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People of Perficient: Meet Marlana Voerster, Senior Healthcare Strategist

Perficient

Perficient is a global digital consultancy transforming how the world’s biggest brands connect with customers and grow their business. Could you tell me more about your role at our digital consultancy? . It’s always nerve-racking to move to a new employer, but I couldn’t pass up the opportunity that Perficient represented.

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Unit tests an easier way for workers to organize

TechCrunch

“Tech-enabled organizing kept coming back to the forefront [of my ideas], and being both the most exciting to me personally, but also I think the most impactful in the ways I wanted to see the world change in terms of income inequality and individual empowerment,” he said. A turnkey solution for unions.

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Change has never been this fast. It will never be this slow again

Pandora's Brain

The world is far richer in 2020 than it was in 2010, and global inequality is declining. There is still plenty of poverty, egregious inequality, and injustice, and there are still brutal wars and civil unrest. Contrary to what the data shows, it claims that inequality is at an historical extreme, and getting worse.

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Antitrust regulators are using the wrong tools to break up Big Tech

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

What we really need is disclosure of information about the growth and health of the supply side of Big Tech's marketplaces. However, this view of antitrust leaves out some unique characteristics of digital platforms and marketplaces. Before digital marketplaces curtailed our choices as consumers, they first expanded our options.

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Data's day of reckoning

O'Reilly Media - Data

Cathy O’Neil’s Weapons of Math Destruction and Virginia Eubanks’ Automating Inequality document the many ways that data has been used to harm the broader population. In health care, a path to escalate legal and ethical issues is required by law. For health care plans in the U.S., Building our future.

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The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Our mission is to use the principles and practices of the digital age to improve how government serves the American public, and how the public improves government. Too often, though, those passing new laws have given insufficient thought to their implementation, leaving existing bureaucratic processes in place.