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Republican senators' approval ratings are plummeting

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  • While nearly all senators saw a drop in their popularity in the third quarter of this year, GOP lawmakers took the biggest hit. 
  • Republicans made up eight of the 10 least popular senators in the country and 18 of the 25 whose ratings dropped the most between July and October. 


Nearly all senators saw a drop in their popularity during the third quarter of 2017, but GOP lawmakers took the biggest hit, according to a new Morning Consult poll. 

Of the 25 senators whose approval ratings fell the most, 18 are Republicans and seven are Democrats. And of the 10 most unpopular senators, just two are Democrats, one of whom, New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez, is facing federal corruption charges.  

Maine Sen. Susan Collins, Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, and Nevada Sen. Dean Heller, all Republicans, saw their net approval ratings among GOP voters fall 40 points, 31 points, and 25 points, respectively. All three lawmakers broke at various points from President Donald Trump and GOP leadership on the party's attempts to repeal and replace Obamacare. 

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent, held on to their positions as the least popular and most popular senators in the country, respectively. McConnell grew even more unpopular with his constituents during the third quarter of this year, sinking 15 points below his already dismal ratings. 

The poll, which surveyed 255,120 registered voters in 50 states from July 1 to September 30, was conducted during the GOP's unsuccessful and deeply unpopular efforts to pass a healthcare bill.

Meanwhile, Trump's approval rating hit a new low on Sunday.

According to a new survey by NBC News and The Wall Street Journal, just 38% of Americans approve of Trump's job performance, compared to 58% who disapprove. The poll found that Trump's support had cratered specifically with a key constituency that has dropped in other recent polls — white people without a college degree.

Among the cohort, just 51% said they approve of Trump's job performance, compared to the 58% who said they approved last month.

Max Tani contributed to this report. 

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SEE ALSO: Here are the country's most and least popular senators

SEE ALSO: Trump's approval rating sinks to a new low in NBC/WSJ poll





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October 31, 2017 at 01:51PM
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The 49ers pulled off a genius trade at the draft that set them up to land Jimmy Garoppolo

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  • The 49ers acquired quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo from the New England Patriots in exchange for a second-round pick.
  • The pick came from the surplus of selections the 49ers built thanks to a huge trade at this year's NFL Draft.
  • Garoppolo will provide a boost to a team that has yet to win a game in 2017.

 

On Monday, Adam Schefter of ESPN reported that the San Francisco 49ers were trading a second-round pick in exchange for Jimmy Garoppolo of the New England Patriots. That deal may sound relatively straightforward, but the 49ers actually made the transactions that enabled it to happen more than six months ago at the NFL Draft.

The 49ers had the second overall pick, and their plan was simple: use it to take pass rusher Myles Garrett or trade it for, in the words of general manager John Lynch, "a ransom." When Garrett came off the board first, San Francisco accepted a proposal from the team selecting just behind them, the Chicago Bears.

The 49ers sent their pick to the Bears for the third overall pick, their 2017 third- and fourth-round picks, and a 2018 third-round pick. Essentially, Lynch received three extra selections in exchange for moving down one spot in the first round. Throw in the fact that the 49ers weren't interested in Chicago's choice, Mitch Trubisky, and it looked like highway robbery.

Fast forward to October, and the 49ers still had five picks in the first three rounds of next year's draft. That kind of young talent is everything to a team in the midst of a rebuilding project (they've gone 7-33 since the start of the 2015 season), but the surplus of selections allowed Lynch to cash one of them in for Garoppolo, the most intriguing backup quarterback in the game.

With 690 passing yards and 5 touchdown passes in 94 career attempts, Garoppolo is talented, but unproven. But even without a lengthy track record of NFL success, he'll inject some new life into an offense that was previously led by Brian Hoyer and C.J. Beathard. Increased fan interest will be a nice bonus.

It's not like the Garoppolo trade doesn't have a downside. The Eastern Illinois product is set to become a free agent after this season, meaning the 49ers will need to sign him to an extension if they want his stay in the Bay Area for more than eight games. If he opts for free agency instead, then they'll have given up their second rounder for essentially nothing.

That wouldn't have been a concern if San Francisco had drafted Trubisky or Deshaun Watson, but for all we know they just acquired a quarterback with more talent than either of those men. The savvy deal at the draft put the 49ers in an ideal position to take a risk, and they delivered with the biggest trade of the 2017 season.

The deal with the Bears wasn't the only positive from the 49ers' draft experience. They also took Solomon Thomas and Reuben Foster, both of whom were high on their in-house board.

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  • Patriots trade Jimmy Garoppolo to 49ers in shocking deal
  • The Patriots reportedly view Jimmy Garoppolo as their quarterback of the future, and things are going to get awkward

SEE ALSO: WHERE ARE THEY NOW? All of Tom Brady's backup quarterbacks during his career





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October 31, 2017 at 01:45PM
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The top GOP tax writer laid out the plan to win over a key group of Republicans worried about the tax plan

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  • House Ways and Means Chair Kevin Brady laid out the GOP's plan to the state and local tax deduction.
  • The plan would allow people to deduct state and local property taxes from their federal bill, but not income or sales tax.
  • It's an attempt to appease Republicans in states where people benefit from the deduction.


Republican tax legislation due to be released this week in the House will not include a deduction for state and local income taxes, the top House Republican on tax policy said on Tuesday.

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady said in a radio interview with conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt that the emerging bill will offer relief only on property taxes.

The state and local tax (SALT) deduction allows people to subtract what they pay to local entities in taxes from their federal tax burden. The framework released by the White House and GOP leaders in September would do away with the deduction.

Brady spoke as House Republican leaders sought to broker an agreement with Republican lawmakers who want the state and local income tax deduction to remain.

Asked if there would be relief on the income side of state and local taxes, Brady replied: "The answer is 'no.' ... Our lawmakers in those high-tax states really believe their families are being punished most by property taxes."

According to an analysis by the Tax Foundation, roughly one-third of the total SALT deductions taken in 2015 came from property taxes, while the rest came from income or sales taxes. However, property taxes make up a larger amount of middle-income earners' SALT deductions.

The deduction is primarily used by Americans living in a handful of states with high tax burdens, like New York and California. That prompted backlash from some Republicans in those states, and they have attempted to preserve the deduction in some way. Several Republican House members voted against the recent budget resolution in protest over the proposed repeal of the deduction.

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SEE ALSO: A key GOP senator who helped sink Obamacare repeal has 2 demands for the tax bill





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October 31, 2017 at 01:45PM
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What We Fundamentally Misunderstand About How We Learn

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What do most people misunderstand about the learning process? originally appeared on Quora - the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world.

Answer by Adam Lupu, VP of learning at Andela, on Quora:

In my experience the most commonly held initial beliefs about how learning works go something like this...

The novice learner's perspective: I am really interested in X, I really enjoy learning more about X, this must be the way to learn everything! Let me try applying this method to Y...

When learners become teachers, mentors, or supervisors, the above beliefs often turn into...

The novice teacher's perspective: I am really confident about how much I know about X, I learned it the hard way, so now let me tell you all the things you need to know and do to learn it like I did.

Unfortunately, while these perspectives appear to be fairly common, they are also fairly limiting. They survive and thrive on confirmation bias. If you have a love for a particular topic or task, you'll work hard on that task, and you'll enjoy it. You will put more attention on it, you'll engage both the emotional reward centers and logical processing centers of your brain and effectively you'll anchor to a process as being the key to your learning when it was actually the specific topic, task, or teacher that really got you excited.

There's also the personalized learning fallacy.This is when someone believes something like "everyone learns differently" which leads to them becoming distracted by theories like learning styles and multiple intelligences. So rather than focusing on the ways in which they and everyone around them can share a common learning experience that will have universal value for the entire community of learners, they focus instead on differentiating themselves (or their students) from others. As far as I know, that differentiation has shown to be less valuable than universally applicable research-backed practices like formative feedback, guided reflection, and access to supportive peers, mentors, role models, and mental models.

Therefore, to avoid the novice learner's belief ("I learned X, so I can only learn things like X or using a technique like I used for X.") and the personalized learning fallacy ("everyone learns differently"), I recommend the following more nuanced, but super-empowering perspective.

The experienced learning scientist's perspective:Everyone can leverage a few basic techniques to learn just about anything. The timeline for me to learn X may be extended by my lack of experience in topics related to X. So in an effort to accelerate that timeline, can I leverage my experience in topics related to Y, analogizing those relationships to X? Let's find a community of practitioners and some engaging resources online and find out!

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October 31, 2017 at 01:41PM
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What's The Difference Between a CEO and an Entrepreneur? This 1 Quality

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Most people assume that if you're an entrepreneur, you are inherently CEO material. And if you're a CEO, you are, by definition, an entrepreneur. 

I disagree. 

I have personally started five businesses from the ground-up. This is what makes me an entrepreneur. But as these companies have grown in size, and more parties have become involved, I have inherently had to move more into the role of CEO.

Let me tell you, being an effective CEO and entrepreneur are two very different skill sets.

What's an entrepreneur?

As entrepreneurs, we're people who wake up every day willing to risk it all. While others are thinking about how to handle today, we're thinking about where their industry is headed--and how we can double-down now to put ourselves in a position of leverage later.

We're people who can both operate on the ground-level, who have the expertise to dig into the work if and when it's needed, but also have the awareness to see the company from a 30,000 foot perspective.

What gets my juices going isn't running a successful company. As an entrepreneur, my excitement comes from putting the right people around me to execute so that I can start thinking about the next industry, market, or opportunity.

Which is very different from what makes for a great CEO.

What's a CEO?

There is a big misconception going on in the entrepreneurship community about what a CEO actually is.

It seems like anyone with a website and an LLC can call themselves a CEO today. Young entrepreneurs "start a company" and then run around calling themselves the CEO--or worse, waste time debating with their co-founder (who is their childhood friend) who should be the CEO and who should be the CFO. 

Formally speaking, you're closer to an entrepreneur than you are a CEO, in this case.

But the real difference between a CEO and an entrepreneur is that while a CEO has to be aware of the future, their real "job" is to manage the now. They're in the position they're in to evaluate what's happening in their market today, not to spend hours thinking about what could potentially happy down the road.

The primary difference

I was speaking recently with Megan Holsinger, director of client success at the Predictive Index and an insightful executive with 15 years of experience in human capital management and consulting. Predictive Index helps companies hire the best and keep them engaged with scientifically validated workforce assessment software and management workshops. They help us here at my company, LendingOne, with our hiring needs.

Holsinger pointed out that the primary difference between a CEO and an entrepreneur comes down to style. "It's not just a title. It's an approach to the work," she said. "And what it really comes down to is risk. The style of many CEOs is to be risk averse, whereas entrepreneurs and founders tend to be more willing to embrace risk."

As someone who has played both roles, I see the differences between CEOs and entrepreneurs every day. When you're first starting out building your company, you're an entrepreneur. You're in startup mode, constantly thinking about how to shake up your industry and do something different.

But at a certain point (and I've experienced this countless times), assuming all goes well and your company has grown in size, you have to start thinking like a CEO. 

Instead of thinking about how to grow and expand into new markets, you're thinking about how to improve upon what you've already built. You have to adopt a broader perspective, because you're now accountable to a board, or investors, as well as your much larger roster of employees. As a CEO, you have budgets to work within, metrics to hit, and stakeholders to answer to--which means you have to operate with a more formal style, and risk must be more heavily measured.

I've played the role of CEO for much of my career, but it's the moments I get to be an entrepreneur that really gets my juices flowing. And I am happiest when I can run a large company but still instill the entrepreneurial spirit throughout the organization.

Still, it's important to remember that one is not necessarily better or worse than the other. It's merely a difference in style.





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October 31, 2017 at 01:41PM
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The Visionary Behind Suja Juice Is Taking On The Beauty Industry

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A few weeks ago I received an email about a new beauty product launch, a cosmetics brand called, Lawless. Being relatively new to the industry myself, I have become acutely aware of new cosmetics & hair launches (Cosmoprof North America is my happy place) so when I found out Lawless was all natural and started by an entrepreneur whose business I was already familiar with, Suja Juice, the largest organic juice company in the US, I was immediately interested in the story.

I sat down with Annie Lawless, Chairman & CEO of Lawless, to talk about her transition from her first company, the beverage empire (now partially owned by Coca-Cola) Suja Juice, to cosmetics.

Diving in deeper, and after meeting Annie it became pretty clear: She's a huge makeup lover, personally. The most successful businesses are born out of personal necessity, so it comes as no surprise that both of her businesses started that way. According to Annie, she was simply making juices for herself before Suja -- and this was no different. 

Aside from being a business powerhouse, Annie has also amassed quite an impressive social following of (mostly) women who follow her personal tips on food, fashion, travel and beauty, so for Annie, it made sense to offer her followers, and women everywhere, something more than your average makeup.

In an age where marketers depend on influencers with followings like Annie's, she had a perfect storm and a unique perspective on launching a beauty brand.

Talking to Annie more and more, it made perfect sense why someone who was so interested in health would go into cosmetics immediately following an amazing exit. Your skin is the largest organ in your body, and 64% of the chemicals in makeup are absorbed from your skin1. Not too much different than juicing if you think about it.

Here are 3 takeaways from Annie's adventure in serial entrepreneurship anyone can learn from:

1. The best brands come from personal necessity

Annie started Suja Juice because she struggled with Celiac Disease, and started Lawless because she wanted a natural makeup that was equal parts high quality and beautiful. I have no doubt Lawless will be as successful.

2. There is always room in the market for a strong brand

Natural cosmetics on the market tend to look "granola" and do not come off as sexy as some of the bigger names out there. Annie's branding, imagery, product packaging and design are perfection and really offer strong customer touch-points at every stage. Never back down from competition, no matter how large of a scale you are up against.

3. A great brand with a poor product will never be successful at scale

Paying attention to brand is extremely important, but the physical product and customer touch-points share an equal role in creating a successful company. 

1 Brown et al. The role of skin absorption as a route of exposure for volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in drinking water. Am J Public Health. 1984 May; 74(5): 479-484





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October 31, 2017 at 01:41PM
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The Single Most Valuable Question You Should Ask Successful Entrepreneurs (To Copy Their Success)

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Every entrepreneur looks to emulate their business heroes throughout their own journey.  The wealthy, famous and successful are often asked how they would do it, if they had to do it all over again. This question is almost always asked at the peak of their journey, reflecting after a long career of wins. And their answers are often taken as golden advice. But there's a problem, the logic is often flawed.

Asking successful people what they'd do differently, isn't the same as asking them for tactical decisions of their past. It's asking them to share new, and improved yet unproven ideas. Many an entrepreneur confuse one for the other.We often fail to recognize that past success in one area does not guarantee future success in another.

Knowing the specific decisions and actions that brought success to others can help you on your journey. This is true without a doubt. But knowing how they would approach the same challenge with different circumstances, or even a new challenge is a different ball of wax altogether. And the answers are not nearly as valuable because the likelihood of successful application is decreased.

Those who made it big, spend time reflecting on their past and pontificating on prescriptions for others. This often results in new ideas based on unproven theories that assume different conditions.

There is no escaping the revisionist bias either. The reflective advice from the successful is often filled with rose-colored idealism.  Wealth, regret and lessons learned often motivate us to change the story. Those lessons learned inspire new ideas, that are often widely espoused before being thoroughly tested.

A good way to explain this is to think of Ebenezer Scrooge at the end of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. In the story, a crude, mean man, amasses tons of wealth, reflects upon his life in old age and realizes he focused on the wrong things in life. After a series of spiritual interventions, he becomes generous and espouses goodwill towards his fellow man. The shift in both attitude and tact, is remarkably easier to do, when your own basic, material needs are met. The dirty truth of it is the flawed, dysfunctional and even toxic attitudes and actions helped bring the original success. By attempting to deny or cut out the upsides that came from these attitudes, we start working with different equations.

Our desire to redeem ourselves is so strong. Mistakes large and small are guaranteed on the entrepreneurial path. We often unconsciously project our baggage and embed corrective action into our advice to others. While we may find it comforting, we usually don't know for sure that the changes would produce better results. And Elon Musk and Bill Gates are no less human.

So, if you're trying to hustle from A to B, and you run into Bill Gates or Elon Musk on an elevator, don't ask them what they'd do differently. Ask them to share specifics from their playbook. Try to learn an emulate their process. Details from the proven playbook of the successful are more valuable than their best guesses for new challenges.





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People are dressing up as millennial mass murderers this Halloween here are all the industries the generation is killing

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People are dressing up as millennial mass murderers this Halloween — here are all the industries the generation is killing

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  • People are creating "millennial murderer" costumes this Halloween. 
  • The costumes draw inspiration from headlines that claim "millennials are killing" countless industries.
  • Millennials have been blamed for endangering industries from cereal to department stores to casual dining chains like Buffalo Wild Wings. 

 

Millennials are killing dozens of industries — and providing Halloween costume inspiration while doing so. 

Last week, prankster "Obvious Plant" posted a photo of a fake Halloween costume he had created, called "Millennial Costume." 

The costume shows a young boy in a suit, holding a fake knife. In his hand is a list of "industries killed," which includes cereal, department stores, and Buffalo Wild Wings. 

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While Obvious Plant's costume is fake, he isn't the only one to have the idea to dress up as a millennial murderer this Halloween. 

One person posted on Instagram: "Mass Murdering Millennial costume — swipe for shots of my victims." 

Both millennial kill lists draws from a series of articles published — many of them on Business Insider — that follow a "millennials are killing" headline structure. 

While the generation's consumer trends are rooted in many different factors, from millennials' lack of funds and financial stability to "psychological scarring" from the Great Recession, it's undeniable that young people have significant power over different industries. 

Here's our best attempt to find the stories that inspired the costumes. If you're still looking for a Halloween costume, perhaps this could serve as some inspiration. 

Millennials are killing...

  • Cereal (because it's too time-consuming)
  • Department stores (with an assist by Amazon) 
  • Dinner dates (they're also having less sex)
  • Sitcoms (specifically, the "hangout sitcom")
  • Landlines (couldn't find the headline, but it would be accurate) 
  • Canadian tourism (according to Destination Canada President David Goldstein)
  • Buffalo Wild Wings (as well as Applebee's)
  • Golf (Boomers like it, but millennials don't) 
  • Lunch (but snacks are on the rise) 
  • Soups (also, soap)
  • Red wine (it's rosé's fault) 
  • Hooters (they don't care about breasts) 
  • Crowdfunding
  • Marmalade
  • Home ownership
  • Running
  • Fabric softener
  • Light yogurt
  • Motorcycles
  • The McWrap 
  • Travel planning

We didn't see napkins or beer listed on either costume, so if you want to create your own murderous millennial costume, we recommend incorporating those!

To read Business Insider's 19-point list of industries endangered by millennials, click here. 

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October 31, 2017 at 01:38PM
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Stripes founder toolkit can now issue stock with just a few clicks

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Stripe is best known for providing payments infrastructure that allows startups to quickly get their checkouts up and running. But the company thinks about its mission more broadly: helping startups officially open for business, with all the minutia and legal paperwork that entails. Today Stripe took another step toward its long-term vision by making it …

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October 31, 2017 at 01:36PM
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We Want To Be The Best Neighbors: &pizza Reinvents The Pizza Parlor

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“We priced people in,” Lastoria says while speaking at &pizza’s 28th street shop in New York City, one of the newest of its now 23 locations, during the Fast Company Innovation Festival. All the pies–with unlimited toppings, vegan and gluten-free options–were flat priced at $9. “That’s a lot of what gave us credibility,” Lastoria says. Soon, lines were out the door, and &pizza was expanding around D.C.

Michael Lastoria [Photo: Laurel Golio]In the five years since the H Street shop opened, &pizza has expanded through Maryland and Virginia to Philadelphia and New York City; Boston and Miami are next.

Each &pizza shop is tailored to the neighborhood in which it lives. The company collaborates with a local artist to design the interior décor; in the New York location, abstract graphics created by the muralist Rubin line the walls. Through its “little giants” initiative, &pizza partners with small local makers, like the Brooklyn-based Mike’s Hot Honey, to flavor their pizzas and to bring more visibility to the smaller brands. The pizzas are adorned with produce that is, whenever possible, locally sourced. And through its &charity initiative, the company makes a concerted effort to invest in the communities around their shops.

“We want to be the best neighbors,” Lastoria says. “We have a running policy that if you come in and tell us about a cause you care about, we’ll support it.”

“We make a really good pizza, but it doesn’t end there.” [Photo: Laurel Golio]That ethos has brought about &pizza’s partnership with FoodCorps, an NYC-based nonprofit that connects local schoolkids to healthy food. For every pizza sold on a couple days over the summer, &pizza donated another to FoodCorps. Their partnerships with charities are often short and on a case-by-case basis, not due to a lack of commitment, Lastoria says, but in an effort to spread the company’s philanthropic reach. Anyone can enter a philanthropic request on &pizza’s website, or tell an &pizza employee (who are known as members of “The Tribe” in an effort to boost a sense of shared mission). The company has gone so far as to sponsor and host the wedding of a D.C. couple who couldn’t afford one; Lastoria became ordained in order to facilitate, and weddings on March 14 (that’s Pi Day) have since become something of an &pizza tradition.

We’re creating an environment that promotes bringing the best out.” [Photo: Laurel Golio]But there’s one cause in particular that inflects all the work &pizza does, and that’s fair wages. Over the summer, Lastoria headed to Capitol Hill to re-introduce a bill with Senator Bernie Sanders, calling for a $15 minimum wage by 2024. “We’re creating an environment that promotes bringing the best out,” Lastoria says. “We don’t hire for skill, we hire for personality and style,” he adds. “You just need to be yourself.” That often leads to &pizza hiring people that have not had many job opportunities before–and certainly not ones that pay a living wage and offer healthcare. But to Lastoria, the way of doing business that hurts workers in an effort to save costs is not doing good business at all–and it creates a work environment that’s impossible to feel any loyalty to.

That is not the case with &pizza. Some employees feel loyal enough to the company that they get the signature ampersand tattooed; Lastoria himself has one. And the logo, he says, pretty much says all you need to know about the company. “We make a really good pizza, but it doesn’t end there,” he says. “There’s room to do more.”





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