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Amazon is hiring 12,000 warehouse workers to sort and pack and ship. amazon says these jobs have benefits that pay 30% more than retail jobs. that is about $13 an hour. far less than the middle class jobs we lost in the recession. look, i will never knock a company for creating a job, but these are not jobs you can raise a family on. two of the fastest growing occupations are personal care aides and home health aides. median pay of $20,000 a year with no benefits. how do we fix it? our leaders a...

Help. >> yeah. second biggest retailer behind wal-mart. j.c. penney, wal-mart. they need at least -- over all it was 70,000. theyre telling us now they still need positions filled. they at least need another probably 5 to 10% of their staffing filled for the christmas holiday. this is sales floor members, cashiers, warehouse workers, you get a discount with target. >> until amazon gets their drone technology down, ups needs people. >> ups, 55,000 overall. the drivers need assistants because of t...

>> if folks in washington really want a grand bargain, how about a grand bargain for middle class jobs? >> but while washington waits for a bargain, millions of american workers feel theyre getting a raw deal. fast food workers across the country who say they cant afford to live where they work, walking off the job to demand higher wages. now the economy is adding jobs, but those new jobs pay less than the ones lost during the recession. the president worries the growing income gap will fray ame...

Senate minority lead are mitch mcconnell says the proposal -- >> doesnt exactly qualify as news. its a further left version of a widely panned plan he already proposed two years ago. >> reporter: wolf, the white house argues it shouldnt matter whether these proposals are new. what should matter is whether they help americans and the white house argues they do. so why unveil this at an amazon warehouse? amazon pays their warehouse workers about $24,000 a year, thats just above the bofpovert line....

Walk-off single. and yankees avoid the sweep. jeter was happy to be back and contributing. >> the first of everything is to get the first hit, first home run, first rbi, first game was difficult for me to get. but it feels great to contribute. but more importantly, we want -- i wouldnt feel good if we lost this game. amazon is planning to hire 7,000 worker in the united states saying the paid benefits will be far above typical retail wages. sounds good, right? alison kosik is here to tell us m...

Focused on these issues. we are concerned with safeguarding the brains of these players. >> but the question comes down to can your employer be looking out for your health? were at this kind of bedrock place. is it possible to create a situation in which your employer can be looking out for your health credibly and b, when the violence of the game is part of what is making the money for that employer. >> theres violence in a lot of workplaces. people lift up boxes hundreds, thousands of times a ...

To can your employer be looking out for your health? were at this kind of bedrock place. is it possible to create a situation in which your employer can be looking out for your health credibly and b, when the violence of the game is part of what is making the money for that employer. >> theres violence in a lot of workplaces. people lift up boxes hundreds, thousands of times a day. theyre running a marathon every day. truck drivers, warehouse workers, people, nurses have incredibly high injury r...

Selling as well as the books on the shelves. >> is that -- im sympathetic to that. there was a part of me that distrusts my like for shop local as this affectation. but basically, you know, yes, the question when were thinking about where our politics come from. is the problem with amazon the fact that its big, or is the fact that it is engaging in anti-competitive practices or its warehouse workers are getting, you know, theres so much heatstroke in one warehouse in pennsylvania that the emerge...

What the connection between robots and amazon.com is. but the connection is very simple. it is using those robots in its warehouses across the country. amazon coming out surprising wall street with a big acquisition. its second largest acquisition ever. the $775 million acquisition of kiva systems. you mentioned it makes robot used in shipping centers. what it does endsp bringing product off the warehouse shelves to the warehouse workers. instead of working going around to the shelves, already o...

For mitt romney passing off jobs as staples and sports authority as middle class jobs. folks, we need to talk about this. these are hard working americans, but if this is your only income, lets face it, its barely a living wage. many people who work at either of these stores are hourly employees. check out workers, folks who stock shelves, warehouse workers, making $8, $9, $10 an hour, less than $20,000 a year. a good chunk of the jobs are part-time with limited benefits, if benefits at all. thi...