they going to change the ownership of property? i think many of these things are still up in the air, but i don t think there will be massive changes. the issue will be relating to family law. it will relate to individual lives. these issues are going to take time. we also have to allow the afghan people and women, they also have agency. we can t superimpose american principles of gender equity or western base feminism on a society where 90% are under the poverty guideline of $2 a day. you have to give them agency. there are opposition. i day. you have to give them agency. there are opposition. . . there are opposition. i guess the more pressing there are opposition. i guess the more pressing question there are opposition. i guess the more pressing question is - there are opposition. i guess the more pressing question is whether| more pressing question is whether the taliban will give them the agency. but i m curious, when you look at when the taliban was last in power, do you eve
welcome back to the ed show. this is the story for though folk who is take a shower after work. low pay workers of walmart have had enough. are blasting the employer calling the executives welfare kings. earlier this week the president and ceo of u.s. walmart stores gave a presentation at the goldman sachs retail conference. one of the slides in his presentation said that over 475,000 of walmart s u.s. employees earned more than $25,000 last year. meaning the majority of walmart, 1.23 million member workforce, is paid less than $25,000 a year. now, that statistic was listed under the heading great job opportunities. i d say it s hardly something to brag about. the 2013 poverty guideline for a family of four is $23,550.
fewer americans filed first-time jobless claims last week. the labor department says that it got 395,000 initial claims. that s a drop of 7,000. it is the first time the number dipped below 400,000 since early april. united nations says that the drought ravaging the horn of africa has not peaked. that means a long-term threat of famine. the u.n. says 12 million people, if you can believe that, are at risk. desperately needs more than a billion dollars to feed them. musician and activist bono talked to anderson cooper who is reporting from somalia this week. people watch the values, you know, stock values, crumble while, you know, i think about our own sense of values tumbling. because this will define who we are. this is a defining moment for us. there s lots to distract us. few protesters challenged police but streets in london and other cities were mostly calm overnight. in fact, there was much more action in the courts as judges stayed on the bench. all night to proces