Two academic studies from Columbia and Oxford have now confirmed that Uber used algorithmic price discrimination to raise fares and diminish drivers' pay on billions of rides in order to boost profits.

I love this soooooo much

Workers across the Enoch Pratt Free Library system have ratified the first union contract in the library's 142-year history, securing bonuses and workplace protections after two years of negotiations. bit.ly/4mrze1e

How many families are going into debt just to buy groceries is a better indicator of the health of the U.S. economy than the stock market.

Huge shoutout to Baltimore Beat for covering the unionization efforts of Pratt Workers United and public library workers across Maryland! LIBRARY UNIONS ARE SAVING LIBRARIES ♥️🎉

After nearly two years of negotiations, workers at Enoch Pratt Free Library have ratified their first-ever union contract. baltimorebeat.com/enoch-pratt-li…

I’m glad he’s saying it out loud because the point is to maintain low wages so you’re perpetually preoccupied w/struggling to survive and barely making it — this way you are easier to exploit & manipulate — how else would they maintain a permanent underclass?

A Colorado developer has backed out of a $30 billion data center in Mooresville, NC. Town officials refused to approve the project without knowing which tech company was behind it, The Charlotte Observer reports. Hundreds of people showed up at public meetings to oppose the project.

NEW: In St. Charles, Missouri, a secret company has proposed building a massive data center on a 440-acre piece of farmland. It could drive up utility rates and affect water quality—but an NDA means residents have no idea who’s behind it. We were on the ground to investigate.

Blue state, red priorities

Important ruling. Antitrust academia is rife with undisclosed funding from big tech and other business interests. Good for courts to demand it be exposed so we can distinguish between scholarship and corporate advocacy.

"The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of working people and the few, who make up the employing class, have all the good things of life."

NEW: Mid-surgery, Dr. Elisabeth Potter was called by UnitedHealthcare and questioned about whether her patient’s stay was justified. Her video about the shocking interaction went viral. Now, United won’t let her surgery center in their network.

Robert Primus, a board member of the regulatory body overseeing the proposed $85 billion Norfolk Southern-Union Pacific rail merger, was illegally fired by Trump today. Now he's on CNBC saying he's "very concerned" about railroad consolidation — possibly the reason he was fired.

MARYLAND

The City of Atlanta is opening its first municipal grocery store today. The city is spending $3.5 million in partnership with a neighborhood grocery chain in an effort to eliminate a downtown food desert.

Baltimore-area labor peeps! This labor event at Red Emma's is happening TONIGHT!

Zuckerberg is building out a $10 billion Manhattan-sized data center in Richland Parish, Louisiana, in what will be Meta's largest data center in the world. We spoke with farmers and residents in town — where 90% of income comes from farming — about what's at stake.

Indianapolis residents have shut down a proposed Google data center. The tech giant wanted to build a massive 500 acre facility, but people got organized and stopped them. The $1 billion data center would've used one million gallons of water a day.