meijer plans to hire 9,000 workers in 5 states. it's in preparation for the back-to-school and holiday selling season. most of the jobs are part-time. hiring is actually lower than last year, when stores added 12,000 employees. meijer is hiring in michigan, ohio, indiana, illinois, and kentucky. the nation's largest meat processor, tyson foods, which just reported higher quarterly profits than expected due to a rebound in its beef business, took a further step that may increase the price of beef. effective next month, tyson says it will no longer accept cattle fed with growth enhancers used to increase weight before slaughter. tyson foods told cattle feeders it will suspend its purchase of cattle fed the growth additive zilmax. the company called it not a food safety issue, but a matter of animal well-being. "some cattle had problems walking." the food and drug administration approved the additive, also known as zilpaterol, in 2006. it boosts weight and muscle in livestock. but reports of animals unable to walk meant they could not

kent meijer now wanted for taking thousands of dollars from two more victims in minnesota.omen on-line and begins to date them and gain their trust. in the recent cases he has accused of swindling 203,000 dollars. he told one woman he would put in a new stereo system. for another he claims he would invest the money for her. meijer is on the lose this morning. >> could your employer soon be changing its health insurance plans. the changes are good according to one new survey. >> a new study found a large majority of mid to large sized companies expect health insurance costs to rise. most are considering changing their insurance offerings as a result. one big reason for that is under the law the federal government will have a 40 percent exercise tax on insurers of employer sponsored health plans with an aggregate value of 210,000 for individual coverage and 27,500 for family coverage. the 420 companies it surveyed more than 60 percent of employers believe they will trigger that exercise tax in 2018 if they don't change their current benefit strategy. nearly 40 percent say the

breaking the sound barrier as an introduction by bill meijer, and the silenced majority, uprisings, occupationsl moore. and these are the weekly interviews that we do on democracy now, and taking one story each week and sort of making that -- bringing that out to be published in newspapers around the country. there's so much to cover. in that week of the tenth anniversary of iraq, we interviewed thomas yonk. thomas is a young soldier who went to iraq and wasn't there five days before he was in sadr, and the same day the son of cindy sheehan died. but thomas was shot. and he was paralyzed from the neck down. came back to the united states. and we started speaking out against war after he was somewhat rehabilitated. then he threw a pulmonary elm blimp -- embolism a few years ago and his physical health started do tee-deteriorate. and he sent a camera crew to his home because he was so soft-spoken. and we had fill donahue. the open practice before open practice and then a show on msnb, right before the invasion, and was dumped, even though it was the most popular show on msnbc, it was the 58 -- 8: