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So that money goes back into the system. so there is a real disconnect and its very you use the word condescending earlier, to think you can say this is because its all your fault. you want low prices. this is why we have low wages. its not a one-to-one relationship. you dont get your money to pay people strictly from sales. >> but i do -- part of i guess what ive been wondering if you are walmart shopper and if you are a captured audience and you live in a rural community and walmart is the pla...

Pay living wage, they are more profitable, they have less turnover from employees so there is another model out there. but lets go back -- >> look. i love costco. i could -- i have a costco situation in my household. so i love costco. but i also i have the wear with all to purchase a membership. with walmart you can drive through any rural town and there is one and stop and get gas and groceries. >> you can support your local own business that walmart tends to drive out, if its still there. show...

>> i like to point out we talk about you may not know next semester whether or not you have a job in order to teach because of the job insecurity. that also means students that if you took a class, with you this semester you may not be around next semester to write a letter of recommendation. i think its mostly invisible to students. they see us standing up there and giving assignments and they dont realize the differences in how people are experiencing their job. what then can unionization do t...

Religious business owners of for profit corporations, winding their way through the court system. the courts are divided on it but they combine two interesting trends that were wrestling with in this country, one is the trend towards personhood, asking for religious con shens rights that be applied to corporations instead of just to individual natural persons who can think and feel. the other is a trend towards these -- the question for religious exemptions for laws that otherwise apply to every...

Because theres a market for that. theres a market where thats maybe all they can afford to eat. this is an industry where theyve been working to do better, to bring more locally sourced products and healthy products and try to get subsidies or partnerships that were going to make that affordable, so they can offer these things. i was yesterday at a conference sponsored by governor cuomo trying to match local purveyors with restaurants here in new york city to make sure theyre getting high-qualit...

Health officials know it has been caused by a tropical cyclospora parasite. but the source of the outbreak is still unknown. linked to produce. causes diarrhea and flu-like symptoms. fast food workers in seven states are walking off the job today in protest of wages they say are too low to live on. the one-day strike taking place at mcdonalds, burger king, wendys and popular chains in new york an parts of the midwest. aimed at mobilizing workers and drawing attention to what they claim are pov...

Nothing to do, where there is a lack of resources and you have a lot of young people those communities, youre going to have a problem. not to mention the teardown of public housing that spread poverty across certain sections of the city. that became a problem and is still a problem. >> mary mitchell from "chicago sun-times." great city of chicago. thank you so much. >> thank you. walmart just had its big annual shareholders meeting and would very much like it if you paid attention to all of th...

Of the city. that became a problem and is still a problem. >> mary mitchell from "chicago sun-times." great city of chicago. thank you so much. >> thank you. walmart just had its big annual shareholders meeting and would very much like it if you paid attention to all of the big-name celebrities they had on stage instead of their terrible labor practices. thank you very much. more on that coming up.

Position. >> yeah, you know, for all of the meals that the president has taken with republicans lately and all of the fawning that you see from establishment press outlets, the presidents reach to the middle and moderating and trying to do a deal with the republican. if he were to make a deal like this, a guy who is tangled up in so many things and the justice department that the republicans do not like, thats not exactly an olive branch. his first action after the so-called charm offensive is t...

>> it is absolutely essential that the documents this committee has requested on benghazi be supplied before the confirmation moves forward. >> and treasury secretary nominee jack lew is facing some new scrutiny. financial disclosure forms reveal he held up to $100,000 in an offshore hedge fund in the cayman islands, the kind of investments that president obama repeatedly criticized. there is also speculation that president obama may pick chicago billionaire and hyatt hotel heiress penny pritzke...