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Wednesday, September 20, 2017
 
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U.S. teens are engaging in adult activities — drinking, driving, dating and working for pay — later than they used to [...] Rates of binge-drinking, teen pregnancy and teen crime are lower than ever. [...] Teens are spending less time out getting into trouble and more time at home on their phones.
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https://www.axios.com/teens-growing-up-slower-2486830574.html
https://www.axios.com/teens-growing-up-slower-2486830574.html

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Belinda Duperre, who sold jewelry at Sam’s Club in Fall River, Mass., [...] In early 2016, the struggling store closed. [...] factory town an hour south of Boston, [...] Amazon.com Inc. [...] hired 2,000 full-time workers for a new 1.2-million square foot fulfillment center on the outskirts of town. [...] Ms. Duperre earns $2 more per hour at Amazon than at Sam’s, in part because she’s a lot more productive. At Sam’s, she served perhaps one to 20 customers a day. At Amazon, she packs 75 to 120 boxes an hour
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After the first automated tellers were installed in the 1970s, an executive at Wells, Fargo & Co. predicted ATMs would lead to fewer branches with even fewer staff. And indeed, the average branch used one-third fewer workers in 2004 than in 1988. But, Mr. Bessen found, ATMs made it much cheaper to operate a branch so banks opened more: Total branches rose 43% over that time. Today, banks employ more tellers than in 1980
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typesetting and compositor jobs fell about 100,000 over the 1980s, but from 1979 to 2007 the number of designers more than quadrupled to 800,000, making up for the loss many times over.
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Not until an industry has fully satiated demand for its products, as has happened in automobiles, does automation start to chip away at overall employment.
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Between 2015 and the first half of 2017, yellow cab rides in New York City declined by roughly 75,000 but total rides on Uber and Lyft rose by roughly 210,000,
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Between the end of 2007 and the middle of 2017, brick-and-mortar​ retailers ​lost the equivalent of​ 140,000​ full-time jobs, [...] Electronic shopping jobs rose by only 126,000 in the same period. [...] Warehousing ​has added 274,000 ​jobs ​nationwide since 2007. Mr. Mandel argues all of ​those are attributable to​fulfillment centers and that thus total e-commerce employment has grown 401,000, nearly three times ​the ​brick-and-mortar drop. Mr. Mandel finds that fulfillment centers pay on average 31% better than brick and mortar stores in the same county.
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42% of U.S. households, 53 million in total, are members of Amazon Prime,
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/workers-fear-not-the-robot-apocalypse-1504631505?mod=e2tw
https://www.wsj.com/articles/workers-fear-not-the-robot-apocalypse-1504631505?mod=e2tw

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