Bezos Steps Down as Amazon’s CEO and Raising the Minimum Wage

After Hours

• Episode: Bezos Steps Down as Amazon’s CEO and Raising the Minimum Wage
• Website: After Hours
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• Duration: 00:32:05
• Published: 2021-02-10 15:04

What are Jeff Bezos’s most significant accomplishments at Amazon? What’s troubling about the business that he built? Rebecca , Rawi , and Felix look back at Jeff Bezos’s career.

They also discuss the proposal to increase the federal minimum wage in the U.S. to $15. Would we really see more unemployment?

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• “All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis” (Ayana Elizabeth Johnson)
• “The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon” (Brad Stone)
• “Postcards From Italy” cover (Florence & The Machine)

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