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When capitalism fails...a job should still be a right
It's easier to get into Harvard than Wal-Mart. During the 2014 admissions process, Harvard University accepted 5.9% of freshmen who applied to that school. And Ivy-League rival Yale University accepted 6.3% of freshmen who applied. While those numbers are pretty low, there's one number that's a lot lower: Wal-Mart's hiring rate. It's twice as hard to get a job at Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the US, and a company that rakes in nearly $1.8 million in profit every hour, than it is to get into Harvard.
As NBC Washington pointed out, when Wal-Mart came to the nation's capital last year, the corporate behemoth received over 23,000 applications to fill the 600 jobs in its District of Columbia stores. Do the math and that translates to a hiring rate of just 2.6%. When a corporation that makes tens of billions in profits every year is hiring fewer people than Harvard University is accepting students, you know there's a jobs problem in America. It's time for that to change.
In his State of the Union Address on January 11, 1944, FDR proposed his "Second Bill of Rights," also known as "The Economic Bill of Rights." One of the rights he proposed was - quite literally, just like the "right to free speech" - that every American should have the right to a job. Roosevelt said that every American should have, "The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the nation," and, "The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation."
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... Shocker...U.S. stock markets rigged? (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)
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Daily Take: When capitalism fails...a job should be a right
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Monday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: Are Unions coming to college football?- James Sherk, Heritage Foundation
And, do veterans support Keystone XL?- Dave Saldana, PipeLIES Exposed.
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Hour Two: Time to consider ecocide a crime? Article: " 4th Amendment". " The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.".
Hour Three: Global food security threatened by warming world?- Dr. Brenda Ekwurzel, Union of Concerned Scientists |
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Hour Two: What's a little voter fraud?- Horace Cooper, National Center for Public Policy Research
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