Tuesday's assorted links

Amazon workers, rental prices, retirement, vending machines, laptop bans

Hello everyone! Here are 5 stories from the past week that I wanted to share with you:

1. Amazon workers voted to unionize in a New York warehouse.

2. This map shows just how much more expensive rent is in each state now.

3. Most experts agree that a significant portion of the population will lack the resources to live comfortably after they stop working.

4. The future of fast food is a 12ft-square robot vending machine.

5. An experiment found laptop bans decreased student attendance, which decreased performance, because attendance & performance are tightly linked.

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Yesterday I wrote about a new project that highlights economic examples in Netflix’s hit series, Squid Game:

Economic Concepts in Squid Game

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Week 13 is over and I’m still at 10 books for the year. It’s been a busy week with conference preparation and exams on campus, so there hasn’t been much reading lately. Hopefully next week I have some updates for you!