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A onetime cash bonus to eligible employees walmart says it will expand maternity and parental leave benefits been a couple years since they took wages up. Before a lot of their competitors, took it to 9, now to 11 when youre talking this many workers, it gets your attention. I think we have to be careful, though. 1. 5 million workers in the u. S this wage hike from 10 an hour up to 11, thats nice, but walmarts wages are that low to begin with and weve been wondering for a long time with the tightness in the labor market when are the increases coming starting wage, to be clear. Not every worker makes that, but walmart is infamous for having workers on public assistance, so how much praise do they deserve, plus this 400 million worth of bonuses, which is great, one time, but lets not pretend this is some huge, amazing, generous thing. Theres been a lot of criticism of this company for underpaying workers for a long time. But some money is better than no money, right . Yeah, but you need
Good morning. We are pretty much where we were, if you think back to where we were during the campaign where President Trump basically was vowing to pull the u. S. Out of the Paris Agreement. In a sense we may be no different place than there, right, since we, the president never really gave any signals at he was deeply. Considering his pledge the past two to three months a lot more chatter and meetings in the white house in terms of atemmingts by those who want to keep the u. S. In the agreement to get to President Trump and try to convince him of the really a myriad of ways we could stay in the deal while perhaps weakening the u. S. Pledge, weakening the u. S. Commitment. It is something that would make staying in the deal still pail atable but i dont think those voices are probably going to win out in the end. As far as philosophy, then, what would you think is the value of the u. S. Staying or leaving the deal . Well, theres probably great value globally to the u. S. Staying in the
Good morning. We are pretty much where we were, if you think back to where we were during the campaign where President Trump basically was vowing to pull the u. S. Out of the Paris Agreement. In a sense we may be no different place than there, right, since we, the president never really gave any signals at he was deeply. Considering his pledge the past two to three months a lot more chatter and meetings in the white house in terms of atemmingts by those who want to keep the u. S. In the agreement to get to President Trump and try to convince him of the really a myriad of ways we could stay in the deal while perhaps weakening the u. S. Pledge, weakening the u. S. Commitment. It is something that would make staying in the deal still pail atable but i dont think those voices are probably going to win out in the end. As far as philosophy, then, what would you think is the value of the u. S. Staying or leaving the deal . Well, theres probably great value globally to the u. S. Staying in the
Retail sectors, the chain struggles to turn things around and teslas first model 3, rolls off the Assembly Line and ceo elon musk showing it off on essential media, checking Global Market action futures searching for direction this morning, they pretty much been going nowhere at the moment. Dow futures up 3 and s p futures up 3 and nasdaq futures current i up 18. We will see how things shape up. In Europe Movement to the upside there. Cac quarante and dax up as well. Hang seng posting gains of sixth tenths of 1 . All right, Facebook Ceo Mark Zuckerberg maybe looking to branch out beyond tech, details on new report hes eyeing a bit for a Major Sports Team and the super hero welcomed tat box office, the new speederman movie swinging to the top in debut weekend, we have the full recap. All that coming up and with me this morning fox news correspondent Lea Gabrielle, happy to have her. Health care credit and Michael Gregory is here. And forbes media chairman steve forbes, good to see you a