Working these low wage jobs. These jobs that are for multinational multimillion dollar companies. And these Companies Continue to make money, however, their employees are just barely getting by. And these are folks who have families. You know, these arent teens, these are young adults. For the most part, the individuals who work at walmart, who work a lot of places you just described, or people who are either middle aged or people who already have, you know, kids at home, many of which are teens, some of which are younger. And this is how they get, but yeah, and its, and its in warren gunnels, actually, staff director and policy advisor for so there sanders agrees with you, especially when you tweeted the real looting in america is in the Walton Family becoming 63000000000. 00 richer during the pandemic. While paying wages so low, the get this number 1514541 of their workers and im states need food stamps all subsidized by u. S. Taxpayers. Yes, the Walton Family is the real well for qu
He either has to reverse these things or he keeps up. Thats a wrap up of the days top headlines for now, but you can always head to our web site, r. T. Dot com for the details on all those stories. And many more. Join me every thursday on the alex simon show. And ill be speaking to guests of the world of politics. Sports business, im show business. Ill see you then. Greetings and salutation is the definition of the American Dream. By james, true slow, adams in 193131 was quite simply that quote, life should be better and richer for and fuller for everyone. With opportunity for each according to ability or achievement, regardless of social class or circumstances of birth. Now that is a sales pitch and its a beautiful dream. But as the late great, George Carlin observed the reason they call it the American Dream is because you have to be asleep to believe it. Yes. Tragically the promise of a richer, fuller life regardless of social class or circumstances, is just not the actual reality.
State rice, great city, this least systemic dissent says so which we build as well. When watching the hawks are over the earth and im a crop. Yeah, man, the American Dream. Youve got to be asleep to believe theres the little darlings in the greatest lines ever. But the sub, the waking American Dream is that it seems like all our big corporations and our most common household names. All essentially make billions and millions and millions and millions of workers who are literally on food stamps or literally are on medicaid because thats they, they fall below the poverty line and have to have to use government subsidies to eat and get healthy. No, absolutely. I think that in terms of walmart, you know, reports have been coming out about them for a long time. Still, for anyone who assumed that maybe theyd get their act together. That clearly they have not in the numbers have only multiplied since the original reports came. I think that the more we see this, the more recognition there has t
They locht it. Nuggets come up with a defensive play. Murray. They miss the layup. Gobert got it. Mitchell hanging at the other end. Two seconds to go. For the win and it rims out denver hangs on announcer this mornings eye opener is presented by toyota. Welcome to cbs this morning. Thats how i feel, too. Lets go im calling it Tony Dokoupil day because the band is back together. We checked. Its been since march 24th the last time we were all at the table. 115 days. 18 hours, 26 minutes but who is counting. Who is counting, yeah. Can you hear me over there . Normally we have six, seven people. This is good. Were practicing social distancing. It feels farther away than it look. Were glad to be here really, truly. Were going to begin this morning in kenosha, wisconsin, af atral visit from President Trump. He toured the damage and posed for what critics called photoops in what he suggested was a support for the community in Law Enforcement after recent unrest there. The president painted a
Right now on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, parking lots finally reopened to help relieve some of the crunch at this popular bay beach, but youre still going to have to cop early to snag a spot. And bay area mayors make a plea to the state for more help housing the homeless. Why they say the pandemic has made the crises more urgent happen ever. The leaders in Santa Clara County calling out private health care system. How they ear being pushed to do more covid19 testing. Good evening. Im allen martin. And im Elizabeth Cook. We begin with kpix 5 len ramirez and the hospitals to do more coronavirus testing. Len . Reporter well, there was quite a ill little bit of back and forth between the county and some of the private providers today with the county saying that private hospitals need to do more to help the county reach its goals in terms of testing people for the coronavirus. But the hospitals are saying that the county is not doing enough Contact Tracing at this point to make t