– Fortune
Fortune looks at the history, impacts, controversies and benefits of America’s minimum wage over the last eight decades.
– The Washington Post
Employees at Amazon.com are calling on chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos to end the sale of facial-recognition technology to law enforcement agencies and to discontinue partnerships with companies that work with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
– The Washington Post
Intel announced Thursday that its CEO was stepping down after confirming he violated a “non-fraternization” policy. Yet in the #MeToo era, more companies are adding similar policies as they grow nervous about the increased scrutiny and mounting risks they face amid a deluge of sexual harassment cases being reported.
– Axios
From Axios: “Retail is the largest single source of American jobs – and, in the U.S. and most other countries, one of the biggest parts of the overall economy. That Chinese companies are aggressively exploring how to save Main Street and middle-class jobs is terrific; that the U.S. and Europe seem all but flat-footed is not.”