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Report: 10% of Amazon Employees in Ohio Are on Food Stamps…

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A new report claims that ten percent of Amazon’s Ohio workforce is receiving food stamps. The Columbus Dispatch reports that Amazon has made the list of huge companies where workers are still forced to claim food stamps after a new report revealed that ten percent of the companies workforce in Ohio have been claiming federal […]

Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older Workers From Job Ads…

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A few weeks ago, Verizon placed an ad on Facebook to recruit applicants for a unit focused on financial planning and analysis. The ad showed a smiling, millennial-aged woman seated at a computer and promised that new hires could look forward to a rewarding career in which they would be “more than just a number.” […]

This City Hall, Brought to You by Amazon…

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There’s rising worry that corporations are taking over America. But after reviewing a slew of the bids by cities and states wooing Amazon’s massive second headquarters, I don’t think “takeover” quite captures what’s going on. More like “surrender.” Last month Amazon announced it got 238 offers for its new, proposed 50,000-employee HQ2. I set out […]

House to Vote on Giving Amazon $53B Deal to Become Main Pentagon Supplier…

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Members of the US House of Representatives and Senate Armed Services committees announced Wednesday that they have reached agreement on the proposed $700 billion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the annual defense spending bill. This astronomical figure—an $80 billion increase over spending in 2016 and roughly $26 billion more than was…

Amazon Launches a Cloud Service for U.S. Intelligence Agencies…

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Amazon Web Services on Monday introduced cloud service for the CIA and other members of the U.S. intelligence community. The launch of the so-called AWS Secret Region comes six years after AWS introduced GovCloud, its first data-center region for public-sector customers. AWS has since announced plans to expand GovCloud. The new Secret Region signals interest…

Amazon Says it’s “Almost Ready” to Get 1,000s of Grocery Store Cashiers Fired…

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Late last year we noted Amazon’s efforts to ‘disrupt’ the traditional grocery retail model by introducing small format stores that allow customers to simply walk in, pick up what they want and walk out. The concept store, dubbed AmazonGo, tracks a customer’s every move, including each item they remove from store shelves, allowing them to […]

House to Vote on Giving Amazon $53B Deal to Become Main Pentagon Supplier…

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Members of the US House of Representatives and Senate Armed Services committees announced Wednesday that they have reached agreement on the proposed $700 billion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the annual defense spending bill. This astronomical figure—an $80 billion increase over spending in 2016 and roughly $26 billion more than was requested by President Donald […]

Islamic State Is Apparently Selling Stolen Artifacts on eBay, Amazon, Facebook, WhatsApp…

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An increased amount of looted antiquities from the Middle East are being sold on Amazon, eBay, Facebook and WhatsApp, The Wall Street Journal reported today. Some of these antiquities are believed to be sold by Islamic State. Several art collectors told The Wall Street Journal that they received Facebook messages from strangers offering…

Microsoft Discloses DREAMer Employees in Plea for DACA Continuance…

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In a plea to President Donald Trump asking him to keep an Obama-era amnesty program for young illegal aliens, Microsoft revealed that it had an invested business interest in the program continuing. While lobbying the Trump Administration to continue adding young illegal aliens to the Deferred Action for Childhood…

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