October 25, 2022 - Smlr_net

25 Oct 2022


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*October 25, 2022*
*Title:*                    Black Owned Co-Working Space in East Brunswick
Focuses on Community
*Source:*               NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
*Author:*               Shaylah Brown
*Date:*                   October 24, 2022
*Summary:*          Co-working spaces, where different companies come to
work in one location, are expected to grow past 40,000 locations by 2024,
according to a global co-working growth study.
*Link:*                    https://bit.ly/3TPODdp
*Title:*                    Twitter Employees Protest Elon Musk’s Plan to
Fire 75% of Workforce
*Source:*               Time
*Author:*               Billy Perrigo
*Date:*                   October 24, 2022
*Summary:*          Employees at Twitter are circulating an open letter
protesting Elon Musk’s plan to fire as much as 75% of the company’s
workforce, as the deadline for him to complete his $44 billion acquisition
of the company looms, TIME has learned.
*Link:*                    https://bit.ly/3TQv2tx
*Title:*                   University Staff to Strike Over Pay and Pensions
*Source:*               BBC News
*Author: *              Alice Evans
*Date:*                   October 24, 2022
*Summary:*          University lecturers, librarians and admin staff across
the UK will strike over pay and pensions, the University and College Union
(UCU) has announced. A total of 70,000 UCU members at 150 universities were
asked to vote in two separate ballots - one on pay and working conditions,
and another on pensions.
*Link:*                    https://bbc.in/3CWJPvW
*Title:*                    Universal Basic Income Has Been Tested
Repeatedly. It Works. Will America Ever Embrace It?
*Source:*               The Washington Post Magazine
*Author:*               Megan Greenwell
*Date:*                   October 24, 2022
*Summary:*          For as long as America has had a poverty problem —
which is to say, for its entire history — a small group of dreamers has
proposed guaranteed income as a solution. The idea dates to the year the
country was founded: Thomas Paine proposed a type of basic income in his
1776 pamphlet “Common Sense.”
*Link:*                    https://wapo.st/3gIpy5C
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