Today Leonard’s conversation is with Dr. James A. Parrott on his study of Ride-Hailing apps.
Uber, Lyft and other ride-hailing services have become a ubiquitous presence in the five boroughs over the past several years, but their popularity has raised questions about whether drivers can actually make a living working for them.The New York City Council recently voted to halt the issuing of new licenses for these services, and to set a minimum wage for drivers, based on the new study “An Earnings Standard for New York City’s App-based Drivers: Economic Analysis and Policy Assessment,” which looked at pay rates and working conditions for drivers working in the ride-sharing economy. Today, one of the co-authors of the study, Dr. James A. Parrott, joins Leonard in for a discussion of this complicated and controversial issue.
Today Leonard has a conversation with George Pakenham on the dangers of idling vehicles. Idling engines consume more than 6 billion gallons of gasoline...
On this week Leonard Lopate At Large: a discussion of the long and contentious history of tariffs in America…from colonial times to the present....
Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, Randy Shaw expands on the themes of housing inequity that he explores in his book. In cities across...