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Regional Minimum Wage Plan Gains Support, Could Include Controversial Exemptions
Juan Salcedo spends more than third of his life at Jack in the Box or Wal-Mart. Thirty hours a week goes to the fast-food franchise, where he makes a minimum wage of $10.30 an hour, and another 30...
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Homeless Techie Launches Squiffy, a Janitorial Startup
Simon Brooks rolled into Silicon Valley with his border collie-black lab mutts, Lexy and Chelsea, and his life savings tied up in a promising wordplay app. The British ex-pat and lifelong language buff...
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Downtown Streets Team Faces Claims of Hard-Partying Work Culture, Gender...
As with many of the Downtown Streets Team staff functions, attendees say the liquor flowed freely during the 2014 holiday party at the non-profit group’s San Jose headquarters on The Alameda. A young...
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Several Bay Area Cities Vow to Investigate Misconduct Claims Against Downtown...
Last week, San Jose Inside broke the story of accusations by former employees against Downtown Streets Team CEO Eileen Richardson and her son, Director of Program Operations Chris Richardson, who they...
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County Reconsiders Contract with Downtown Streets Team
Once this news outlet exposed claims of sexual misconduct and discrimination by Eileen Richardson and Chris Richardson, the mother-son duo in charge of Downtown Streets Team (DST), a host of local...
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A Couple Board Members Apparently Part Ways with Downtown Streets Team
The top three trustees of Downtown Streets Team (DST) remain the same since this news outlet broke news about claims of rampant harassment and discrimination by the non-profit’s founder Eileen...
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Palo Alto Commissioners Call for Greater Accountability From Downtown Streets...
For Palo Alto’s elected leaders, the talking points were enough. In a bulleted cascade of rebuttals, Downtown Streets Team (DST) board member Owen Byrd denied and downplayed claims that the nonprofit...
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