Celeste, Josh, and Ryan look at Amazon's effect on small business

In this podcast, Celeste, Josh, and Ryan look at Amazon's effect on small businesses. A number of local companies are being nearly put out of business by online purchases, which you might say isn’t all Amazon. But nearly 40% of online purchases are on Amazon or Amazon-owned companies. Amazon is chipping away the retail economy with their massive fulfillment centers that are around the country. They hold most of the various items seen on amazon and they are shipped from those centers to local post offices or UPS. Amazon is also greatly affecting the U.S. postal services with Amazon making deliveries on Sunday available to the populous. This is a problem because it costs a lot more for the postal service (which is already running low on funds) to do so because that is an additional day of pay for those delivering and they don’t get much back from this.

This is our research:

·         http://money.cnn.com/2013/09/04/smallbusiness/amazon-expansion/

http://www.alternet.org/corporate-accountability-and-workplace/4-ways-amazons-ruthless-practices-are-crushing-local

·         http://www.alternet.org/corporate-accountability-and-workplace/4-ways-amazons-ruthless-practices-are-crushing-local

·         http://www.alternet.org/corporate-accountability-and-workplace/4-ways-amazons-ruthless-practices-are-crushing-local

·         http://www.alternet.org/corporate-accountability-and-workplace/4-ways-amazons-ruthless-practices-are-crushing-local

Sydney on the impact of Genetically Modified Organisms

This podcast looks at how Genetically Modified Organisms affect small farms and farmer's markets, as well as the future of Ohio's agriculture industry.

https://ofbf.org/education-and-reference/faq/
http://www.naturalnews.com/031817_GMOs_seeds.html
http://www.card.iastate.edu/publications/DBS/PDFFiles/10wp503.pdf

Brandon and Jordan on how unemployment fraud affects our local and national economy

In this podcast, Brandon and Jordan discuss the economic impacts of unemployment fraud on our local and national economy. They interview Mr. Randy Tucker, a reporter from the Dayton Daily News, in order to learn more about how unemployment fraud affects our economy. They learned that there various ways people commit fraud. Also, they learned that unemployment fraud virtually has no effect on our economy. This topic ended up being very interesting to research. Brandon and Jordan learned a lot
about what exactly unemployment fraud is and how it impacts our local and national economy.  

Sources-  

http://www.wkyc.com/news/article/235193/45/Ohio-unemployment-fraud-cases-double-over-5-years

http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/news/ohio-hires-more-unemployment-fraud-investigators/nZhg6/

http://www.labor.ny.gov/agencyinfo/uifraud.shtm

http://www.dol.gov/dol/maps/state/OH.htm

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/05/01/cnbc-unemployment-fraud/2127897/

Bethany Explores how the retirement of Baby Boomers is going to impact those in skilled trades

In this podcast Bethany explores the world of skilled trades. She looks into what it takes to be an apprentice and how the looming retirement of baby boomers is going to affect the amount of skilled trade workers in our area. To answer this question she interviews Mike Gebhart from IBEW local 82. Mike is the director of the Joint Apprenticeship ad training committee. He works hands on to ensure that each apprentice experiences an array of skills before their five-year education comes to an end or "tops off", as they say at the IBEW. Before this interview with Mike she explores how apprenticeships are funded and their growth the past few years including the number of Journeymen in the state of Ohio. She finds that the number of apprentices in Ohio has decreased slightly in previous years.

Haley and Martin on the economic impact of the new Moraine Fuyao plant

In this podcast, Haley and Martin look at the economic impact of the new auto glass company FuYao has and will have on Moraine as it moves into the old General Motors plant. They are currently renovating the area and already have a few machines and mechanisms that will be used in their production line. Mike Fullenkamp, Tanya Adams, and Ben Nartker were there to tell us more.