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The economics of a 10 an hour living wage – BBC News
Image copyright PA John McDonnell promised he would reveal a new “interventionist” underpinning to Labour’s economic policy. And the shadow chancellor did not disappoint. New rules on takeovers to guarantee pay and pension payments, a doubling in size of the co-operative sector by giving workers rights to own businesses at the point of change of […]
The government wants more offshore fish farms, but no one is biting
The US imports about 91% of its seafood, half of which is farmed in aquaculture facilities. Should the US do more to kickstart its own industry? Off the coast of San Diego, Americas eighth largest city, commercial fishermen harvest about 1,100 metric tons of seafood from the Pacific every year. That sounds like a lot. […]
What the cleaner saw: dirty secrets of the upper crust
The Long Read: When I took a job cleaning expensive Manhattan apartments, I had no idea what I would find out about my clients. I heard about the cleaning company from a friend’s boyfriend, a musician who had supported himself by cleaning houses for years. I was living in an apartment in Brooklyn, sharing a […]
Ig Nobel prizes: trousers for rats and the truthfulness of liars
Nobel winning scientists gather for 26th straight year to award the most absurd, strange and curious research of the year Investigations into rats wearing pants, the personalities of rocks and the truthfulness of 1,000 liars won Ig Nobel prizes on Thursday night at Harvard, where Nobel-winning scientists gathered to honor the strangest research of the […]
Who won the debate? A round-by-round analysis of Clinton v Trump
The first debate of the 2016 campaign was divided by NBC into three sections. Sabrina Siddiqui and Ben Jacobs investigate who won each of them. Round one: Achieving Prosperity Clinton Hillary Clinton focused early on policy, laying out an economic agenda that called for reducing income inequality by raising the minimum wage, closing the gender […]