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CHECK THIS OUT! Robots are coming for all the jobs â even the ones in professional sports. Toyota built a robot that can play basketballâŠ
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A study of a guaranteed income program in Stockton, California, found that after receiving an extra $500 in cash each month for a year, recipients had better job prospects and improved mental health.
As part of the Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration (SEED) pilot program, 125 people in the California city received $500 per month for 24 months starting in February 2019. The program, initiated by former Mayor Michael Tubbs, chose recipients in neighborhoods at or below the cityâs median household income of $46033. The money, in prepaid debit cards, was unconditional, meaning people could spend it as they chose.
A study released Wednesday based on the first year of the project, from February 2019 to February 2020, found that beneficiaries got full-time jobs at over twice the rate of non-recipients, were less anxious and depressed over time, and reported improvements in emotional health, well-being and fatigue.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) â After getting $500 per month for two years without rules on how to spend it, 125 people in California paid off debt, got full-time jobs and had âstatistically significant improvementsâ in emotional health, according to a study released Wednesday.
The program was the nationâs highest-profile experiment in decades of universal basic income, an idea that was revived as a major part of Andrew Yangâs 2020 campaign for president.
The idea is to bring people out of poverty with a guaranteed monthly income. Supporters say it gives people needed financial security to find good jobs and avoid debt. But critics have argued free money would eliminate the incentive to work, creating a society dependent on the state.
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The Colorado Economic Development Commission normally doesnât throw its weight behind unproven startups, but it did so on Thursday, approving $2.9 million in state job growth incentive tax credits to try and land a manufacturing plant that will produce hardware for quantum computers.
âGiven the broad applications and catalytic benefits that this companyâs technology could bring, retaining this company would help position Colorado as an industry leader in next-generation and quantum computing,â Michelle Hadwiger, the deputy director of the Colorado Office of Economic Development & International Trade, told commissioners.
Project Quantum, the codename for the Denver-based startup, is looking to create up to 726 new full-time jobs in the state. Most of the positions would staff a new facility making components for quantum computers, an emerging technology expected to increase computing power and speed exponentially and transform the global economy as well as society as a whole.
Author and entrepreneur Jeff Wald discusses his book âThe End of Jobs: The Rise of On-Demand Workers and The Agile Corporation,â on the latest Seeking Delphiâą podcast. The conclusions may not be what you anticipate from the titleâŠ
âThereâs a lot of automation that can happen that isnât a replacement of humans but of mind-numbing behavior.â âStewart Butterworth
âAutomation is going to cause unemployment, and we better prepare for it.ââMark Cuban
In an early standup routine, Woody Allen once joked that when his father came home to announce that his job on an assembly line was replaced by a 50-dollar part, what was really disturbing was that his mother immediately ran out and bought one of those parts. As funny as that may be, the potential loss of millions of jobs to automation is no joking matter. The fears of such abound as automation, robotics and artificial intelligence continue to invade the world of work. But the scenarios for the future of human employment may be far more nuanced than you might expect. In this episode of Seeking Delphiâą entrepreneur and author Jeff Wald discusses his view of the future of work, as outlined in his book The End of Jobs: The Rise of On-demand Workers and the Agile Corporation. You can subscribe to Seeking Delphiâą on Apple podcasts, PlayerFM, MyTuner, Listen Notes, and YouTube. You can also follow us on twitter @Seeking_Delphi and Facebook.
The future is someone elseâs problem. Tomorrow is just another day.
This is all well and good to think, but if we want to live a long, healthy life, then we ALL need to work to make tomorrow a better dayâŠ
Or we could just let Mad Max, Handmaidâs Tale, 1984, Animal Farm, etc., come to passâŠanr then we can all moan about it as we are living in a nightmareâŠ
Does it have to be that way?
I will look at where we are today and what we need to change as we seek to design a better life and a better world, so together, we can build a better future.
1.5 billion children are currently being prepared for the jobs of the past â letâs change that.
But the MIT report also acknowledges that while fears of an imminent jobs apocalypse have been over-hyped, the way technology has been deployed over recent decades has polarized the economy, with growth in both white-collar work and low-paid service work at the expense of middle-tier occupations like receptionists, clerks, and assembly-line workers.
This is not an inevitable consequence of technological change, though, say the authors. The problem is that the spoils from technology-driven productivity gains have not been shared equally. The report notes that while US productivity has risen 66 percent since 1978, compensation for production workers and those in non-supervisory roles has risen only 10 percent.
âPeople understand that automation can make the country richer and make them poorer, and that theyâre not sharing in those gains,â economist David Autor, a co-chair of the task force, said in a press release. âWe need to restore the synergy between rising productivity and improvements in labor market opportunity.â