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Instacart shopper raped teen Publix worker outside west Miami-Dade store, police say
Read full article: Instacart shopper raped teen Publix worker outside west Miami-Dade store, police sayA now-former shopper for delivery company Instacart sexually assaulted a teenage Publix employee in the storeโs parking lot, according to Miami-Dade police.
Stock market today: Asian shares track Wall Street's slump after Fed says rates may stay high in '24
Read full article: Stock market today: Asian shares track Wall Street's slump after Fed says rates may stay high in '24Asian shares are lower, tracking a slump on Wall Street after the Federal Reserve said it may not cut interest rates next year by as much as it earlier thought.
Instacart sets IPO price at $30 a share, valuing the company at about $10 billion
Read full article: Instacart sets IPO price at $30 a share, valuing the company at about $10 billionInstacart has priced its initial public offering of stock at $30 a share, raising $660 million for the grocery delivery company.
Gig workers face shifting roles, competition in pandemic
Read full article: Gig workers face shifting roles, competition in pandemicI started to juggle three apps to make ends meet, said Okawa, who recently reduced her work hours after receiving unemployment benefits. She said she enjoys the flexibility of choosing her own hours but hopes not to have to turn to gig work in the future. Gig workers are also jockeying for those jobs from all fronts. DoorDash launched an initiative to help out-of-work restaurant workers sign up for delivery work. But that $600 benefit will expire at the end of July, and the $2 trillion government relief package that extended unemployment benefits to gig workers expires at the end of the year.