Amazon's warehouse expansion around San Bernardino, CA brought jobs but data shows Amazon's warehouse staff earn less than similar US workers employed elsewhere
Destroying good jobs and treating people like the machines it will eventually replace them with. Ben Tarnoff / @bentarnoff : Pair this with the recent @EconomicPolicy report showing that Amazon warehouses generate no new net jobs (http://www.epi.org/...) And this @TheEconomist article about how new Amazon warehouses actually produce a *decline* in average warehouse wages: http://www.economist.com/... Alexis C. Madrigal / @alexismadrigal : This @AlanaSemuels feature is really good. There's a job *quality* crisis across many industries, but things are really bad in logistics. http://www.theatlantic.com/... Giulio Quaggiotto / @gquaggiotto : “I don't want a cookie or a gift card. I'll take it, but I'd rather a living wage. Or not being timed when you're sitting on the toilet” cc @geoplace http://www.theatlantic.com/... @alanasemuels : I talked to two brothers, one who struggled while working at a new Amazon warehouse, one who thrived while working the exact same job at a unionized grocery chain next door. http://www.theatlantic.com/... Paris / @parismarx : In San Bernardino, Amazon pays $12 and the unionized warehouse across the street starts at $26. Unemployment has dropped from 15% in 2012 to 5% today, while poverty rate has increased from 23.4% in 2011 to 28.1% in 2016, and the median income is 4% lower. http://www.theatlantic.com/... Andy Kroll / @andykroll : What @amazon does for—and does to—poor cities http://www.theatlantic.com/... http://twitter.com/... Amanda Foreman / @dramandaforeman : Amazon treats its 21st century warehouse workers the way the Coal barons treated 19th century miners. Cheap. Expendable. Exploitable. http://www.theatlantic.com/...