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As well. let's not keep this on managers hurting american corporations. there are also some employees disengaged. we have a poll of that. this number, look at this. 29% actively engaged. those are workers who come to work, have the passion to achieve the mission. not engaged, 54%? that's high. >> that is more a culture of the company itself. setting expectations. making sure people feel a connection to the company. if they are not engaged, the question is why aren't they engaged? s there was a famous study many years ago called the hawthorne study. not to get into the wonkyness of the study, w...

On farms and then the productivity increases, automation on the farms. people said what will we do with all of these farmers? a terrible thing. they went into the cities and got into manufacturing. the point i'm trying to make is rather than trying to to go back in the business of textiles and things we can't compete any more, we should be competing and putting our emphasis including government policy and all of this stuff on the industries we are good at, on technology, on health and on education and hugely valid industries. >> i agree a hundred percent on that, but, ron, you bring up a great...

Walmart because they won't pay these workers a decent wage. look, that's why the minimum wage needs to go up, karen. if the minimum wage had kept place with inflation, it would be $10.75. if it had kept pace with the productivity increases, it would be $18.75. if these workers got the same increases as the top 1% in the country, they would be earning $28 an hour right now. it's outrageous. this company uses a model of low wage, no benefit employees to make billions of dollars and lets the rest of us subsidize them for doing it. >> i think we all have our marching orders. the minimum thing we n...

Programs and have careers up and down uncan dial up and dial back again at certain stages. actually those companies find the productivity increases. the companies that say to women and to men we don't care about your input. we care about your output. where and when you work for doesn't matter but what you do produce matters. that works so well for women. in those circumstances, productivity rises for the company and you keep women in the work force. >> i venture to say we might be more productive when we have small children because we're on fire and trying to keep it all going and we are not c...

Highs, there's a troubling question this morning. why isn't unemployment dropping more quickly? "the new york times" reports major corporations have seen soaring profits but haven't been able to add to their work force. in the third quarter of 2012, corporate profits accounted for over 14% of the national income, its largest share in more than 60 years. however, personal income has seen its largest drop in nearly two decades, falling by over $500 billion. >> mika, i warned this, that if barack obama got elected, the richer would get richer and the poor would get poorer, and here it is. >> come...