Economics

ROBOTS TAKING OUR JOBS?

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Throughout my career, I have hired hundreds and unfortunately fired, or laid off dozens. However, not until recently had I been faced with the task of being interviewed by robots. But experts say this new trend will not stop.

According to predictions collected by Pew Research Center and Elon University, nearly 1,900 technology experts were asked if automated artificial intelligence applications will have displaced more jobs than they have created by 2025.

A Reflection of a Crisis in Journalism

El Diario La Prensa: A Reflection of a Crisis in Journalism

By Sandra Rodríguez-Cotto | @SRCSandra

A Spanish version appears in the June 24, 2014 edition of El Vocero in Puerto Rico:
http://elvocero.com/el-diario-la-prensa-reflejo-de-la-crisis-periodisti…

At 14, I discovered the two greatest loves in my life: my first boyfriend and journalism. That first boyfriend introduced me to his uncle, who, by then, was one of the most experienced and serious journalists I have met, the editor-in-chief at El Diario La Prensa in New York City, Manuel De Dios Unanue.

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37,500 JOBS AVAILABLE IN NYC

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There are nearly 100K jobs currently available and listed on Jobs Express website www.jobs.ny.gov
The site sorts thousands of jobs by region and occupation, and also allows users to search jobs based on zip code and travel distance.

New businesses and job listings are added every day. Throughout the month of April 2014, there were more than 73,000 new job openings listed on Jobs Express – a 22 percent increase from April 2013 – and more than 78,000 unique website visitors. More than 7,100 businesses posted a new job order on the site in April 2014. Businesses using the site fulfilled nearly 55,000 job orders in April 2014.

COMPENSATION EQUALITY

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The Equal Pay Act requires that men and women in the same workplace be given equal pay for equal work. The jobs need not be identical, but they must be substantially equal. Job content (not job titles) determines whether jobs are substantially equal. All forms of pay are covered by this law, including salary, overtime pay, bonuses, stock options, profit sharing and bonus plans, life insurance, vacation and holiday pay, cleaning or gasoline allowances, hotel accommodations, reimbursement for travel expenses, and benefits. If there is an inequality in wages between men and women, employers may not reduce the wages of either sex to equalize their pay.

NY 88K JOBS

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New Yorkers have nearly 88,000 jobs currently available and listed on the Jobs Express website www.jobs.ny.gov

The site site sorts thousands of jobs by region and occupation, and also allows users to search jobs based on zip code and travel distance.

NEW CITY ISLAND BUSINESS

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In case you had not noticed, there are moves underway for some new commerce on the avenue.

These are another laundromat and one more restaurant. Construction workers are very busy refurbishing the building, which is next door to Ruth Antiques and preparing the long abandoned structure which used to house a pizza shop for a new Chinese food establishment.

Both are new welcomed additions on City Island avenue on the corner of Fordham and City Island avenues is where you will find these next two businesses.

International Women’s Day

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Nations with gender equality have greater economic growth. Business with women leaders perform better. Peace agreements drawn up by women are more durable. Legislative assemblies with women enact legislation on important social issues such as health, education, anti-discrimination and child support. Equality for women means progress for everyone.

On this International Women’s Day, let us all reflect on the progress yet to be made for all the women of the world who will continue to play an extraordinary role in the history and well being of our planet.

Bill de Blasio’s Inauguration Speech

And just like before, the world will watch as we succeed. All along the way, we will remember what makes New York, New York.

A city that fights injustice and inequality — not just because it honors our values, but because it strengthens our people. A city of five boroughs — all created equal. Black, white, Latino, Asian, gay, straight, old, young, rich, middle class, and poor. A city that remembers our responsibility to each other — our common cause — is to leave no New Yorker behind.

Text of Bill de Blasio’s Inauguration Speech http://nyti.ms/1dU7OZ8

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WISH FOR HUMANITY

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Dear World-

If it isn't too late, let's hope and pray that all people will begin to speak kind words, to be committed to their family and friends, to use their hands for helping and not for hurting,

Let's make an effort to evolve into human beings who laugh with joy and delight and not mockery, who love unconditionally, and who do not resort to bullying others.

Our world faces a formidable hurdle if we want to restore a new and improved climate of trust, peace, goodwill, respect and equality towards all men, women, children and all living things.

“Saving Mr. Banks”

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OK, so just to get this over with since everyone I see is already asking me: YES, I will go see Saving Mr Banks. And I am sure it will be nice. And as it shows some of the people I remember from my childhood with tremendous respect and affection, specifically Don DaGradi and the Sherman Brothers, and I hope my grampa, I'm sure it will be fun. But I will eat my hat if this review is not right on the mark. What my family's business has done is to dumb down and middle-ify and oversimplify (ok, ok DISNEYFY) so much, and while that has rightly and admirably brought a lot of pleasure--joy even-- to a lot of people who needed it given that life can be hard and pleasure hard to come by, it has also encouraged that most grim and American tendency to gloss over the untidy complexities of life, sometimes at great cost to the lived experiences of many others. Were we as a people, for instance, more inclined to welcome stories involving moral complexity and nuance we might not be so quick to accept the ever increasing and frequent invitations of our presidents to jump in with both feet to "defend our freedom" in far away places we know nothing about at great cost to innocent people who couldn't give less of a shit about our freedom and don't even understand why we think they are a threat to it.

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