Apps like Uber, Instacart and Postmates initially drew in gig workers with the promise of easy money (pick up a shift on your lunch break!), flexible hours, and unlimited earning potential. The reality, however, is that the apps’ workers face increasing challenges like low wages, scams, and penalties, all of …

Just two blocks off Monument Square in Portland, Maine, downhill from the public library, sits a squat, gray flatiron building. Inside is a soup kitchen that has provided three meals a day, every day, to hungry Mainers in its oft-crowded dining room for more than 39 years. The staff is …

Amazon has agreed to pay more than $61.7 million to settle Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charges that the e-commerce giant skimmed off customer tips to subsidize delivery drivers’ hourly wages. “The FTC is sanctioning Amazon.com for expanding its business empire by cheating its workers,” FTC commissioner Rohit Chopra wrote in …

Uber announced today that it’s buying alcohol delivery service Drizly in a deal worth $1.1 billion, as the ride-sharing company continues to build out its stable of food and other delivery services. The eventual plan is for Drizly’s marketplace of beer, wine, and liquor to be integrated into the existing …

One of the first things Sylvan Mishima Brackett did after the mayor of San Francisco issued a lockdown order in March was walk a few blocks to a local Best Buy to buy a phone. The chef and owner of Rintaro, a San Francisco Japanese restaurant, planned to set up …