wal-mart you know what's behind wal-mart. you know it's an advertiseing. you know this guy is paid by wal-mart. who are those protesters? who are the people down in occupied wall street? .9 were didn't care. they were professional socialist agitators. >> you are getting t. >> adam, i just can't believe that you continuously don't mind th demonization of wal-mart. are part is guy. you look over at india, india right now are dealing with run away inflation because they kicked out the big box retailers. there is no infrastructure because they wanted to save ma and pa, people are paying more forrionions over there. what wal-mart has done goes beyond the average person. it's a net-net, win-win. >> two things, i want to make perftly clear. i am not criticizingal mart. i am analyzing the criticism of wal-mart. that's an important distinction. yeah. because it is. it's a political point. >> selling budweiser, let me finish, charlie, selling budweiser, selling beer, pushing credit cards is pushing crit cards, talking about we are devoted to manufacturing in america

are going to go up and what about the stores that wal-mart doesn't open because. their costs went up. you have to look at the unseen the stores that don't go up those are property taxes that won't be collected those are construction jobs they won't happen that is hiring that won't happen so you know the argument is the question that i was asked is. why are we subsidizing shoppers at wal-mart why are we subsidizing people who eat at mcdonald's well that's one of these why is this guy a great guy the glasses well this guy isn't brain we're not really subsidizing these people a lot of these jobs wouldn't exist at all at higher minimum wages wal-mart right out of oakland some of these the way they might like oh yes there are taxes for the workers and i'll fall over elsewhere but i want to tell you about this mike francis coppola from the u.k. she was a recent guest here seizing on boom bust and she suggested that we have no minimum wage but that the government top up working wages below the poverty level doing this in order to maintain a living standards do you think

they can buy anything that they want wal-mart but here's the thing. means that it could be securely transferred to anyone just one of the two million wal-mart workers i have a question could i exchange my wall box for me you can exchange your wall your your wall box for big but you can exchange them for us dollars so that's the key so the person who employee you could actually take the wall box and the cash out of the system and it's almost like having money and then people can come into the system from outside the shop at wal-mart except this seems brilliant in the sense that it tackles minimum wage it also helps wal-mart you know not that we're all looking to help wal-mart but it's from a business perspective it's a good model but i ask other big retailers like target or i don't know c.v.s. like we mentioned before what's another one. or any one of us can they employ a similar method definitely without a doubt i mean from my perspective the whole point is look you know we want to workers to be happy we want productivity to be a set of a if you could

so that again put pressure on the american customer to buy at wal-mart. >> and pressure on wal-mart, too. so, also, real quickly, i want to get your thoughts on the fact that wal-mart has been under pressure for wages for employees. is there any indication that doug mcmillan might move on that stance? >> that's interesting raise that. a group came out with a letter to doug mcmillan asking them to engage with them in terms of looking agent how you treat employees, raising wages and giving them more hours and doug, when he was speaking at the same conference i mentioned earlier in schwitzer land, the world economic forum he said the company talks a lot about their people, that their relationship with people and customers, that trust is the ultimate asset but he made a comment that behavior is different than intent. so, he didn't -- >> what does that mean? >> exactly, which is it could be that their intention is to treat customers failure but how do you get back in terms of execution? if you pay employees more, if you pay employees more, that will reduce your profits. so, it could be, h

meanwhile, did any of you catch these wal-mart ads?nk they're about trying to show the mean evil retailers in a very different light. [ male announcer ] e new new york is open. open to innovation. open to ambition. open to boldids. that's why n york has a new plan -- dozens of tax free zones all across the state. move here, expand here, or start a new business here and pay no taxes for ten years... we're new york. if there's something that creates more jobs, and ows more businesses... we're open to it. start tax-free business at startup-ny.com. >> i get bonuses even working part-time neil: wal-mart play nice. you know, is nice. to its workers and customers come in nice to and for america. but that is getting lost with the nlrb. so not happening. the labor group targeting wal-mart for disciplining workers went on strike. wal-mart says not so that no employees striking were targeted. over to our panel on whether the retailers have a case. rebecca, you think they do? >> in this case, and this is a case specific incident, workers are sayin

wow so wal-mart is a role model served by. role model he means economic death stars since wal-mart destroys everything in its path leaving behind nothing more than a modernist wasteland and keep this in mind tom cruise is charging twenty five million bucks a pop per movie so how much did wal-mart shell out to have crews tout the company as the gold standard of business models after all we're talking about a company that has complete disregard for safety standards number one thousand deaths resulted from a collapse the garment factory in bangladesh a factory wal-mart commission for its products what wal-mart still refuses to sign an international safety agreement that would help prevent future disasters like these not to mention the fact that this corporation is the biggest welfare queen of all costing taxpayers millions of dollars to subsidize food stamps for its underpaid employees but i guess the money they're not spending on these issues is going straight to the pockets of a listers like cruz. and i can't help but talk abou

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all because he supports wal-mart's plan to get this, buy american-made goods. what is wrong with that? neil's gang is debating it at the bottom of the hour. up first, a new study showing obama tax is about to make health care premiums spike. so is it any wonder democrats are at a loss for words? >> a part of the affordable health care act was to save $2500 a day and what happened to it? [ laughter ] . >> hi, everyone, we're live from america's headquarters, i'm jamie colby. anti-government protestors reportedly taking full control of the capital city of kiev after the president is forced to flee overnight. meanwhile, lawmakers there are warning the country is if danger of being split in two. fox news will have live reports all day from moscow on the developing story. back here at home, a plane carrying federal immigration officials forced to make an emergency landing in mobile, alabama after some of the passengers were having breathing problems and eye irritation. all are expected to be okay. emergency crews believe hydraulic fuel somehow leaked into the cabin.

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and wal-mart, that stock this morning is, tell new a second.rly 2%, that's the weak forecast there. i use wal-mart as an economic indicator of the future, charles. so, what do you say about that? >> now what? i don't think it has that role anymore. i think what we're seeing with wal-mart is creative destruction. a lot of people don't believe-- we don't need like the anti-trust laws. competition and free markets always comes to the rescue. at one point a & p, which a lot of people don't realize, great atlantic and pacific controlled 70% of supermarket sales in the country. the government was going to break them up, they didn't have to, competition did. there's a lot of competition nipping at the heels of wal-mart, they better figure out a way to simultaneous attack amazon and the cheaper family dollars of the world. i know they're doing it, i spoke to an executive at wal-mart a couple of weeks ago they better get on it. they've got to make it a much bigger priority. stuart: you brought your good stuff. charles: i'm pumped up and people should be

everybody goes after wal-mart. i don't want to go after wal-mart, but they pay a lot more than your minimum wage. david is right about this needs to be taken out of government hands, how does president obama decide it's $10? last year he said it was $9. why not make it 15? this is insane t. average minimum worker, thatousehold brings in just over $5,300, there is not a correlation for minimum wage than any part of the economic sprek e spectrum as far as poverty is concerned. take this out of government's hands, link it to something like inflation and a basket of wages, then you don't have a political tool like president obama is using. >> okay. jonas, i know you think that government has a role in regulating business, but are wages, should they be a part of that? >> that's a tough call. at least i would say you are not in a recession, you feed low wages to suck up the labor force. we already know the government regulates safety and environmental roles because a company might still garbage if a river if there wasn't

sewell can't afford to buy as much as wal-mart. you know, the rising tide lifts all boats. if the tide isn't rising, you can't lift the boat of the walton family. a dollar in food stamps gives about a dollar seventy. they spend them. say they spend them at safeway. safe way needs to hire more people. the peer they hire, in turn, have the money to buy goods and the stores that sell those goods have to hire more people. it's a virtual cycle. so cutting these kind of benefits is cruel to folks who are getting cut and it's also stupid for the entire economy. >> mr. sewell, do you see that in your tone experience? i mean did it change, for example, where you and your family would buy your food or what kinds of things top shelf stuff, brand-name stuff, all of that, i presume, goes away when you are dealing with these kind of numbers? >> well, yeah. you don't -- you know, you don't buy steak. very rarely if there is something cheap. >> would you be shopping at wal-mart anyway? >> no. i don't shop. we did shop a couple of times at wal-mart but we found that their produce was not ve

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sales were around four hundred five billion dollars but those huge profits don't trickle down to wal-mart employees who on average take home just nine dollars an hour those low wages combined with very poor benefits forced many wal-mart employees to reach out to the government for assistance with health care food housing costs and others and as a result a report issued earlier this year by congressional democrats found that wal-mart's low wages and poor benefits cost american taxpayers between nine hundred thousand and one point seven five million dollars purse the war is fight or republicans might try to tell you the overwhelming majority of taxpayer funds are not going to social safety net programs like unemployment or insurance or food stamps or welfare instead they're going to prop up multibillion dollar corporations and out of control the military industrial complex that is balloon in size and power this is a simple matter of priorities if the average american has to pay six thousand dollars in taxes and direct and indirect subsidies should that money go to oil companies defense cont

they are working at wal-mart and mcdonald's and working two or three jobs.s not the america we believe in. and that's got to be our goal. >> james hoffa, thanks for joining us. we hope you will continue to join us throughout the year. >>> you haven't really made it in america until you own your own home. coming up a look at housing in the land of opportunity and whether renting is a better idea than buying. you are watching a al jazeera special presentation. more fun than the camp because it teaches us and makes us >> i believe the characteristics of a middle class are have enough money to have a family and a house and -- in an area that isn't the most expensive in town, and is also not the most poor. i think the american dream is working hard and at the end of your working [ technical difficulties ] >>> when the housing market collapsed in 2008, it sent america into a recession that hit the middle class hard. millions of americans found themselves under water on their homes or facing foreclosure. those under 35 showed the steepest decline in homeownership f

corporations like wal-mart are shifting costs to the public sector. one championed anti-affirmative action stuff has a ballot option in californiat that will raise minimum wage in california because he wants to pay what they are worth. >> why not $14? why not $16? >> why not none according to you guys? >> why not $20. >> you don't have to convince me. >> that would keep up with inflation from 1968. completely rational. >> it doesn't matter what you think. >> don't you think people deserve a cost of living increase? >> it is compassion against economics. >> what i can't believe, though, is that the democrats, what the democrats have decided to do with this report is call it wrong. they are not going to try to -- they are just going to call that part of it wrong. >> we can talk about -- >> find out that it is wrong. >> think about it. let's take that gamble. >> i'm not gambling with 16.5 million people who aren't getting paid enough. i'm not gambling with people living below the poverty line. >> you are gambling with 500,000 jobs at a time. >> cbo does

mcdonalds and the wal-marts because they encourage their people to call and find out about how they can get government assistance. you elevate -- >> it will destroy jobs. the first wrong on the economic ladder, you are pulling that away from people in the economy where you have a jobs crisis already. >> every small marginal group, their profit margins are tiny. >> i think i will answer your questions. we raised the minimum wage for years periodically. it's less now than it would be if it kept up with inflation. 800,000 people lost the government roles. they will go out there and spend the money. >> let me get this in. exit question. who all in the numbers crunchers, the white house or the congressional budget office? pat buchanan. >> white house can't beat the cbo anymore. >> the white house will beat the cbo and the republicans on this issue. >> are you sure? even obama? can he do it? >> there are plenty of facts that support the president's position. and the american people want the minimum wage raised. >> it's not even close. the cbo will win. >> that means there's no raising the min

there is no state or federal law that say wal-mart can't hire excons.hat economists tell us is if you require wal-mart to hire those kinds of people, they will go out of their way to find out how to minimize the number of people they can hire, regardless of whether people have demonstrated they are sorry, or ready to reintegrate into society. any time an employment mandate is adopted it creates these effects. we're seeing it with veterans, handicap and if we add ex-cons it would be the same. >> when we come back, we're going to look at innovative responses to getting felons back on track. >>> welcome back. we're talking about sensible ways to try to reintegrate ex-cons back into society. and waj i think our community has some creative ideas. >> whole bunch of comments . . . >> shameless promotion of killer dave's my favorite cinnamon bread hands down. desmond you are tapped into grass root groups that are really changing things. what is happening? >> first of all i think it is shifting the label ex-felon, or ex-con. we refer to them as returning citizen

we deserve to be able to buy at wal-mart versus someplace else and wal-mart buys from overseas.rve to spend less versus having the attitude of, i am not going to buy something unless it's made in america and i don't care what it costs me. but that's not the attitude that people take. and why don't they tank that attitude? you saw it in the families. they can't even pay their bills. so why should they pay more when they can't even pay their bills that they have? >> is the american middle clalths under more pressure or less in the last few years? >> it's under more pressure. i have always used this stat with us, that there is a highway into poverty and there is not even a sidewalk out. and there is a term known as sticky. once you get into poverty, it is very difficult to get out of poverty and, in my opinion, there is -- there is prosperity and poverty for those people who make money. they almost make more money off of people, the banks, the institution, they make money off of the poor, so they have no desire to get the poor back into the middle class. >> suze, my friend thank yo

the accused shooter behind bars awaiting charges. >>> ready for that wal-mart video?onnecticut gun safety equipment is tax free there except apparently at waurpl. one customer -- at wal-mart. one customer who bought a gun safety said he was charged tax. he told the clerk about the law but was charged any way. a wal-mart spokesperson insists the company is in compliance with the law and doesn't charge tax on gun safes but the customer says he has the receipt and it proves otherwise. >>> airlines eyeing punishment for unruly passengers on flights. do you remember that? the lady who was taken off an american airlines flight in may after she wouldn't stop singing the song "i will always love you"? airlines want to fine fliers who get out of control up in the air. >>> want to improve your social life? get a dog. a study found owning a dog can make you more social, have more friends and feel less isolated. the study says walking with the dog can help you meet people. however, the same results were not seen for pets like cats, hamsters and liz stkardz. >> a 42-year-old missi

>> right, because if i'm an investor in wal-mart, am i criticizing wal-mart that they're overpaying whatarket is telling them to buy? >> do you think that's occurring this morning, wellington or fidelity calling up and saying, why are you raising the minimum wage? i got to make some news here. help me, rafi. >> well, it's about .4% is what you pass on pricing for a 10% increase in the minimum wage. >> that's interesting. >> i mean, that's chump change for us. >> it makes sense that prices would rise, but maybe, rafi, you can address this. the former advisor to the white house noted that when fast food workers in new jersey were paid a higher wage, it did not have any negative impact on unemployment. that would suggest that actually wages are too low. do you not agree? >> well, this is one of the top princeton professors, and as a former economics professor once said to me, the way he analyzes data is like sausage t. tastes good, but you don't want to necessarily know what goes into it. >> right. >> so my point is, i'm trying to understand the rationale, the economic rationale of that stu

gerri: and wal-mart. >> you'll have trouble. gerri: the listeners think a blob blob why it is just in the ways so we see the impact. what do you do? you save for kids' college what is your adve? >> that is the question. you have to stay diversified you will have some exposure to emerging markets through the 401k but you cannot have all your money is in a concentrated position at this time in the marketplace so stay diversified whether biotechnology or technology or energy act what that does the fed. gerri: sector gets out of favor you can divsify their portfolio. gerri: emerging-market equity funds people are gaining their money is that the right response or an opportunity to buy? >> indicating is not the right response. actually if you have some allocation it could be interesting to take the flow from another sector or country. i just want people to be diligent and diversified. gerri: great to see you. enjoy the super bowl. later, it turns out even jon stewart is not a big fee and how obamacare is going. a and some good news ho

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worker is today. >> just steps away from the memorial honoring fallen mil workers, the wal-mart hasced the mil's former headquarters. still, some of the youngest generation in rearden haven't given up hope. >> i always told my mom, my dad, if i could make good money here, i would stay here. >> 26-year-old sean brown, a national guardsman lives with his wife and high school sweetheart, danielle and their 6 month old baby, maggie may. a few years ago, sean managed to grab one of the rare job openings at the mil. ahead. >> you just go in, do your job, and take it day by day. ♪ >> the feelings that you remember when you first got hired was the greatest time. because i remember parking that car, and i remember punching in with that car my first time. it just felt so good. >> for john beddano, the passed. only the memories remain. david shuster, al jazeera. >> james hoffa jr. is the general president of the international brotherhood of teamsters, one of the world's largest labor unions with 1.4 million members. thank you for being with us. you know, we, as people, as consumers, like free

>> actually, we d we actually thought it would be one of those jpmorgan wal-mart calls, where back in the fall, this was one of the worst winters in a decade and we're having that. here today, we're talking about epoch cold. it's the coldest in 36 years. it's frigid out there. 64% of the country is covered in snow. and so we did. this is not the weather that you want for high retail sales. you and i are in cabin fever mode. and we're not bracing the icy streets. and it's a big negative for retail sales and traffic. even starbucks sales go up. and the reality is that it's too cold. so you're cutting back on that latte, it's too cold. and you go from work to home, and that's about if. >> and you're not going to risk the roads if they're icy. by the way, talking about the cold in the northeast, in parts of the country, they have a drought that's also affecting business. >> it's a perfect storm this year. 2013 was an out-of-sink year, colder summer, and the blizzards in december. the holiday shopping was weak because we had snowstorm after snowstorm on the weekends, and now in california,

there is no state law and certainly no federal law that says wal-mart can't hire ex-cons.onomists tell us is, if you require wal-mart to hire those kind of people, they will go out of their way to find out how to minimize the number of people that they can hire regardless of whether people are qualified, regardless of whether people have demonstrated that they are sorry or are ready to repent or reintegrate in to society. every single time an employer mandate of any kind with a discrimination law is adopted it creates these effects. we are seeing it with set veterans with handicap. if we added ex-con to his the category, you would see the very same phenomenon. there is a lot of literature on that. >> when we come back we'll look at some innovative responses to getting felons back on track. stick around. want to see what's going to happen. >> i want to know what works what do you know works? >> conversations you won't find anywhere else. >> talk to al jazeera. >> only on al jazeera america. >> oh my! ♪ ♪ >>> welcome back. we are taking about the some sensible ways to try to

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wal-mart is tough and if you're a wal-mart employee making minimum wage, again, it's not good, it's notere's a flip side to that. the fact that they keep costs so low, their products are, therefore, that much lower priced. so the consumer in some way benefits, doesn't it? >> but they can't afford to buy their own stuff. >> again, when wal-mart opens a store, if their wages are so miserable and their benefits are so miserable, why in the world do they have long lines of people lining up, trying to get those jobs? the thing is, you want to get that job. you want to get the skills and have a chance to move up. >> but the thing is, you're not paying them enough to -- >> if you have value in the marketplace, if somebody doesn't pay you enough, somebody else will. when you talk about mcdonald's and yum, most of those are young people getting the skills. 2/3 of those folks within a year start moving up the wage ladder. >> so what's the danger? the government says you've got to be paying -- this amount of money. >> it hurts especially young people who don't have skills, are not going to get the

wal-mart is one of the most ago agreeing gus of all. they rip off people like small businesses on main street and doing business all of the time with china and building inferior products. >> should they do business with china? >> if they produced toys that weren't wet. >> those of us who appreciate premarkets told this squeeze this down in england in 1990 you were a lord in the british parliament. margaret thatcher responding to your argument. >> >> gas was taxed. down here. that or that? >> i agree with her, her point if you didn't get it, i would rather have a big gap with all of us up rather than together. >> the problem was rising yachts do not live like most. >> let's talk about this in terms of the very poor and the very wealthy. the very poor have a lot of programs to help them. there are ones that you don't agree with. i am talking about the working class in america which the free market gave reasonable income inequality if you would in the 50's, 60s and 70s. >> you would tax the rich more, raise the minimum wage, president obam