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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! 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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. 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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>Organized labor has always counted on Democrats' support for issues like raising the minimum wage and paid sick leave. But in the new gig economy, run on apps for companies like \u003ca href=\"https://www.uber.com/?nav=c\" target=\"_blank\">Uber\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.taskrabbit.com/\" target=\"_blank\">TaskRabbit\u003c/a>, the very nature of work is changing. And the new tech-driven workplace could put some Democrats at odds with their friends in the labor movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Food service workers, janitors and other low-wage employees staged a protest recently across the street from the headquarters of the tech company Intel in Santa Clara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a classic labor action over traditional issues, like wages, benefits and working conditions. The demonstration was organized by \u003ca href=\"http://siliconvalleyrising.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Silicon Valley Rising\u003c/a>. The group is trying to give low-wage workers here more clout and a bigger share of profits in the super successful innovation economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/259868419\" 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>Even though many of the demonstrators worked for a \u003cem>contractor\u003c/em> that runs Intel’s cafeteria, organizer Derecka Meherns is pushing Intel to allow these workers to organize a union. Meherns says tech companies like Intel have tremendous resources to influence this -- and a wide range of public policy issues affecting workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They can put those resources into campaigns and an army of lobbyists that can walk the halls of every city hall, county, state governments -- it’s a resource working people don’t have,\" Meherns says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But organized labor is hardly an underdog. Analysis by \u003ca href=\"http://maplight.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Maplight\u003c/a> shows that in the past two election cycles, unions gave state legislators nearly $6 million in political contributions -- that’s \u003cem>10 times\u003c/em> more than the largest tech firms here. But Doug Bloch, political director for the Teamsters union, sees the tech sector gaining influence in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Union_and_Tech_Donations_to_State_Legislators_From_2013_to_2016_Democrat_Republican_chartbuilder-1.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10920898\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10920898\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Union_and_Tech_Donations_to_State_Legislators_From_2013_to_2016_Democrat_Republican_chartbuilder-1-800x369.png\" alt=\"Union_and_Tech_Donations_to_State_Legislators_From_2013_to_2016_Democrat_Republican_chartbuilder (1)\" width=\"800\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Union_and_Tech_Donations_to_State_Legislators_From_2013_to_2016_Democrat_Republican_chartbuilder-1-800x369.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Union_and_Tech_Donations_to_State_Legislators_From_2013_to_2016_Democrat_Republican_chartbuilder-1-400x184.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Union_and_Tech_Donations_to_State_Legislators_From_2013_to_2016_Democrat_Republican_chartbuilder-1-1180x544.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Union_and_Tech_Donations_to_State_Legislators_From_2013_to_2016_Democrat_Republican_chartbuilder-1-960x443.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Union_and_Tech_Donations_to_State_Legislators_From_2013_to_2016_Democrat_Republican_chartbuilder-1.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After an outcry over low wages and split shifts for drivers of shuttle buses for companies like Google and Apple, the Teamsters worked with those companies to join the union and raise their wages. But given the complexity of the new “gig economy” and the changing nature of work, Bloch wonders if Democrats will start wobbling on some issues labor cares about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think we have Democrats who are with us when it comes to bus drivers, food service workers and security officers,\" Bloch said. \"And when we go talk to them about supposed independent contractors driving for Uber, it’s a different story.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To some labor unions, Uber -- the transportation upstart that’s crushing the taxi industry -- is corporate enemy number one. They, and other app-based services like TaskRabbit, say they don’t have employees -- just contractors who set their own hours and get \"gigs\" via customers using apps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Teamsters lobbyist Barry Broad doesn’t buy the notion that these aren't employees. He goes so far as to compare them to African-American sharecroppers after the Civil War.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They’re working in a field,\" says Broad, sitting in his modest office near the state Capitol. \"The field is an urban area where people need rides. And Uber allows as many people into the field to pick crops, and Uber says this is how much you're getting per pound. They may not even be getting the minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Frankly, their system is from our perspective perfectly designed for exploitation of low-wage workers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This friction between labor and tech could create conflict for legislators, especially Democrats. Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom says organized labor needs to be nimble. Sitting in his office in a SoMa San Francisco startup incubator, Newsom says \"the tech genie is out of the bottle and you can't stuff it back in.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Something big is happening and we’re going through this radical shift in real time, yet we have work rules and labor rules that have been inflexible that were designed for a world that no longer exists,\" Newsom said. The former San Francisco mayor has close ties to the tech industry, but is also considered a strong ally of labor. And he thinks unions will be making a mistake if they resist adapting to the changing workplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the attitude is, 'No, we’re just going to deny it and everything is going to be fine,' labor and the middle class are in trouble. I'm rooting for labor.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic Assemblywoman \u003ca href=\"http://asmdc.org/members/a80/\" target=\"_blank\">Lorena Gonzalez \u003c/a>from San Diego understands that the old workplace rules don’t always apply anymore. She’s sponsoring legislation that would extend rights and a safety net to workers in the gig economy -- without involvement from unions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her bill -- \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1727\" target=\"_blank\">AB1727 \u003c/a>known as the \"California 1099 Self-Organizing Act\" -- will be heard in the Assembly Labor Committee later this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carl Guardino of the \u003ca href=\"http://svlg.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Silicon Valley Leadership Group \u003c/a>says the time is right for this conversation about the gig economy, but he worries about stifling the innovation economy, or what he calls \"the goose that lays the golden egg in California.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Rather than imposing laws on people and companies, let’s sit down and try to figure out what’s best for all concerned,\" Guardino says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of now anyway, there’s not an app for finding common ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Search below to see how much companies and their employees donated to state legislators during the last two election cycles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[techUnionDonations]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Methodology: MapLight analysis of campaign contributions to the candidate-controlled committees associated with current members of the California Legislature during the 2013-2014 and 2015-2016 election cycles. Contributor figures are based on itemized records, aggregated by affiliate organization for political action committees. Totals include donations both from organizations and employees of those organizations. All numbers are based on latest data made available by the California secretary of state as of April 4, 2016.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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But Doug Bloch, political director for the Teamsters union, sees the tech sector gaining influence in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Union_and_Tech_Donations_to_State_Legislators_From_2013_to_2016_Democrat_Republican_chartbuilder-1.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10920898\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10920898\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Union_and_Tech_Donations_to_State_Legislators_From_2013_to_2016_Democrat_Republican_chartbuilder-1-800x369.png\" alt=\"Union_and_Tech_Donations_to_State_Legislators_From_2013_to_2016_Democrat_Republican_chartbuilder (1)\" width=\"800\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Union_and_Tech_Donations_to_State_Legislators_From_2013_to_2016_Democrat_Republican_chartbuilder-1-800x369.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Union_and_Tech_Donations_to_State_Legislators_From_2013_to_2016_Democrat_Republican_chartbuilder-1-400x184.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Union_and_Tech_Donations_to_State_Legislators_From_2013_to_2016_Democrat_Republican_chartbuilder-1-1180x544.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Union_and_Tech_Donations_to_State_Legislators_From_2013_to_2016_Democrat_Republican_chartbuilder-1-960x443.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Union_and_Tech_Donations_to_State_Legislators_From_2013_to_2016_Democrat_Republican_chartbuilder-1.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After an outcry over low wages and split shifts for drivers of shuttle buses for companies like Google and Apple, the Teamsters worked with those companies to join the union and raise their wages. But given the complexity of the new “gig economy” and the changing nature of work, Bloch wonders if Democrats will start wobbling on some issues labor cares about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think we have Democrats who are with us when it comes to bus drivers, food service workers and security officers,\" Bloch said. \"And when we go talk to them about supposed independent contractors driving for Uber, it’s a different story.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To some labor unions, Uber -- the transportation upstart that’s crushing the taxi industry -- is corporate enemy number one. They, and other app-based services like TaskRabbit, say they don’t have employees -- just contractors who set their own hours and get \"gigs\" via customers using apps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Teamsters lobbyist Barry Broad doesn’t buy the notion that these aren't employees. He goes so far as to compare them to African-American sharecroppers after the Civil War.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They’re working in a field,\" says Broad, sitting in his modest office near the state Capitol. \"The field is an urban area where people need rides. And Uber allows as many people into the field to pick crops, and Uber says this is how much you're getting per pound. They may not even be getting the minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Frankly, their system is from our perspective perfectly designed for exploitation of low-wage workers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This friction between labor and tech could create conflict for legislators, especially Democrats. Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom says organized labor needs to be nimble. Sitting in his office in a SoMa San Francisco startup incubator, Newsom says \"the tech genie is out of the bottle and you can't stuff it back in.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Something big is happening and we’re going through this radical shift in real time, yet we have work rules and labor rules that have been inflexible that were designed for a world that no longer exists,\" Newsom said. The former San Francisco mayor has close ties to the tech industry, but is also considered a strong ally of labor. And he thinks unions will be making a mistake if they resist adapting to the changing workplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the attitude is, 'No, we’re just going to deny it and everything is going to be fine,' labor and the middle class are in trouble. I'm rooting for labor.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic Assemblywoman \u003ca href=\"http://asmdc.org/members/a80/\" target=\"_blank\">Lorena Gonzalez \u003c/a>from San Diego understands that the old workplace rules don’t always apply anymore. She’s sponsoring legislation that would extend rights and a safety net to workers in the gig economy -- without involvement from unions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her bill -- \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1727\" target=\"_blank\">AB1727 \u003c/a>known as the \"California 1099 Self-Organizing Act\" -- will be heard in the Assembly Labor Committee later this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carl Guardino of the \u003ca href=\"http://svlg.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Silicon Valley Leadership Group \u003c/a>says the time is right for this conversation about the gig economy, but he worries about stifling the innovation economy, or what he calls \"the goose that lays the golden egg in California.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Rather than imposing laws on people and companies, let’s sit down and try to figure out what’s best for all concerned,\" Guardino says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of now anyway, there’s not an app for finding common ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Search below to see how much companies and their employees donated to state legislators during the last two election cycles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[techUnionDonations]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Methodology: MapLight analysis of campaign contributions to the candidate-controlled committees associated with current members of the California Legislature during the 2013-2014 and 2015-2016 election cycles. Contributor figures are based on itemized records, aggregated by affiliate organization for political action committees. Totals include donations both from organizations and employees of those organizations. All numbers are based on latest data made available by the California secretary of state as of April 4, 2016.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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Plaintiffs failed to establish that the statutes violate equal protection, primarily because they did not show that the statutes inevitably cause a certain group of students to receive an education inferior to the received by other students. Although the statutes may lead to the hiring and retention of more ineffective teachers than a hypothetical alternative system would, the statutes do not address the assignment of teachers; instead, administrators — not the statutes — ultimately determine where teachers within a district are assigned to teach. Critically, plaintiffs failed to show that the statutes themselves make any certain group of students more likely to be taught by ineffective teachers than any other group of students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With no proper showing of a constitutional violation, the court is without power to down the challenged statutes. The court’s job is merely to determine whether the statutes are constitutional, not if they are “a good idea.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Treu's ruling two years ago was rendered in a lawsuit brought by \u003ca href=\"http://studentsmatter.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Students Matter\u003c/a>, a group founded by Silicon Valley billionaire engineer/entrepreneur \u003ca href=\"http://valleywag.gawker.com/silicon-valley-mogul-financed-california-lawsuit-to-end-1588947329\" target=\"_blank\">David F. Welch\u003c/a> on behalf of nine public school students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Largely because of \u003ca href=\"http://capitalandmain.com/features/california-expose/david-welch-the-man-behind-vergara-versus-california/\" target=\"_blank\">close ties\u003c/a> between Students Matter and a variety of charter and school-privatization proponents, the Vergara case is seen by the state's teachers unions as an attack on classroom educators. Critics also say the suit and similar legal action ignore the galaxy of factors, including scarce funding, high crime rates in school neighborhoods and fragmented families, that contribute to poor educational outcomes for many inner-city students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Teachers Association issued \u003ca href=\"https://www.cta.org/en/About-CTA/News-Room/Press-Releases/2016/04/20160414.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">a statement\u003c/a> celebrating the Thursday appeals court ruling as a complete vindication of its position that the state's tenure and seniority laws are essential protections:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In a sweeping victory for students and educators, the California Court of Appeal today reversed a lower court decision in the deeply flawed Vergara v. California lawsuit. The unanimous appellate opinion is a stinging rebuke to Judge Rolf M. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On Tuesday, just hours after news that a ballot measure to raise California's minimum wage to $15 is now eligible for the statewide ballot in November, business leaders across the state vowed to fight it. But they left the door open for a compromise on the issue in the Legislature that would cost them less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theresa Harvey, president and CEO of the North Orange County Chamber of Commerce, said she knew the measure was coming and has been preparing to fight it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s going to force more and more businesses out of California,\" she said. \"It’s going to be impossible for employers to keep within the law and it’s going to drive more people to hire fewer employees.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harvey said her group has an article in the quarterly newsletter set to go out soon telling members why they should oppose the measure. The chamber also has social media and email outreach plans in place to try and build support to vote it down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Due to a recent law change, the ballot measure's proponents have until June 30 to withdraw the initiative from the November ballot. That could happen if the Legislature were to pass a minimum wage bill before then. Senate Bill 3, which would raise California's minimum wage to $13, has been making its way through the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harvey said that although her group opposes the ballot measure, it might be open to a less rapid-fire approach from state lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Were the Legislature to consider a more gradual step-up as they did from the seven to eight, and then the eight to nine and 10, we could certainly look at it,\" she said, referring to previous minimum wage increases. “I think the devil is in the details.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's also a competing ballot initiative that's still trying to qualify for the November ballot that includes increased sick time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Betty Jo Toccoli, president of the California Small Business Association, hopes the minimum wage issue will be resolved in the Legislature. She gave \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB3\">the current Senate bill\u003c/a> a 50/50 chance of passing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think there are those legislators that think the easy way out is to just let the initiative go through and then they won't be blamed for it, and then I think there are also legislators that recognize that they need to work on it,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toccoli said California businesses would like to see lawmakers carve out exemptions for students so they can work for lower wages. They also want to see exemptions for restaurant servers so they can still get tips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the biggest irritants in the ballot initiative for businesses is a provision for annual cost-of-living increases once the $15-an-hour mark has been reached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hortencia Armendariz, director of health care outreach at SEIU-United Healthcare Workers, left room for the possibility that the sponsors could remove the ballot initiative if the Legislature were to act, but said they wouldn't do so for anything less than what their ballot initiative proposes. Their measure includes cost-of-living increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Where we stand is nothing less than $15 as an increase,\" she said. \"Right now we're very happy that it qualified.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicholas Adcock, vice president and governmental affairs manager for Greater Riverside Chambers of Commerce, said his group has yet to take an official position on the ballot measure but that it has deep concerns about minimum wage increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Economies are different from city to city,\" he said, pointing out that well over half of the businesses in Riverside have fewer than 10 employees. \"We're not talking very big profit models with huge profit margins.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riverside, according to Adcock, doesn't have the resources of larger cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles. He fears a minimum wage increase could stifle small business growth, which is still in recovery after the housing crisis that hit the area hard during the Great Recession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's going to force them to make some very tough decisions,\" he said, speaking of small business owners. \"We want more jobs to be created.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>California Counts is a collaboration of KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio to report on the 2016 election. The coverage focuses on major issues and solicits diverse voices on what’s important to the future of California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Maria Trujillo cleaned buildings for 25 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on Tuesday, she was leading a chant at a rally outside the state Capitol, calling for an end to abusive working conditions and sexual harassment for janitors like herself who have experienced sexual assault on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At the beginning, I felt really worthless,\" said Trujillo. \"I felt like I was worth nothing. I felt like as an immigrant woman, I had to take this, and anyone could step all over me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez attended the same rally, where she \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/blog/a-plan-is-emerging-to-fight-the-sexual-abuse-of-janitors-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\"> announced that her office is working on a bill\u003c/a> to increase protections for female janitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/251051351\" 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>Gonzalez said she was moved to tears by \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift\" target=\"_blank\">\"Rape on the Night Shift,\"\u003c/a> a collaboration between Reveal, the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley, KQED, Frontline and Univision, and that it inspired her to improve conditions for women who are subject to abuse while cleaning buildings alone at night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday's rallies -- which also marked International Women's Day -- came as a \u003ca href=\"http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/pdf/2016/Race-to-the-Bottom.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">new study\u003c/a> released by UC Berkeley's \u003ca href=\"http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Labor Research and Education\u003c/a> linked subcontracting work to lower wages, fewer benefits, risk of sexual assault and other employment law violations, compared with non-subcontracted workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers looked at janitorial and security service workers in California over a 30-year period to examine the impact of subcontract work on job quality outcomes for more than 200,000 service workers laboring under a subcontract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10889886\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10889886\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18732_JanitorsRally-800x490.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters rally in support of janitors, and to bring attention to issues of sexual harassment and assault in the workplace at the state Capitol on March 8, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18732_JanitorsRally-800x490.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18732_JanitorsRally-400x245.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18732_JanitorsRally.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18732_JanitorsRally-1180x723.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18732_JanitorsRally-960x588.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters rally in support of janitors, and to bring attention to issues of sexual harassment and assault in the workplace at the state Capitol on March 8, 2016. \u003ccite>(Katie Orr/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They found that wages within the property services industry have declined or remained stagnant, even as employment in the janitorial and security industry has increased faster than other sectors of the economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contracted janitors earned 20 percent less than noncontracted janitors, while contracted security officers earned 18 percent less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is the first time we’ve been able to look specifically at this industry and confirm that the trend of low wages and poor work incomes is associated with subcontracting over time,\" said Sara Hinkley, a postdoctoral fellow at the\u003ca href=\"http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/\" target=\"_blank\"> Labor Center at UC Berkeley\u003c/a> and an author the study. \"We're talking about a significant number of workers that really represent the archetype of subcontracting.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also shows that contracted workers are significantly less likely to have health insurance. Thirty-five percent of contracted janitors had health insurance through their employer or union, while 62 percent of noncontracted janitors had health insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>High Risk of Sexual Harassment and Assault\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In looking at sexual harassment and assault in the workplace, researchers repeatedly cited reporting from \"Rape on the Night Shift.\" They found that the property services industry is structured in a way that leaves workers \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/23/former-janitors-go-undercover-to-clean-up-abuses-rape-on-the-night-shift/\" target=\"_blank\">vulnerable\u003c/a> to sexual assault and afraid to report it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Janitors and security officers tend to work alone at night in empty buildings and are isolated from almost everyone except their immediate supervisor,\" said Helen Chen, co-author of the study and coordinator of public programs at the UC Berkeley Labor Occupational Health Program. \"\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/23/working-alone-at-night-janitors-risk-sexual-violence-rape-on-the-night-shift/\" target=\"_blank\">This isolation is a major risk factor \u003c/a>for sexual harassment, particularly when the harasser is their supervisor, which is a common occurrence in this industry.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several other factors that researchers found increase the risk of sexual harassment include lack of accountability and lack of resources for prevention services on the part of smaller employers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers add that a workplace culture that does not support survivors, coupled with a high number of immigrant and undocumented female workers, leaves many in fear of retribution. Thus, many incidents go unreported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We talked to one janitor who was sexually propositioned by her supervisor and harassed for a year,\" said Chen. \"That same supervisor harassed other women in the workplace and was never reprimanded. Employers generally do not have sexual harassment policies in place, and if they do, those policies are inadequate or are not enforced.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Disproportionately Affecting Immigrants, People of Color\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Latinos make up 37 percent of California's overall workforce, they make up 82 percent of contracted janitors and 41 percent of those who are not contracted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"oQktQM16n0yp7JDEd8B58VzE3wImXj8R\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of contracted janitors are also immigrants, with 75 percent of them being foreign-born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You have a situation where contractors use the situation of immigrant status and gender as a means to create an environment of exploitation and harassment,\" said David Huerta, president of \u003ca href=\"http://www.seiu-usww.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Service Employees International Union United Service Workers West\u003c/a>, which represents 45,000 service workers throughout California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Security officers are less likely to be immigrants because of the English-language requirements for the job. However, they are more likely to be African-American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These are things we've been talking about for some time now,,\" said Huerta. \"And as we start talking about the issue of racial justice and immigrant justice in this country, more and more we're going to see that this dysfunction within subcontract industries exist.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>High Competition, Lower wages\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In talking with employers and industry experts, researchers found that the intense competition between contract companies, coupled with the labor-intensive nature of contract work, is what puts wages and working conditions on the chopping block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because labor cost accounts for the largest percentage of a contractor's cost of doing business, companies often find themselves unable to compete if their prices don't remain competitive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The most room that they have to cut costs is in the group of expenditures associated with hiring workers,\" said Hinkley. \"They're continually competing with companies that are offering lower and lower costs based on being able to reduce the amount of money they spend on labor.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In conducting her research, Hinkley did find that there are employers out there who were genuine about wanting to offer their workers good jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These employers want to compete based on offering quality services, innovation and productivity enhancements. 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