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In reply to the discussion: The Downward Trend for America's Working Class continues, unchecked. [View all]jmowreader
(50,566 posts)19. It's the stockholders more than the CEOs
Google "Home Depot Values" and you'll find their Eight Core Values. Number five is Creating Shareholder Value. It should be number one because in any decision, if you can benefit either the shareholder or someone else, the shareholder comes first.
Most Fortune 500 companies feel the same way.
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It IS heart-breaking. One more statistic, one in six US children go to bed hungry every
sabrina 1
Jul 2013
#4
Sabrina, one big problem is that poor people don't vote regularly. Real change won't
bluestate10
Jul 2013
#8
I not only voted for Obama, I worked to get him elected and things are still getting
rhett o rick
Jul 2013
#65
The problem is much bigger than that. The media is propagandizing us, many that want to vote are
rhett o rick
Jul 2013
#64
Sabrina, not meaning to dismiss the severity of food insecurity (hunger) in the
HardTimes99
Jul 2013
#71
The minimum wage has to be increased to a level that single people and families can
bluestate10
Jul 2013
#5
No one that has the power to do anything about it genuinely cares to make it better.
HughBeaumont
Jul 2013
#10
The "poverty line" as currently determined is out of date and woefully underestimates poverty.
snot
Jul 2013
#46
Some people insist that America's Poor, the Working Poor, and the Soon to be Poor
bvar22
Jul 2013
#75
The only way to fight back is with a Union. The politicians and their owners do not care about you.
Skeeter Barnes
Jul 2013
#20
I am so sorry to hear that. Democrats cannot ignore the wage problem anymore. There are just too
liberal_at_heart
Jul 2013
#38
Bare in mind 9.5 making 500K will soon be worth twice that and twice again soon after
SleeplessinSoCal
Jul 2013
#28
I'm tired of Congress' action on minimum wage. Raising minimum wage just isn't enough anymore.
liberal_at_heart
Jul 2013
#37
Corporations are desperately trying to make the minimum wage the standard wage
PowerToThePeople
Jul 2013
#42
The thing is they raise the minimum wage, companies will merely hire part-time
duffyduff
Jul 2013
#83
what I want to know is if we now know it doesn't work why can't we change it?
liberal_at_heart
Jul 2013
#67
Because the elites who believe in it and profited from it control both political parties. n/t
duffyduff
Jul 2013
#84
And Obama has been fiddling for 5-1/2 years, while the U.S. burns. One of his solutions is to screw
MotherPetrie
Jul 2013
#76