"City's extreme rich-poor income divide" "Income gaps in New York are greater than those of any other big American city, and have been trending higher for decades, says a study by the Fiscal Policy Institute." ""New York City has always had extremes of rich and poor," said Parrot. "But we haven't had the extremes we have today. "It's been getting more extreme all the time. It's more extreme now... [more]
"City's extreme rich-poor income divide"
"Income gaps in New York are greater than those of any other big American city, and have been trending higher for decades, says a study by the Fiscal Policy Institute."
""New York City has always had extremes of rich and poor," said Parrot. "But we haven't had the extremes we have today.
"It's been getting more extreme all the time. It's more extreme now than what it was 10 years ago, or 15 years ago.""
"Harlem businesswoman Aisha Danae, 51, said the apartment at Fifth Avenue and 110th Street that cost her $500 a month a decade ago now goes for $1,500.
"Everything in Manhattan is for rich people now," she said."
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Google Bus Protests Get Uglier As Somebody Smashes A Window
Julie Bort | Dec. 20, 2013 8:54 PM | 4,051 | 5
Protesters who gathered around a private bus transporting Google employees from Oakland to Google's Mountain View, Calif. headquarters broke a bus window on Friday.
The protestors actually stopped two buses on Friday. One was filled with Apple employees. The other was this Google bus in Oakland. This is the second such protest this month after protestors stopped a Google bus in San Francisco about two weeks ago.
Protesters published an account of the window-breaking incident on IndyBay.org, as noticed by PandoDaily, and Googler Craig Frost posted this picture on Twitter:
Twitter/@craigsfrost
Google bus broken window
Tech companies like Google, Apple, and Facebook provide buses to employees to help with their commutes.
The protestors are angry because they say the influx of tech workers to these neighborhoods far from corporate campuses are driving up housing costs.
Last time, protesters posted demands that included tech companies kicking in $1 billion for affordable housing. This time, flyers distributed in the Oakland protest, shown in a picture here, indicate they want these employees to leave Oakland altogether.
It's a difficult situation in the Bay Area where housing costs are high and commutes are long and difficult.
Bay Area for the rich only
Google Bus Protests Get Uglier As Somebody Smashes A Window
Julie Bort | Dec. 20, 2013 8:54 PM | 4,051 | 5
Protesters who gathered around a private bus transporting Google employees from Oakland to Google's Mountain View, Calif. headquarters broke a bus window on Friday.
The protestors actually stopped two buses on Friday. One was filled with Apple employees. The other was this Google bus in Oakland. This is the second such protest this month after protestors stopped a Google bus in San Francisco about two weeks ago.
Protesters published an account of the window-breaking incident on IndyBay.org, as noticed by PandoDaily, and Googler Craig Frost posted this picture on Twitter:
Twitter/@craigsfrost
Google bus broken window
Tech companies like Google, Apple, and Facebook provide buses to employees to help with their commutes.
The protestors are angry because they say the influx of tech workers to these neighborhoods far from corporate campuses are driving up housing costs.
Last time, protesters posted demands that included tech companies kicking in $1 billion for affordable housing. This time, flyers distributed in the Oakland protest, shown in a picture here, indicate they want these employees to leave Oakland altogether.
It's a difficult situation in the Bay Area where housing costs are high and commutes are long and difficult.