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The senior engineer also cited “men’s higher drive for status.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another software engineer who used to work for Google, Kelly Ellis, says some women who still work at the company stayed home on Monday because the memo made them “uncomfortable going back to work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-08/google-fires-employee-behind-controversial-diversity-memo\">Bloomberg\u003c/a> and Reuters report the memo was written by James Damore and Google has fired him for “perpetuating gender stereotypes.” The news services say Damore confirmed the dismissal by email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The memo that some have jokingly called a “manifesto” has been shared across Google’s internal networks and says “biological causes” are part of the reason women aren’t represented equally in its tech departments and leadership. 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We are unequivocal in our belief that diversity and inclusion are critical to our success as a company.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Brown, Ari Balogh, a vice president in engineering who heads the department in which the employee works, wrote a note in response to the “manifesto” in which Balogh stressed the importance of Google being open and inclusive. He wrote, “We cannot allow stereotyping and harmful assumptions to play any part.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “manifesto” made headlines over the weekend after reports from \u003ca href=\"https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/kzbm4a/employees-anti-diversity-manifesto-goes-internally-viral-at-google\">Motherboard\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://gizmodo.com/exclusive-heres-the-full-10-page-anti-diversity-screed-1797564320\">Gizmodo\u003c/a>. 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When she read the leaked document it didn’t surprise her “because I saw similar language when I was at Google being shared on internal message boards and other different internal forums.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ellis said although he isn’t a manager, the “manifesto” author’s opinions directly impact his female peers. “The main input to Google’s performance review process, which is how they slot engineers, which determines pay — the main input to that is peer review,” says Ellis. “It’s your peers writing feedback on your work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Danielle Brown, Google’s vice president of diversity sent out a company-wide memo in response to the document. She stated, “Diversity and inclusion are a fundamental part of our values and the culture we continue to cultivate. 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In it, the author equated the company’s effort to attract more women to work in technology to (hypothetical, we assume) efforts to achieve gender balance in other areas, such as “the homeless, work-related and violent deaths, prisons, and school dropouts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wide sharing of the document has highlighted struggles with gender equality and the wage gap in the tech industry and particularly at Google, which was sued by the federal government earlier this year for refusing to share compensation amounts and other data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, a Department of Labor official accused Google of practicing \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/04/08/523129221/google-accused-of-underpaying-female-employees\">“systemic” discrimination against female employees\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google maintains an online graphic of its employee demographics; \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/diversity/\">here’s the current breakdown\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Women make up 25 percent of the company’s leadership\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Women hold 20 percent of technology jobs\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Overall, 31 percent of Google’s employees are female\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>56 percent of employees are white; 35 percent are Asian\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>4 percent are Hispanic, 4 percent are mixed-race, and 2 percent are black\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Another engineer, Yonatan Zunger, who recently left Google, \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/so-about-this-googlers-manifesto-1e3773ed1788\">wrote an essay\u003c/a> in which he explored three main reactions to the post. 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The rules also include a change in the number of hours first-year residents can work and more flexibility in their schedules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11549702\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11549702\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DoctorRudy-800x538.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Rudy Silva checks on one of his patients in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at the Loma Linda University Medical Center.\" width=\"800\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DoctorRudy-800x538.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DoctorRudy-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DoctorRudy-1020x686.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DoctorRudy.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DoctorRudy-1180x793.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DoctorRudy-960x646.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DoctorRudy-240x161.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DoctorRudy-375x252.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DoctorRudy-520x350.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Rudy Silva checks on one of his patients in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at the Loma Linda University Medical Center. \u003ccite>(Daryl Barker/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At Loma Linda, Barbara Hernandez, the director of physician vitality, works to address physician stress before it becomes a bigger problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If many of our physicians saw the kinds of things on the street that they see in the protected walls of the hospital, they would need treatment for PTSD,” said Hernandez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She came to her job after a career as an intensive care unit nurse. In that work, she saw firsthand as overwhelmed residents struggled to deal with the pressures of caring for patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of these residents were inconsolable. I would see them and they would pull me into an empty room and just sob,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez’ job is to make sure physicians, especially new ones, are developing health habits to deal with that stress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, these issues aren’t new to medicine. She said the profession has a tradition of a certain mindset of infallibility and self-sacrifice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Physicians have no needs, should not talk about emotions, should never complain. … When we have people to subscribe to that, it’s a quick recipe for burnout,” said Hernandez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burnout is more than fatigue. It can be dangerous. \u003ca href=\"http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2467822\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">One study reported in 2015 in JAMA Psychiatry\u003c/a> found that 23 percent of first-year residents had suicidal thoughts. They can have high rates of other depressive symptoms, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”fUY0PTmc0VdDDLo8D5eNflPn6ipLQWS1″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guidelines from the Accreditation Council aim to address this by making sure physicians have flexibility in their busy schedules. They’re encouraged not to work when they’re overly fatigued and to take time during the day to handle their own medical appointments. If they work on charts at home, they’re instructed to count those hours toward their maximum 80-hour workweek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a recognition that physicians are human beings, and that we get tired, we get sad, we have problems in our social lives, just the way anyone else does,” said Dr. Daniel Giang, Loma Linda’s head of graduate education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, first-year residents will be allowed to work 24-hour shifts. That’s an increase from the 16 hours they’ve been limited to since 2011. The longer shift puts their hours on par with older residents. The decision was based on research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A 16-hour limitation did not make it any safer for patients that we could determine,” Giang said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giang said residents didn’t report more satisfaction with the shorter shifts either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For D’Artagnan DeBow, a fifth-year surgical resident, long shifts are part of on-the-job training for new doctors, some of whom haven’t had a job before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now they’re working 80 hours and working a 24-[hour] shift on a Friday night with a busy trauma service, and going to the operating room and taking care of sick patients on the floor. You have to be able to triage your time appropriately,” said DeBow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an administrator, Giang sees the change in hours as a way to keep teams with different levels of experience together. He wants residents to find a work-life balance with the help of attending physicians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11549705\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11549705\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DrCynthia-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Attending physician Cynthia Tinsley on call at the Loma Linda University Medical Center.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DrCynthia-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DrCynthia-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DrCynthia-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DrCynthia.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DrCynthia-1180x790.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DrCynthia-960x643.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DrCynthia-240x161.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DrCynthia-375x251.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DrCynthia-520x348.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attending physician Cynthia Tinsley on call at the Loma Linda University Medical Center. \u003ccite>(Daryl Barker/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dr. Cynthia Tinsley’s dual role comes into play here. She makes sure the residents she supervises understand the medicine they practice, but she also serves as someone they can seek out when they need help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tinsley includes wellness in her curriculum, teaching the residents coping strategies for stress and the warning signs to watch for when it’s time to seek help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the common things is when you have anger management issues, when you’re finding that you’re seeking alcohol — ‘I need a drink.’ If you’re not sleeping well, if you’re not eating well. You’re finding that you’re losing interest in life and you’re going through things in a mechanical way,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over her career, Tinsley has seen doctors develop these weak coping behaviors. That’s why some of them have a poor bedside manner. She’s training physicians to be alert to those risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having Tinsley and others to talk to has made a big difference for Dr. Silva. He said he’s living a healthier lifestyle this year than he did in his first year of residency and his program has been a big support in this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you came in with no anxiety, no depression, and you’re leaving with depression and anxiety, that’s not going to do anyone any good, whether it be the physician or the patients that they take care of,” said Silva.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loma Linda administrators say that’s the point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is certainly very important to medical educators at all levels trying to decide, how can we help residents and medical students and junior physicians and even senior physicians take care of their health better, realize that’s part of their professional responsibility, to present themselves ready to give their best in caring for their patients,” said administrator Giang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wants to make sure residents are doing their best for the patients they are treating both now and 15 years in the future.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Thirty-one-year-old Rodolfo Silva, a second-year pediatric resident, thought he was prepared to handle death. In his first year of residency at Loma Linda University Medical Center, he felt he was prepared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is part of the disease process. I think I’ll be OK,” he told himself. But then Silva watched as a terminally ill 4-year-old died and realized it was harder than he thought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s completely different when you’re actually in the moment and seeing the reactions of the family. I think that’s probably the harder part,” said Silva.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Death isn’t the only challenge young doctors-in-training face.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Some of these residents were inconsolable. I would see them and they would pull me into an empty room and just sob.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“You have to deal with difficult families. You have to deal with you not being as available to your own friends and family, or missing out on things that other people who are not in medicine that are your age would be able to do,” said Silva.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In light of the many pressures on young doctors, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, the accrediting organization that oversees teaching hospitals, now requires residents have 24/7 access to a mental health professional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s part a new set of guidelines that went into effect on July 1. The rules also include a change in the number of hours first-year residents can work and more flexibility in their schedules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11549702\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11549702\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DoctorRudy-800x538.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Rudy Silva checks on one of his patients in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at the Loma Linda University Medical Center.\" width=\"800\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DoctorRudy-800x538.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DoctorRudy-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DoctorRudy-1020x686.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DoctorRudy.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DoctorRudy-1180x793.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DoctorRudy-960x646.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DoctorRudy-240x161.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DoctorRudy-375x252.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DoctorRudy-520x350.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Rudy Silva checks on one of his patients in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at the Loma Linda University Medical Center. \u003ccite>(Daryl Barker/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At Loma Linda, Barbara Hernandez, the director of physician vitality, works to address physician stress before it becomes a bigger problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If many of our physicians saw the kinds of things on the street that they see in the protected walls of the hospital, they would need treatment for PTSD,” said Hernandez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She came to her job after a career as an intensive care unit nurse. In that work, she saw firsthand as overwhelmed residents struggled to deal with the pressures of caring for patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of these residents were inconsolable. I would see them and they would pull me into an empty room and just sob,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez’ job is to make sure physicians, especially new ones, are developing health habits to deal with that stress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, these issues aren’t new to medicine. She said the profession has a tradition of a certain mindset of infallibility and self-sacrifice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Physicians have no needs, should not talk about emotions, should never complain. … When we have people to subscribe to that, it’s a quick recipe for burnout,” said Hernandez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burnout is more than fatigue. It can be dangerous. \u003ca href=\"http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2467822\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">One study reported in 2015 in JAMA Psychiatry\u003c/a> found that 23 percent of first-year residents had suicidal thoughts. They can have high rates of other depressive symptoms, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guidelines from the Accreditation Council aim to address this by making sure physicians have flexibility in their busy schedules. They’re encouraged not to work when they’re overly fatigued and to take time during the day to handle their own medical appointments. If they work on charts at home, they’re instructed to count those hours toward their maximum 80-hour workweek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a recognition that physicians are human beings, and that we get tired, we get sad, we have problems in our social lives, just the way anyone else does,” said Dr. Daniel Giang, Loma Linda’s head of graduate education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, first-year residents will be allowed to work 24-hour shifts. That’s an increase from the 16 hours they’ve been limited to since 2011. The longer shift puts their hours on par with older residents. The decision was based on research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A 16-hour limitation did not make it any safer for patients that we could determine,” Giang said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giang said residents didn’t report more satisfaction with the shorter shifts either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For D’Artagnan DeBow, a fifth-year surgical resident, long shifts are part of on-the-job training for new doctors, some of whom haven’t had a job before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now they’re working 80 hours and working a 24-[hour] shift on a Friday night with a busy trauma service, and going to the operating room and taking care of sick patients on the floor. You have to be able to triage your time appropriately,” said DeBow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an administrator, Giang sees the change in hours as a way to keep teams with different levels of experience together. He wants residents to find a work-life balance with the help of attending physicians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11549705\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11549705\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DrCynthia-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Attending physician Cynthia Tinsley on call at the Loma Linda University Medical Center.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DrCynthia-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DrCynthia-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DrCynthia-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DrCynthia.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DrCynthia-1180x790.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DrCynthia-960x643.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DrCynthia-240x161.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DrCynthia-375x251.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DrCynthia-520x348.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attending physician Cynthia Tinsley on call at the Loma Linda University Medical Center. \u003ccite>(Daryl Barker/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dr. Cynthia Tinsley’s dual role comes into play here. She makes sure the residents she supervises understand the medicine they practice, but she also serves as someone they can seek out when they need help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tinsley includes wellness in her curriculum, teaching the residents coping strategies for stress and the warning signs to watch for when it’s time to seek help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the common things is when you have anger management issues, when you’re finding that you’re seeking alcohol — ‘I need a drink.’ If you’re not sleeping well, if you’re not eating well. You’re finding that you’re losing interest in life and you’re going through things in a mechanical way,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over her career, Tinsley has seen doctors develop these weak coping behaviors. That’s why some of them have a poor bedside manner. She’s training physicians to be alert to those risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having Tinsley and others to talk to has made a big difference for Dr. Silva. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This is an updated version of a post that KQED first published in April 2012.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>ime to replace that exclamation point with a period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11031290\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 325px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/04/yahoo1996.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11031290 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/04/yahoo1996.png\" width=\"325\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/04/yahoo1996.png 558w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/04/yahoo1996-400x546.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Yahoo! home page, circa 1996.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After a torturously slow decline, Yahoo!, finally, is \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/07/25/end-of-an-era-as-verizon-buys-net-pioneer-yahoo/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">done\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And who can say, in the decades to come, whether the name will survive as even a historical footnote?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it wasn’t always this way. There was a time — back in the waning years of the last century — when Yahoo! could do no wrong. And as the undisputed King of the Web, the company’s skill in navigating the “\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Economy\">New Economy\u003c/a>” combined with an irrational stock market to make a sizable number of employees wealthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1996\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>‘m standing outside Yahoo! headquarters in Sunnyvale, after an hour-and-15-minute drive from my home in San Francisco. Until this moment, I have tooled around the World Wide Web for a total of perhaps 45 minutes in the aggregate; my modem is so slow it takes about five minutes to download a single page. But a recommendation from a former colleague who now works for the company has landed me a job at a reasonable salary, a welcome rise from my previous year’s income of $12,000 earned at several part-time jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I step for the first time into the purple-and-yellow Yahoo! lobby, two thoughts occur:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What’s with the exclamation point?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>It sounds an awful lot like Yoo-Hoo.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the orientation, the HR lady says I’m employee No. 109 — that’s 107 employees removed from Yahoo! founders David Filo and Jerry Yang. At some point, the words “stock options” are mentioned, and the other new hires perk up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is what you’ve been waiting to hear about, right?” the HR lady says. Actually, I have no idea what those are. I want to hear about the insurance — I haven’t been to the dentist in five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Welcome back to the middle class, I think.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1997\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>here are two classes of people at Yahoo!: the pre-IPOs, and everybody else. The pre-IPOs became overnight millionaires, or close to it. The rest of us have to wait a year before a quarter of our stock options vest and we can cash in. The pre-IPOs drive Porsches, Jaguars, BMWs. I drive a Ford Festiva, a vehicle the “Car Talk” guys say “should come with its own funeral wreath.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disparities play out interpersonally. One of the early engineers offers $1,000 to a new employee to eat an entire bottle of ketchup at a restaurant, a proposition that was readily accepted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am waiting for the stock to crash, as many a knowing analyst predicts it will. Yahoo! is a company that is barely profitable –- it’s trading at hundreds of times earnings, and I am certain the mass irrationality will burn itself out before I get to benefit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the quarterly reports show progress, and the market reacts each time with extreme enthusiasm. “It’s revenue that’s important at this point, not earnings,” a co-worker tells me. Sure, what do I know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the success, Yahoos are frequently tense. There are many turf wars. The world seems to think the Web will be the dominant business in coming years, and that Yahoo! will be the dominant company in that dominant business. So those who dominate within the dominant company in the dominant business will thus dominate Everything. Paradoxically, when you’re told something is going to get bigger and bigger, there doesn’t seem to be enough to go around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, I enjoy the free bagels with lox and the complimentary health club membership, which gives me access to indoor and outdoor pools, a sauna, tennis courts, basketball courts and enough free towels to mop up Lake Merritt. The faux pond in the spacious lobby is not to my taste, but seems in keeping with a general disregard for any lifestyle that might be termed “natural.” (One day I decide to take a walk outside the office, only to find after a few blocks that the sidewalk has disappeared.) In the men’s locker room, there’s a lot of talk about the stock market. Apparently, it’s a pretty good way to make money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1998\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he engineers are everything. If they buy into your project, you’re golden. If they don’t it’s going to die on the vine, like “Yahoo! Pets” or some other godforsaken property that consists of the company name, a noun and some links.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s on the list,” is something you hear a lot from the programmers when you want them to add a feature or fix a bug. The thing is, nobody really knows how long the list is or exactly what’s on the list or if there even is a list. Nobody except the engineers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I buy a new car, a Volkswagen Beetle. My engineer tells me, “That’s a chick car.” I laugh — I need him to tweak something on my site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The engineers seem to have a soft spot for editorial people like me, even though we’re at the bottom of the status pile, officially classified by the company as “surfers.” (“Yahoo! Surfer” is actually on my business card.) Most surfers categorize websites for Yahoo’s massive directory, which takes up most of the space on its front page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Who the engineers really can’t stand are the “producers,” the people who are being brought in by the SUV-load to transition Yahoo! from a company that simply links to other websites into one that offers content of its own, through partnerships. The engineers don’t like the producers because the producers want to systematize the way projects get done, thus cutting into the computer whizzes’ autonomy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite these internal battles, Yahoo! is decimating competitors, companies like Excite! (also with an exclamation point), Infoseek and the unfortunately named Lycos. The Yahoo! softball team even defeats Excite! in a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2010/10/27/the-barry-bonds-dilemma/\">softball game in which Excite! has recruited Barry Bonds\u003c/a> to play in a paid promotional appearance. Yahoo! likes to say it prevails because of the “human touch,” the intercession of editors who organize the exponentially growing number of websites into manageable categories. The also-rans, they’re strictly algorithmic –- and robots can’t beat human beings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Personally, I think Yahoo! is taking no prisoners because of David Filo, the company’s laconic, near hermitic co-founder. The face of the company is Jerry Yang, but internally many people don’t now know, exactly, what it is that he does. Filo, on the other hand, is a legend bordering on myth, infrequently seen outside his cubicle, which he shares with another engineer. I’m there about a month before I have my first Filo spotting — he’s playing foosball in the breakroom. “Who’s that?” I ask someone. Filo wrote the original program that allowed surfers to input a URL that can generate into an HTML page. Without that, you’d have to hand-code everything. It’s Yahoo’s secret sauce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filo also controls the front page and has a keen editorial sense. One day he emerges from his lair to talk to me about our news product, which I work on, for an unbelievable 45 minutes. I can feel the eyes of the room on me, and they’re not burning with admiration. “Wow, you got some serious face time with Filo,” says a co-worker, bitterly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a certain point, the word Yahoo! is on everyone’s lips. (In 2000, the success of the company will be a key plot development in the sci-fi movie \u003cem>Frequency\u003c/em>.) Every time I mention where I work, people get this warm look on their faces, either because they use it and love it or they’ve made a lot of money on the stock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doctors are the most prone to dot-com fascination, I find. They seem to know every little nook and cranny of the internet “sector” and can’t seem to stop talking about the price of Yahoo! shares. They can even throw around metrics like “page views” and “eyeballs.” It’s the doctors who also seem to be the most offended by the financial windfall the 20-somethings — most of my colleagues — have stumbled into.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s disgusting,” my internist says. Hey, I don’t make the rules. You should’ve worked at a bookstore or a library — where most of Yahoo’s early employees came from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1999\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">Y\u003c/span>ahoo! shares are going in three directions: up, up and up. Yahoos are literally giddy, reloading the stock price on Yahoo! Finance 10 to 20 times an hour. “Hey it’s at 150! Now it’s at 175!” A lot of Yahoos are so young they’re working their first or second job out of college. They don’t seem to understand that the system of American reimbursement for employment doesn’t really work like this. Not usually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company is awash in other people’s money. It has split its stock several times, but we Yahoos want them to do it again. “If we split the stock, the price will just go right back up to where it is now,” CEO Tim Koogle tells us at a company meeting. He says it like it’s a bad thing. But the rank and file – they want more shares. Because it’s never gonna end –- people are buying houses with all cash. Taking flying lessons. Investing in art. My co-worker, a 20-something who has adorned her cube with miniature knick-knacks and kitsch, who just a few years before would most likely have had to put time in at a coffeehouse or temp firm, buys two houses. Plus, literally, a mansion, back in her hometown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, I tell my mother how much I pay in taxes and am immediately sorry. It’s not that she’s going to let the amount casually slip to friends, it’s that she actually \u003cem>gets on the phone\u003c/em> to tell them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naysayers, however, cloud the horizon, however dimly. “In a bear market,” says one rare CNBC party poop, “stocks lose 95 percent, 98 percent, 99 percent of their value. This generation has never experienced a bear market, but things don’t go up forever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes they do. Nothin’s gone down yet. “It’s the 401ks,” my friend’s father tells me. “You never had this automatic investment in the market before, that’s why it’ll keep going up.” Exactly, I reason. I read the take of one analyst in the New Economy bible, Red Herring. He says if you really want to own a stock, “the purchase price doesn’t matter.” That periodical — it’s a must-subscribe. I buy some Amazon.com; it takes about a week to double. Then I sell it, only to see it double again a few days later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to buy some Yahoo! stock,” my father tells me over the phone. “What do you think?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some people say it’s overvalued.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m gonna buy some Yahoo stock,” he amends, turning his question into a statement. He has never been on the internet. Once, in all seriousness, he called it “the Intercom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around this time, a co-worker tells me about a search engine that actually seems to work. Oh man, they even copied our infantile double-vowel sound, I think as I surf my way for the first time onto Google. But Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Sports, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Mail — who can compete with those? Google — sounds like another also-ran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, my fellow surfers are busy building the Yahoo! directory by way of long and emotional debates. “Shouldn’t this live in the Anthropology category and not Archaeology?” someone writes, starting a seemingly endless thread of sincere and thoughtful emails about the merits of such a proposal. “I’m creating a category for 18th century military history — anyone object?” Yes, someone does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One day, a naive soul sends out an email: “Don’t you think most people don’t use the directory anymore, just type in what they want in the search box?” A dead mass silence ensues, as if someone has knocked the exclamation point off the end of the company name and replaced it with a question mark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2000\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span> predicted technological apocalypse, the “\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2000_problem\">Y2K problem\u003c/a>,” does not occur, and the market reacts by going up, up, up in what’s described as “panic buying.” Unwisely, I have been sitting on the sidelines, but now I pour a whole pile of money in– gotta get on that bus before it becomes a jet plane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Make that a rocket. By March, my net worth, much of it on paper, exceeds all the money my mother and father have made in their entire lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But things aren’t going that great at work, and I want to quit. Problem is that would leave a big pile of options on the table. People are begging me not to do it. “People work their entire lives to be in your position,” a 65-year-old friend tells me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Someone I meet who will never be in my position is the guy who rings up my coffee every morning at the Chevron station. It’s just one of three jobs, he tells me — that’s the only way he can send his son to Stanford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I decide to stay. The market decides to crash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’ll go back up,” people reassure each other. “It always does.” And it’s true, we’ve experienced false alarms before, most notably during the 1998 Asian currency crisis, which temporarily put a damper on the fun, but which dutifully ended only to see shares rebound to even higher levels. “You sell too soon,” my friend, who has just bought the first house he looked at, tells me. “You have no faith.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Later\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">“I\u003c/span> was just waiting for it to get back up to 200,” one early Yahoo! informs me, referring to the stock price, which is now somewhere south of 20 after the worst stock crash since the one that touched off the Great Depression. This person, in his four years at the company, has sold virtually none of his shares. “I just thought it would be something for the future,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The guy who told me I sell too soon now says he may lose his house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are worse stories, too. There’s a little known or at least little understood provision in the tax code that stipulates if you buy your options and then hold onto the shares, which people do in order to reduce their taxes, the tax obligation is the same as if you actually sold them. This will lead to people actually losing money on the transaction if the stock drops while they are holding onto it. Tales of extreme woe along these lines abound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for me, it was always: Which will make me feel like the bigger schmuck — if I sell and then it stock goes way up, or if I hold onto it and it goes way down? Since no one can predict the future, that’s the only variable to consider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Even later\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">W\u003c/span>hat once seemed like all the money in the world, I find, turns out to be decidedly finite after all. My plan to sleep in followed by a little TV followed by a nap did not take into account a daughter, a mortgage, the exorbitant price of individual health insurance and a worldwide financial crisis. The Yahoo! options my wife still owns plenty of are perpetually underwater –- no help there. Circumstances force me to procure some contract work, which sends me back to Yahoo! But eventually I am … laid off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I really need the money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Welcome back to the middle class, I think.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This is an updated version of a post that KQED first published in April 2012.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>ime to replace that exclamation point with a period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11031290\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 325px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/04/yahoo1996.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11031290 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/04/yahoo1996.png\" width=\"325\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/04/yahoo1996.png 558w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/04/yahoo1996-400x546.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Yahoo! home page, circa 1996.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After a torturously slow decline, Yahoo!, finally, is \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/07/25/end-of-an-era-as-verizon-buys-net-pioneer-yahoo/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">done\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And who can say, in the decades to come, whether the name will survive as even a historical footnote?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it wasn’t always this way. There was a time — back in the waning years of the last century — when Yahoo! could do no wrong. And as the undisputed King of the Web, the company’s skill in navigating the “\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Economy\">New Economy\u003c/a>” combined with an irrational stock market to make a sizable number of employees wealthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1996\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>‘m standing outside Yahoo! headquarters in Sunnyvale, after an hour-and-15-minute drive from my home in San Francisco. Until this moment, I have tooled around the World Wide Web for a total of perhaps 45 minutes in the aggregate; my modem is so slow it takes about five minutes to download a single page. But a recommendation from a former colleague who now works for the company has landed me a job at a reasonable salary, a welcome rise from my previous year’s income of $12,000 earned at several part-time jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I step for the first time into the purple-and-yellow Yahoo! lobby, two thoughts occur:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What’s with the exclamation point?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>It sounds an awful lot like Yoo-Hoo.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the orientation, the HR lady says I’m employee No. 109 — that’s 107 employees removed from Yahoo! founders David Filo and Jerry Yang. At some point, the words “stock options” are mentioned, and the other new hires perk up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is what you’ve been waiting to hear about, right?” the HR lady says. Actually, I have no idea what those are. I want to hear about the insurance — I haven’t been to the dentist in five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Welcome back to the middle class, I think.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1997\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>here are two classes of people at Yahoo!: the pre-IPOs, and everybody else. The pre-IPOs became overnight millionaires, or close to it. The rest of us have to wait a year before a quarter of our stock options vest and we can cash in. The pre-IPOs drive Porsches, Jaguars, BMWs. I drive a Ford Festiva, a vehicle the “Car Talk” guys say “should come with its own funeral wreath.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disparities play out interpersonally. One of the early engineers offers $1,000 to a new employee to eat an entire bottle of ketchup at a restaurant, a proposition that was readily accepted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am waiting for the stock to crash, as many a knowing analyst predicts it will. Yahoo! is a company that is barely profitable –- it’s trading at hundreds of times earnings, and I am certain the mass irrationality will burn itself out before I get to benefit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the quarterly reports show progress, and the market reacts each time with extreme enthusiasm. “It’s revenue that’s important at this point, not earnings,” a co-worker tells me. Sure, what do I know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the success, Yahoos are frequently tense. There are many turf wars. The world seems to think the Web will be the dominant business in coming years, and that Yahoo! will be the dominant company in that dominant business. So those who dominate within the dominant company in the dominant business will thus dominate Everything. Paradoxically, when you’re told something is going to get bigger and bigger, there doesn’t seem to be enough to go around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, I enjoy the free bagels with lox and the complimentary health club membership, which gives me access to indoor and outdoor pools, a sauna, tennis courts, basketball courts and enough free towels to mop up Lake Merritt. The faux pond in the spacious lobby is not to my taste, but seems in keeping with a general disregard for any lifestyle that might be termed “natural.” (One day I decide to take a walk outside the office, only to find after a few blocks that the sidewalk has disappeared.) In the men’s locker room, there’s a lot of talk about the stock market. Apparently, it’s a pretty good way to make money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1998\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he engineers are everything. If they buy into your project, you’re golden. If they don’t it’s going to die on the vine, like “Yahoo! Pets” or some other godforsaken property that consists of the company name, a noun and some links.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s on the list,” is something you hear a lot from the programmers when you want them to add a feature or fix a bug. The thing is, nobody really knows how long the list is or exactly what’s on the list or if there even is a list. Nobody except the engineers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I buy a new car, a Volkswagen Beetle. My engineer tells me, “That’s a chick car.” I laugh — I need him to tweak something on my site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The engineers seem to have a soft spot for editorial people like me, even though we’re at the bottom of the status pile, officially classified by the company as “surfers.” (“Yahoo! Surfer” is actually on my business card.) Most surfers categorize websites for Yahoo’s massive directory, which takes up most of the space on its front page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Who the engineers really can’t stand are the “producers,” the people who are being brought in by the SUV-load to transition Yahoo! from a company that simply links to other websites into one that offers content of its own, through partnerships. The engineers don’t like the producers because the producers want to systematize the way projects get done, thus cutting into the computer whizzes’ autonomy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite these internal battles, Yahoo! is decimating competitors, companies like Excite! (also with an exclamation point), Infoseek and the unfortunately named Lycos. The Yahoo! softball team even defeats Excite! in a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2010/10/27/the-barry-bonds-dilemma/\">softball game in which Excite! has recruited Barry Bonds\u003c/a> to play in a paid promotional appearance. Yahoo! likes to say it prevails because of the “human touch,” the intercession of editors who organize the exponentially growing number of websites into manageable categories. The also-rans, they’re strictly algorithmic –- and robots can’t beat human beings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Personally, I think Yahoo! is taking no prisoners because of David Filo, the company’s laconic, near hermitic co-founder. The face of the company is Jerry Yang, but internally many people don’t now know, exactly, what it is that he does. Filo, on the other hand, is a legend bordering on myth, infrequently seen outside his cubicle, which he shares with another engineer. I’m there about a month before I have my first Filo spotting — he’s playing foosball in the breakroom. “Who’s that?” I ask someone. Filo wrote the original program that allowed surfers to input a URL that can generate into an HTML page. Without that, you’d have to hand-code everything. It’s Yahoo’s secret sauce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filo also controls the front page and has a keen editorial sense. One day he emerges from his lair to talk to me about our news product, which I work on, for an unbelievable 45 minutes. I can feel the eyes of the room on me, and they’re not burning with admiration. “Wow, you got some serious face time with Filo,” says a co-worker, bitterly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a certain point, the word Yahoo! is on everyone’s lips. (In 2000, the success of the company will be a key plot development in the sci-fi movie \u003cem>Frequency\u003c/em>.) Every time I mention where I work, people get this warm look on their faces, either because they use it and love it or they’ve made a lot of money on the stock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doctors are the most prone to dot-com fascination, I find. They seem to know every little nook and cranny of the internet “sector” and can’t seem to stop talking about the price of Yahoo! shares. They can even throw around metrics like “page views” and “eyeballs.” It’s the doctors who also seem to be the most offended by the financial windfall the 20-somethings — most of my colleagues — have stumbled into.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s disgusting,” my internist says. Hey, I don’t make the rules. You should’ve worked at a bookstore or a library — where most of Yahoo’s early employees came from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1999\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">Y\u003c/span>ahoo! shares are going in three directions: up, up and up. Yahoos are literally giddy, reloading the stock price on Yahoo! Finance 10 to 20 times an hour. “Hey it’s at 150! Now it’s at 175!” A lot of Yahoos are so young they’re working their first or second job out of college. They don’t seem to understand that the system of American reimbursement for employment doesn’t really work like this. Not usually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company is awash in other people’s money. It has split its stock several times, but we Yahoos want them to do it again. “If we split the stock, the price will just go right back up to where it is now,” CEO Tim Koogle tells us at a company meeting. He says it like it’s a bad thing. But the rank and file – they want more shares. Because it’s never gonna end –- people are buying houses with all cash. Taking flying lessons. Investing in art. My co-worker, a 20-something who has adorned her cube with miniature knick-knacks and kitsch, who just a few years before would most likely have had to put time in at a coffeehouse or temp firm, buys two houses. Plus, literally, a mansion, back in her hometown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, I tell my mother how much I pay in taxes and am immediately sorry. It’s not that she’s going to let the amount casually slip to friends, it’s that she actually \u003cem>gets on the phone\u003c/em> to tell them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naysayers, however, cloud the horizon, however dimly. “In a bear market,” says one rare CNBC party poop, “stocks lose 95 percent, 98 percent, 99 percent of their value. This generation has never experienced a bear market, but things don’t go up forever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes they do. Nothin’s gone down yet. “It’s the 401ks,” my friend’s father tells me. “You never had this automatic investment in the market before, that’s why it’ll keep going up.” Exactly, I reason. I read the take of one analyst in the New Economy bible, Red Herring. He says if you really want to own a stock, “the purchase price doesn’t matter.” That periodical — it’s a must-subscribe. I buy some Amazon.com; it takes about a week to double. Then I sell it, only to see it double again a few days later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to buy some Yahoo! stock,” my father tells me over the phone. “What do you think?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some people say it’s overvalued.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m gonna buy some Yahoo stock,” he amends, turning his question into a statement. He has never been on the internet. Once, in all seriousness, he called it “the Intercom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around this time, a co-worker tells me about a search engine that actually seems to work. Oh man, they even copied our infantile double-vowel sound, I think as I surf my way for the first time onto Google. But Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Sports, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Mail — who can compete with those? 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/21/immigrants-help-lead-a-new-silicon-valley-labor-movement\">Leer en Inglés\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jesús Solorio es obstinado, y esta característica le sirve muy bien. En vez de sentirse víctima de la \u003ca href=\"http://siliconvalleyindicators.org/special-reports/\">creciente desigualdad de ingresos\u003c/a> en el Silicon Valley – se ha convertido en un activista laboral incansable, negándose a abandonar el Sueño Americano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Me gusta ser campeón a favor del aumento del salario mínimo”, dijo Solorio. “Me gusta estar con otras personas, ayudándolas para que tengan mejores salarios y una mejor vida.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/215705645″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solorio, de 30 años, era empleado de limpieza en la empresa eBay Technology, con sede en San José. Salió de México de adolescente, y ahora es padre soltero, criando a su hija, de 7 años, en un barrio aguerrido a 13 millas del brillante recinto de eBay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En febrero, Solorio entró alma y cuerpo al nuevo movimiento laboral, llamado en inglés, Silicon Valley Rising, uniéndose a cientos de otros empleados de limpieza, de cocina, de mantenimiento, recepcionistas y guardias de seguridad. Estos empleados de servicios se están enfrentando con las empresas de alta tecnología por las que trabajan, exigiendo que paguen un salario digno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”M0R4P25njzBVRk9Havju55461jUUG4ij”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Están poniendo de manifiesto la desigualdad de ingresos. En la región conocida como Bay Area, la brecha entre el 20 por ciento de hogares de mayores ingresos y el 20 por ciento de menores ingresos, ha alcanzado los $263.000 – un nuevo récord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La nueva campaña la impulsa en su mayoría personas inmigrantes, quienes comprenden el 46 por ciento de la fuerza laboral de Silicon Valley y un número importante – incluyendo a Solorio – está entre los que menos ingresos perciben.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Un alto porcentaje de los trabajadores de bajos ingresos del sector de servicios – en particular en la industria de la tecnología – es inmigrante”, dijo Ben Field, ejecutivo del South Bay Labor Council. “Por esta razón, representan un componente muy importante del movimiento Silicon Valley Rising”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Una mañana reciente, Solorio lleva a pie a su hija Evelyn a la cercana escuela primaria de San José – donde tiene derecho a recibir refrigerios a precio reducido. Por el camino, habló de lo difícil que le resulta llegar al mes con su modesta paga mensual. Solorio siente que tiene suerte por ser miembro de un sindicato, SEIU USWW. Bajo los términos de su contrato, él gana $15.50 la hora, más beneficios. Esta paga es mejor que la de muchos empleados de servicios en el Silicon Valley que no pertenecen a ningún sindicato y que ganan $12 la hora, como promedio. Pero aún así, el dinero no alcanza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Con una persona sola, no está tan mal, pero cuando tienes familia y otras personas por quienes velar, se vuelve muy difícil”, dijo Solorio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10610039\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10610039 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SolorioMarch-800x512.jpg\" alt=\"Conserje para la empresa eBay, Jesús Solorio, es una presencia constante en las manifestaciones y marchas. \" width=\"800\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SolorioMarch-800x512.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SolorioMarch-400x256.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SolorioMarch-1440x922.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SolorioMarch-1400x896.jpg 1400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SolorioMarch-1180x755.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SolorioMarch-960x615.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SolorioMarch.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Conserje para la empresa eBay, Jesús Solorio, es una presencia constante en las manifestaciones y marchas. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.siliconvalleycf.org/sites/default/files/publications/2014-silicon-valley-index.pdf\">Los costos de la vivienda en el Silicon Valley\u003c/a> están entre los más altos en el país, lo cual agudiza aún más la brecha entre los ingresos. Solorio y su hija comparten un apartamento de dos recámaras muy pequeño con su hermano y su familia de cuatro. Es \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_28437124/silicon-valley-housing-high-powered-new-advocacy-group\">la única manera que pueden pagar el alquiler mensual de mil quinientos dólares\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las mañanas son un reto para Solorio después de trabajar el turno de noche, pero se sacude el sueño cada día para llevar a Evelyn, de pie o en auto, a su escuela.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Es claro que éste es su momento para conversar a solas. De la mano de su papá durante el trecho de 20 minutos, Evelyn trota en sus zapatillas de luces parpadeantes estilo Princesa Anna de la película “Frozen”. Hoy le cuenta a su papá lo que ella quiere de regalo por su cumpleaños.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Vamos a hacer un paseo a Chucky Cheese”, dice Evelyn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Papá e hija se detienen en una tienda de donuts por el camino para darse el gusto de un desayuno a un dólar. Solorio dice que es su hija la que le da ánimos, que por darle una vida mejor, él hará cualquier cosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Al igual que Solorio, aproximadamente la mitad de la fuerza laboral de Silicon Valley proviene de otro país – el 46 por ciento, según el consorcio Joint Venture Silicon Valley, compuesto de dirigentes empresariales y cívicos. Algunos inmigrantes han establecido exitosas empresas de tecnología y se encuentran entre los que más ingresos perciben. Pero un gran porcentaje está del lado opuesto de esa escala salarial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F5X64bXde0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Son el motor de esta economía pero se han estancado sus ingresos”, dijo Russell Hancock, presidente de Joint Venture Silicon Valley. “No ha habido crecimiento en sus salarios durante décadas”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>¿Cómo es que siguen estancados sus ingresos, con lo próspera que es la economía de Silicon Valley? Solorio – como muchos empleados del sector servicio en las empresas de tecnología – en realidad es empleado de una de las compañías contratadas por las grandes empresas tecnológicas. Estas compañías contratistas compiten entre sí. Field, el que dirige el South Bay Labor Council, indica que es una receta apta para la explotación.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Las empresas de alta tecnología están utilizado a contratistas quienes con frecuencia son operadores de pocos escrúpulos”, dijo Field. “No pagan bien a sus empleados y no les ofrecen beneficios”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10610044\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 440px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10610044\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/JesusAndDaugher-800x745.jpg\" alt=\"Conserje Jesús Solorio dice que hará cualquier cosa por darle una mejor vida a su hija.\" width=\"440\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/JesusAndDaugher-800x745.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/JesusAndDaugher-400x372.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/JesusAndDaugher-1440x1340.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/JesusAndDaugher-1400x1303.jpg 1400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/JesusAndDaugher-1180x1098.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/JesusAndDaugher-960x894.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/JesusAndDaugher.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Conserje Jesús Solorio dice que hará cualquier cosa por darle una mejor vida a su hija. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>El empleador de Solorio, contratista de servicios de limpieza GCA Services Group, no devolvió llamadas hechas a sus oficinas en Ohio y en Alviso. Un vocero de eBay dijo que su empresa no quiere comentar sobre las crecientes disparidades en los ingresos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activistas del movimiento Silicon Valley Rising han estado manifestándose frente a las oficinas de los contratistas así como de las grandes empresas tecnológicas. Están obrando por lograr que se únan los empleados del sector de servicios a los sindicatos. Y el movimiento – una coalición de sindicatos laborales, grupos de fe religiosa, defensores de inmigrantes y organizaciones de base – también aboga por viviendas más económicas en la región.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Se lanzó el movimiento de Silicon Valley Rising en la Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe en el vecindario de Mayfair, al este de la ciudad de San José. En los años 50, gran parte de la zona se conocía como Sal Si Puedes. Es la misma iglesia en la que César Chávez lanzó su movimiento como activista y dirigente laboral agrícola, inspirado y animado por el párroco. Hoy la iglesia sirve a una comunidad predominantemente latina, con la misa y servicios comunitarios en español.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salvador Bustamante, otrora trabajador agrícola también, es director ejecutivo de Latinos Unidos por una Nueva América y uno de los dirigentes del movimiento laboral. El cree que el grupo Silicon Valley Rising debe ir más allá de la antigua manera de organizar a trabajadores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“La gente necesita avanzar otro nivel más”, dijo Bustamante. “No es suficiente ser miembro de un sindicato. También hay que participar en el proceso político”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solorio se ha tomado a pecho esta sugerencia. Intenta ayudar a otros trabajadores del sector de servicios con unirse a un sindicato. También hace acto de presencia en casi toda manifestación. Ha viajado varias veces a Sacramento para protestar frente al Capitolio a favor de un proyecto de ley que haría responsables a las empresas que no compensan a los trabajadores por ingresos atrasados. Quiere mejorar su propia situación y se siente obligado a hablar por otros trabajadores del sector de servicios quienes no tienen la protección de un sindicato.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hay muchas personas con miedo a participar porque siempre ocurre donde les dan de alta”, dijo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solorio indica que la única manera que los trabajadores inmigrantes van a ganar esta batalla por salarios más altos y mejores beneficios es con arriesgarse. En este momento, dijo, no hay donde ir sino arriba.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>California tiene la séptima economía más grande del mundo, y a lo largo de la historia del estado, los inmigrantes han contribuido mucho al desarrollo de esta prosperidad. Hoy, una de cada tres personas trabajadoras en California es inmigrante – proporción que ha crecido en las últimas décadas. Nuestro estado está conformado por estos trabajadores y emprendedores – 6 millones de personas que han encontrado empleo en el Estado Dorado. En nuestra serie “\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/california-immigrants-at-work\">Transformación migrante\u003c/a>”, KQED y The California Report exploran el impacto que surten los inmigrantes, los retos que enfrentan y las políticas que les afectan.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En febrero, Solorio entró alma y cuerpo al nuevo movimiento laboral, llamado en inglés, Silicon Valley Rising, uniéndose a cientos de otros empleados de limpieza, de cocina, de mantenimiento, recepcionistas y guardias de seguridad. Estos empleados de servicios se están enfrentando con las empresas de alta tecnología por las que trabajan, exigiendo que paguen un salario digno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Están poniendo de manifiesto la desigualdad de ingresos. En la región conocida como Bay Area, la brecha entre el 20 por ciento de hogares de mayores ingresos y el 20 por ciento de menores ingresos, ha alcanzado los $263.000 – un nuevo récord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La nueva campaña la impulsa en su mayoría personas inmigrantes, quienes comprenden el 46 por ciento de la fuerza laboral de Silicon Valley y un número importante – incluyendo a Solorio – está entre los que menos ingresos perciben.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Un alto porcentaje de los trabajadores de bajos ingresos del sector de servicios – en particular en la industria de la tecnología – es inmigrante”, dijo Ben Field, ejecutivo del South Bay Labor Council. “Por esta razón, representan un componente muy importante del movimiento Silicon Valley Rising”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Una mañana reciente, Solorio lleva a pie a su hija Evelyn a la cercana escuela primaria de San José – donde tiene derecho a recibir refrigerios a precio reducido. Por el camino, habló de lo difícil que le resulta llegar al mes con su modesta paga mensual. Solorio siente que tiene suerte por ser miembro de un sindicato, SEIU USWW. Bajo los términos de su contrato, él gana $15.50 la hora, más beneficios. Esta paga es mejor que la de muchos empleados de servicios en el Silicon Valley que no pertenecen a ningún sindicato y que ganan $12 la hora, como promedio. Pero aún así, el dinero no alcanza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Con una persona sola, no está tan mal, pero cuando tienes familia y otras personas por quienes velar, se vuelve muy difícil”, dijo Solorio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10610039\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10610039 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SolorioMarch-800x512.jpg\" alt=\"Conserje para la empresa eBay, Jesús Solorio, es una presencia constante en las manifestaciones y marchas. \" width=\"800\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SolorioMarch-800x512.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SolorioMarch-400x256.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SolorioMarch-1440x922.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SolorioMarch-1400x896.jpg 1400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SolorioMarch-1180x755.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SolorioMarch-960x615.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SolorioMarch.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Conserje para la empresa eBay, Jesús Solorio, es una presencia constante en las manifestaciones y marchas. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.siliconvalleycf.org/sites/default/files/publications/2014-silicon-valley-index.pdf\">Los costos de la vivienda en el Silicon Valley\u003c/a> están entre los más altos en el país, lo cual agudiza aún más la brecha entre los ingresos. Solorio y su hija comparten un apartamento de dos recámaras muy pequeño con su hermano y su familia de cuatro. Es \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_28437124/silicon-valley-housing-high-powered-new-advocacy-group\">la única manera que pueden pagar el alquiler mensual de mil quinientos dólares\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las mañanas son un reto para Solorio después de trabajar el turno de noche, pero se sacude el sueño cada día para llevar a Evelyn, de pie o en auto, a su escuela.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Es claro que éste es su momento para conversar a solas. De la mano de su papá durante el trecho de 20 minutos, Evelyn trota en sus zapatillas de luces parpadeantes estilo Princesa Anna de la película “Frozen”. Hoy le cuenta a su papá lo que ella quiere de regalo por su cumpleaños.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Vamos a hacer un paseo a Chucky Cheese”, dice Evelyn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Papá e hija se detienen en una tienda de donuts por el camino para darse el gusto de un desayuno a un dólar. Solorio dice que es su hija la que le da ánimos, que por darle una vida mejor, él hará cualquier cosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Al igual que Solorio, aproximadamente la mitad de la fuerza laboral de Silicon Valley proviene de otro país – el 46 por ciento, según el consorcio Joint Venture Silicon Valley, compuesto de dirigentes empresariales y cívicos. Algunos inmigrantes han establecido exitosas empresas de tecnología y se encuentran entre los que más ingresos perciben. Pero un gran porcentaje está del lado opuesto de esa escala salarial.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/_F5X64bXde0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/_F5X64bXde0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>“Son el motor de esta economía pero se han estancado sus ingresos”, dijo Russell Hancock, presidente de Joint Venture Silicon Valley. “No ha habido crecimiento en sus salarios durante décadas”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>¿Cómo es que siguen estancados sus ingresos, con lo próspera que es la economía de Silicon Valley? Solorio – como muchos empleados del sector servicio en las empresas de tecnología – en realidad es empleado de una de las compañías contratadas por las grandes empresas tecnológicas. Estas compañías contratistas compiten entre sí. Field, el que dirige el South Bay Labor Council, indica que es una receta apta para la explotación.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Las empresas de alta tecnología están utilizado a contratistas quienes con frecuencia son operadores de pocos escrúpulos”, dijo Field. “No pagan bien a sus empleados y no les ofrecen beneficios”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10610044\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 440px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10610044\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/JesusAndDaugher-800x745.jpg\" alt=\"Conserje Jesús Solorio dice que hará cualquier cosa por darle una mejor vida a su hija.\" width=\"440\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/JesusAndDaugher-800x745.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/JesusAndDaugher-400x372.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/JesusAndDaugher-1440x1340.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/JesusAndDaugher-1400x1303.jpg 1400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/JesusAndDaugher-1180x1098.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/JesusAndDaugher-960x894.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/JesusAndDaugher.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Conserje Jesús Solorio dice que hará cualquier cosa por darle una mejor vida a su hija. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>El empleador de Solorio, contratista de servicios de limpieza GCA Services Group, no devolvió llamadas hechas a sus oficinas en Ohio y en Alviso. Un vocero de eBay dijo que su empresa no quiere comentar sobre las crecientes disparidades en los ingresos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activistas del movimiento Silicon Valley Rising han estado manifestándose frente a las oficinas de los contratistas así como de las grandes empresas tecnológicas. Están obrando por lograr que se únan los empleados del sector de servicios a los sindicatos. Y el movimiento – una coalición de sindicatos laborales, grupos de fe religiosa, defensores de inmigrantes y organizaciones de base – también aboga por viviendas más económicas en la región.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Se lanzó el movimiento de Silicon Valley Rising en la Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe en el vecindario de Mayfair, al este de la ciudad de San José. En los años 50, gran parte de la zona se conocía como Sal Si Puedes. Es la misma iglesia en la que César Chávez lanzó su movimiento como activista y dirigente laboral agrícola, inspirado y animado por el párroco. Hoy la iglesia sirve a una comunidad predominantemente latina, con la misa y servicios comunitarios en español.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salvador Bustamante, otrora trabajador agrícola también, es director ejecutivo de Latinos Unidos por una Nueva América y uno de los dirigentes del movimiento laboral. El cree que el grupo Silicon Valley Rising debe ir más allá de la antigua manera de organizar a trabajadores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“La gente necesita avanzar otro nivel más”, dijo Bustamante. “No es suficiente ser miembro de un sindicato. También hay que participar en el proceso político”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solorio se ha tomado a pecho esta sugerencia. Intenta ayudar a otros trabajadores del sector de servicios con unirse a un sindicato. También hace acto de presencia en casi toda manifestación. Ha viajado varias veces a Sacramento para protestar frente al Capitolio a favor de un proyecto de ley que haría responsables a las empresas que no compensan a los trabajadores por ingresos atrasados. Quiere mejorar su propia situación y se siente obligado a hablar por otros trabajadores del sector de servicios quienes no tienen la protección de un sindicato.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hay muchas personas con miedo a participar porque siempre ocurre donde les dan de alta”, dijo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solorio indica que la única manera que los trabajadores inmigrantes van a ganar esta batalla por salarios más altos y mejores beneficios es con arriesgarse. En este momento, dijo, no hay donde ir sino arriba.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/21/contribucion-inmigrante-al-movimiento-laboral-en-silicon-valley\">Read this piece in Spanish\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jesus Solorio’s stubbornness serves him well. Instead of winding up a victim of the \u003ca href=\"http://siliconvalleyindicators.org/special-reports/\">surging income \u003c/a>inequality in Silicon Valley, he has become a tireless labor activist, refusing to let go of the American Dream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like being a champion of raising the minimum wage,” said Solorio in Spanish. “I like being around other people, helping them so they can have better salaries and live a better life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/215705645″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solorio, 30, is a janitor at San Jose-based eBay. He left Mexico when he was a teenager and he’s now a single father, raising his 7-year-old daughter in a hard-scrabble neighborhood 13 miles from the sparkling eBay campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, Solorio threw himself into a new labor movement called Silicon Valley Rising, joining hundreds of other janitors, cooks, maintenance workers, receptionists and security guards. These service workers are taking on the high-tech companies they work for, challenging them to pay a living wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”D8f7nm6X5oSSPg0YgkFPiTHvfRFz3Ir8″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The income gap between the highest-earning 20 percent of households in the Bay Area and the lowest-paid 20 percent has reached $263,000 — a new record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new labor campaign is largely powered by immigrants, and a substantial number of those, including Solorio, are at the bottom of the wage scale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A large percentage of the low-wage service sector workers — particularly in tech — are immigrants,” said Ben Field, executive officer of the South Bay Labor Council. “So they are a very important component of Silicon Valley Rising.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent morning, Solorio walked his daughter, Evelyn, to her San Jose elementary school, where she qualifies for reduced priced lunches. Along the way, he talked about how difficult it is to make ends meet on his modest paycheck. Solorio feels lucky to belong to a union, SEIU USWW. Under the terms of his contract, he makes $15.50 an hour plus benefits. That’s better than most Silicon Valley service workers who are not unionized and make $12 an hour, on average. But money is still terribly tight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10610111\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SolorioMarch1-800x512.jpg\" alt=\"eBay janitor Jesus Solorio is a constant presence at demonstrations and rallies.\" width=\"800\" height=\"512\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10610111\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SolorioMarch1-800x512.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SolorioMarch1-400x256.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SolorioMarch1-1440x922.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SolorioMarch1-1400x896.jpg 1400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SolorioMarch1-1180x755.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SolorioMarch1-960x615.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SolorioMarch1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">eBay janitor Jesus Solorio is a constant presence at demonstrations and rallies. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If it’s just one person, it isn’t so bad,” Solorio said. “But when you have family and other people to care for, it becomes really difficult.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.siliconvalleycf.org/sites/default/files/publications/2014-silicon-valley-index.pdf\">The cost of housing in Silicon Valley\u003c/a> is among the highest in the country, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The 2015 Silicon Valley Index shows rental rates rose 11 percent (to $2,333 per month). The median home price is $360,000 higher than the rest of the state. And that makes \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2015/03/opinion/ctl-child-poverty/#0\">the wage gap even tougher\u003c/a>. Solorio and his daughter share a tiny two-bedroom apartment with his brother’s family of four. It’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_28437124/silicon-valley-housing-high-powered-new-advocacy-group\">the only way they can afford the $1,500-a-month rent.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early mornings are tough after working the swing shift, but Solorio shakes off sleep each day to walk or drive Evelyn to school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is clearly their time to connect. Holding her dad’s hand on the 20-minute trek, Evelyn trots along in her blinking sneakers depicting Princess Ana from the movie “Frozen.” This day she tells her dad what she wants for her seventh birthday party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to take a trip to Chuck E. Cheese,” said Evelyn in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pair stops at a doughnut shop along the way for a $1 breakfast treat. Solorio says his daughter keeps him going. He will do anything to make her life better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F5X64bXde0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Solorio, almost half of Silicon Valley’s workforce comes from another country – 46 percent, according to Joint Venture Silicon Valley, a consortium of business and civic leaders. Some immigrants have started successful tech companies and are in the highest income bracket. But a large percentage is at the bottom of the wage scale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They make this economy hum and their wages have been stagnant,” said Russell Hancock, president of Joint Venture Silicon Valley. “There’s been no growth in their wages over a period of decades.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why are their wages stuck, given Silicon Valley’s prosperous economy? Solorio — like many service workers at tech campuses — is actually employed by companies contracted by the big-name tech firms. Those contractors are competing with each other. Field, the head of the South Bay Labor Council, said that’s a recipe for exploitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“High-tech companies are using contractors who are often low-road operators,” said Field. “They don’t pay their employees well and they don’t provide benefits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10610108\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/JesusAndDaugher1-800x745.jpg\" alt=\"Janitor Jesus Solorio says he will do anything to make a better life for his daughter.\" width=\"800\" height=\"745\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10610108\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/JesusAndDaugher1-800x745.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/JesusAndDaugher1-400x372.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/JesusAndDaugher1-1440x1340.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/JesusAndDaugher1-1400x1303.jpg 1400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/JesusAndDaugher1-1180x1098.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/JesusAndDaugher1-960x894.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/JesusAndDaugher1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janitor Jesus Solorio says he will do anything to make a better life for his daughter. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Solorio’s employer, the janitorial contractor GCA Services Group, did not return phone calls to its offices in Ohio and Alviso. A spokesman for eBay said his company did not want to comment on the growing wage disparities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activists with Silicon Valley Rising have been demonstrating outside the offices of contractors as well as at the big tech companies. They are working to unionize service workers. And the movement — a coalition of labor unions, faith groups, immigrant advocates and community-based organizations — is also pushing for more affordable housing in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley Rising was launched at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in East San Jose’s Mayfair neighborhood. Back in the 1950s, much of the area was known as Sal Si Puedes, or “Get out if you can.” It’s the same church where Cesar Chavez began his crusade as an activist and farm labor organizer, inspired and encouraged by the parish priest. Today the church still serves a primarily Latino immigrant community, with Mass and community services in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salvador Bustamante — once a farmworker himself — is executive director of Latinos United for a New America and one of the leaders of the new labor movement. He believes Silicon Valley Rising must go beyond old-fashioned labor organizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People need to go to the next level,” said Bustamante. “Being a union member is not enough. We also need to participate in the political process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solorio has taken that on. He is trying to help other service workers unionize. But he is also a stalwart presence at nearly every rally. He has made several trips to Sacramento to protest outside the Capitol for a bill to hold companies accountable if they don’t pay back wages. He wants to improve his own situation and he’s compelled to speak up for other service workers not protected by unions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot of people who are scared to get involved because it always happens where they are let go,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solorio says the only way for immigrant workers to win this fight for higher wages and better benefits is to take chances. Right now, he said, there is nowhere to go but up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>California has the seventh-largest economy in the world, and immigrants have a long history in building that prosperity. Today one out of every three working people in California is an immigrant — a share that has grown in recent decades. Our state is shaped by these workers and entrepreneurs — 6 million people who’ve found a job in the Golden State. In our series “\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/california-immigrants-at-work\">Immigrant Shift\u003c/a>,” KQED and The California Report explore the impact they have, the challenges they face and the policies that affect them.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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These service workers are taking on the high-tech companies they work for, challenging them to pay a living wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The income gap between the highest-earning 20 percent of households in the Bay Area and the lowest-paid 20 percent has reached $263,000 — a new record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new labor campaign is largely powered by immigrants, and a substantial number of those, including Solorio, are at the bottom of the wage scale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A large percentage of the low-wage service sector workers — particularly in tech — are immigrants,” said Ben Field, executive officer of the South Bay Labor Council. “So they are a very important component of Silicon Valley Rising.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent morning, Solorio walked his daughter, Evelyn, to her San Jose elementary school, where she qualifies for reduced priced lunches. Along the way, he talked about how difficult it is to make ends meet on his modest paycheck. Solorio feels lucky to belong to a union, SEIU USWW. Under the terms of his contract, he makes $15.50 an hour plus benefits. That’s better than most Silicon Valley service workers who are not unionized and make $12 an hour, on average. But money is still terribly tight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10610111\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SolorioMarch1-800x512.jpg\" alt=\"eBay janitor Jesus Solorio is a constant presence at demonstrations and rallies.\" width=\"800\" height=\"512\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10610111\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SolorioMarch1-800x512.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SolorioMarch1-400x256.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SolorioMarch1-1440x922.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SolorioMarch1-1400x896.jpg 1400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SolorioMarch1-1180x755.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SolorioMarch1-960x615.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SolorioMarch1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">eBay janitor Jesus Solorio is a constant presence at demonstrations and rallies. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If it’s just one person, it isn’t so bad,” Solorio said. “But when you have family and other people to care for, it becomes really difficult.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.siliconvalleycf.org/sites/default/files/publications/2014-silicon-valley-index.pdf\">The cost of housing in Silicon Valley\u003c/a> is among the highest in the country, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The 2015 Silicon Valley Index shows rental rates rose 11 percent (to $2,333 per month). The median home price is $360,000 higher than the rest of the state. And that makes \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2015/03/opinion/ctl-child-poverty/#0\">the wage gap even tougher\u003c/a>. Solorio and his daughter share a tiny two-bedroom apartment with his brother’s family of four. It’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_28437124/silicon-valley-housing-high-powered-new-advocacy-group\">the only way they can afford the $1,500-a-month rent.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early mornings are tough after working the swing shift, but Solorio shakes off sleep each day to walk or drive Evelyn to school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is clearly their time to connect. Holding her dad’s hand on the 20-minute trek, Evelyn trots along in her blinking sneakers depicting Princess Ana from the movie “Frozen.” This day she tells her dad what she wants for her seventh birthday party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to take a trip to Chuck E. Cheese,” said Evelyn in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pair stops at a doughnut shop along the way for a $1 breakfast treat. Solorio says his daughter keeps him going. He will do anything to make her life better.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/_F5X64bXde0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/_F5X64bXde0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Like Solorio, almost half of Silicon Valley’s workforce comes from another country – 46 percent, according to Joint Venture Silicon Valley, a consortium of business and civic leaders. Some immigrants have started successful tech companies and are in the highest income bracket. But a large percentage is at the bottom of the wage scale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They make this economy hum and their wages have been stagnant,” said Russell Hancock, president of Joint Venture Silicon Valley. “There’s been no growth in their wages over a period of decades.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why are their wages stuck, given Silicon Valley’s prosperous economy? Solorio — like many service workers at tech campuses — is actually employed by companies contracted by the big-name tech firms. Those contractors are competing with each other. Field, the head of the South Bay Labor Council, said that’s a recipe for exploitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“High-tech companies are using contractors who are often low-road operators,” said Field. “They don’t pay their employees well and they don’t provide benefits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10610108\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/JesusAndDaugher1-800x745.jpg\" alt=\"Janitor Jesus Solorio says he will do anything to make a better life for his daughter.\" width=\"800\" height=\"745\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10610108\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/JesusAndDaugher1-800x745.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/JesusAndDaugher1-400x372.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/JesusAndDaugher1-1440x1340.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/JesusAndDaugher1-1400x1303.jpg 1400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/JesusAndDaugher1-1180x1098.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/JesusAndDaugher1-960x894.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/JesusAndDaugher1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janitor Jesus Solorio says he will do anything to make a better life for his daughter. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Solorio’s employer, the janitorial contractor GCA Services Group, did not return phone calls to its offices in Ohio and Alviso. A spokesman for eBay said his company did not want to comment on the growing wage disparities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activists with Silicon Valley Rising have been demonstrating outside the offices of contractors as well as at the big tech companies. They are working to unionize service workers. And the movement — a coalition of labor unions, faith groups, immigrant advocates and community-based organizations — is also pushing for more affordable housing in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley Rising was launched at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in East San Jose’s Mayfair neighborhood. Back in the 1950s, much of the area was known as Sal Si Puedes, or “Get out if you can.” It’s the same church where Cesar Chavez began his crusade as an activist and farm labor organizer, inspired and encouraged by the parish priest. Today the church still serves a primarily Latino immigrant community, with Mass and community services in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salvador Bustamante — once a farmworker himself — is executive director of Latinos United for a New America and one of the leaders of the new labor movement. He believes Silicon Valley Rising must go beyond old-fashioned labor organizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People need to go to the next level,” said Bustamante. “Being a union member is not enough. We also need to participate in the political process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solorio has taken that on. He is trying to help other service workers unionize. But he is also a stalwart presence at nearly every rally. He has made several trips to Sacramento to protest outside the Capitol for a bill to hold companies accountable if they don’t pay back wages. He wants to improve his own situation and he’s compelled to speak up for other service workers not protected by unions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot of people who are scared to get involved because it always happens where they are let go,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solorio says the only way for immigrant workers to win this fight for higher wages and better benefits is to take chances. Right now, he said, there is nowhere to go but up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_131168\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-131168\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RS2361_108330194-lpr-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"In 2013, Big Tech was the No.4 Big Spender on lobbying, behind Big Health, Big Insurance and Big Oil & Gas. (Saul Loeb/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In 2013, Big Tech was the No.4 Big Spender on lobbying, behind Big Health, Big Insurance and Big Oil & Gas. (Saul Loeb/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201404020850/c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listen to the story on The California Report\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, a \u003ca href=\"http://www.eventbrite.com/directory?q=startup+event&loc=Washington%2C+DC\">delegation\u003c/a> of representatives from Silicon Valley start-ups is making the rounds in Washington, D.C., to press for patent reform legislation. Even in an election year, proponents are optimistic they can garner bipartisan support to tackle what many consider a cancer in high tech: \u003ca href=\"http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/when-patents-attack\">patent lawsuits\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Julie Samuels is executive director of the group organizing this week’s lobbying trip: \u003ca href=\"http://engine.is/\">Engine\u003c/a>. “The House of Representatives last December passed a bill, and the White House has already said it would sign it. And it looks like the Senate is hopefully going to pass a similar bill that will make this better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Engine goes to bat for small firms in tech — as opposed to, say, \u003ca href=\"http://www.fwd.us/about_us\">Fwd.us\u003c/a> a lobbying organization that’s garnered national attention with big names like Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Marissa Mayer of Yahoo and Bill Gates of Microsoft. Samuels says tech companies big and small share many of the same interests: patent reform, net neutrality, cybersecurity, copyrights, taxes and immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The list is growing, along with Silicon Valley’s clout in the nation’s capital. Sarah Bryner is research director at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.opensecrets.org/\">Center for Responsive Politics\u003c/a>, a campaign finance watchdog. She says that in 2013 Big Tech was the \u003ca href=\"http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?indexType=i&showYear=2013\">#4 Big Spende\u003c/a>r on lobbying, behind Big Health, Big Insurance and Big Oil & Gas.\u003c/p>\n\u003ctable class=\"tableizer-table\">\n\u003ctbody>\n\u003ctr class=\"tableizer-firstrow\">\n\u003cth>Industry\u003c/th>\n\u003cth>Total\u003c/th>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Pharmaceuticals/Health Products\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$225,715,937\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Insurance\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$153,116,559\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Oil & Gas\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$144,682,462\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>\u003cstrong>Computers/Internet\u003c/strong>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003cstrong>$140,297,606\u003c/strong>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Electric Utilities\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$129,618,239\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>TV/Movies/Music\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$117,972,447\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Business Associations\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$108,371,903\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003c/tbody>\n\u003c/table>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?indexType=i&showYear=2013\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See the full report.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Since 1998, which is the earliest year that I have data for, the industry has increased their lobbying by 258 percent, and that’s more than double the rate at which the lobbying industry as a whole has increased their activity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley has been lobbying in Washington, D.C., for a half-century now. \u003ca href=\"http://www8.hp.com/us/en/hp-information/about-hp/history/overview.html\">Hewlett-Packard\u003c/a>, one of the first major Valley firms\u003ca href=\"http://www8.hp.com/us/en/hp-information/about-hp/history/overview.html\">,\u003c/a> was a military contractor. One of its co-founders, \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Packard\">David Packard\u003c/a>, served in the Defense Department during the Nixon administration. Bryner says the \u003cem>kinds\u003c/em> of tech companies that \u003cem>top\u003c/em> the list of big spenders have changed as the industry has changed over the years: from a focus on hardware, to software, to social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You still have traditional tech companies like IBM and Oracle and HP all at the top. But now, you see not necessarily newer — but newer to the game — players like Yahoo, and Facebook is climbing, and Twitter just hired a lobbyist this last year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, Google was No.1 by a wide margin, having spent $14 million on lobbying.\u003c/p>\n\u003ctable class=\"tableizer-table\">\n\u003ctbody>\n\u003ctr class=\"tableizer-firstrow\">\n\u003cth>Client/Parent\u003c/th>\n\u003cth>Total\u003c/th>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Google Inc\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$14,060,000\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Microsoft Corp\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$10,490,000\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Oracle Corp\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$7,190,000\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Hewlett-Packard\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$6,921,692\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Facebook Inc\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$6,430,000\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>IBM Corp\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$5,950,000\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Entertainment Software Assn\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$5,210,000\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Intel Corp\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$4,393,750\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Amazon.com\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$3,456,831\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Apple Inc\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$3,370,000\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003c/tbody>\n\u003c/table>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/indusclient.php?id=B12&year=2013\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See the full report.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Google actually is one of the few companies that hired a former member of Congress on their own staff to do lobbying,” Bryner notes. “Most companies that hire [former] members of Congress do so using lobbying firms based in D.C., but Google \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/03/business/susan-molinari-adds-to-googles-political-firepower.html?pagewanted=all\">hired Susan Molinari\u003c/a> of New York from their own payroll. And that’s unusual.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, all the big tech companies hire professional schmoozers, including former politicians, to cultivate relationships. They offer advice on bills and on anything else of interest to industry – like regulations and government contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone sort of thinks of lobbying as sort of men in suits talking to Congress people in the hallways,” Bryner says, “but there’s a lot of lobbying of the administration. Including the White House. Even though President Obama has sort of made it a policy to not invite lobbyists to the White House, lobbying of the presidency has increased in the last several years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last several years, it’s become increasingly difficult to get legislation through Congress. Individually and through groups, tech titans have spent a lot of money trying to get comprehensive immigration reform passed -– to no avail. But they’re still spending, holding private fundraisers here in Northern California for key Democrats –- and Republicans –- from all over the country. Just a couple of weeks ago, House Judiciary Committee Chair Bob Goodlatte \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201403190850/a\">paid a visit to the Bay Area\u003c/a> for the latest in a series of private fundraisers put on by TechNet, a bipartisan network of tech executives.\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130989\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/31/silicon-valley-the-4-lobbying-force-in-washington-dc/img_6883/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-130989\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-130989 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_6883-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"Attendees at a recent Fwd.us panel discussion fortify themselves for a long wait on immigration reform in Washington, D.C. (Credit: Fwd.us/Lucas Waldron)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees at a recent Fwd.us panel discussion fortify themselves for a long wait on immigration reform in Washington, D.C. (Credit: Fwd.us/Lucas Waldron)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last week, Julie Samuels, from Engine, moderated yet another panel discussion in San Francisco on the challenge of expanding the labor pool in tech. Right off the bat, she acknowledged the argument that companies should do more to find and cultivate homegrown talent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really hard to find good engineers, and there are two sides of this. It’s the businesses who can’t find people, but it’s also the people who want to be there and can’t get there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event was held at a start-up incubator called \u003ca href=\"http://www.parisoma.com/\">PariSoma\u003c/a>, and organized by Fwd.us. The crowd was young, hip and international. Mexican native Miguel Cervera is a software engineer at \u003ca href=\"@MiguelCervera\">Twitter\u003c/a>. Over sliders and beer, the 23-year-old expressed distress over the lack of movement on immigration reform.\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would like to see for the people to stop thinking that we are coming here to steal jobs,” Cervera said. “As an immigrant, that’s how I feel, that –- maybe not here in the city, the city is really open in that aspect — but in other places, I feel like if I am Mexican, and I am coming here, they think I am here to steal some other U.S. citizens’ jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even outside Silicon Valley, American opinion may be changing faster than Cervera realizes. A February bipartisan \u003ca href=\"http://www.fwd.us/poll_support_immigration_reform\">poll\u003c/a> that Fwd.us likes to quote found a thousand likely general election voters nationwide overwhelmingly support immigration reform. Whatever happens in D.C. – or doesn’t – Silicon Valley money is working hard to keep immigration reform near the top of the legislative agenda. Patent reform, however, could graduate from the Senate Judiciary Committee as early as this month.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Since 1998, which is the earliest year that I have data for, the industry has increased their lobbying by 258 percent, and that’s more than double the rate at which the lobbying industry as a whole has increased their activity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley has been lobbying in Washington, D.C., for a half-century now. \u003ca href=\"http://www8.hp.com/us/en/hp-information/about-hp/history/overview.html\">Hewlett-Packard\u003c/a>, one of the first major Valley firms\u003ca href=\"http://www8.hp.com/us/en/hp-information/about-hp/history/overview.html\">,\u003c/a> was a military contractor. One of its co-founders, \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Packard\">David Packard\u003c/a>, served in the Defense Department during the Nixon administration. Bryner says the \u003cem>kinds\u003c/em> of tech companies that \u003cem>top\u003c/em> the list of big spenders have changed as the industry has changed over the years: from a focus on hardware, to software, to social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You still have traditional tech companies like IBM and Oracle and HP all at the top. 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And that’s unusual.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, all the big tech companies hire professional schmoozers, including former politicians, to cultivate relationships. They offer advice on bills and on anything else of interest to industry – like regulations and government contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone sort of thinks of lobbying as sort of men in suits talking to Congress people in the hallways,” Bryner says, “but there’s a lot of lobbying of the administration. Including the White House. Even though President Obama has sort of made it a policy to not invite lobbyists to the White House, lobbying of the presidency has increased in the last several years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last several years, it’s become increasingly difficult to get legislation through Congress. Individually and through groups, tech titans have spent a lot of money trying to get comprehensive immigration reform passed -– to no avail. But they’re still spending, holding private fundraisers here in Northern California for key Democrats –- and Republicans –- from all over the country. Just a couple of weeks ago, House Judiciary Committee Chair Bob Goodlatte \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201403190850/a\">paid a visit to the Bay Area\u003c/a> for the latest in a series of private fundraisers put on by TechNet, a bipartisan network of tech executives.\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130989\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/31/silicon-valley-the-4-lobbying-force-in-washington-dc/img_6883/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-130989\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-130989 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_6883-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"Attendees at a recent Fwd.us panel discussion fortify themselves for a long wait on immigration reform in Washington, D.C. 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"content": "\u003cp>A bipartisan group of lawmakers known as the “Gang of Eight” formally filed an 844-page immigration bill on the U.S. Senate floor Wednesday. California has a lot at stake in the outcome — and not just because it’s home to many of the estimated 11 million people living in the country illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_94614\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/schumermccain20130417.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-94614\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/schumermccain20130417-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"Senator Chuck Schumer, D-NY, speaks to reporters as Senator John McCain (L), R-AZ, looks on after a meeting with US President Barack Obama to brief him on the draft of a bipartisan immigration reform bill outside of the West Wing of the White House on April 16, 2013 in Washington, DC. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks to reporters as Sen. John McCain (L), R-Ariz., looks on after a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama to brief him on the draft of a bipartisan immigration reform bill. Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The bill contains several major components, including a 13-year pathway to citizenship, new visa programs for low-skilled and high-skilled workers, tweaks to family-based visas and a greater emphasis on employment and education skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The eight senators should be commended for trying to hammer out some concrete proposals dealing with these very complex issues, and there’s room for discussion and debate, criticism and dialogue,” UC Davis law professor and immigration expert Kevin Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill has potentially big impacts on California agriculture. Growers and farmworker advocates are applauding provisions that would provide farmworkers already in U.S. fields with an expedited path to citizenship, compared with the traditional green card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arturo Rodriguez, president of \u003ca href=\"http://www.ufw.org/\">United Farm Workers\u003c/a>, said the entire state would benefit, should farmworkers feel free to come out of the shadows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they have security, that means they are also going to invest even more so in the state by buying homes and buying cars and becoming a regular part of California’s economy and its future,” Rodriguez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal also calls for sophisticated border surveillance systems, including drones, fences and thousands of new agents patrolling the border with Mexico. That may have visceral appeal to some Americans, but a number of experts argue a quasi-military approach to border security can’t deliver on its promise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>University of San Diego political science professor David Shirk is one of those critics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A very significant percentage of undocumented immigrants never cross the border, because they never see the border, because they come here in an airplane or they come by other legal means and then they overstay their visas,” Shirk said. “You’re not going to solve that aspect of the problem by improving border security.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shirk said the system the United States has in place now has as much to do with employers hungry for cheap labor as it does with immigrants looking for work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Silicon Valley Gives a ‘Conditional Thumbs Up’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Silicon Valley leaders are encouraged by the Senate’s framework for immigration reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emily Lam, with the \u003ca href=\"http://svlg.org/\">Silicon Valley Leadership Group\u003c/a>, gave the bill a conditional thumbs-up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The green cards, the entrepreneur visa and, of course, lifting of the H1B cap — all those things are really good. So, it addresses all the major concerns. We want to see details, so that’s of course my only hesitation,” Lam said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>More on immigration in California\u003c/strong>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/22/tech-companies-push-to-expand-skilled-worker-visas-rankles-critics/\">Tech Companies’ Push to Expand Skilled Worker Visas Rankles Critics\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/21/is-silicon-valley-losing-its-foreign-talent/\">Why Silicon Valley Is Losing Foreign-Born Talent\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/05/on-immigration-high-tech-and-ag-dont-meet-literally/\">On Immigration, High Tech and Ag Don’t Meet, Literally\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/11/immigration-reform-would-look-different-for-africans-and-afro-caribbeans/\">Immigration Reform Would Look Different for Africans and Afro-Caribbeans\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Dan Turrentine is vice president of government relations and business development at \u003ca href=\"http://www.technet.org/\">TechNet\u003c/a>, a trade group that includes Google, Facebook, Apple and Yahoo. Turrentine said the Senate proposal should increase the total number of green cards going to high-tech workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Overall it’s a thumbs up,” Turrentine said. “But there are things that we want to see improved. Ultimately the system has to be workable for our companies. Otherwise increases in certain numbers are meaningless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Senate framework lifts the cap on H1B visas for foreign tech workers and creates more green cards for engineers and scientists who get graduate degrees here. It’s unclear whether giving visas to one group will mean taking them from another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The framework also includes the first-ever visa for start-up entrepreneurs. But Craig Montuori of Politihacks worries Congress will add requirements like a master’s degree, which would be contrary to the intent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Michael Dell — these were all college dropouts,” Montuori said. “And there’s not a strong correlation between advanced degrees and entrepreneurial success.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vivek Wadhwa, a legal fellow at Stanford, worries the Senate’s comprehensive reform proposes so many things, it won’t win enough votes to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The tech industry can’t look at this and start celebrating saying, ‘Hey we got what we wanted.’ There’s nothing clear cut in it,” Wadhwa said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Silicon Valley lobbyists have signed on to comprehensive reform, but they agree it’s a fragile framework that could unravel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Early Opposition to the Bill\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some people are already lining up to oppose the bill before all the details are hashed out in the coming months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raymond Herrera is the founder of the group \u003ca href=\"http://californiascrusader.com/\">We the People\u003c/a>. He opposes any legislation that would include a path to citizenship for immigrants in the country illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The American people do not stand with Obama, McCain, the Gang of Eight, either the Senate nor the House,” Herrera said. “These people are actually working to subvert our government, our way of life, our culture and we will resurrect the American democracy in the favor of the American people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/immigration-bill-filed-in-senate-opponents-hope-to-use-delays-to-kill-it/2013/04/17/2254c9a6-a74c-11e2-8302-3c7e0ea97057_story.html?hpid=z2\">Washington Post\u003c/a>, opponents of the proposal on Capitol Hill are “coalescing around a strategy to kill the bill by delaying the legislative process as long as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would provide the time and the opportunity to lard the bill with “poison pill” amendments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s how the immigration proposal of 2007 sank before it came to the floor for a vote, under the weight of unpopular amendments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Barack Obama is urging fast passage this time around. Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer of New York says the hope is to have the Judiciary Committee open the bill for amendments in early May and get it to the Senate floor by early June.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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That may have visceral appeal to some Americans, but a number of experts argue a quasi-military approach to border security can’t deliver on its promise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>University of San Diego political science professor David Shirk is one of those critics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A very significant percentage of undocumented immigrants never cross the border, because they never see the border, because they come here in an airplane or they come by other legal means and then they overstay their visas,” Shirk said. “You’re not going to solve that aspect of the problem by improving border security.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shirk said the system the United States has in place now has as much to do with employers hungry for cheap labor as it does with immigrants looking for work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Silicon Valley Gives a ‘Conditional Thumbs Up’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Silicon Valley leaders are encouraged by the Senate’s framework for immigration reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emily Lam, with the \u003ca href=\"http://svlg.org/\">Silicon Valley Leadership Group\u003c/a>, gave the bill a conditional thumbs-up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The green cards, the entrepreneur visa and, of course, lifting of the H1B cap — all those things are really good. 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We want to see details, so that’s of course my only hesitation,” Lam said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>More on immigration in California\u003c/strong>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/22/tech-companies-push-to-expand-skilled-worker-visas-rankles-critics/\">Tech Companies’ Push to Expand Skilled Worker Visas Rankles Critics\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/21/is-silicon-valley-losing-its-foreign-talent/\">Why Silicon Valley Is Losing Foreign-Born Talent\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/05/on-immigration-high-tech-and-ag-dont-meet-literally/\">On Immigration, High Tech and Ag Don’t Meet, Literally\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/11/immigration-reform-would-look-different-for-africans-and-afro-caribbeans/\">Immigration Reform Would Look Different for Africans and Afro-Caribbeans\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Dan Turrentine is vice president of government relations and business development at \u003ca href=\"http://www.technet.org/\">TechNet\u003c/a>, a trade group that includes Google, Facebook, Apple and Yahoo. Turrentine said the Senate proposal should increase the total number of green cards going to high-tech workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Overall it’s a thumbs up,” Turrentine said. “But there are things that we want to see improved. Ultimately the system has to be workable for our companies. Otherwise increases in certain numbers are meaningless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Senate framework lifts the cap on H1B visas for foreign tech workers and creates more green cards for engineers and scientists who get graduate degrees here. It’s unclear whether giving visas to one group will mean taking them from another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The framework also includes the first-ever visa for start-up entrepreneurs. But Craig Montuori of Politihacks worries Congress will add requirements like a master’s degree, which would be contrary to the intent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Michael Dell — these were all college dropouts,” Montuori said. “And there’s not a strong correlation between advanced degrees and entrepreneurial success.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vivek Wadhwa, a legal fellow at Stanford, worries the Senate’s comprehensive reform proposes so many things, it won’t win enough votes to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The tech industry can’t look at this and start celebrating saying, ‘Hey we got what we wanted.’ There’s nothing clear cut in it,” Wadhwa said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Silicon Valley lobbyists have signed on to comprehensive reform, but they agree it’s a fragile framework that could unravel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Early Opposition to the Bill\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some people are already lining up to oppose the bill before all the details are hashed out in the coming months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raymond Herrera is the founder of the group \u003ca href=\"http://californiascrusader.com/\">We the People\u003c/a>. He opposes any legislation that would include a path to citizenship for immigrants in the country illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The American people do not stand with Obama, McCain, the Gang of Eight, either the Senate nor the House,” Herrera said. “These people are actually working to subvert our government, our way of life, our culture and we will resurrect the American democracy in the favor of the American people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/immigration-bill-filed-in-senate-opponents-hope-to-use-delays-to-kill-it/2013/04/17/2254c9a6-a74c-11e2-8302-3c7e0ea97057_story.html?hpid=z2\">Washington Post\u003c/a>, opponents of the proposal on Capitol Hill are “coalescing around a strategy to kill the bill by delaying the legislative process as long as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would provide the time and the opportunity to lard the bill with “poison pill” amendments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s how the immigration proposal of 2007 sank before it came to the floor for a vote, under the weight of unpopular amendments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Barack Obama is urging fast passage this time around. 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They posted red squares in place of their profile pictures on Twitter, as well as Facebook, and tweeted about their beef.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example:\u003cbr>\nhttps://twitter.com/NanetteAsimov/status/316353811293822976\u003cbr>\n(The profile picture in this example was a red square on Monday and Tuesday, but will change if Azimov changes her profile picture.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new paywall is a bit complicated. The newspaper is now running two websites, sfgate.com and sfchronicle.com.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s how Chronicle President Mark Adkins describes the change:\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>It gives our subscribers another option for getting the news and information they value from The Chronicle in an easy-to-use digital format organized like a newspaper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Subscribers also will have full access to The Chronicle’s most enduring legacy – its columnists. The list of premium content goes on, including The Chronicle’s award-winning coverage of sports and the outdoors, arts and cultural events, pop music and entertainment, architecture and urban design, the environment and climate change, business and technology, food and wine, health and fitness, politics and government, and editorials and opinion pieces.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Nowhere does Adkins mention that the newspaper is asking readers to pay for these features. That information is included in a press release that Marketing Director Michael Keith sent out on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>SFChronicle.com is available as part of a digital package for only $12.00 a month. Most Chronicle print subscribers will have access to SFChronicle.com as part of their subscriptions. More information and subscription options are available at www.SFChronicle.com/UltimateAccess.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>On Monday, the two sites had slightly different but overlapping content. Both carried the story about a baby being rescued in San Jose, but without a subscription you got only the first paragraph on SFChronicle.com. On SFgate, you got the whole story… for free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFChronicle.com had a feature on the Hope Center, a medical clinic in Alameda County. Once again, you could read only a couple of sentences (and see a photo) without a subscription. That story wasn’t available at all on SFgate.com.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither Adkins’ letter nor Keith’s press release explains how the new plan relates to the previous approach the Chronicle\u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/stew/2010/01/17/this-weeks-sunday-print-only-content/\"> announced in 2010\u003c/a>. In that initiative, the Chronicle said it was making some content from its Sunday paper available only on paper and ink, then publishing it on SFgate.com the following Tuesday. Apparently the idea was to give subscribers some reason to pay for a print newspaper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reached by phone, Keith declined to elaborate. And some bloggers \u003ca href=\"http://sfist.com/2013/03/25/san_francisco_chronicle_cowers_behi.php\">reacted with derision t\u003c/a>o the move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keith wouldn’t comment on the Twitter protest either. But Kat Anderson of the Pacific Media Workers Guild told KQED’s Aarti Shahani that reporters and editors at the newspaper are upset because Hearst, which owns the newspaper, is paying a smaller and smaller share of their health care premiums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said Hearst is paying only $148 per week per employee and has refused to increase that amount over the past five years while employees have to pay more and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 1.5* percent raise the writers and editors are getting over the next four years won’t cover that cost, so in effect these workers are getting less compensation for their work, said Anderson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They came to the employees in 2005 and 2009 and they said we’re going to shut down the newspaper if you don’t agree to all these financial concessions,” Anderson said. “So the contracts were opened. Pay was cut, benefits were cut, the pensions was frozen, vacation was given up. 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