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Tag Archives: increase
You’re richer than you think.
While sitting in the queue to pay the toll for the Bay Bridge Monday, I heard two great counterintuitive pieces on KQED. The first was a thoughtful comparison between our quality of life now compared to the distant past. It … Continue reading
Posted in econ, happiness
Tagged american, bank, card, costs, credit, credit card, debt, econ, economics, expenses, home, income, increase, input, interest, leader, life, living, loan, media, national, npr, of, outlay, output, pay, personal, personal debt, public, quality, radio, rate, ruler, salary, savings
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Cab earnings update: seasonal rise in demand for taxis offsets increased fuel and gate costs.
San Francisco cab drivers face two recent cost pressures: a recent gate fee increase combined with the recent climb in gas prices. Fortunately, these cost pressures come at a time when aggregate demand for taxis in the City is increasing. … Continue reading
Posted in econ, politics, taxi, transit
Tagged aggregate, cab, city, cost, demand, earnings, econ, employment, fee, forecast, fuel, gas, gate, gate fee, home, hourly, increase, infrastructure, labor, macro, micro, oil, pay, rise, san francisco, seasonal, sf, shift, take, take-home, taxi, taxicab, tips, transit, transportation, wage, winter, worker
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Website highlights financial stress of driving a taxi in the City
I point your temporary attention to a Flash website produced by UC Berkeley j-school grad students Eric Zassenhaus and Amy Jeffries. The video clips thumbnailed along the bottom are accurate and colorful paintings of a typical taxi shift. Well worth … Continue reading
Posted in econ, politics, taxi, transit
Tagged cab, city, commission, county, driver, econ, economics, fee, gate, gillespie, government, heidi, increase, industry, jim, labor, local, machen, macro, micro, oversight, policies, politics, regulation, san francisco, sf, taxi, taxicab, transportation, union, united, utw, worker, yellow, yellow cab
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The headline should read, “Mayor signs taxi gate fee increase, lowering pay for City workers.”
Mayor Newsom signed a bill last week that increases gate fees for most cab drivers by $5 (effectively a $.50/hr paycut) and increases the gate fee for Compressed Natural Gas and hybrid cab drivers by $13.50 (effectively a $1.35/hr paycut). … Continue reading
When I get mad about employers screwing me over, I think of Robert Reich and then direct that anger at the government. You can too! Here’s how.
When I drive an 11 hour shift and make only fifty or sixty bucks I feel pretty sour. This doesn’t happen often. But, it does happen a few times a month during this time of year when demand for cabs … Continue reading
Posted in econ, politics, taxi, work
Tagged california, care, clinton, club, commonwealth, company, corporate, corporate greed, coverage, econ, economics, greed, health, health care, health insurance, increase, insurance, labor, macro, marketplace, micro, npr, politics, radio, reich, robert, salary, secretary, social, socialism, wage, wages, wal-mart, walmart, welfare
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Update: Supes badger over taxi gate fee increase
The Examiner has an update on the saga of supervisor Alioto-Pier’s original proposal to considerably increase gate fees. (A gate fee is the rental price of a taxicab charged to cab drivers.) A much more reasonable $5 increase (compared to … Continue reading
Posted in politics, taxi, transit
Tagged addition, alioto-pier, amendment, board, board of supervisors, cab, change, charge, fee, gate, gate fee, increase, legislation, local, modification, price, proposal, regulation, rental, san francisco, sf, supervisors, taxi, taxicab
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Should the City allow cab companies to charge higher gate fees to taxi drivers?
In some ways, blogs are great. They present frequently updated writing with a nice user interface that emphasizes recent postings first. But, most blog interfaces (including this one) bury old postings even if new, interesting and worthy comments are posted. … Continue reading
Posted in econ, politics, taxi
Tagged alioto-pier, blogs, board, board of supervisors, earnings, fee, gate, gate fees, gui, hourly, increase, rates, san francisco, sf, supervisor, taxi, user interface
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San Francisco Supe proposes taxi gate fee increase. Drivers need gradual implementation.
The Examiner reports Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier recently proposed a significant increase in taxi gate fees charged to cab drivers. (Quick background: A ‘gate fee’ is the rental fee charged to a taxi driver for a shift. Taxi drivers pay the … Continue reading
Posted in econ, taxi, transit
Tagged cab, excessive, fee, gate, gate fee, increase, local regulation, paratransit, san francisco, sf, taxi, taxicab
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