. brian: despite the unemployment rate it s a tough job market. you know it every day. we bring you five companies with jobs, people that are hiring right now. cheryl casoni has done the research. let s begin with pizza hut. this is one of the biggest pizza chains in the country. it has 10,000 job option. you have 800 in chicago. los angeles, 1400 jobs. you can be a driver. you can be a general manager. general managers make from $35,000 up to $50,000 a year. they have always social network campaign, facebook to apply for the jobs. whether a mobile app, 135,000 fans on their facebook page. brian: and managing managing program is very respected. i never heard of this group,
there in 2005, worked there for seven months and the city s residents would be thegated to pay you rest retirement for the rest of your life. brian: the reality is different now. where do they go from here legally? that is why they went to court. they are saying we tried everything we could. we cut to the bone. brian: there is no money there? no money and no way we could turn this around without gretchen: if they are allowed to file for bankruptcy, does that mean these pensions would go goodbye. they would be able to restructure them off the books? they would be able to restructure them so they are not as lavish as they are right now. there are a lot of cities watching. detroit would be the largest city watching. we are in a precarious situation with a lot of cities and states that would love to be able to go and unravel pension obligations. gretchen: the flip side would be to bail them out? that would be the flip
brian: my kid is going to be $3. gretchen: not always do they buy two seats. southwest has that policy that s controversial, that if you are over one seats you re supposed to buy two seats, but there s been a lot of discrimination cases filed against southwest. where does this all stand and what do you think about it? let us know. brian: the stress of not buying a seat ahead of time gets me on southwest. nice people but i never know where i m sitting. gretchen: what used to bother me was sitting backwards. remember on some of their planes? we talked about this before. maybe ten years ago in the big planes you would sit and face another person like on the train. brian: that s terrible. gretchen: i know. brian: unless you re going to play cards with them. do you remember station wagons used to face backwards? steve: we had one of those. brian: why not put an
million. if he takes it lump sum, we understand, it s $150 million. according to friends and family here in this neighborhood, this is hardworking man. he comes from a family who has struggled a lot over the last few years. he and his wife and five kids live in a small apartment. they do own a bodega estate but facing $25,000 worth of liens against them. when he learned he was the winner he couldn t believe his good fortune. he at some point hopes, somebody that won a lot of money and take it to other people. that is the latest. steve: great story. gretchen: there is a ton of books written on investing but most of what is out there is marketing mumbo jumbo and help you make any of the real dough. he has written a book to do that. brian: author of this book,
funds. brian: an index fund that people may over? s&p 500 index fund. steve: spider? spider is very good. vanguard has very good friends. there you go. you said some of his principles we could learn for and put in this book. especially for retirees. warren buffett s work has been analyzed and he tends to buy large, very safe profitable companies that typically pay good dividends. we notice like in the year 2008 when the stock market was down 45%, dividends were only down about 23%. you can only say 23%. brian: can you keep me a couple of those that ended paying off for him? companies that have been around for hundred years, coca-cola, they are boring