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Teamsters-UPS Reach ‘Game-Changing’ Labor Deal To Avert Strike

Published by Nikki Palmer on Tue, 08/01/2023 - 4:00am

UPS and its workers, represented by the Teamsters, reached a tentative deal last Tuesday to prevent an Aug. 1 strike of 340,000 union members at the package carrier. A work stoppage could have cost the U.S. economy billions by disrupting supply chains and upending distribution to both large and small businesses, hospitals and homes.

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Hypocrisy Penalty: Investors Especially Hate Companies That Say They’re Good Then Behave Badly – Unless The Money Is Good

Published by Nikki Palmer on Tue, 08/01/2023 - 3:00am

Stock investors punish companies caught doing something unethical a lot more when these businesses also have a record of portraying themselves as virtuous. This hypocrisy penalty is the main finding of a study we recently published in the Journal of Management.

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Deep Dive Into Meta's Algorithms Shows That America's Political Polarization Has No Easy Fix

Published by Nikki Palmer on Tue, 08/01/2023 - 2:00am

WASHINGTON (AP) — The powerful algorithms used by Facebook and Instagram to deliver content to users have increasingly been blamed for amplifying misinformation and political polarization. But a series of groundbreaking studies published Thursday suggest addressing these challenges is not as simple as tweaking the platforms' software.

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CTRL Coffee & Cereal Bar: Where ‘Life’s Too Short To Be Boring’

Published by Nikki Palmer on Tue, 07/18/2023 - 5:00am

CTRL is a local coffee shop, cereal bar, and place to get your retro gaming on. Located downtown at 1016 S. 10th Street, they are open Tuesday through Sunday. (Josie Charron / The Daily Record)

CTRL Coffee & Cereal Bar happily welcomes all with their warm staff and ‘good-vibes’. Customers are greeted by its exciting retro design that laces the interior. A line of blue, white, red and yellow stretches across the front wall over the CTRL logo, behind the bar, before climbing onto the ceiling and disappearing behind the arabesque tiles that hang from the rafters. A wall jutting out across from the end of the counter sports a collage of spray painted “Love” in various colors.

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Female Physicists Aren’t Represented In The Media – And This Lack Of Representation Hurts The Physics Field

Published by Nikki Palmer on Tue, 07/18/2023 - 4:00am

Lise Meitner, the accomplished physicist who discovered nuclear fission. (MaterialScientist / Wikimedia Commons)

Christopher Nolan’s highly-anticipated movie “Oppenheimer,” set for release July 21, 2023, depicts J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb. But while the Manhattan Project wouldn’t have been possible without the work of many accomplished female scientists, the only women seen in the movie’s trailer are either hanging laundry, crying or cheering the men on.

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Meta’s Threads Is Surging, But Mass Migration From Twitter Is Likely To Remain An Uphill Battle

Published by Nikki Palmer on Tue, 07/18/2023 - 2:00am

Twitter’s move on July 1, 2023, to limit the number of tweets users can see in a day was the latest in a series of decisions that has spurred millions of users to sign up with alternative microblogging platforms since Elon Musk acquired Twitter last year.

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3 Ways Black People Say Their White Co-Workers And Managers Can Support Them And Be An Antidote To Systemic Racism

Published by Nikki Palmer on Tue, 07/18/2023 - 1:00am

“How can I be an ally?”

It’s a question a lot of white people have been asking in recent years, especially since the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police in 2020.

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Study Reveals The U.S. Cities With The Largest Proportion Of Independent Stores

Published by Nikki Palmer on Tue, 07/11/2023 - 3:00am

Independent retailers are an essential part of the fabric of a commercial economy. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce estimates that around 31.7 million small businesses are active, accounting for 99.9% of America’s registered companies.

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Creighton Economic Index: Nebraska Business Growth Forecast Turns Negative

Published by Nikki Palmer on Tue, 07/11/2023 - 2:00am

OMAHA — After five consecutive months of showing growth, Nebraska’s business conditions index has taken a turn for the worse, according to Creighton University’s Mid-America Business Conditions Index.

Meanwhile, the June index for the broader nine-state area that includes Nebraska shows the regional economy as growing, albeit at a slower pace.

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Wage And Hour Law– Designed For The 1920s, Applied In The 21st Century

Published by Nikki Palmer on Tue, 07/04/2023 - 5:00am

The fundamental premise of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) is that all employees are covered by its base requirements. This includes being paid minimum wage for every hour worked and time and one-half for all overtime. (Shutterstock)

The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) is a statute of inclusion, which means all employees are covered unless they fit within specific, narrowly defined exemptions. One problem is that it was designed for the Model T manufacturing plant and has grown in sometimes haphazard and inconsistent ways.

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Business News

Teamsters-UPS Reach ‘Game-Changing’ Labor Deal To Avert Strike

Hypocrisy Penalty: Investors Especially Hate Companies That Say They’re Good Then Behave Badly – Unless The Money Is Good

Deep Dive Into Meta's Algorithms Shows That America's Political Polarization Has No Easy Fix

CTRL Coffee & Cereal Bar: Where ‘Life’s Too Short To Be Boring’

Female Physicists Aren’t Represented In The Media – And This Lack Of Representation Hurts The Physics Field

Meta’s Threads Is Surging, But Mass Migration From Twitter Is Likely To Remain An Uphill Battle

3 Ways Black People Say Their White Co-Workers And Managers Can Support Them And Be An Antidote To Systemic Racism

Study Reveals The U.S. Cities With The Largest Proportion Of Independent Stores

Creighton Economic Index: Nebraska Business Growth Forecast Turns Negative

Wage And Hour Law– Designed For The 1920s, Applied In The 21st Century

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