Seattle's Instacart shoppers are having to go miles out of their way because of the new gig worker pay law

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A shopper wearing a baseball cap loads several cases of bottled water onto an orange flat-bed cart at a Costco store.
Seattle-area gig workers have had to go miles out of their way as Instacart arranges orders outside of the city limits.

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Instacart, DoorDash, and other apps appear to be trying to roll back Seattle's new laws for gig workers

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A woman with red hair puts a box of Wheat Thins in a brown paper grocery bag sitting in a cart at a Safeway grocery store in early 2020.
Instacart is pushing its gig worker shoppers to tell the Seattle city council to alter a pay law that took effect earlier this year.

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Jeff Bezos just purchased his 3rd mansion on a gated island off Miami. Take a look at all the lavish US properties he owns.

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Jeff Bezos announced he is relocating to Miami, one of the many places he owns property.

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We bought a house in Japan for $30,000. We'll have more land than we could afford in the US, and our kids will be more independent.

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Leika and Brandon Hansen bought a home in Japan and plan to move there from Washington.

Courtesy of Leika Hansen.

I retired from Amazon at 34 and chose to settle in Canada, where I only need $1,000 a month to live well

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Grigory Lukin retired in his early 30s and moved from the US to Canada.

Grigory Lukin

Boeing's board shut down a shareholder's bid to move its headquarters back to Seattle

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A Boeing 737 Max.

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As homelessness spikes nationwide, at least 4 major cities have found ways to get people off the streets

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Unhoused people sleep on the streets of New York during freezing temperatures on February 16, 2018.
Unhoused people sleep on the streets of New York during freezing temperatures on February 16, 2018.

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I live off the grid in a yurt on land I inherited. There's nothing I miss — life is ridiculously peaceful.

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Cami Ostman lives part time in a yurt in eastern Washington.

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I'm a gig worker who argued for Seattle's new minimum pay laws. Now, I'm fighting for my Instacart job.

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A woman wears sunglasses and a face mask while loading plastic bags full of groceries into the trunk of a car.
Instacart cut the minimum base pay that its gig-worker delivery drivers are paid, and many say the lower pay is making it harder to earn money on the app.

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Costco may start requiring members to scan ID to enter US warehouses

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Costco has been cracking down Netflix-style on improper membership sharing.

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