This Week with EdSurge

How Algorithms are Changing Low-Wage Work

Nov 26, 2019 · 30 min · 29.4 MB
0:00-30:40

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A growing number of fast-food restaurants have added free or heavily-subsidized college education options for their workers. But how well do these new benefits work in practice? And what kinds of people do they best serve? In the first of a two-part series, we look at how tech is changing low-wage work—and what one author sees as obstacles to these new education-as-a-benefit programs.