whether it s building cars, producing steel or curing disease, we want the next generation of innovation and production to happen right here in america and right here in wisconsin. right? we re going to eliminate all wasteful job-killing regulations. buy american and hire american. right? from now on, it s going to be america first. america first. mr. trump met with some of the tech world s biggest names today for a job summit at trump tower. attendees included amazon s jeff bezos, apple s tim cook, elon musk and others. here s what he told them when they arrived. i just want to thank everybody. this is a truly amazing group of people. i m here to help you folks do well.
shares fell. and another battle with the low wage wars. thousands of tjmaxx workers will get a raise in june. it will start at $9 an hour and then go up next year. walmart making the move matters. it is the nation s largest private employer. the nation s biggest employer overall is the u.s. government. guess what? those two bosses had a phone call yesterday. the president from air force one called the walmart ceo to thank him for raising wages. it is a job summit. the president has been pushing for a higher minimum wage. congress won t do it. cities and states have been doing it on their own. gap was the first retailer to raise rates. they raised it to $9. the company said job applications jumped after. you point out they are not doing this out of altruism. you don t want them to do it for that.
that s his driving rational for draconian abortion legislation that won t be popular with the general public and the general election. despite the fact jesus never said anything about abortion but he was quite specific about how to treat the less fortunate. when you lock at scott walk are s record, collective bargaining rights for teachers hurts the deficit but tach cuts for gazillion airs doesn t. that s the crown jewel in scott walker s kingdom of corn dog. ruth, he is not a washingtonite. does that help him? does that help republicans? maybe. he has this folksy appeal. he gave a speech in indiana and couple of right wing blockers called him awesome sauce. he has a plain style speaking pch if you look at the results of his tenure here in wisconsin, we are dragging behind the rest of the region in job creation. and every time he has a job
own plan trying to bat back the criticism he s gotten recently. the question is the he going to put that plan on paper. it wasn t enough to say proposals people wanted it on paper. that s a very good point. we ll have to wait and see. one of the speculations is we will perhaps see this plan unveiled next week when we takes his midwest tour. he ll be going to minnesota, iowa and illinois. in iowa he ll be holding a rural job summit there trying to get more ideas about jobs and the economy. then he goes on vacation to martha s vineyard. he s et getting criticism for that. some calling on him to cancel that vacation. white house officials say that vacation is still on. and thank you for watching today. appreciate that. i hope you have a fantastic weekend. i ll see you back here monday noon eastern, 9:00 a.m. out west. we re keeping an eye on the straw poll results we ll have all of that for you on monday.
competitiveness told his colleagues at the u.s. chamber of commerce job summit this week to well, stop whining and start hiring. for the people that are part of the business sector, the people in this room and all of our colleagues, we have to stop complaining about government and get some action underway. there s just no excuse today for lack of leadership, so let s get with it. paul: all right. before we get to mr. immelt, james, our liberal columnist blinder this week called it a jobs emergency. do you agree? i do. i think the more people looked at the june employment report the worse it got. 9.2% very disappointing, but beyond that the number of people who just quit looking. if you go back into 2009, if that many people were still in the work force trying it work we d be at 11% unemployment. you have to go back decades to find a similar percentage of people in the work force, labor participation rates. it s that bad. 6 million americans, 44% of