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Renting Less Affordable Than Ever Before, While Mortgages Remain Affordable, by Historical Standards — SEATTLE, Aug. 13, 2015 /PRNewswire/ —

Zillow10 years ago08 mins

Content should come here endclickprintexclude startclickprintexclude endclickprintexclude title startclickprintexclude endclickprintexcludeSEATTLE, Aug. 13, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Paying for a mortgage is still affordable, while rent takes up more income than ever in most major metro areas, according to a Zillow® analysis of U.S. rental and mortgage affordabilityi in the second quarter of 2015. Rental affordability worsened over…

Report: Upworthy’s Lefty Owners Scared Employees Out of Unionization

Sam Biddle10 years ago10 years ago07 mins

Upworthy bet millions of venture capital dollars that progressive values are the ultimate viral content. But after being forsaken by Facebook and facing layoffs, we’re told the site’s left-wing leadership has successfully fought off a staff unionization drive. Over the weekend, I received the following anonymous message, alleging that Upworthy recently laid off six staffers…

Vice Media Staff Latest to Choose Unionizing – The New York Times

Ravi Somaiya10 years ago04 mins

Photo A party in Brooklyn in December celebrating the 20th anniversary of Vice. Credit Dina Litovsky for The New York Times Some staff members at Vice Media have voted to unionize, according to two people familiar with the matter, joining other digital media outlets that have recently moved to organize. The writers will join Writers…

Extra! Catalonia Independence Set For New Test

Worldcrunch.com10 years ago02 mins

La Vanguardia, August 4, 2015 Catalonia is set to go to the polls next month, as regional President Artur Mas called early elections for Sept. 27, intending to use the vote as a fresh bid for independence. He announced the election as “an exceptional measure,” says Tuesday’s front page of La Vanguardia. In a televised…

At Silicon Valley Bank, risky tech start-ups are lucrative business – Los Angeles Times

E. Scott Reckard10 years ago3 years ago015 mins

Few banks are as close to the industries they serve as Silicon Valley Bank is to the technology world. An industry mainstay since the 1980s, the bank veers far from the course of conventional financial institutions. Part lender, part consultant, part cheerleader and part investor, Silicon Valley Bank has been a nursemaid to countless start-ups…

In America, only the rich can afford to write about poverty | Barbara Ehrenreich | Comment is free | The Guardian

Barbara Ehrenreich10 years ago10 years ago013 mins

Back in the fat years – two or three decades ago, when the “mainstream” media were booming – I was able to earn a living as a freelance writer. My income was meager and I had to hustle to get it, turning out about four articles – essays, reported pieces, reviews – a month at…

“The Economy Probably Sucks If…” | Zero Hedge

Lance Roberts10 years ago07 mins

Back in May, I penned a missive entitled “If You Don’t Like It, Change It” which discussed the pending changes to the GDP calculation by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). To wit: “Now, for all of you playing the home version of “Nail That GDP Number,” it was just a couple of years ago…

Here Are the Internal Documents that Prove Uber Is a Money Loser

Sam Biddle10 years ago10 years ago012 mins

Uber, Silicon Valley’s prized amoral unicorn, is presumed to be a financial titan and a sure-thing IPO in the near future. Which may be true. But one thing that’s frequently missing from the conversation about its inevitable dominance over virtually every facet of our lives is the answer to a fundamental question: Does it make…

Millennial Men Aren’t the Dads They Thought They’d Be – NYTimes.com

Claire Cain Miller10 years ago10 years ago013 mins

Young men today have aspirations of being hands-on fathers as well as breadwinners — supportive husbands who also do dishes. But as they enter that more responsibility-filled stage of life, something changes: Their roles often become much more traditional. Millennial men — ages 18 to early 30s — have much more egalitarian attitudes about family,…

Salon agrees to recognize union, starts negotiations on contract | Poynter.

James Warren10 years ago05 mins

Management at San Francisco-based Salon Media has agreed to start talks on a first union contract with its workers, it was disclosed Saturday. “Salon Media has agreed to recognize the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) as the collective bargaining representative of its editorial staff, whose decision to unionize was unanimous,” the union said in…

Capitalism and Schizophrenia – Annotated

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The Anxiety of Influencers

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Renting Less Affordable Than Ever Before, While Mortgages Remain Affordable, by Historical Standards — SEATTLE, Aug. 13, 2015 /PRNewswire/ —

Report: Upworthy’s Lefty Owners Scared Employees Out of Unionization

Vice Media Staff Latest to Choose Unionizing – The New York Times

Extra! Catalonia Independence Set For New Test

At Silicon Valley Bank, risky tech start-ups are lucrative business – Los Angeles Times

In America, only the rich can afford to write about poverty | Barbara Ehrenreich | Comment is free | The Guardian

“The Economy Probably Sucks If…” | Zero Hedge

Here Are the Internal Documents that Prove Uber Is a Money Loser

Millennial Men Aren’t the Dads They Thought They’d Be – NYTimes.com

Salon agrees to recognize union, starts negotiations on contract | Poynter.