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"content": "\u003cp>Sandwiched between California’s iconic Highway 101 and the Pacific Ocean is a parking lot in Encinitas, where Chad Bordes’ car doubled as his home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rain pounded and the wind blew; it was 3:30 a.m. in mid-March and still dark outside. Bordes emerged from the front seat of his gray Nissan Altima, wearing a T-shirt, jeans and flip-flops. He walked over to his trunk that also served as his closet. The newness of the day had him bleary eyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You wake up and you’re like, 'Oh, I’m in my car,'” Bordes said. “It’s like a bad episode of ‘Groundhog Day,’ every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bordes lived out of his car for the month of March. It was light years from what he imagined for himself. Bordes is 46 years old. He has an MBA from the University of Phoenix. He drives Uber and Lyft and has a part-time job with an online car auction company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, it’s not enough to pay the bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a time, Bordes was among the estimated 134,000 Californians who are homeless, according to the California Department of Housing and Community Development. The state doesn’t keep track of how many of those people have jobs. But, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/digging-data-attainable-california-dream-today/\">as the cost of living in California continues to rise\u003c/a>, some residents find themselves with jobs that don’t pay enough to afford a stable place to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until the end of February, Bordes rented a room in a home in Encinitas for $750 a month. But the owner decided to sell, and Bordes’s take-home pay of between $2,000 and $2,400 a month wasn’t enough to get a one-bedroom apartment in San Diego, where the average rent for a one-bedroom runs about $1,700 a month, according to MarketPointe Realty Advisors in San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, he lived in his car for a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, he found a room in a home in Vista for $450 on Craigslist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s pretty small,\" Bordes said. “It’s an 8-by-8. It’s actually a laundry room. It’s got a closet. It’s got windows. It’s a place to rest my head.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he’s grateful for the room but “this situation is month-to-month. I don’t know how long the person I am living there with will stay there. I mean, it’s a likely possibility that I might end up in my car again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11657217/thousands-of-college-hopefuls-could-leave-california-and-never-come-back\">Thousands of College Hopefuls Could Leave California, and Never Come Back\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11657217/thousands-of-college-hopefuls-could-leave-california-and-never-come-back\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS30018_CADCOLLEGEACCESSPHOTO-qut-1180x767.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Bordes owes nearly $100,000 in student loan debt on his MBA. His monthly payments to pay that down amount to $1,300.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has had financial problems in the past. Bordes filed for bankruptcy in 2003 after a divorce. 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Already, he was tired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His shift selling cars online ended at 3 p.m., and he went back to driving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very, very exhausting,” Bordes said. “There are times during the day when I’ll just turn the apps off, if I am not working at my other job, and just try to catch a 15-minute nap because I’m exhausted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-GW21x96VA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Bordes was living in his car, he made sure to leave room in his trunk for his passenger’s luggage. He hid his own belongings -- clothes, laptop, pillow and blanket -- tucked underneath a black towel. He didn’t often talk about his living circumstances but said the typical reaction when he did was one of disbelief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s shock,” Bordes said. “It’s like, ’Whoa, why are you living in your car?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bordes asked himself that same question. 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Bordes said he hasn’t even gotten a call back for entry-level jobs that start at $36,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11654616/for-the-middle-class-the-california-dream-has-become-a-california-joke\">For the Middle Class, the California Dream Has Become a California Joke\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11654616/for-the-middle-class-the-california-dream-has-become-a-california-joke\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/MiddleClassDream-1020x747.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>He doesn’t know why exactly. He guesses that’s because he’s not using keywords in his resume that would prompt a company to respond, \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2018/mar/15/californias-middle-class-decline-despite-states-im/\">or maybe there just aren’t enough middle-income jobs\u003c/a>, or perhaps his MBA makes him overqualified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wake up in the morning and I’m just sad and I think, God, I wish things were different,\" he said. \"I wish I would have gone down a different track or gotten a different degree.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wondering. The work. The living situation. It has drained him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are times I just get really emotional,” Bordes said. “I just start crying. I get really sad. One of the things I think about is, 'Oh, yeah my parents would be real proud of me, 46, living in my car.' My parents had bigger dreams. My dad never went to college. My mom didn’t go to college either. 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"content": "\u003cp>A researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology says he's revising a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11653352/uber-lyft-drivers-earning-a-median-profit-of-3-37-per-hour-study-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study he co-authored\u003c/a> after admitting that \"criticism is valid\" of initial findings that Uber and Lyft drivers are making a median pretax profit of $3.37 an hour and a vast majority are making less than minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber said the working paper had \"a major error in the authors' methodology.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using one new method of calculating the median profit that incorporates Uber's criticism, the figure \"rises to $8.55/hour from the $3.37 initially reported,\" lead author \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/StephenZoepf/status/970754550968676352\">Stephen Zoepf wrote in a statement\u003c/a> posted to Twitter on Monday. And using another alternate method, the median profit goes up to $10 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In each new calculation method a significant percentage of drivers are still earning less than minimum wage in their state -- 54 percent in the first case or 41 percent in the second case, according to Zoepf. That is down from 74 percent of drivers the researchers originally said were making less than minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new results significantly change the percentage of drivers who are losing money by driving. The MIT authors originally said 30 percent of drivers were losing money after taking into account vehicle expenses. Now, Zoepf says that number is either 8 percent or 4 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The MIT study was based on a survey of more than 1,100 drivers who answered questions, including how much money they made and how many miles they drove.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber Chief Economist Jonathan Hall \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/uber-under-the-hood/an-analysis-of-ceeprs-paper-on-the-economics-of-ride-hailing-1c8bfbf1081d\">wrote in a blog post\u003c/a> on March 2 that ways the authors interpreted answers to certain questions from the survey have \"inconsistent logic\" pertaining to how income is calculated from driving versus other sources of income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This inconsistency leads to flawed methodology that results in hourly earnings numbers that are far, far below what any previous study has found,\" he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyft says the study, even after adjustments, \"continues to understate driver earnings.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"S3gpEV9POnfGXBoEzuy8OcjBmZMWhtgt\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When an academic study changes so dramatically in just a matter of days, that's a real flag,\" Lyft Director of Communications Adrian Durbin says in an email to NPR. \"While the revised results are not as inaccurate as the original findings, driver earnings are still understated. MIT's study has fundamental methodology problems.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber's Hall points to a different paper published in January by \u003ca href=\"https://web.stanford.edu/~diamondr/UberPayGap.pdf\">researchers from Stanford University,\u003c/a> who said hourly gross pay for all drivers in the U.S. averaged $21.07 an hour from January 2015 to March 2017. He also noted a 2017 survey by the website \u003ca href=\"https://therideshareguy.com/rsg-2017-survey-results-driver-earnings-satisfaction-and-demographics/\">The Rideshare Guy,\u003c/a> which said Uber drivers gross an average of $15.68 an hour and Lyft drivers $17.50 per hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both the Stanford and Rideshare Guy estimates, however, are before expenses — like gas and vehicle maintenance — are taken into account. Stanford researchers say they also did not account for Uber's service fee. And none of these studies compare earnings by region, even though variations from city to city are significant. (For instance, San Francisco drivers see much higher demand, and therefore higher average hourly rates, than many Midwestern cities.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2018/03/HarnettUberLyft.mp3\" title=\"The Human Cost of Uber and Lyft: Life in the Dying Taxi Industry\" program=\"The California Report\" image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Mark-1-e1519088151805-1180x885.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MIT's study differs from those by attempting to take many expenses into account. It's also the median income — not the average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zoepf said he made \"an assumption about revenue ... in the absence of public ride-hailing data and a paucity of independent studies outside Uber's own analyses.\" In his statement he asked Uber to \" [h]elp make an open, honest and public assessment of the range of ride-hailing driver profit \u003cem>after\u003c/em> the cost of acquiring, operating and maintaining a vehicle\" and \"[t]ransparently present the difference between actual and tax-reportable expenses used in the business.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he would be \"conducting a thorough revision of the paper,\" which will take \"a few weeks.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/02/590168381/uber-lyft-drivers-earning-a-median-profit-of-3-37-per-hour-study-says\">The Two-Way reported last week,\u003c/a> Uber and Lyft both have high amounts of driver turnover and have fought \"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\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2018 NPR. 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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! I talked this all over with KQED Radio’s morning host, and North Carolina Tar Heel fan, Brian Watt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/2wayHarnettUberAd.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/gettyimages-696041476_wide-75a4b39a28d9972b0ab887150b4a28b5efd56555-e1520010443656.jpg\" Title=\"In the Land of Corporate Virtue Signaling, LeBron James Is King\" program=\"News Fix\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There has been a shift in the world of sports and business marketing since the era of Jordan. 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>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtNWc1AIU20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s the backstory on Uber’s marketing move. Last year the company \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/01/lyft-and-ubers-immigration-ban/514889/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lost a lot of customers\u003c/a> to its smaller competitor Lyft, in part because Uber failed to appear that it was distancing itself from Trump and his administration’s travel ban. In the moment, Lyft donated $1 million to the ACLU, and it launched an ad campaign with the central message “it matters how you get there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s an implication by these companies that the decision of which ride app to take is in part a moral choice. I produced a story about Lyft’s messaging and appeal to liberals, which you can read about \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/01/24/lyft-gains-on-uber-by-appealing-to-progressive-political-ideals/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One important thing to remember is that Uber and Lyft often operate in cities, where there’s a large population of liberal consumers. In the age of Trump, these companies have to be particularly careful in how they craft their brand, and that crafting requires attention to politics and prominent social issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber has taken lots of steps to try and clean up its image since its disastrous year in 2017. 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",
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"content": "\u003cp>Carl Ditlefsen vacuums out his car as the sun sets on the Green Cab taxi lot. He’s the only cab driver here. Next to the lot is a cluttered two-person office and a tarp lean-to. It covers a portable toilet with a sign that reads “Taxi Driver Parking Only.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ditlefsen just finished a slow 11-hour shift, and he’s had only one good ride all day. His pay will be less than minimum wage, and these days, that’s normal.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘If you keep me busy that’s all I ask.’ \u003ccite>Carl Ditlefsen, Cab driver\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I used to work four or five days a week, and you were able to survive,” Ditlefsen said. “You weren’t on easy street by any means, but you were able to survive. If you keep me busy that’s all I ask.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ditlefsen is wearing a blue hoodie that’s worn and pilled. One of his black sneakers has partially separated from the sole. 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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. 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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. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An Uber spokesperson responded to the finding in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/01/uber-lyft-driver-wages-median-report\" target=\"_blank\">statement to The Guardian:\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>\"While the paper is certainly attention grabbing, its methodology and findings are deeply flawed. 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. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>More indictments, more Olympics, more news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What else you got?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>1. \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/02/21/the-human-cost-of-uber-and-lyft-life-in-the-dying-taxi-industry/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The human cost of Uber and Lyft\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11651107\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Office-e1519254145353.jpg\">\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\">\u003c/a>\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>I took a taxi last summer for the first time in a long time. I was visiting Washington D.C., and I’d forgotten that there was this whole industry full of people who know their cities like the back of their hands and don’t need an app or GPS to get us where we need to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the age of Uber and Lyft, that knowledge doesn’t pay much. KQED’s Sam Harnett \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/02/21/the-human-cost-of-uber-and-lyft-life-in-the-dying-taxi-industry/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">talked with cabbies\u003c/a> in San Francisco who are really struggling. They say retirement is a pipe dream, some of them are on welfare, and there’s no end in sight.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>2. \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/02/23/sacramento-finds-and-celebrates-itself-in-new-lady-bird-walking-tour/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sacramento loves ‘Lady Bird’ … a lot\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11651905\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Group1-e1519429543760.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11651905\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Group1-800x533.jpg\" alt='The \"Lady Bird\" walking tour group poses in front of the stately blue home from the film.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The “Lady Bird” walking tour group poses in front of the stately blue home from the film. \u003ccite>(Allen Young/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the same way that ‘Black Panther’ made me well up with \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/02/17/if-you-hella-love-oakland-youll-hella-love-black-panther/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pride for Oakland\u003c/a> even though I’ve never lived there, ‘Lady Bird’ had me smitten with Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Sacramento is definitely smitten with ‘Lady Bird.’ You can even take a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/02/23/sacramento-finds-and-celebrates-itself-in-new-lady-bird-walking-tour/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">‘Lady Bird’ walking tour\u003c/a> through the city, hitting all the classic spots from the film and some from director and Sacramento native Greta Gerwig’s life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The quote that really showed me how much this movie could mean to our state capital was from 67-year-old Quincy Brown, Sacramento born and bred: “I think we’re a good cow town. I’m OK with that. But I think this is a great town, and I think even a great city, that hasn’t gotten the credit it deserves. This movie gave us the hug that we needed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>3. \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/02/23/librarians-on-the-line-evaluating-childrens-books-about-police/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rethinking how police are portrayed in kids books\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650919\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Aleem-reads-to-group.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650919\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Aleem-reads-to-group-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Children’s librarian Mahasin Abuwi Aleem reads to children at story time at Oakland's main library.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Aleem-reads-to-group-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Aleem-reads-to-group-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Aleem-reads-to-group-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Aleem-reads-to-group.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Aleem-reads-to-group-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Aleem-reads-to-group-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Aleem-reads-to-group-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Aleem-reads-to-group-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Aleem-reads-to-group-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children’s librarian Mahasin Abuwi Aleem reads to children at story time at Oakland’s main library. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>How were the police portrayed in the books you read as a kid? The good guys? Friendly and trustworthy? Unfortunately, the reality isn’t that simple, especially for communities of color that have seen so many of their friends and family members killed by police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Librarians in Oakland have \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/02/23/librarians-on-the-line-evaluating-childrens-books-about-police/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">created a toolkit\u003c/a> to help other librarians and educators examine how books portray police and the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The toolkit doesn’t review specific books. Instead, it provides questions, like: Does this book explain children’s rights to have a parent or other adult present during questioning? Does it imply that children will always be safe if they follow officers’ instructions? Does the book make a distinction between prison and jail?\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003ch3>4. \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2018/02/22/californias-recurring-nightmare-nearly-half-the-state-is-back-in-drought/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Long time, no rain: Drought is on its way back\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11651551\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/ww2.kqed_.orgusdm_20180220_CA_text-5153c6ad7b72c6ae0e2d308d154db69b5d83879c.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11651551\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/ww2.kqed_.orgusdm_20180220_CA_text-5153c6ad7b72c6ae0e2d308d154db69b5d83879c-800x618.jpg\" alt=\"Click image to enlarge. \" width=\"800\" height=\"618\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click image to enlarge.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Any time my boyfriend takes a long shower or leaves the water tap running, I jokingly yell at him, “We’re in a drought!” He always shoots back that we technically aren’t in a drought anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looks like I’m going to be right pretty soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, almost \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2018/02/22/californias-recurring-nightmare-nearly-half-the-state-is-back-in-drought/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">half the state is experiencing at least a “moderate drought.”\u003c/a> More than 91 percent of the state, including the Bay Area, is at least “abnormally dry,” the stepping stone to drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>5. \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/02/20/high-court-refusal-to-hear-california-gun-case-provokes-bitter-dissent-from-clarence-thomas/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This Supreme Court justice does not like these California gun laws\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11651146\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/GettyImages-691161322-e1519156239708.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11651146\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/GettyImages-691161322-800x583.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"583\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas during official portrait session in June 2017. \u003ccite>(Saul Loeb/AFP-Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Supreme Court did something it does all the time this week: it chose not to review a case. The case was a challenge to a California law requiring a 10-day waiting period on gun purchases, even if the buyer had already cleared a previous background check.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This did not sit well with Justice Clarence Thomas. He wrote a scathing \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4383125/Silvester-v-Becerra.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">14-page dissent\u003c/a> railing against the decision, saying the court doesn’t respect the Second Amendment as much as other civil liberties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a taste of Thomas’ displeasure, directed at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the federal appeals court that covers California:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The Ninth Circuit struck down a county’s 5-day waiting period for nude-dancing licenses because it “unreasonably prevent[ed] a dancer from exercising first amendment rights while an application [was] pending.” The Ninth Circuit found it dispositive there, but not here, that the county “failed to demonstrate a need for [the] five-day delay period.” In another case, the Ninth Circuit held that laws embracing traditional marriage failed heightened scrutiny because the states presented “no evidence” other than “speculation and conclusory assertions” to support them. While those laws reflected the wisdom of “thousands of years of human history in every society known to have populated the planet,” they faced a much tougher time in the Ninth Circuit than California’s new and unusual waiting period for firearms. In the Ninth Circuit, it seems, rights that have no basis in the Constitution receive greater protection than the Second Amendment, which is enumerated in the text.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003ch1>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/forum/2018/02/15/national-park-services-betty-reid-soskin-publishes-memoir-at-96/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Before you go…\u003c/a>\u003c/h1>\n\u003cp>Betty Reid Soskin is a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/forum/2018/02/15/national-park-services-betty-reid-soskin-publishes-memoir-at-96/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">96-year-old full-time national park ranger\u003c/a>. Need I say more?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re-EjNHty64\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>More indictments, more Olympics, more news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What else you got?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>1. \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/02/21/the-human-cost-of-uber-and-lyft-life-in-the-dying-taxi-industry/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The human cost of Uber and Lyft\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11651107\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Office-e1519254145353.jpg\">\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\">\u003c/a>\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>I took a taxi last summer for the first time in a long time. I was visiting Washington D.C., and I’d forgotten that there was this whole industry full of people who know their cities like the back of their hands and don’t need an app or GPS to get us where we need to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the age of Uber and Lyft, that knowledge doesn’t pay much. KQED’s Sam Harnett \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/02/21/the-human-cost-of-uber-and-lyft-life-in-the-dying-taxi-industry/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">talked with cabbies\u003c/a> in San Francisco who are really struggling. They say retirement is a pipe dream, some of them are on welfare, and there’s no end in sight.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>2. \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/02/23/sacramento-finds-and-celebrates-itself-in-new-lady-bird-walking-tour/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sacramento loves ‘Lady Bird’ … a lot\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11651905\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Group1-e1519429543760.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11651905\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Group1-800x533.jpg\" alt='The \"Lady Bird\" walking tour group poses in front of the stately blue home from the film.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The “Lady Bird” walking tour group poses in front of the stately blue home from the film. \u003ccite>(Allen Young/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the same way that ‘Black Panther’ made me well up with \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/02/17/if-you-hella-love-oakland-youll-hella-love-black-panther/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pride for Oakland\u003c/a> even though I’ve never lived there, ‘Lady Bird’ had me smitten with Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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This movie gave us the hug that we needed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>3. \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/02/23/librarians-on-the-line-evaluating-childrens-books-about-police/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rethinking how police are portrayed in kids books\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650919\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Aleem-reads-to-group.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650919\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Aleem-reads-to-group-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Children’s librarian Mahasin Abuwi Aleem reads to children at story time at Oakland's main library.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Aleem-reads-to-group-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Aleem-reads-to-group-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Aleem-reads-to-group-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Aleem-reads-to-group.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Aleem-reads-to-group-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Aleem-reads-to-group-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Aleem-reads-to-group-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Aleem-reads-to-group-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/Aleem-reads-to-group-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children’s librarian Mahasin Abuwi Aleem reads to children at story time at Oakland’s main library. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>How were the police portrayed in the books you read as a kid? The good guys? Friendly and trustworthy? Unfortunately, the reality isn’t that simple, especially for communities of color that have seen so many of their friends and family members killed by police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Librarians in Oakland have \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/02/23/librarians-on-the-line-evaluating-childrens-books-about-police/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">created a toolkit\u003c/a> to help other librarians and educators examine how books portray police and the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The toolkit doesn’t review specific books. Instead, it provides questions, like: Does this book explain children’s rights to have a parent or other adult present during questioning? Does it imply that children will always be safe if they follow officers’ instructions? Does the book make a distinction between prison and jail?\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003ch3>4. \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2018/02/22/californias-recurring-nightmare-nearly-half-the-state-is-back-in-drought/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Long time, no rain: Drought is on its way back\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11651551\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/ww2.kqed_.orgusdm_20180220_CA_text-5153c6ad7b72c6ae0e2d308d154db69b5d83879c.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11651551\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/ww2.kqed_.orgusdm_20180220_CA_text-5153c6ad7b72c6ae0e2d308d154db69b5d83879c-800x618.jpg\" alt=\"Click image to enlarge. \" width=\"800\" height=\"618\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click image to enlarge.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Any time my boyfriend takes a long shower or leaves the water tap running, I jokingly yell at him, “We’re in a drought!” He always shoots back that we technically aren’t in a drought anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looks like I’m going to be right pretty soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, almost \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2018/02/22/californias-recurring-nightmare-nearly-half-the-state-is-back-in-drought/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">half the state is experiencing at least a “moderate drought.”\u003c/a> More than 91 percent of the state, including the Bay Area, is at least “abnormally dry,” the stepping stone to drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>5. \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/02/20/high-court-refusal-to-hear-california-gun-case-provokes-bitter-dissent-from-clarence-thomas/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This Supreme Court justice does not like these California gun laws\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11651146\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/GettyImages-691161322-e1519156239708.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11651146\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/GettyImages-691161322-800x583.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"583\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas during official portrait session in June 2017. \u003ccite>(Saul Loeb/AFP-Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Supreme Court did something it does all the time this week: it chose not to review a case. The case was a challenge to a California law requiring a 10-day waiting period on gun purchases, even if the buyer had already cleared a previous background check.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This did not sit well with Justice Clarence Thomas. He wrote a scathing \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4383125/Silvester-v-Becerra.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">14-page dissent\u003c/a> railing against the decision, saying the court doesn’t respect the Second Amendment as much as other civil liberties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a taste of Thomas’ displeasure, directed at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the federal appeals court that covers California:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The Ninth Circuit struck down a county’s 5-day waiting period for nude-dancing licenses because it “unreasonably prevent[ed] a dancer from exercising first amendment rights while an application [was] pending.” The Ninth Circuit found it dispositive there, but not here, that the county “failed to demonstrate a need for [the] five-day delay period.” In another case, the Ninth Circuit held that laws embracing traditional marriage failed heightened scrutiny because the states presented “no evidence” other than “speculation and conclusory assertions” to support them. 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At the same time this kind of employment is disappearing, we’re being encouraged to embrace the hustle by everyone from gig companies like Lyft and Uber to pop culture figures like Jay-Z and media organizations like Forbes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since its start, Uber has run marketing campaigns that entice drivers with the prospect of becoming entrepreneurs. More recently, the company has adopted the term “side hustle,” which features prominently in the video ad below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.ispot.tv/ad/wOYe/uber-side-hustle-earning-song-by-saint-motel\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fiverr, a company where people get paid for small tasks, has promoted an extreme vision of the side-hustle life. It has run ads glorifying those who “eat coffee for lunch” and who consider sleep deprivation their “drug of choice.” The online ad from Fiverr below shows a woman checking her phone for a gig while she is in bed having sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t0UckyNTsQ]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>News outlets like Forbes post how-to and promotional articles about side hustles, with headlines like “15 Easy Side Hustles Millennials Can Start This Weekend” or “How Starting a Side Hustle Could Be Your Best Investment Yet.” On Etsy, there is an entire genre of gifts branded with the saying: “Good things come to those who hustle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to gig and media companies, there is a whole cottage industry of entrepreneurship gurus who stoke the hustle culture. They self-publish books and take to YouTube, expounding about how anyone can make it if they have enough hustle. Below is one such guru who has a theory about the existence of a “hustle muscle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/ZlY2aDQOjMo?t=28s\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having to hustle has not always been so celebrated. In the past it has been looked down on or even vilified. You can see some of the transition in how our culture views work in the etymological history and changing perception of the word “hustle” itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get a better picture of how we view hustle, we spoke to several linguists and requested a survey from Wakefield Research. The market research firm questioned 2,000 people to get a sense of how they think about both “hustle” and “side hustles.” Excerpts from the study are posted throughout this article, but you can \u003ca href=\"http://www.wakefieldresearch.com/blog/2018/02/21/side-hustle-who-and-why\">see the full results here\u003c/a>. One of the most interesting findings is that a majority of Americans believe that it’s hard to succeed in the US if you don’t have a side hustle.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Sixty percent of Americans familiar with the phrase “side hustle” feel it is used positively when they hear others saying the term.\u003ccite>Wakefield Research survey\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>University of Florida linguist Diana Boxer said “hustle” has undergone a shift — a “semantic amelioration” to use the fancy linguistic phrase. This is when a word goes from having a negative connotation to a more positive one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The word “hustle” has come a long way. Here’s the pocket etymology. In the late 17th century, the verb crossed over from the Dutch word “husselen.” When it was first adopted into English, it was a verb that meant to shake or toss. Over time “hustle” evolved to mean hurrying, elbowing one’s way in, and later, to sell aggressively. By the early 20th century, “hustling” came to refer to illegal activities: drug dealing, prostitution and street scams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Who is hustling or exhibiting hustle has an impact on how we feel about the word and the activity. This is a general linguistic principle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Words and terms and expressions tend to have negative or positive meaning, depending upon on the groups with which they are associated,” Boxer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">The top three most common side hustles are jobs in sales/retail, manual labor/landscaping or office work.\u003ccite>Wakefield Research survey\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Side hustle” did not start popping up until the middle of the 20th century. According to University of Michigan linguist Sarah Thomason, the term was first used in the African-American community. It appeared in the 1950s to describe both legit and shady jobs. Here is a representative quote from 1958 that Thomason found in the Pittsburgh Courier, an African-American newspaper:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That well-known Chicago scoutmaster and church official whose friends are unaware of his lucrative side hustle. Once he’s away from his boy scouts and church cronies he dons a colorful costume, pulls out a crystal ball, and becomes a “prophet” who sells numbers and gives spiritual advice to all who pay his fat fee.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the early ’90s, hustling to survive has been a big theme in hip-hop culture. It appears in songs by Jay-Z, Notorious B.I.G., Lil Wayne, 50 Cent and others. Rappers have reclaimed the hustle, and they are celebrating it, said Eric Davis, a sociologist at Bellevue College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The interesting thing is that on one level, it is this idea of doing something illegal,” Davis said. “But they’re saying at the same time, you don’t give me other options, and I have to take care of my kids and family and take care of myself. So I am going to get my hustle on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">On average, Americans keep their side hustles secret from 55 percent of their family, friends and co-workers.\u003ccite>Wakefield Research survey\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Davis said companies are now co-opting “side hustle” from the African-American community, and they’re using it to market to everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This corporation is using that slang, hip-hop culture in a way to say here’s something that the young people and people coming up in this generation can relate to,” Davis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katherine Peik can relate. But the substitute-teaching, table-waiting, Etsy-selling 30-year-old has a different term for side hustling: “The grind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peik said she’d like to stop hustling and settle down into a long-term, stable teaching job. 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One of the most interesting findings is that a majority of Americans believe that it’s hard to succeed in the US if you don’t have a side hustle.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Sixty percent of Americans familiar with the phrase “side hustle” feel it is used positively when they hear others saying the term.\u003ccite>Wakefield Research survey\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>University of Florida linguist Diana Boxer said “hustle” has undergone a shift — a “semantic amelioration” to use the fancy linguistic phrase. This is when a word goes from having a negative connotation to a more positive one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The word “hustle” has come a long way. Here’s the pocket etymology. In the late 17th century, the verb crossed over from the Dutch word “husselen.” When it was first adopted into English, it was a verb that meant to shake or toss. Over time “hustle” evolved to mean hurrying, elbowing one’s way in, and later, to sell aggressively. 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Here is a representative quote from 1958 that Thomason found in the Pittsburgh Courier, an African-American newspaper:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That well-known Chicago scoutmaster and church official whose friends are unaware of his lucrative side hustle. Once he’s away from his boy scouts and church cronies he dons a colorful costume, pulls out a crystal ball, and becomes a “prophet” who sells numbers and gives spiritual advice to all who pay his fat fee.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the early ’90s, hustling to survive has been a big theme in hip-hop culture. It appears in songs by Jay-Z, Notorious B.I.G., Lil Wayne, 50 Cent and others. 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Users began deleting their Uber accounts and posting about it on social media with the hashtag “DeleteUber.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘Uber’s problems started literally almost overnight.’ \u003ccite>Jonathan Wolf, CEO of TXN Solutions\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Jonathan Wolf is CEO of research firm TXN Solutions. “Uber’s problems started literally almost overnight,” Wolf said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wolf said Uber’s slide continued all year, fueled by things like \u003ca href=\"https://www.recode.net/2017/8/20/16164176/uber-2017-timeline-scandal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sexual harassment scandals\u003c/a> at the company and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW50dnWVfGU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video of founder and former CEO Travis Kalanick berating a driver\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Uber’s missteps really started consumers thinking about what company they wanted to be associated with,” Wolf said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Uber slipped, Lyft gained. Messages posted on social media explicitly documented how people were dumping Uber for Lyft. “Goodbye Uber, Hello Lyft” became a thing on Twitter. Celebrities like Susan Sarandon fueled the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SusanSarandon/status/826107141660487680\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to TXN, Lyft’s U.S. market share grew from about 17 percent to around 26 percent during 2017. (Lyft has a slightly higher estimate of its current market share, putting it at at 33 percent). Wolf said Lyft made especially large gains in liberal cities like San Francisco and places with universities like Austin and Ann Arbor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of Lyft’s growth comes from its expansion into a bunch of new markets over the last year. But University of San Francisco marketing professor Bhavya Mohan said Lyft is also attracting users because its brand appeals to liberals more than Uber’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is one of those cases where you have identical services practically, but such different brands,” Mohan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber started as a more elite, luxury service, and Mohan said the brand still conveys that with its sleek black logo and German name. Lyft has always cast itself as the friendlier, less aggressive alternative. It used to encourage passengers to sit in the front seat and fist bump drivers. Mohan said even the Lyft logo — with its curved lines, friendly font and pink color — seems to say, “Hey, we’re the nice guys.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Uber was committing a series of political PR mistakes last year, Lyft made moves that appealed to progressives. It pledged to donate $1 million to the ACLU, and it developed an ad campaign about making the “right choices.” Actor Jeff Bridges stars in one of the ads. It’s Oregon Trail-themed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbqOldR0kN0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While riding on a wagon, Bridges tells his driver, “You can choose to ride with the right people, doing things for the right reasons, you’ll always end up in the right place, or you can choose poorly.” Bridges ends the scene with the tagline for the new advertising campaign: “It matters how you get there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melissa Waters, Lyft’s vice president of marketing, said, “‘It matters how you get there’ is the tagline we were using in a lot of our work this year to signify that we are a company that cares a lot about our values and cares a lot about doing things the right way.” Waters said Lyft wanted to make consumers “feel great” about choosing Lyft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Veena Dubal is a professor of law at UC Hastings who does research on gig workers. Dubal said that publicly choosing Lyft over Uber has become a way for people to signal that they stand for progressive values. She, for one, does not buy Lyft’s “right choice” marketing.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘I think that Lyft and Uber are substantially the same.’ \u003ccite>Veena Dubal, UC Hastings law professor \u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I think that Lyft and Uber are substantially the same,” Dubal said. She critiques both Lyft and Uber for the relationship they have to their drivers, who she says are getting a raw deal at either company. Both Uber and Lyft flood the road with cars, which keeps the price of a ride and driver earnings low. Plus, as contractors, the drivers do not have job protections or benefits. The companies have \u003ca href=\"https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/lyft-agrees-to-pay-27-million-to-settle-driver-classification-lawsuit/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">both been sued\u003c/a> for classifying their drivers as contractors instead of employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have this company that is capitalizing off of exploitation, but it’s shielding itself with this liberal image of being for civil rights,” Dubal said of Lyft. She added that “labor rights are civil rights and that’s sort of what’s getting lost in the way that people understand and use Lyft.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dubal said Lyft’s good-guy branding makes it easier for progressives to overlook potential labor issues when they want a ride. Liberals, she said, “are not really willing to take the big step which is to actually use a regulated taxi, where there is some semblance of wage security, regulation and limited labor rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is ironic, Dubal pointed out, because it was taxi drivers who sparked the whole #DeleteUber movement by going on strike at JFK Airport. Lyft, like Uber, continued to run rides to the airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the Lyft-Uber story is indicative of a larger trend: that progressive movements based around things like race, gender equality and immigration have become separated from issues of class and labor.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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