{"id":608645,"date":"2021-08-02T13:36:53","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T17:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=608645"},"modified":"2021-08-02T13:36:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T17:36:56","slug":"amid-driver-shortages-ride-share-companies-hike-prices-by-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amid-driver-shortages-ride-share-companies-hike-prices-by-40\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid Driver Shortages, Ride Share Companies Hike Prices By 40%"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Famid-driver-shortages-ride-share-companies-hike-prices-by-40%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=608645&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1231264333.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Ride-sharing companies like Uber and Lyft are hiking prices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The phenomenon occurs as businesses struggle to attract workers, limiting owners\u2019 capacity to serve consumers ready to participate in the economy after widespread government-mandated lockdowns.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/article\/uber-lyft-surge.html\"><span>The New York Times<\/span><\/a><span> reports:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"17\">\n<p><i><span>Customers around the country say they have been startled by the price jumps. In some cases, they say, their Uber rides from airports cost as much as their plane tickets.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Uber and its top rival, Lyft, acknowledge that prices are up and wait times are longer, but they won\u2019t provide specifics. A recent analysis by the research firm Rakuten Intelligence found that the cost of a ride was 37 percent higher in March than it was a year ago. In April, the cost was up 40 percent.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/uber-ride-prices-will-be-less-expensive-by-september-ceo-2021-7\"><span>Business Insider<\/span><\/a><span> adds:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"11\">\n<p><i><span>This increase becomes even more drastic during \u201csurge pricing\u201d periods, when Uber hikes up pay to attract more drivers, Insider\u2019s Grace Dean reported in June. In New York City, an Uber driver can make around $37.44 an hour, while in Houston the median hourly wage is $22.97.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/uber-ride-prices-will-be-less-expensive-by-september-ceo-2021-7\"><span>expects<\/span><\/a><span> that prices will return \u201cto nearly the good old days\u201d by September.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Also in September, the $300-per-week enhanced federal unemployment insurance funded by the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/comparing-trump-and-bidens-covid-relief-bills\"><span>American Rescue Plan<\/span><\/a><span> is set to expire. Many economists point to the payments as a factor slowing the labor market recovery in the United States as employees delay returning to their positions in favor of reaping the unemployment benefits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A Morning Consult <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/report-1-8-million-americans-have-turned-down-jobs-to-stay-on-unemployment\"><span>survey<\/span><\/a><span>, for example, found that one in eight American adults who were jobless at the end of June reported that they had refused positions because they \u201creceive enough money from unemployment insurance without having to work.\u201d Since 14.1 million adults were collecting benefits at the time of the survey, Morning Consult concluded that up to 1.8 million Americans had turned down jobs due to the handouts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>At the beginning of the summer, two dozen Republican governors announced that they would remove their states from the American Rescue Plan payments in the interest of aiding small businesses struggling to attract workers. However, residents of states such as Indiana, Maryland, Texas, and Florida began filing <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/thousands-of-americans-are-suing-their-governors-for-opting-out-of-extra-federal-unemployment-handouts\"><span>lawsuits<\/span><\/a><span> to restore the benefits programs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A lawsuit against Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) reads:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"16\">\n<p><i><span>DeSantis\u2019 termination of Florida\u2019s participation in these programs will reduce and\/or eliminate the benefits to which the Plaintiffs would otherwise be entitled.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Given that Florida\u2019s unemployment compensation program pays one of the lowest benefits in the Country, and is one of the shortest durations in the country, even the addition of the extra Federal payments still barely allows unemployed Floridians to pay their basic living expenses.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>By terminating Florida\u2019s participation\u2026 Defendants are violating their clear legal and statutory duty to secure such benefits for employees in the State of Florida including the Plaintiffs and all other residents of the State of Florida who have been receiving FPUC benefits.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Most states with Democratic governors are still participating in the enhanced unemployment handouts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ride-sharing companies like Uber and Lyft are hiking prices.The phenomenon occurs as businesses struggle to attract workers, limiting owners\u2019 capacity to serve consumers ready to participate in the economy after &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}