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"content": "\u003cp>Forget the debate about who is the better basketball player. When it comes to politics, one thing is certain — LeBron James is far more vocal than Michael Jordan. While Jordan notoriously avoided getting involved in anything political during his heyday, James has taken to publicly criticizing President Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James’ latest rebuke came alongside fellow basketball star Kevin Durant in a video co-produced by Uber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is part of a relatively new advertising campaign that features candid interviews with NBA stars in the backseat of Uber cars. The video is an example of how sports stars and corporations have become more political — the former by choice and the latter, some argue, under pressure from customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consumer demand for companies to take a political stance has become especially acute in the battle between Uber and Lyft. (More on that below.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or just listen! 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Many thought the NBA star often shied away from politics because he didn’t want to risk \u003ca href=\"https://www.foxsports.com/nba/story/michael-jordan-kareem-abdul-jabbar-commerce-over-conscience-republicans-buy-sneakers-shoes-jordan-brand-110415\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his multi-million dollar endorsement\u003c/a> deals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, companies like Uber are using a heated political moment to provide a platform for sports stars, the most recent being the ad campaign with James and Durant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/8/17/16162226/corporations-replacing-churches-americas-conscience\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Today, customers are increasingly pushing companies\u003c/a> to take a stance, or “virtue signal,” that is, to appear to be on a particular side or represent certain ideals that consumers identify with. James is a particularly powerful signaler. He throws \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kingjames/status/911610455877021697?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">jabs at Trump on Twitter.\u003c/a> He publicly endorsed Hillary Clinton for president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber tapped into all that when it recently released the ad of LeBron James and Kevin Durant talking candidly about everything from basketball to being black in America. At around the 6-minute mark the pair start talking about President Trump, and what they had to say has garnered a lot of attention.\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/HtNWc1AIU20'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/HtNWc1AIU20'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Here’s the backstory on Uber’s marketing move. 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It replaced its much criticized CEO Travis Kalanick with Dara Khosrowshahi,\u003ca href=\"http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/29/technology/business/uber-ceo-trump/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> an outspoken critic of Trump\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last July, Uber hired \u003ca href=\"http://adage.com/article/cmo-strategy/bozoma-uber-chief-brand-officer-bozoma-saint-john-makes-big-mark-nba-themed-national-campaign/311089/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bozoma Saint John\u003c/a> as its first chief brand officer, with the goal of becoming the “official ride of pop culture.” And in October, the company started rolling out the NBA interview ad campaign, the latest of which has become fodder for cable news commentators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fox host Laura Ingraham said James should just \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/02/17/shut-up-and-dribble-fox-news-host-extends-trumps-efforts-to-silence-political-athletes/?utm_term=.30abf0d833c1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“shut up and dribble.”\u003c/a> Spurs Coach Gregg Popovich, another vocal critic of the Trump administration, came to LeBron’s defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of the media attention brought a lot of eyeballs to the video, many of them liberals who are drawn to the critical remarks these two prominent sports stars have to make about Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, the sports stars get a platform to air their political opinions, and a company like Uber tags along for the ride.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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But Uber and Lyft’s footprints continue to expand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, Doug Schifter, a for-hire black-car driver in New York City, went to the steps of City Hall and shot himself to protest the industry’s decimation. Before taking his life, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/02/10/584757778/taxi-drivers-face-financial-crisis\">Schifter posted on Facebook\u003c/a> about the financial pressure put on drivers like him by services like Uber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The taxi companies themselves are imploding. In San Francisco, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sf-yellow-cab-sold-competitor-810000/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yellow Cab went bankrupt in 2016\u003c/a>. Yellow Cab had around 500 medallions, which the city sold for $250,000 apiece. The company ended up selling for around $810,000, a little more than the sticker price for just three medallions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yellow Cab, Luxor and Citywide have all been consolidated into one company. Green Cab, Ditlefsen’s company used to have 19 members. Now it’s down to six. And they don’t even drive full time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Gruberg is a taxi driver and co-founder of Green Cab, which is driver-owned. Gruberg said many younger drivers have left the industry and those who remain are mostly career drivers. Many of them are stuck with medallions, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/24/for-san-francisco-cab-drivers-once-treasured-medallions-now-a-burden/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">which can be a big financial burden\u003c/a>. 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None of these days bring in the business they used to. Gruberg says drivers have lost between a third and half of their income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of every shift, Deborah Sears, the office manager, adds up what drivers earned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s days when some guy will come in and say, I had three fares today,’ ” Sears said. “It’s like going out there and playing Russian roulette.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Veena Dubal, a professor of law at UC Hastings, recently conducted an ethnographic study, comparing cab drivers with those for Uber and Lyft. 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In San Francisco, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sf-yellow-cab-sold-competitor-810000/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yellow Cab went bankrupt in 2016\u003c/a>. Yellow Cab had around 500 medallions, which the city sold for $250,000 apiece. The company ended up selling for around $810,000, a little more than the sticker price for just three medallions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yellow Cab, Luxor and Citywide have all been consolidated into one company. Green Cab, Ditlefsen’s company used to have 19 members. Now it’s down to six. And they don’t even drive full time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Gruberg is a taxi driver and co-founder of Green Cab, which is driver-owned. Gruberg said many younger drivers have left the industry and those who remain are mostly career drivers. Many of them are stuck with medallions, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/24/for-san-francisco-cab-drivers-once-treasured-medallions-now-a-burden/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">which can be a big financial burden\u003c/a>. The upshot of all this is that there are fewer cabs on the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11651107\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11651107\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Office-e1519088025430-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The office for Green Cab, which has been downsized from 19 to six members.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The office for Green Cab, which has been downsized from 19 to six members. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gruberg shows me the company’s shift schedule. It used to be filled all the time. Now the schedule is shot through with yellow, the color for unfilled shifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gruberg says Uber and Lyft have taken away cab drivers’ biggest paydays: Valentine’s Day, Halloween, St Patrick’s Day, even New Year’s Eve. None of these days bring in the business they used to. Gruberg says drivers have lost between a third and half of their income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of every shift, Deborah Sears, the office manager, adds up what drivers earned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s days when some guy will come in and say, I had three fares today,’ ” Sears said. “It’s like going out there and playing Russian roulette.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Veena Dubal, a professor of law at UC Hastings, recently conducted an ethnographic study, comparing cab drivers with those for Uber and Lyft. 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We've reached out to the paper's authors to share our concerns and suggest ways we might work together to refine their approach.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The newspaper also noted, \"Other \u003ca href=\"https://web.stanford.edu/~diamondr/UberPayGap.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">studies\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://therideshareguy.com/2018-uber-and-lyft-driver-survey-results-the-rideshare-guy/\" target=\"_blank\">surveys\u003c/a> have found higher hourly earnings for Uber drivers, in part because there are numerous ways to report income and to calculate costs and time and miles spent on the job.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MIT authors also calculated that it's possible for billions of dollars in driver profits to be untaxed because \"nearly half of drivers can declare a loss on their taxes.\" Drivers are able to use the IRS standard mileage rate deduction to write off some of the costs of using a car for business. In 2016, that number was \u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/tax-professionals/standard-mileage-rates\" target=\"_blank\">$0.54 per mile.\u003c/a> \"Because of this deduction, most ride-hailing drivers are able to declare profits that are substantially lower,\" researchers write.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If drivers are fully able to capitalize on these losses for tax purposes, 73.5% of an estimated U.S. market $4.8B in annual ride-hailing driver profit is untaxed,\" they add.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to MIT researchers, 80 percent of drivers said they work less than 40 hours per week. An NPR/Marist poll in January found that 1 in 5 jobs in the U.S. is \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/series/579833363/the-rise-of-the-contract-workers\" target=\"_blank\">held by a contract worker;\u003c/a> contractors often juggle multiple part-time jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber and Lyft both have \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/12/11/569462645/in-effort-to-court-drivers-lyft-offering-education-discounts\" target=\"_blank\">\"notoriously high\"\u003c/a> turnover rates among drivers. A report last year said just \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/20/only-4-percent-of-uber-drivers-remain-after-a-year-says-report.html\">4 percent\u003c/a> of Uber drivers work for the company for at least a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR's \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/12/11/569462645/in-effort-to-court-drivers-lyft-offering-education-discounts\" target=\"_blank\">Aarti Shahani reported\u003c/a> in December that Lyft began a program to give drivers \"access to discounted GED and college courses online\" in a recruiting effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was only last year that Uber introduced the option to tip drivers into its app for customers. \u003ca href=\"https://www.recode.net/2017/10/7/16363448/uber-lyft-driver-features-app\" target=\"_blank\">Recode listed\u003c/a> the initiatives Uber rolled out in 2017 in order to appeal to drivers, including 24-hour phone support, paid wait time and paying drivers if customers cancel after a certain amount of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Uber and Lyft have been fighting legal battles for years against initiatives to classify their drivers as \"employees\" instead of \"independent contractors\" — meaning drivers don't receive benefits like health care or sick leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2018 NPR. 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