Praise Tyson Foods For Dropping Abusive Supplier | ForceChange

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Praise Tyson Foods For Dropping Abusive Supplier Posted by Lindsay Savitzky

Target: Tom Hayes, CEO of Tyson Foods

Goal: Commend Tyson company for cutting ties with supplier accused of horrific cruelty toward chickens.

Tyson Foods has terminated its contract with Atlantic Farms after a video was released which seemed to reveal horrific cruelty taking place at the facility. Workers at the facility were reportedly seen crushing, stomping, and stabbing chickens in addition to throwing sick birds onto piles of dead ones. The conditions in which the birds are allegedly forced to live in are deplorable.

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New Year’s Resolutions for Entrepreneurs | Business News Daily

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8 Entrepreneurs Share Their New Year’s Resolution

Many people make New Year’s Resolutions related to their personal goals. While it’s great to aim to be healthier or spend more time with your family, you should also make resolutions in your professional life.There is room for improvement in every business, and the New Year is a great time to evaluate your strengths and weaknesses. Once you’ve identified what could use some work, create a resolution and make a conscious effort to achieve it.Need some New Year’s resolution inspiration? Business News Daily asked eight entrepreneurs to share their resolutions for 2018.

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Wally App: Personal Finance App Review | Gen X Finance

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Wally App Review, Personal Finance App

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The first step to reigning in your finances is keeping track of what you spend.  Experts used to recommend writing down expenditures, or using some sort of setting goals worksheet but with technology being as advanced as it is today, cash logs are quickly becoming a thing of the past.  Mobile apps are readily accessible and easy to use.  There’s a variety of personal finance applications that do all the grunt work for you.  Wally happens to do just that. If you’re struggling to keep track of your finances and the receipts that you’re given after a purchase, you’ll find it a valuable, mobile tool to have on hand, especially with my grocery budget.  Available through iTunes, the personal finance app is one of the best of its kind.  Complete with all the tools you need to track your spending, you won’t need to download multiple apps to manage your expenses.

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How to Teach Kids About Money | Gen X Finance

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Teaching Kids About Money: How to Go About It the Right Way

There are so many things we have to teach our children but one that is often overlooked in today’s world is teaching kids about money. Unless your child has a large trust fund in their name or some other financial windfall heading there way they will need to learn about personal finance. The earlier you start teaching children about financial matters the better.  During the most impressionable years of their lives, young people will formulate an opinion about money that will likely stick with them throughout adulthood.  With that being said, it’s important to be straightforward with kids.  They need to know the value of a dollar and you’re their best teacher.

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Filled With Blood And Drugs, These Delivery Drones Are Saving Lives In Africa | Fast Company

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Inside a drone delivery center in Rwanda–the first in the world to make medical deliveries at a national scale–staff answered an emergency call in July. A hospital needed blood for a 24-year-old woman who had just given birth by caesarian section. The hospital had transfused her with two units of blood. But she bled out of those units in 10 minutes.

“In that case, that mom is likely to lose her life–not just in the developing world, but even in the U.S. that mom is in a really difficult, dangerous position,” says Keller Rinaudo, CEO of Zipline, the startup that developed and runs the drone network for the Rwandan government, which supplies it with blood and other medical necessities to deliver to its far-flung clinics. “But in this case, the doctors called Zipline, started placing emergency orders, and Zipline basically instantly did delivery after delivery.”

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Tax the Rich and the Robots? California’s Thinking About It | WIRED

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DEPENDING ON WHOM you ask, robots and artificial intelligence are either coming to take your job, or you’re perfectly safe, at least for the near future. Truth is, automation always has and always will put people out of work. It’s just that this time around, even highly skilled jobs may be imperiled. And that has some folks dreading a time in which robots and AI upend the human workforce.

Included among those folks is San Francisco supervisor Jane Kim, who Wednesday launched a campaign called the Jobs of the Future Fund to study a statewide “payroll” tax on job-stealing machines. Proceeds from the tax would bankroll things like job retraining, free community college, or perhaps a universal basic income―countermeasures Kim thinks might make a robotic future more bearable for humans.

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Outdated Tech Is Costing You More Than You Think | Forbes

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I’ve been on a tear of work travel for the last month and I really enjoy the opportunity to break up long stretches of flying with a movie to help pass the time. Trouble is, I’m terrible about finding the time to download said movie prior to my trip.

Thankfully, technology has advanced significantly in recent years, making it far easier (and faster) for me to download my movie prior to boarding. Yet, I still seem to find myself in an entertainment pinch because I have become accustomed to technology on-demand and access to high-speed internet wherever I happen to be. I inevitably end up scrambling to find an internet connection at the gate and hoping it’s fast enough for my movie to download before I have to board the plane.

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Men Weren’t Doing Pilates. So This Company Changed Its Color Scheme (and Made $27 Million) | Inc.com

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You could call Anthony Geisler a fitness maven, but turnaround expert would be even more appropriate.

When Geisler acquired the Club Pilates Franchise in March 2015 (the terms of the deal were not disclosed), it was doing $2.9 million in sales and maintained 30 locations. According to its founder, Allison Beardsley, once the business grew to that level, she recognized that managing it was not her skill set. “I’m totally a visionary birther of new ideas. I’m not a manager of growth,” said Beardsley, who owns three studios in Nevada and is not involved in the business aspects of Club Pilates. “It was no longer lifting up my spirits as a business owner.”

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Finding a Factory to Manufacture Your Product | Business News Daily

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Getting a product from an idea to production is a complex process. It involves significant research, time, planning and patience. But with the right information, the right resources and the right product, it’s possible.

One of the biggest challenges of product manufacturing is finding a factory to create it. You’ll need to find one that fits your needs and budgets, and still turns out a quality product. This article will guide you through the process of finding and working with a factory as a small business.

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