Spreading the Voices of Terriers
HOBACHI'S ONLINE DISTRIBUTION
December 9, 2022 at Redlands High School
This is Hobachis first online edition of the newspaper. This page is the News Section where we have released three stories and an infographic.
NEWS
GEN-Z: A NEW WAVE OF RADIO LISTENERS
By Emylee Moreira | Staff Writer
A new path in the fast food industry
By Lara Baden
On September 5th, Governor Newsom signed the FAST Recovery Act (AB 257), which may raise fast food wages for workers in California to $22 per hour, starting in 2023. Following a long struggle for workers, including hundreds of strikes in the past year for the act, the possibility of the increase gives hope to the many minimum wage workers of California (The Guardian).
In California, 500,000 people work in fast food at more than 30,000 locations (SEIU), a portion of which are high schoolers and college students. One of the act’s most prominent factors is the potential raise, but other significant benefits include the assembling of a ten person council who will help set employment conditions for workers, such as working hours and more. It may help the fast food industry increase their unionization rate, which is one of the lowest in the United States.
However, there are some limitations to this act. If the council of “workers, corporate representatives, franchisees, union representatives, and state officials” does decide on the wage raise, it would only apply for chains with over 100 businesses nationwide (American Action Forum). This includes establishments such as Jack in the Box, KFC, Wendy’s, Taco Bell, and more.
Numerous issues have yet to be addressed in these workplaces, however, this law is meant to be a step in the right direction to reduce wage poverty. While the act is currently limited to California, workers elsewhere in the nation hope that their voices will also be heard, and that this is just the beginning to fixing voiced concerns in the system.
Gen-Z: A New Wave of Radio Listeners
By Emylee Moreira
With the rise of music streaming services and social media, there seems to be a misconception that Generation Z is not listening to the radio. However, that could not be further from the truth. According to “Radio’s Roadmap To Gen Z Listenership”, a study conducted by Edison Research, “Over half (55%) of 13-24 year-olds in the U.S. are reached by AM/FM radio daily” (Edison Research 2020). Edison Research also claims that the 55% of Gen Z radio listeners are just above the reach of streaming, which is 53%.
To many, this may come as surprising information. Nonetheless, if you think about it, this makes sense as most young people listen to the radio when they are in the car, especially with their parents. This is a factis fact to many Redlands High School students, as 62.9% of the participants of a survey that asked: “When did you last use the radio?” responded that they listened to the radio the week they answered. From the same survey, it was also found that the most popular radio stationsstation amongst Redlands High School students are 99.1 and 102.7.
So, we’ve established that GenZ does listen to the radio. However, especially with music streaming outlets like Spotify, Apple Music, etc…why would that be so? Well, according to the same study conducted by Edison Research referenced above, “Radio offers the surprise of songs that have not been curated in streaming playlists” (Edison Research 2020). One might rebut that fact with the knowledge that streaming services also have the option for randomized song streaming, but even what seems like completely randomized song-shuffling is not random. As claimed by Lukáš Poláček, a Spotify engineer, “For each artist we take their songs and try to stretch them as evenly as possible along with the whole playlist. Then we collect all songs and order them by their position” (Poláček 2014). If a Spotify engineer himself has stated that playlists are not truly random, a person that claims streaming services also have the option for randomized song streaming does not have a leg to stand on.
All in all, even with the rapid rise of music streaming services, its strong competitors and, to put it bluntly, it having less of an appeal to it in comparison to the ad-free, on-demand alternatives available, the radio remains a force to be reckoned with that seems to be here to stay-- at least in the foreseeable future.
Disneyland prices : What's the limit?
By Roa Lee
Over the years, Disneyland prices have risen, showing significant increase from the $1 entry fee it all began from.
Disneyland, first opened on July 17th, 1955, cost an adult a $1 general admission fee, as well as $0.75 and $0.50 for a junior and child respectively. In recent years, Disneyland showed rapid increases in prices throughout the entire park. Though these growths may not seem like much separately, this may end up costing thousands for a single trip to Disneyland.
On October 8th, the ticket prices for Disneyland and Disneyland California Adventure accumulated on the average of 8-9% and 11% for parking. The cost of preferred parking, which are the parking spaces closer to trams, rose from $45 to $50.
Since 2016, Disneyland has been using a demand pricing system that offers tickets at lower prices for unpopular days and higher for anticipated higher traffic days. The single ticket that is not affected by inflation, the one-day tickets remain the same price as before. Furthermore, the prices for a two day ticket increased at the costly price of $285, originally $255. Contrasting from the lowest cost for a park hopper ticket in the past, $164, the lowest sold now costs $179, ranging up to $244.
Meanwhile, Disneyland introduced a new “Tier 0” one-day ticket that costs $104 per day, the cheapest ticket available. These are restricted to specific days, when tickets are the most unpopular. Adding onto the inflation, the Genie + is an additional payment which allows park guests to skip the line. Previously costing $20, it now costs an additional $5, rising to $25.
In the past, Disneyland’s first price increase was in 1955, rising to $2.50. Recently showing an increase of a couple ten dollars at the least, it can be reasoned that Disneyland prices will only accumulate rapidly much to the displeasure of the public.