This is real money and you are the most important part of the show. Tell me what is on your mind by tweeting me at ali velshi. Americans and employers extended the hiring spree in july adding 209,000 net new jobs to the economy. That is according to the newest jobs report that came out earlier today. Although julys gains actually dipped compared to the gang buster gains weve seen in previous months weve seen an average of 244,000 new jobs every month for the next past six months. Thats good news but we want to see higher average monthly job gains because were greedy about these things. We have a lot of time to make up for all those months where we lost jobs otherwise it still feels oh slow going for many of the estimated 9. 7. Million americans who are still looking for work. I usually say to ignore the Unemployment Rate figure but i want to Pay Attention to this one for now. Unemployment actually picked up to 6. 2 . Up a little bit. While that sounds bad its not. Heres why. Last month also saw a slight up tick in the Labor Force Participation rate to 62. 9 . 62. 9 is the percentage of working age people who are actually available to work. Who are working. These are people who have either got jobs or actively looking for jobs. This figure had dropped to histor historic lows by late last year because Many Americans effectively were dropping out of the workforce. The fact that people are coming back in this as this number goes down at aer cause this number to go up as well, around this translates into a slightly higher jobless rate, but this time for the right reason. You can go ahead and ignore this figure for the rest of this discussion, but lets not ignore this one. Wage growth. Last month average hourly wages picked up. The this is a 2 gain over the last two months. This is below the wage of inflation. We see wages rise 3. 5 to 4 a were. It keeps pace with rising prices and gives you extra money. We are not there yet. Only creating more high paying jobs will push average wangs upwards. Once we see solid wage growth well know americas recovery is really on the right track. Regardless of job growth the workforce of the future will look different than it does today. In fact, we only have an extra 10 to 15 years for people to have places in manufacturing and offices across the globe. Were joined by Stanford University where he serves as a fellow for the school of corporate governance, counten to you rain on this parade. Six months of creating 200,000 jobs a month, and here you are with doom and gloom to tell us forget it, there are going to be no jobs in 15 years. At the moment were fine. Now well be changing our cars were driven cars to Driverless Cars. In other words, by the end of this decade well have commercial models available that drive themselves, and then beyond that well be battling, should we allow human beings to be on the roads at all. Human beings, they drink, they get distracted, they fight with their spouses and they crash into each other. Selfdriving cars dont do that. But you no longer need taxi drivers, delivery drivers or chauffeurs. What happens to all of those drivers. And then amazon, heres the thing. We both are Technology Fans and fans of things that are really advancing our society. But all of us have to honestly admit those who like Technological Advancement have got to figure out what the challenge is for the workforce. How do you have a middle class where the middle class in this country and other countries are built on a manufacturing sector. You use robots to manufacture thing and Driverless Cars to deliver things and people what is the answer. Ill be optimistic. The course wilthe cost also drop dramatically. The cost of cellphones used to be larger, but now they have dropped dramatically. Well be printing food, well have these amazing devices to print in our homes using 3d printers. Everything drops. Unemployment wages, give them a basic wage, and we can work less. A lot of good things happen as well. The thing that i worry about what will we do for a living . How do we get the satisfaction that we get today . What do we do instead of work . Thats an interesting case . Were going to want to produce value, guys like you and me we like to think were giving value to somebody. We want to find some replacement to providing value whether its for ourselves or our families, the world around us. What will that look like for a thinker like you. The ones who sit in front of their t. V. s all day. Others who are musicians, artists who seek to uplift themselves and gain knowledge. But the fact is were going to have a lot of things changing. And people are not ready for this. Theyre not ready for this joblessness situation that well move into. This is what gets me worried. We heard about shorter work weeks. If things are cheaper and you dont have to work as much, weve seen this. A lot of electronic goods are cheaper than they were in previous years. You think about a flat screen tv you get much more tv for your money. Can we do that . Is that feasible . The idea that we work four or three days a week and keep fullish employment, things cost less and we can survive that way . Reporter i think at the turn of the center we worked 70 hours a week in the factories. People worked all the time on their farms. Now were happy with a 40hour workweek. Why not have a 20hour workweek . Who says we cant have more money and time for leisure and enjoyment. Society will redefine itself. The fact is that were heading into an era of abundance where we have so much for so less, and we can eliminate the problems of poverty, disease, hunger and place. It will be what we make of it. We have to figure out what to do with ourselves. The good news is that well have our basic needs being met by technology. You successfully turned that around. You started off as a cloud hanging over my show, but you turned this into a fairly Bright Future where we wont work as hard as we do j i want to you have a great weekend and i want more people to be watching your show. Thank you. Vice president of innovation and research at singularity university. And you should follow him he tweets out some of the best stuff out there. The stock market fell again. The Dow Jones Industrial average, the nasdaq and s p 500 all fell less than half of 1 on thursday. Now among the reasons for todays decline is the situation in argentina. A group called the International Swaps and derivatives association, imagine the conventions they hold. That groups failure to make interest on its bonds will trigger payments of 1 million on default insurance. Im talking about credit default swaps that investors buy on themselves or countries failing to pay its debts. Coming up next, who doesnt wonder how much their colleagues make . Im going to tell you about companies that are lifting the veil and revealing everyones salary. And raising fierce of a bubble, well see if big auto is riding the fast lane to trouble. That story and more as real money continues. Stay right here. When you run a business, you cant settle for slow. Thats why i always choose the fastest intern. The fastest printer. The fastest lunch. Turkey club. The fastest pencil sharpener. The fastest elevator. The fastest speed dial. The Fastest Office plant. So why wouldnt i choose the fastest wifi . I would. Switch to comcast Business Internet and get the fastest wifi included. Comcast business. Built for business. With the top speedou compare of comcast the top speed of business dsl from the internet. Phone company well, theres really no comparison. Why pay more for less . Call today for a low price on speeds up to 150mbps. And find out more about our twoyear price guarantee. Comcast business. Built for business. An average american salary hovers around 43,000. We know that some of us make more than that and some of us make less but do you know how much the guy sitting next to you makes . One of the most anxiety provoking aspects of a new job is negotiating a salary. In most workplaces you cant know for certain unless someone mistakenly leaves a pay slip lying around the office until now. There is a growing trend of companies with an open salary policy. It means you get hired and immediately your salary information is made public to your office. As mary snow reports its one of the best ways to recruit and manage happy employees. He has no qualms telling you how much he makes. I make 145,000. For atkinson and others an an analytic s company, they all know how much each other make. Ive never worked anywhere, where salaries havent leaked out and causes problems. Ality the end of create damage in your salaries and that will come back and haunt. You some employees can access a list with everyones salaries on a weeky document. This is what everyone makes. Everyone has access to this. I dont have to blurt it out. We dont share it publicly but with the team. Reporter its part of a growing trend of companies where they decided transparency is king. The organic Grocery Store whole foods has been doing it since 1986. Universities and governments in 46 u. S. States make a habit of posting salarys online. It works. Reporter tech start ups are doing it, too. Buffer goes as far to list staff salaries on its website. The moment it posted its salary formula it was inundated with resumes. The study of Pay Transparency for advance Human Resources studies found that paid transparency worked much better than pay secrecy in keeping employees engaged and producti productive for the transparent salary isnt for everyone. Im sure conversely weve gained far better people people who tend to feel they deserve their salary and have no issue with that tend to be better teammates. It was both uncomfortable and comfortable at the at the same time time. Reporter they started may 1st. He said having an open salary changes the dynamics in the office. Itry moves a layer of something that could be very frustrating and has been frustrating to other companies knowing that your colleagues either they know something about you or you know something about them. Reporter the larger strategy for companies that have Pay Transparency is fundamental. They say it builds trust. But there are down sides as well. Atkinson said he has had to have tough conversations with his employees about why they arent paid as much as a colleague. The communication is higher here. In Many Companies you can rely on the fact that someone doesnt known everything and you can walk around walk arrested moments. Here you have to express what is happening and communicate across the board, which is a lot more work. Ive little trouble getting my head around this. Atkinson said any company can benefit from adopting a better working place. Our next guest said a Company Better have all its ducks in a row before going to pay transarentcy or all hell can break loose. Linda, i wasnt here for this, but when this conversation came up my executive producer who is traveling and not watching, so i can say this, was apparently freaked out about this idea and made her very uncomfortable, which make me think that shes highly paid. A lot of people dont like this idea. There are, i think the point is that the world is changing. The workplace is changing, and more and more h. R. Executives, managers need to be prepared for the fact that there is more transparency or more openness than they feel there is. J. Generally speaking, in an union you could figure out how much someone was paid. There was standardized pay, and they have been working so many years and you could figure it out. I think there is more anxiety about not knowing as Companies Pay for performance that has changed the sense of security employees have. If you are paid by the hour you know how many hours you work, you know how muc how many hours the person next to you works and you can kind of figure it out. When youre told that youll get this base and then paid on your performance. They need to know what were talking about. They need to know how that performance is evaluated. You need to know hower what to do differently and have confidence that the person next to you will be evaluated the same way. This is what i was going to say. If we move to the system and i find out the guy next to me gets more money than i am, i need to understand that we have a basis on which to judge our performance. Its not subjective at that point. Everyone has got to have their ducks in a row. The company that moves to this transparency has got to be able to say this is how well evaluate, this is how well separate the good from the bad. Right, you have to have managers who have bad to have the conversations, who are comfortable having the conversations, and who they themselves understand and really believe in how the way youre paying for performance, how youre paying for some skills than others really does support and build for the overall strategy of the company, and the profitability. Because if you have that, if you have your pay system aligned so that you ar you are making the company more profitable, you wouldnt have a hard time explaining the salaries. But when its not define sod well. It has to be running smoothly for this to be thed an on that then helps. Absolutely. It will certainly shine a light on any deficiencies that are there. There are companies in which soft skills get you paid more. Are there places in which this is really measurable and simple. Youre getting paid for measurable merit related to output versus other places where somebody gets paid more because they seem to have better skills than somebody else . Thats where it comes back to this trust and communication and articulation of what the action is that i need to do differently if i want to get paid more. I think some of what you see companies are usingand this was the case that you profile to say that we want to send a message of the kind of culture, the kind of employees and there is Interesting Research done by a couple of companies arrest cornell where they look at tolerance of eneckty. How a toll rabbit are you from inequity. Some are frustrated with paid secrecy and are better performers when pay is open. Were attracting better workers and apracticing people who want to be part of a team and that transparency is better environment for them. Thank you. The executive director for the institute of compensation studies at cornell university. 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Had its strongest july sales in seven years. I dont know where this is coming from. At the same time ford sales grew by 10 . Its best july since 2006. Chrysler saw a 20 gain in fairness off of a much lower base, but thats its biggest july since 2005. Sales of Chrysler Jeep brand rose 41 . Analysts forecast sales this year could approach the peak we reached in 2000 of 17 million vehicles. Nobody expected that to happen. There is another side to this robust auto sales. They say its too easy to buy a car. Interest rates are lower than ever and a growing number of these loans qualify as subprime. Theyre being made to pore borrowers who may not be able to pay them back. Zero percent up to six years. Reporter auto sales are at an eight year high with deals too good to pass up. 10,000 off a chevy volt. 8,000 off a cadillac is he dean and 6,000 off a hyundai. The deep discounts and easy credit terms have consumers flocking to their local dealers. Buyers can get a new car loan with as little as zero percent interest although the average hovers around 4 . The amount consumers are financing is at an alltime high according to reports from expeeran automotive. The average car loan totaled 27,000 in early 2014. Thats up nearly 1,000 from last year. Bad credit, no problem. Expeeran said a third of auto loans are classified as subprime. Those made to people with a credit score of 660 or less. And theres plenty of time to pay the money off. The average loan term is now 66 months or about five and a half years. All this easy money has prompted talk of an auto bubble among some industry analysts. In june a federal agency that regulates a countrys banks echoed those fears in a report writing, quote, signs of risk of auto helping are beginning to emerge. In the meantime u. S. Auto is surging on. The Compensation Fund for victims of its faulty ignition switch is open for business. G. M. Is allocated 400 million to cover victims claims but that number could go up. Prompting recalls of 2. 5 million cars. People who accept the wayout will have to drop any lawsuit they filed against the automaker. G. M. Is encouraging anyone who was injured or lost a loved one because of accidents related to the defect to submit a claim. Now General Motors will have to expand the size of the Compensation Fund and issue more recalls. Thats what was said an accomplished journalist and detroit native who has followed the Auto Industry for years. Mickey joins us now from phones. We all news that you were that good of a journalist but im glad that this new job recognizes it as well. Lets go to g. M. I want to talk about the auto sales, actually. I dont think we would have guessed that we would have reached this 17 million car number as soon as we have if we did again. People were talking about the u. S. Being a mature market. Were back to these massive car sales. What do you think is going on . First of all, ali, i dont think well have a 17 million market this year. That just does seem too high to me to get to from where weve been the last couple of years, but what is going on is clearly the return of incentives. If you look at these incentive numbers, the average person is getting 9 off their car. The average vehicle cost 30,000 so youre getting 3,000 off a car. The subprime lending and longer loans make it possible to get people into vehicles. Folks put off car purchases during the recession. 2008 20112012 they were making due with what they had. So there are old vehicles out there ready to be replaced. No with standing the fact that of recalls, is this the time to get in . Are cars sexy again . Reporter it depends on what youre interested in buying. Im fascinated to see the surge in sales for utility vehicles because i thought of suvs as an early zerozero phenomenon that people tried them out and discarded them once they realized they werent set for their family needs. But you know when you go out car shopping and you look at a family sedan that costs 25,000 and a suv that costs 32,000 you may think oh, i want that bigger vehicle. Its a better value. Lets talk about General Motors. Ken feinberg, he has a lot of experience. He did 9 11, he did the gulf oil spill. He knows how these victim compensations funds run. Probably a very good move for General Motors. Tell me what you think happens now. So, people were able to apply as early as today, and folks were expecting hundreds of applications today. In fact, mr. Feinberg said that he thinks that the next three months are when people will apply and then there will be a bubble at the end in disease. One o in december. One of the things about this, if you apply and considered complete you can get your compensation between 90 to 180 days. We could see the first payouts coming by the end of the year. General motors would like peoplewhen i said that General Motors is encouraging people who think they have a claim to make that claim, they want those claims in this fund because every claim they pay out interest there means that its not a claim they can be sued for in court. Thats right. So if you agree to accept the check from the fund, you give up your right to sue General Motors later on. One of the things that attorneys are doing is telling people to apply, that gives them an idea of the kind of compensation theyre eligible for and then the attorneys want them to come back and say is this good enough . And in some cases the attorneys may say no, i think i can get you more if you sue General Motors in court. But the problem is that, ali, those suits could take years. It could go to appeal. It could be overturned there is no guarantee with that. You would have a guaranteed amount if you qualified under General Motors under this fund. Thank you so much for joining us. Mickey, from Arizona State university and author of curb and cars. A good book to read. Thank you, mickey. Another recall to tell you about, but this time its for motorcycles. Harry davidson recalled bikes worldwide part of the 2014 dyna lowrider ride. 3300 of them are here in the United States. A faulty ignition switch, believe it or not, triggered by engine vibration causes bikes to stall and crash if it moves from on to accessory. No crashes or injuries have been reported so far. Dealers will replace all effected switch es for free. Thats how to handal recall. Well show you how the israeli iron dome Defense System works and what it costs. Al Jazeera America presents smile and look at the camera. Edge of eighteen i thought grades would get me into college. 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On the edge eighteen coming september only on al Jazeera America the temporary ceasefire between israelis and palestinians did not last long. Israel claims one of its soldiers was captured during combat. As International Mediators try to broker another ceasefire the United States senate sent support to israel for by fending funding for its iron dome missile system. The United States helped israel create the dome system considered one of the best rocket systems in the world and most tested. Israel has deflected dozens of palestinian rockets fired from gaza. The system is incredibly sophisticated and our Technology Correspondent jake ward explains how it works. Reporter right now im in San Francisco , california, which has a density of tel aviv and gaza city, two cities suffering barrages in this case. The thing is israel has a tremendous advantage, which is the iron dome, a system that has been in develop for decades. It fires from batteries of 20 rockets called intercepters, which can fly up and explode an incoming rocket before it can hit the population center. Let me explain the math of this to you because its pretty unbelievable. Reporter the rocket that hamas typically uses fly at a mach 2 and gives the iron dome only 71 seconds in which to track the missile, activate its own battery of intercepters and fire one to blow it up and keep in mind you dont have 71 seconds, he only have a fraction of that time because you need to blow up the missile before it can reach the population center. Its a very complicated technical challenge. The thing to look at its like hitting a rock with another rock. There is a 70 second window but it usually fires within a second or two, and that has to happen without human intervention. When you talk about the future of war they talk about the ethical need of keeping human beings in the loop. In this case the software has to make the decision. Even though israel and palestine are exchanging fire here israelis are pretty much immune to the weapons that hamas has. Jake ward in San Francisco. The United States has provided 700 million to help israel cover costs for iron dome. Funding would push that above the 1 billion mark. Nick schifrin reports from inside gaza on how its people and leaders are coping with the current conflict with israel. Gaza, witness to war airs tonight at 11 00 p. M. Eastern and 8 00 p. M. Pacific on al jazeera. President obama vehicle to russian president Vladimir Putin. He talked to him about russian compliance with a 1987 Nuclear Missile treating that the u. S. Claims moscow breached. And announced aid to ukraine to improve its Border Security and the aid does not includes arms. The big question on everyones mind during this crisis is what exactly is Vladimir Putin up to and what is his end game. Some say he wants to bring back the ussr. Diane, good to see. You this is an interesting one. No one knows where this is going to go. Definitely when that malaysian plane was shot done, a number of openers say this was not part of his game plan. What is he to go to do . Putt someone very logical. This is a longterm, immediat mediumterm, and shortterm vision, and he will not give up on it. He wants all gas monopoly and pipeline month. Line. The pipeline through ukraine is something that he can no longer rely on so hes going to build another one. Hes already saber rattling around the caspian sea area where theyre start to go build a pipeline through georgia, turkey and then maybe into europe. They are doing military maneuvers. Well see the next ukraine hot spot very shortly. Whatever one thinks about Ronald Reagan, this was Ronald Reagan years ago specifically if you rely on russia for energy needs, particularly for natural gas youre going to end up with this day and even though this day is upon us, the europeans for all the added sanctions, they did not deal with natural gas or energy because they need that natural gas. He uses it to punish and reward specific countries. Hes building a third pipeline and by passing ukraine because he can turn it off and on specifically in country. Hes going to have a lot of leverage there. Its worse than a monopoly as an outside supplier. Qatar and other supers of gas. But he gets four times from the european as our guys get. Now we have places that supply natural gas and Liquified Natural Gas cant go in big quantities yet to europe. Its starting, can the rest of the world make up for that russian natural gas over the course of the next five or ten years . I think europe has to put on a fast track. All the l g that United States and canada can muster and get across the ocean. It will take a while, and there are concerns about our having our own security supply. If you sell your gas abroad and you dont have enough at home our prices will go up. But our prices are up a fraction of what europeans are paying. I dont understand the mentality. The guy ishe is more of a ceo of a criminal organization. Hes not a nationalist. The separatists thing in ukraine is all fake. Its all made up. This is all about monopoly politics. Hes more of a tony soprano than napoleon. He does not want do conquer europe, he wants to control it. Fracking, there is a lot of national gas under europe. The United Kingdom is moving ahead with it but theyre not going to get out of this unless they get out of it economically. Britain is going ahead but worldwide the Antifracking Movement is ban bank rolling is by russia. Because they want all the gas. Theyre creating havoc in the southern and eastern areas where the oil and gas is. Ukraine could be an exporter and could be a competitor and use the pipeline that is there now. They want to stop the pipeline from being used. They want to make it a nogo zone for. Theyre creating chaos on purpose. Putin is not against fracking for oil. Which they are involved in, but this natural gas, they have this monopoly on natural gas. What is the course of required action other than fast tracking. I think the technology involved in fracking and in oil and gas out of the United States and we have complete monopoly on that technology. Its very difficult and the russians dont have it. Weve got to start put sanctions on all that equipment to russia or anybody that can give it to russia because that will stop him dead in his tracks as far as that next step which is to really become one of the biggest oil as well as gas producers. He also intends to try and make dependency in china as well. Yes, and theyve got this deal with china. Its a 30year deal and there is some time that it takes to get out there. Can china be big enough consumer that this stops western europe stops mattering. Putin is very savvy and korea is almost completely dependent on russian gas. Theyre trying to build valves in canada and adjustment. This guy is trouble. Hes very logical. People say hes crazy, erratic. Hes not. This is day one kgb took over the country. Hes mr. Kgb ceo, hes running this on behalf of himself and his cronies and theyre slightly better off under him as a leader. This so me is a very simple thing, and i do say we have to watch the caspian sea. Theyre doing naval maneuvers. He invaded georgia to stop that pipeline. He hasnt stopped and hell continue to try. Very interesting. When the going got tough well show you our yearlong series of american class rebuilding the dream. This, is what we do. Al Jazeera America. We have been following three families across the United States as part of our continuing series americas middle class rebuilding the dream. Earlier this year tennessee gift shop owner moved her store to a different part of knoxville in hopes of improving her struggling business. But so far sales for the single mother have been very disappointing. Im hoping and praying that these are the final hard days of business for me. Weve been open for three months, and its not going well. I hate to admit it. Anyway, im trying to save this with fall decorating. Another shipment came. I have everything on the floor for fall and halloween now. Over the years just trial and error ive learned you have to stay two to three months ahead in retail to give yourself the full season to actually sell the merchandise. I really like this. I think its super cute. It says mummy dearest. Ive come up with a marketing plan for the august 2nd fall open house. Im going to have a live band again. 25 off of everything in the store during event hours. Im having a yard sale to try to pay the mortgage. Its merchandise thats left over from the store. Julian is helping me put up the tent. The yard sale was very successful, i accomplished my goal and sold 600 worth of leftover merchandise from the store, and im able to pay my mortgage from the yard sale. People that came to the yard sale received a 20 coupon for their first visit to the store. So some neighbors, i let them know that i moved location. In germ it was great i was selling and marketing at the same time and met the goal i needed. So i feel pretty happy about it today. Its helping my spirits. Weak Summer Spending has affected retailers across the country. She said shes looking forward to the biggest sales time of the year, back to school followed by the holidays. The fiveyear survival rate for retailers is a very sobering 41 . Thats according to small biz trend. Com. In other words, less than half of you stores make it to their fifth birthday. We go to founder and senior managing partner of mmg, and Restructuring Firm that specializes in retail. Im puzzled. Retail is quite hard. People either have gone into it historically, they fell into it, but its not one of the easier ways of making money. Being a vendor to a retailer means being a really good merchant. Unless your business has a reason to exist, it probably cant over a long period of time. You need to understand what your business stands for. You have to be consistent and fine tune it. The day you open your business its not what it will look like in a year or two. You get to know your customer better over a period of time. Your subject trends and subject to economics. Yes, you are. Youre subject to trends for sure because things tend to be cyclical. Where things have a limited shelf life. As a merchant, you have a marking place you have to stay relevant every single day. People walk into your store. You have to be available to captivate your customer. You have to know when to move merchandise out, move items on the shelf. When someone walks in your door and they want to buy a piece, you want them to sell two or three pieces. You have to go cognizant of your Gross Margins and manage your expense structure. Clearly her personal finances are intermingled with her business. People like jodie work longer hours than most wage earners work and then they like it home with them. Theyre very, very close to their business. They dont have the luxury of a Management Consultant who can step back and say heres what i would change or this isnt working. Youre correct. Im working on behalf of the client. Im on the outside looking in. I have no emotion connection to the company, to the individual. All that time, blood, sweat and tears. Its either working or not working. My job is to make sure they understand what we believe is in their best interest, and styles in their best interest is may be not being in business. Im not suggesting she has an issue but you have to look at her business objectively. If theyre taking home a minimum amount of money. Most Small Businesses are taking homeless money than they could have earned in a job. Thats true. In many cases thats the best option and mostly theyre connected to their business its hard to set back and see it. Its some part that its the american dream. Youre in control of your life. But jodie did say i hate to admit it, this may not be working. What do you say to someone, go down to road, explore that its not working. Or come on. Extinctively she may be correct but shes going into the time of year where she may be able to create some cash flow but at the end of the year shell make the tough decision of whether she wanting to forward or not. Because you think shell do better in the back half of the year than the front. Typically thats what happens to retail, youre saying hold off on the trigger. Youve got some runway on will you be able to sell your inventory for more than you paid for it. So take advantage of that period of time. Use that time to analyze the business as objectively as you possibly can. Talk to someone on the outside, an account or a professional who could really help you. People are very loaded sometimes. Because theyre busy working. They go to work and go home, and theyre not having expansive discussions about their businesses. You dont tell people that their business is bad. You nailed it. They tend to be isolationists. They dont open up to other people. They dont have the time. Theyre in the store all day long , so theyre loan in the world. They need a professional to talk to, bounce ideas off. If they have a spouse they can do that if not they need to reach out to somebody. Its not going to be your cousin becauses cheap. Its someone who will have a view on it. We wish jodie and others like her, we picked her because this is a microcosm of the retailers and the struggles a that we have. Thou, founder and managing partner of mmg. Well hear back from the sabinos. Well sit in on one of their marriage counseling sessions and hear how theyre dealing with the stress of their problems. Theyre coping with something that were calling the new normal. Much has changed since the Great Recession hit. Middle class americans are used to the fact that they have changed for good. All next week on this show im taking a look at the new normal for things like jobs, housing, spending and student debt. Thats next week on real money. 7 00 p. M. Eastern and 4 00 p. M. Pacific. How far would you stick out your neck for your boss . People who are risking their own jobs for a ceo who just got fired. Plus ive been getting this question a lot. How come Consumer Sentiment is israels invasion of gaza continues tonight. We have been hearing a lot of tank shelling coming from where we are, here. Every single one of these buildings shook violently. For continuing coverage of the Israeli Palestinian conflict, stay with al Jazeera America, your global news leader. An american tonight investigative report i never would have thought this would happen to us athletes going for the gold ive had a lot of people ask me. Why didnt you scream . Why didnt you yell . Kick. Why didnt you go tell your mom . Betrayed by those they believed in the most theres bad people out there in youth sports could this happen to your child . My sole purpose in coming forward, is to help change the culture of sports an america tonight investigative report only on al Jazeera America here it s a new twist to a remarkable story weve been following. Market basque is a low price Gourmet Grocery chain with 71 stores throughout the northeast. Its ceo. I dont know what you would do if your boss got fired but at market basque dozens of workers have walked off the job in protest demanding his return. The stand off has cost market basque millions of dollars. The company is demanding protesters return to work monday or face being fired. Even the ceo urged protesters to go back to work but the outcome is uncertain. For more we go to grant welker. He has been covering this story. Grant, i have to tell you ive covered labor disputes before, and ive never seen one like this, have you . I havent. Its really an unique story. You have employees putting their jobs on the line for their old boss. Theyre doing it really for their culture. The Market Basket culture they want to protect. They play their works well, Everyone Wants to stay there. When they get there, they want to protect that. They associate that Corporate Culture with the ceo. They they associate it with demulas. It this company has been in demo las hands for three generations now. What happened is he was ousted. Its a family dispute that goes back four generations, and when the demolas family gain controlled of the border of detectivers it set up this situation where demol as was taken out of position. Was it likely these activities, there was a protest of 6,000 of them at one rally. Is this likely to move the board to reinstate demo las . Hes even telling them to go back to work. Reporter i think many the first thought it was very unlikely they would reverse and reappoint him as ceo. But this boycott has lasted two weeks. The board has two options. Give the company back to arthur t or maybe they can go out of business because the employees do not want to work for anybody else. Theyve made it clear. Even with jobs on the line and with threats that they could be replaced theyre still out there every day. What a remarkable story. But i think its part of what youre implying, its not just the workers but the communities have reacted. Theyre giving donations for some of these workers. This could spread into a customerbase protest. It really has been. A lot of employees that are out advocating for these changes theyre crediting the customers with really being responsible for a lot of this if the customers were going to Market Basketball the employees would have no leg to stand on. Weve heard that sales are down generally 80 at Market Basket stores based on more than 4 billion annual profits. Weve been hearing maybe its 10 million a day that companies are losing because customers are flocking elsewhere. They are a loyal bunch, the customers, but theyre willing to shop elsewhere, and pay more. Not only are they going to other places and paying more, and in many cases theyre returning back to Market Basket and putting their receipts on the wall outside of the entrance to Market Basket to prove that they will go elsewhere. Never has the 1 been so defended by the 99. This arthur t must be really something. Grant welker is reporter. Thanks. Today we heard a different measure for Consumer Sentiment fell slightly in july. Bad news. Or so it seems. What gives, first, dont get distracted by the words confidence and sentiment. Both of these surveys ask consumers how they feel about the present and the future. We care about the answers because it affects how much people spend. Second, dont read too much into the fact that the Confidence Index fell from june to july. The reading we got today rose from a preliminary reading earlier in july that is still at a level that signals an jesus in consumer spending. First dont make much about these two surveys. They end up mirroring each other over long periods of time. Finally some of the difference may involve when these surveys are done. The Confidence Survey ended on july 17th. The university of Michigan Sentiment indetention captured 12 days of july. But economists Chris Christopher at Global Insight tells us there is nothing obvious this month in terms of news that would explain the difference. This is a good example to file under the heading, hmm, but nothing to worry about. At least not yet for now. Lets have confidence that Consumer Sentiment is heading in the right direction. Thats our show for today. Im ali velshi. Thank you for joining us. Have a great weekend. Gaza is rocked by new israeli strikes, palestinian authoritieauthorities plead for International Help to treat the wounded. Israel accuses hamas of kidnapping one of its soldiers in gaza. But hamas says he may have been killed. Hello, i am laura, you are watching al jazerra live from doha. Also ahead, a an explosion at a factory in china kills at least 65 people. And the World Health Organization warns