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11 Feb

Otis Report: California Creative Economy Will Depend on Technology

Otis Report: California Creative Economy Will Depend on Technology
California Creative Economy For many years, Los Angeles has been the powerhouse behind California’s creative economy with its expansive movie studios, TV production facilities, architectural firms and fashion firms accounting for 15 percent of the state’s economy. California’s creative economy took a couple of steps back throughout the pandemic, nevertheless it quickly recuperated by adopting latest technology. In 2021, this statewide sector directly generated nearly $507.4 billion in revenue and produced 7.6 percent of California’s jobs, in keeping with the most recent annual “Creative Economy” report presented Friday in downtown Los Angeles by the Otis College of Art and Design. This was the sixteenth 12 months that Otis College’s “Creative Economy” report calculated what effect creativity has on the state. Newly elected Los...
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5 Oct

Dove Report Says Beauty Standards Cost Economy $501 Billion

Dove Report Says Beauty Standards Cost Economy 1 Billion
A recent report from Dove has quantified beauty ideals’ weight on the economy, to the tune of $806 billion. In line with the report, released Tuesday, appearance-based discrimination (an umbrella term for skin shade and body size) cost the U.S. $501 billion in 2019, and body dissatisfaction set the economy back $305 billion in the course of the same time period. They each affect a respective 66 million and 45 million individuals. Dove relied on S. Bryn Austin, a researcher on the Harvard Chan School of Public Health and Boston Children’s Hospital, in addition to a team of economists from Deloitte Access Economics. The report detailed a $501 billion cost to the economy as a direct results of appearance-based discrimination, $269 billion of...
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4 Oct

‘We Built This’: A Temporary History Of Black Laborers’

‘We Built This’: A Temporary History Of Black Laborers’
“Eat the wealthy.” That’s what was emblazoned on the back of Chris Smalls’s red and black bomber jacket he wore during a White House meeting with President Biden back in May. The conversation got here after Smalls, 33, formed the Amazon Labor Union (or ALU), and made history leading the primary successful US union campaign at Amazon. Smalls’s unionizing efforts was prompted by his firing from an Amazon warehouse position where he pushed against inhumane hours, poor advantages and inadequate wages. Smalls’s rallying cry echoed the grievances of the greater than 800,000 Amazon staff, whose back-breaking labor helped contribute to the e-commerce giant’s $1322.24B net value. Briefly, he was David to the tech world’s Goliath. What’s much more remarkable about...
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