Phillip Tracy, tech writer for The Daily Dot, discusses the feud between MIT and Uber after the school released a report saying Uber drivers were severely underpaid. MIT has since admitted it made mistakes during the study.
Tracy explains after MIT made corrections to its methodology, it showed the original report underestimated wages by about 50%. However, more than half of Uber drivers still make less than minimum wage.
More Americans filed for jobless benefits last week, but layoffs remain historically low despite the Federal Reserve’s aggressive interest rate policy intended to cool the economy and bring down inflation.
Breakfast is getting a bit more affordable as the average price per dozen eggs has been slashed by more than 50 percent since its peak of $5.43 on Dec. 19.
The fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic has been so wide-reaching that 50 percent of Americans say they are worse off than a year ago, the most since the Great Recession of 2008 and 2009.