US retailers are hiring hundreds of thousands of employees amid the Chinese Coronavirus outbreak we have seen in the US. Amazon hiring 150,000 workers Walmart hiring 150,000 workers CVS hiring 50,000 new full-time associates Dollar General hiring up to 50,000 employees 7-Eleven hiring as many as 20,000 employees Kroger is hiring 10,000 employees https://t.co/RKRQdREkUJ — […]
Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos would pay nearly $7 Billion Dollars in taxes under Elizabeth Warren’s Medicare for All plan. The Week: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has a plan for taking Jeff Bezos’ money. The 2020 candidate unveiled her proposal Friday to pay for her estimated $34 trillion Medicare-for-all plan without upping taxes on the middle class. It […]
According to NASA, the Amazon fire activity was not more than in prior years, in fact, it was below average. Scientists studying satellite images of the fires in the Amazon rain forest said most of the fires are burning on agricultural land where the forest had already been cleared through years of deforestation. https://t.co/Az7WWiCVtr — […]
Amazon announced it will have drone delivery within a month. AP: Amazon said Wednesday that it plans to use self-piloted drones to deliver packages to shoppers’ home in the coming months. The online shopping giant did not give exact timing or say where the drones will be making deliveries. Amazon said its new drones use […]
According to a progressive think tank, Amazon paid a -1% federal tax rate last year, which is less than the bottom 20% of Americans did in 2015. Chicago Tribune: Amazon, the e-commerce giant helmed by the world’s richest man, paid no federal taxes on profit of $11.2 billion last year, according to an analysis of […]
Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple are in a three-way battle for the world’s most valuable company. CNBC: Amazon, Apple and Microsoft are in a tight race for the title of world’s most valuable public company. The three have tossed around the title over the past few trading days, each closing with a market cap over […]
Amazon is continuing to expand the reach of the company and now is now looking into buying professional sports rights. CNBC: The sports rights for the big professional leagues are locked up through 2020. Traditional media players such as Disney, CBS, Comcast’s NBC and AT&T’s DirecTV and Time Warner dominate the landscape. When current rights […]
It turns out that many Amazon employees will actually lose money due to the raising of the minimum wage announced by Jeff Bezos. Bloomberg: Amazon.com Inc. is eliminating monthly bonuses and stock awards for warehouse workers and other hourly employees after the company pledged this week to raise pay to at least $15 an hour. Warehouse […]
