less than $12 an hour. somewhere in the $9 to $10 range. if you doll have full-time work, even full-time work at that kind of wage, you re kind of bumping around the poverty line. as you suggested in your introduction and those protesters were underscoring this point, a lot of those folks don t have the full-time work. there is definitely a wage issue in play here into walmart has launched a sort of counter offense if you will of tv ads touting happy employees with all their personal accounts of how great things are. the coe spoke out on the today show, too. here s a clip what he had to say. we have one of the largest percentages of full-time workforce in retail and pay in the top half of retail. our industry is a great way for people to start. you can enter our company at any level at any age from 16 to 66 and we have a lot of opportunity for people to work their way and progress as you move forward. so jared, walmart does employ an enormous workforce.
i think you shouldn t make 20 million this year because we lost a lot of money. and even that provision has been stalled. josh, how do you understand it? well, i think there is a shirt trend and a long-term trend here, the reason the substantial gains have gone to the 1% at this point is there is essentially zero gains for the rest of the country, the wage issue. to fix that, you need a tighter market, the government should have been doing things like running deficits, we should have had a calmer monetary policy, there should have been aggressive action on housing. this should have gotten us back to the long-term trend where there is still this growth in equality, but not something so drastic as the 90% number. the long-term trend is much more difficult to figure out how you address it. i agree to that. that is so remarkable, recovery is a long-term item. like the long-term structure item, this is skills, technicalal claims numbers the
advisory. i think you shouldn t make 20 million this year because we lost a lot of money. and even that provision has been stalled. josh, how do you understand it? well, i think there is a shirt trend and a long-term trend here, the reason the substantial gains have gone to the 1% at this point is there is essentially zero gains for the rest of the country, the wage issue. to fix that, you need a tighter market, the government should have been doing things like running deficits, we should have had a calmer monetary policy, there should have been aggressive action on housing. this should have gotten us back to the long-term trend where there is still this growth in equality, but not something so drastic as the 90% number. the long-term trend is much more difficult to figure out how you address it. i agree to that. that is so remarkable, recovery is a long-term item. like the long-term structure item, this is skills, technicality claims numbers the
referenced, carl rove, shell don addleson, the coke brothers, the super pacts, they didn t win up winning at the end of the day. it was ordinary people who maybe kicked in a couple of bucks, who stood in the long lines, who actually won the election. and that is just a beautiful, encouraging thing for this democracy. so the best trend was big money losing? big money losing. i think the best political trend of this political season was the demise of gay rights as a wage issue. notice, in all three debates, it never came up. it was never even hinted at, in any talk, pro or con, about gay rights marriage, same-sex marriage and i think that s a good thing. okay. i think the best trend is that we saw this year a clear, new electorate.
countries, in companies that are building surveillance equipment for china to spy on its own folks. that s governor, you are the last person to get tough on china. zachary, there was a combo there. the auto industry, obviously, jobs key to ohio, a lot of parts there and going back to the outsoou outsourcing from the president? yeah. much higher than the current minimum wage standards to compete with the outsourcing issue, it s a wage issue. unfortunately, even though they talked about bringing manufacturing back to the u.s., a lot of manufacturing pays $13 an hour without benefits instead of $30 an hour with benefits which it did before 2008, before the whole bankruptcy of the auto industry and that s another. but if you talk about bringing manufacturing jobs back, the only place to look to as an example is germany and then you have you limit executive compensation, bonuses. you create a floor of insurance, health care, social security.