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08/25/2017 - Midnight Reads – Companies Promote Corporate-Tax Overhaul

Companies Promote Corporate-Tax Overhaul

– The Wall Street Journal 

Large companies, looking for every angle to prod Congress into making the corporate-tax changes they have been seeking for years, are turning to some in-house muscle: employees and customers.

 

Wal-Mart Applies for Patent for Blimp-Style Floating Warehouse

– Bloomberg 

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has opened a new front in its battle with Amazon. The world’s largest retailer has applied for a U.S. patent for a floating warehouse that could make deliveries via drones, which would bring products from the aircraft down to shoppers’ homes. The blimp-style machine would fly at heights between 500 feet and 1,000 feet, contain multiple launching bays, and be operated autonomously or by a remote human pilot. Amazon was granted a patent for a similar vessel in April 2016.

 

With Erratic Hours and Difficult Conditions, Working in America Is Hard.

– RAND Corporation 

The American workplace is physically and emotionally taxing, with workers frequently facing unstable work schedules, unpleasant and potentially hazardous working conditions, and an often hostile social environment, according to a new study. The findings stem from research conducted by investigators at the nonprofit, nonpartisan RAND Corporation, Harvard Medical School and UCLA, and are from the American Working Conditions Survey — one of the most in-depth surveys ever done to examine conditions in the American workplace.

 

MAPPED: The States That Are Still Reeling from The Great Recession

– Business Insider 

The U.S. economy has finally regained its pre-recession levels of employment and Gross Domestic Product (GDP). What does that mean? More people are getting hired, and they’re spending their paychecks. That’s all good, but it’s no secret the economy has undergone an uneven recovery since the Great Recession. So how does the recovery stack up in different parts of the country? Check out this new visualization.