarce because of a supply chain shortage across the … Continue reading Grocery shortages to be expected due to supply chain disruptions arising from COVID
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