Trendy neighborhood hit by retail slump

August 11, 2017

Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood has gone from being a magnet for retail businesses to a place where rents are dropping as the number of empty storefronts rise. The percentage of available storefronts sits at 23.1 percent today compared to 4.7 percent at the end of 2011.

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Waffle House workers in Conyers, Georgia, are now on their third day of striking over what they call the company’s unfair policies. Led by the Union of Southern Service Workers (USSW), Waffle House employees are demanding an end to the mandatory “meal credit” deductions from their paychecks, along with better wages and improved working conditions.