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kroger:
So presently I am in Missouri for a project, I have traveled 70% of the entire state but I noticed something about black and white environment. I was in an all white region around Hannibal , kingdom city, I went to do some shopping at Walmart and its was pure white folks , everyone minding their business a serene environment , clean and no hassles.

I traveled to another region I didn't know it was mostly a black region , when I got to the Walmart at that location it was chaos , loud mouth, weirdos,thugs, heavily armed police on the scene etc. I began to think personally that there is a big gap betweeen black and white in all ramification of life.

Kindly share your thoughts on this.

Here's my take, with all the opportunities black Americans have been given so far they still give 1001 excuses for failure. How many black parents have vision for their kids and follow through with it? To whom much is given, much is expected. When many young black men are in jail and the women are baby mamma, what do you expect. Faulty foundation of most black families seems like a factor

So is this thread going down the road of Nigerians vs Black Americans...inquiring minds want to know.

These Black's in the US are just oblivious of the opportunity they have at their disposal.

Let them spend one month in Lagos and see what their mates are experiencing, when they go back, they'd appreciate what they have and use it to the fullest

We're just curious to know the reason why most black Americans are average, why they don't go beyond being famous in only sports or entertainment. We want to see more black Americans as investors, investors, entrepreneurs and global leaders just like the Indians and Chinese.

Backfornow:
So is this thread going down the road of Nigerians vs Black Americans...inquiring minds want to know.

Dremca:
We're just curious to know the reason why most black Americans are average, why they don't go beyond being famous in only sports or entertainment. We want to see more black Americans as investors, investors, entrepreneurs and global leaders just like the Indians and Chinese.

Ok.
That is what you and a few others meant, genuine curiosity but I lknow a sh$ stirrer when I see it.

Please give us your own insight. You never can tell who it may help.

Backfornow:
Ok.
That is what you and a few others meant, genuine curiosity but I lknow a sh$ stirrer when I see it.

Dremca:
Please give us your own insight. You never can tell who it may help.

Nah, I'll pass. I'm only interested in positive, solution based conversations.

Speaking of good news, the govt shutdown has ended. Govt workers like my aunt will be soon reporting back to work. She is relieved. She was forced to use all of her vacation time. This is a wake up call to alot of people in the U.S. since the average American is 1-2 paychecks away from homelessness.



Opinion
Almost 80% of US workers live from paycheck to paycheck. Here's why
Robert Reich
America doesn’t have a jobs crisis. It has a ‘good jobs’ crisis – where too much employment is insecure, and poorly paid

Sun 29 Jul 2018 06.00 EDT Last modified on Mon 30 Jul 2018 11.42 EDT
The official rate of unemployment in America has plunged to a remarkably low 3.8%. The Federal Reserve forecasts that the unemployment rate will reach 3.5% by the end of the year.

But the official rate hides more troubling realities: legions of college grads overqualified for their jobs, a growing number of contract workers with no job security, and an army of part-time workers desperate for full-time jobs. Almost 80% of Americans say they live from paycheck to paycheck, many not knowing how big their next one will be.

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Blanketing all of this are stagnant wages and vanishing job benefits. The typical American worker now earns around $44,500 a year, not much more than what the typical worker earned in 40 years ago, adjusted for inflation. Although the US economy continues to grow, most of the gains have been going to a relatively few top executives of large companies, financiers, and inventors and owners of digital devices.


America doesn’t have a jobs crisis. It has a good jobs crisis.

When Republicans delivered their $1.5tn tax cut last December they predicted a big wage boost for American workers. Forget it. Wages actually dropped in the second quarter of this year.

Not even the current low rate of unemployment is forcing employers to raise wages. Contrast this with the late 1990s, the last time unemployment dipped close to where it is today, when the portion of national income going into wages was 3% points higher than it is today.

What’s going on? Simply put, the vast majority of American workers have lost just about all their bargaining power. The erosion of that bargaining power is one of the biggest economic stories of the past four decades, yet it’s less about supply and demand than about institutions and politics.

Starting in the 1980s and with increasing ferocity since then, private-sector employers have fought against unions

Two fundamental forces have changed the structure of the US economy, directly altering the balance of power between business and labor. The first is the increasing difficulty for workers of joining together in trade unions. The second is the growing ease by which corporations can join together in oligopolies or to form monopolies.

By the mid-1950s more than a third of all private-sector workers in the United States were unionized. In subsequent decades public employees became organized, too. Employers were required by law not just to permit unions but to negotiate in good faith with them. This gave workers significant power to demand better wages, hours, benefits, and working conditions. (Agreements in unionized industries set the benchmarks for the non-unionized).

Yet starting in the 1980s and with increasing ferocity since then, private-sector employers have fought against unions. Ronald Reagan’s decision to fire the nation’s air-traffic controllers, who went on an illegal strike, signaled to private-sector employers that fighting unions was legitimate. A wave of hostile takeovers pushed employers to do whatever was necessary to maximize shareholder returns. Together, they ushered in an era of union-busting.

Employers have been firing workers who attempt to organize, threatening to relocate to more “business friendly” states if companies unionize, mounting campaigns against union votes, and summoning replacement workers when unionized workers strike. Employer groups have lobbied states to enact more so-called “right-to-work” laws that bar unions from requiring dues from workers they represent. A recent supreme court opinion delivered by the court’s five Republican appointees has extended the principle of “right-to-work” to public employees.

Today, fewer than 7% of private-sector workers are unionized, and public-employee unions are in grave jeopardy, not least because of the supreme court ruling. The declining share of total US income going to the middle since the late 1960s – defined as 50% above and 50% below the median – correlates directly with that decline in unionization. (See chart below).

Perhaps even more significantly, the share of total income going to the richest 10 percent of Americans over the last century is almost exactly inversely related to the share of the nation’s workers who are unionized. (See chart below). When it comes to dividing up the pie, most American workers today have little or no say. The pie is growing but they’re getting only the crumbs.

Over the same period time, antitrust enforcement has gone into remission. The US government has essentially given a green light to companies seeking to gain monopoly power over digital platforms and networks (Google, Apple, Amazon, Facebook); wanting to merge into giant oligopolies (pharmaceuticals, health insurers, airlines, seed producers, food processors, military contractors, Wall Street banks, internet service providers); or intent on creating local monopolies (food distributors, waste disposal companies, hospitals).

This means workers are spending more on such goods and services than they would were these markets more competitive. It’s exactly as if their paychecks were cut. Concentrated economic power has also given corporations more ability to hold down wages, because workers have less choice of whom to work for. And it has let companies impose on workers provisions that further weaken their bargaining power, such as anti-poaching and mandatory arbitration agreements.

This great shift in bargaining power, from workers to corporations, has pushed a larger portion of national income into profits and a lower portion into wages than at any time since the second world war. In recent years, most of those profits have gone into higher executive pay and higher share prices rather than into new investment or worker pay. Add to this the fact that the richest 10% of Americans own about 80% of all shares of stock (the top 1% owns about 40%), and you get a broader picture of how and why inequality has widened so dramatically.

Trump-Juncker 'talks about talks' met with scepticism

Another consequence: corporations and wealthy individuals have had more money to pour into political campaigns and lobbying, while labor unions have had far less. In 1978, for example, congressional campaign contributions by labor Political Action Committees were on par with corporate PAC contributions. But since 1980, corporate PAC giving has grown at a much faster clip, and today the gulf is huge.

It is no coincidence that all three branches of the federal government, as well as most state governments, have become more “business-friendly” and less “worker-friendly” than at any time since the 1920s. As I’ve noted, Congress recently slashed the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%. Meanwhile, John Roberts’ supreme court has more often sided with business interests in cases involving labor, the environment, or consumers than has any supreme court since the mid-1930s. Over the past year it not only ruled against public employee unions but also decided that workers cannot join together in class action suits when their employment contract calls for mandatory arbitration. The federal minimum wage has not been increased since 2009, and is now about where it was in 1950 when adjusted for inflation. Trump’s labor department is busily repealing many rules and regulations designed to protect workers.

The combination of high corporate profits and growing corporate political power has created a vicious cycle: higher profits have generated more political influence, which has altered the rules of the game through legislative, congressional, and judicial action – enabling corporations to extract even more profit. The biggest losers, from whom most profits have been extracted, have been average workers.

America’s shift from farm to factory was accompanied by decades of bloody labor conflict.

The shift from factory to office and other sedentary jobs created other social upheaval. The more recent shift in bargaining power from workers to large corporations – and consequentially, the dramatic widening of inequalities of income, wealth, and political power – has had a more unfortunate and, I fear, more lasting consequence: an angry working class vulnerable to demagogues peddling authoritarianism, racism, and xenophobia.

I've been trying to correlate this article with the subject of discussion. I'll be glad if you can help me out.

Backfornow:
Nah, I'll pass. I'm only interested in positive, solution based conversations.

Speaking of good news, the govt shutdown has ended. Govt workers like my aunt will be soon reporting back to work. She is relieved. She was forced to use all of her vacation time. This is a wake up call to alot of people in the U.S. since the average American is 1-2 paychecks away from homelessness.



Opinion
Almost 80% of US workers live from paycheck to paycheck. Here's why
Robert Reich
America doesn’t have a jobs crisis. It has a ‘good jobs’ crisis – where too much employment is insecure, and poorly paid

Sun 29 Jul 2018 06.00 EDT Last modified on Mon 30 Jul 2018 11.42 EDT
The official rate of unemployment in America has plunged to a remarkably low 3.8%. The Federal Reserve forecasts that the unemployment rate will reach 3.5% by the end of the year.

But the official rate hides more troubling realities: legions of college grads overqualified for their jobs, a growing number of contract workers with no job security, and an army of part-time workers desperate for full-time jobs. Almost 80% of Americans say they live from paycheck to paycheck, many not knowing how big their next one will be.

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Blanketing all of this are stagnant wages and vanishing job benefits. The typical American worker now earns around $44,500 a year, not much more than what the typical worker earned in 40 years ago, adjusted for inflation. Although the US economy continues to grow, most of the gains have been going to a relatively few top executives of large companies, financiers, and inventors and owners of digital devices.


America doesn’t have a jobs crisis. It has a good jobs crisis.

When Republicans delivered their $1.5tn tax cut last December they predicted a big wage boost for American workers. Forget it. Wages actually dropped in the second quarter of this year.

Not even the current low rate of unemployment is forcing employers to raise wages. Contrast this with the late 1990s, the last time unemployment dipped close to where it is today, when the portion of national income going into wages was 3% points higher than it is today.

What’s going on? Simply put, the vast majority of American workers have lost just about all their bargaining power. The erosion of that bargaining power is one of the biggest economic stories of the past four decades, yet it’s less about supply and demand than about institutions and politics.

Starting in the 1980s and with increasing ferocity since then, private-sector employers have fought against unions

Two fundamental forces have changed the structure of the US economy, directly altering the balance of power between business and labor. The first is the increasing difficulty for workers of joining together in trade unions. The second is the growing ease by which corporations can join together in oligopolies or to form monopolies.

By the mid-1950s more than a third of all private-sector workers in the United States were unionized. In subsequent decades public employees became organized, too. Employers were required by law not just to permit unions but to negotiate in good faith with them. This gave workers significant power to demand better wages, hours, benefits, and working conditions. (Agreements in unionized industries set the benchmarks for the non-unionized).

Yet starting in the 1980s and with increasing ferocity since then, private-sector employers have fought against unions. Ronald Reagan’s decision to fire the nation’s air-traffic controllers, who went on an illegal strike, signaled to private-sector employers that fighting unions was legitimate. A wave of hostile takeovers pushed employers to do whatever was necessary to maximize shareholder returns. Together, they ushered in an era of union-busting.

Employers have been firing workers who attempt to organize, threatening to relocate to more “business friendly” states if companies unionize, mounting campaigns against union votes, and summoning replacement workers when unionized workers strike. Employer groups have lobbied states to enact more so-called “right-to-work” laws that bar unions from requiring dues from workers they represent. A recent supreme court opinion delivered by the court’s five Republican appointees has extended the principle of “right-to-work” to public employees.

Today, fewer than 7% of private-sector workers are unionized, and public-employee unions are in grave jeopardy, not least because of the supreme court ruling. The declining share of total US income going to the middle since the late 1960s – defined as 50% above and 50% below the median – correlates directly with that decline in unionization. (See chart below).

Perhaps even more significantly, the share of total income going to the richest 10 percent of Americans over the last century is almost exactly inversely related to the share of the nation’s workers who are unionized. (See chart below). When it comes to dividing up the pie, most American workers today have little or no say. The pie is growing but they’re getting only the crumbs.

Over the same period time, antitrust enforcement has gone into remission. The US government has essentially given a green light to companies seeking to gain monopoly power over digital platforms and networks (Google, Apple, Amazon, Facebook); wanting to merge into giant oligopolies (pharmaceuticals, health insurers, airlines, seed producers, food processors, military contractors, Wall Street banks, internet service providers); or intent on creating local monopolies (food distributors, waste disposal companies, hospitals).

This means workers are spending more on such goods and services than they would were these markets more competitive. It’s exactly as if their paychecks were cut. Concentrated economic power has also given corporations more ability to hold down wages, because workers have less choice of whom to work for. And it has let companies impose on workers provisions that further weaken their bargaining power, such as anti-poaching and mandatory arbitration agreements.

This great shift in bargaining power, from workers to corporations, has pushed a larger portion of national income into profits and a lower portion into wages than at any time since the second world war. In recent years, most of those profits have gone into higher executive pay and higher share prices rather than into new investment or worker pay. Add to this the fact that the richest 10% of Americans own about 80% of all shares of stock (the top 1% owns about 40%), and you get a broader picture of how and why inequality has widened so dramatically.

Trump-Juncker 'talks about talks' met with scepticism

Another consequence: corporations and wealthy individuals have had more money to pour into political campaigns and lobbying, while labor unions have had far less. In 1978, for example, congressional campaign contributions by labor Political Action Committees were on par with corporate PAC contributions. But since 1980, corporate PAC giving has grown at a much faster clip, and today the gulf is huge.

It is no coincidence that all three branches of the federal government, as well as most state governments, have become more “business-friendly” and less “worker-friendly” than at any time since the 1920s. As I’ve noted, Congress recently slashed the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%. Meanwhile, John Roberts’ supreme court has more often sided with business interests in cases involving labor, the environment, or consumers than has any supreme court since the mid-1930s. Over the past year it not only ruled against public employee unions but also decided that workers cannot join together in class action suits when their employment contract calls for mandatory arbitration. The federal minimum wage has not been increased since 2009, and is now about where it was in 1950 when adjusted for inflation. Trump’s labor department is busily repealing many rules and regulations designed to protect workers.

The combination of high corporate profits and growing corporate political power has created a vicious cycle: higher profits have generated more political influence, which has altered the rules of the game through legislative, congressional, and judicial action – enabling corporations to extract even more profit. The biggest losers, from whom most profits have been extracted, have been average workers.

America’s shift from farm to factory was accompanied by decades of bloody labor conflict.

The shift from factory to office and other sedentary jobs created other social upheaval. The more recent shift in bargaining power from workers to large corporations – and consequentially, the dramatic widening of inequalities of income, wealth, and political power – has had a more unfortunate and, I fear, more lasting consequence: an angry working class vulnerable to demagogues peddling authoritarianism, racism, and xenophobia.

Dremca:
I've been trying to correlate this article with the subject of discussion. I'll be glad if you can help me out.

Loll
This person must be very harsh!

Dremca:
I've been trying to correlate this article with the subject of discussion. I'll be glad if you can help me out.

It doesn't correlate at all. I did this intentionally.

Backfornow:
It doesn't correlate at all. I did this intentionally.

May I ask why you did that?

Olalekank:
May I ask why you did that?

Ok I will explain. If you dont know already I'm black American. With my personal experience on this site, when conversations like these come up 90% of the time it is done with the intention of sh$/ starting. What ends up happening is a conversation of group a is better than group b. The person that started this conversation did this on another thread also and it ended the way I described. I'm not here for that. At the beginning of this thread a person was offended when he perceived that his country was being portrayed in a negative light by other posters.I respect that, which Is why i choose to not be part of those kind of conversations on either side. Besides, everyone has their own analysis already which has been discussed multiple times by other Black Americans on other threads and social media period.The thread is supposed to be positive in nature and to bridge both cultures.

We're only seeking for solutions not criticism.

Backfornow:
Ok I will explain. If you dont know already I'm black American. With my personal experience on this site, when conversations like these come up 90% of the time it is done with the intention of sh$/ starting. What ends up happening is a conversation of group a is better than group b. The person that started this conversation did this on another thread also and it ended the way I described. I'm not here for that. At the beginning of this thread a person was offended when he perceived that his country was being portrayed in a negative light by other posters.I respect that, which Is why i choose to not be part of those kind of conversations on either side. The thread is supposed to be positive in nature and to bridge both cultures.

Dremca:
We're only seeking for solutions not criticism.

Like I said before your intentions are good just speak for yourself.Well for one the black race needs to look at each other as one. We need to unite. My opinion is that the solutions are stronger family structures and stronger economics within the black community which can only happen if we bridge the gaps between all people of African descent.
The challenge is how do we do that, which was one of the motivating factors of me starting this thread.

Interesting insight!

Backfornow:
Like I said before your intentions are good just speak for yourself.Well for one the black race needs to look at each other as one. We need to unite. My opinion is that the solutions are stronger family structures and stronger economics within the black community which can only happen if we bridge the gaps between all people of African descent.
The challenge is how do we do that, which was one of the motivating factors of me starting this thread.

Dremca:
Interesting insight!

Yea it was really interesting and somewhat concerning to.me when I first came to this site that the narrative is that Black Americans are jealous of Nigerians success. where did this come from? It didnt used to be like that. It used to be in my parents time, that if you were black, you were black first whether you were African, Caribbean, etc. Blacks were stronger then overall because they all saw each other as one and identified with a common cause. A success for one is success for us all. I know this is to be true because when you look at Latinos in the U.S currently, who are a minority also. they identify as Latino first and have identified a common cause and are working together to achieve their common goal. But when one group thinks they are superior or so much different than the other, it is used as a division tactic.

Backfornow:
Yea it was really interesting and somewhat concerning to.me when I first came to this site that the narrative is that Black Americans are jealous of Nigerians success. where did this come from? It didnt used to be like that. It used to be in my parents time, that if you were black, you were black first whether you were African, Caribbean, etc. Blacks were stronger then overall because they all saw each other as one and identified with a common cause. A success for one is success for us all. I know this is to be true because when you look at Latinos in the U.S currently, who are a minority also. they identify as Latino first and have identified a common cause and are working together to achieve their common goal. But when one group thinks they are superior or so much different than the other, it is used as a division tactic.

First off like your rightly said black were stronger because they all see each other as one, the question is what led to the dis unity among the Black race, how can we the black people unite and carve a niche for ourselves to be successful. We have all the necessary tools to be a force to reckon with.. On my own little way i have partnered with an NGO to train black groups on information Technology kicking off in march which to me brings me joy seeing i am improving peoples and give them hope for the future.. No group is thinking superior than the other cos we are all Black.. This is our time for we black to see the bigger picture, we can be whatever we wanna be so long as their is unity we can achieve anything..

Backfornow:
Like I said before your intentions are good just speak for yourself.Well for one the black race needs to look at each other as one. We need to unite. My opinion is that the solutions are stronger family structures and stronger economics within the black community which can only happen if we bridge the gaps between all people of African descent.
The challenge is how do we do that, which was one of the motivating factors of me starting this thread.

Beauty supply business over $2billion industry is majority owned by Asians, 90% of the customers are black we have started the movement of bringing in more black owned beauty store to take back the business from Asians.. I attended one of the seminars and i really love the information that was shared and the willingness to take it back. More black owned beauty stores are popping up, slowly and surely we will take it back.. If we can do this to other sectors of the economy we will be a force to reckon with..

kroger:
Beauty supply business over $2billion industry is majority owned by Asians, 90% of the customers are black we have started the movement of bringing in more black owned beauty store to take back the business from Asians.. I attended one of the seminars and i really love the information that was shared and the willingness to take it back. More black owned beauty stores are popping up, slowly and surely we will take it back.. If we can do this to other sectors of the economy we will be a force to reckon with..

that’s nice...I don’t want to sound pessimistic but that’s just one of a million seminars since ages....we have to go beyond seminars bro. We’ve to learn how to circulate wealth, how to transfer/share knowledge, how to be self disciplined, how to even love each other, how to make researches & develop ideas,how to grow and manage wealth.......etc,etc,etc...............sighhhhhhhhhnn.



Why did God create me as a mere dreamer sef.

I’m glad the thread is Backfornow , I thought it was going to just disappear.

Backfornow:
So I've been following some business analysts and I've been hearing that the US may heading into a recession. Any thoughts?

That will be bad for new immigrants like me, but I don’t think we’re heading into a recession, I think housing costs in places like California may crash...housing cost is just too high in most cities in Cali, and it’s killing the lower middle class.

stonemasonn:
That will be bad for new immigrants like me, but I don’t think we’re heading into a recession, I think housing costs in places like California may crash...housing cost is just too high in most cities in Cali, and it’s killing the lower middle class.

I agreed with you at first and now I'm changing my mind. Look at what is the economic cycle.

The economic cycle is the natural fluctuation of the economy between periods of expansion (growth) and contraction (recession). Factors such as gross domestic product (GDP), interest rates, levels of employment and consumer spending can help to determine the current stage of the economic cycle.

But the warning sign for me is that the retail industry is in crisis. Last year Jcpenny, and Toys R Us all filed for bankruptcy. Macy's is doing poorly now also. This is concerning because the retail industry is a sign of discretionary spending. If spending by consumers is decreased economists look at that as a sign as start to wonder why people aren't spending. If things are bad like I am starting to think we will start to hear about more closures and layoffs in February. Plus companies are still moving overseas. Even Carrier which was a company that Pres. Trump championed as saving still layed off hundreds of people. And then there was the govt shutdown, I think there will be be effects from that still.
If it's not here yet, it is coming and we would do well to get our finances in order. When recessions occur, they hit minority communities the hardest.

stonemasonn:
I’m glad the thread is Backfornow , I thought it was going to just disappear.

I've just been really busy. It was never my intention to be the sole provider of content. I was hoping thatthe thread would operate more like a community thread, so that if I'm not around, the thread would continue.

kroger:
Beauty supply business over $2billion industry is majority owned by Asians, 90% of the customers are black we have started the movement of bringing in more black owned beauty store to take back the business from Asians.. I attended one of the seminars and i really love the information that was shared and the willingness to take it back. More black owned beauty stores are popping up, slowly and surely we will take it back.. If we can do this to other sectors of the economy we will be a force to reckon with..

The beauty supply business especially the weave industry is baffling to me. Personally I'm praying that the weave business will die but since it's not, the people that are the major customers should have a major part in it. Honestly most of the services that are being used the most by black people in their own communities are owned and operated by people that do not look like them.

Backfornow:
I agreed with you at first and now I'm changing my mind. Look at what is the economic cycle.

The economic cycle is the natural fluctuation of the economy between periods of expansion (growth) and contraction (recession). Factors such as gross domestic product (GDP), interest rates, levels of employment and consumer spending can help to determine the current stage of the economic cycle.

But the warning sign for me is that the retail industry is in crisis. Last year Jcpenny, and Toys R Us all filed for bankruptcy. Macy's is doing poorly now also. This is concerning because the retail industry is a sign of discretionary spending. If spending by consumers is decreased economists look at that as a sign as start to wonder why people aren't spending. If things are bad like I am starting to think we will start to hear about more closures and layoffs in February. Plus companies are still moving overseas. Even Carrier which was a company that Pres. Trump championed as saving still layed off hundreds of people. And then there was the govt shutdown, I think there will be be effects from that still.
If it's not here yet, it is coming and we would do well to get our finances in order. When recessions occur, they hit minority communities the hardest.

ok..but while jcPenny, Toys R Us and co are failing, Amazon, Walmart, Home Depot and some others ain’t doing bad, Infact I’ve heard of some share holders with Home Depot who became millionaires overnight...I think it’s just about the model. Most companies moving overseas are doing so for more profits...look at Tesla having its plants near Oakland and all over the US and still doing well.

It’s still important though to put your finances in order now, but I don’t think we’ve reached the peak of the bubble yet....it may still take another five to ten years...

stonemasonn:
ok..but while jcPenny, Toys R Us and co are failing, Amazon, Walmart, Home Depot and some others ain’t doing bad, Infact I’ve heard of some share holders with Home Depot who became millionaires overnight...I think it’s just about the model. Most companies moving overseas are doing so for more profits...look at Tesla having its plants near Oakland and all over the US and still doing well.

It’s still important though to put your finances in order now, but I don’t think we’ve reached the peak of the bubble yet....it may still take another five to ten years...

Walmart is not going anywhere.
Walmart will probably survive a zombie apocalypse

Lol, I’m actually on my way to Walmart.

Backfornow:
Walmart is not going anywhere.
Walmart will probably survive a zombie apocalypse

Backfornow:
Walmart is not going anywhere.
Walmart will probably survive a zombie apocalypse

Errmmm what about me " Kroger "

Backfornow:
Walmart is not going anywhere.
Walmart will probably survive a zombie apocalypse

We can never say, anything can happen.. Nokia was the mobile phone giant where are they now, even Apple right now is hovering on the Bermuda triangle..

Good evening house, my husband is a medical doctor. Please how possible is it for him to get a job over there if he applies from Nigeria. Thanks. Please I need reply from experienced people andhow he can go about it because things are not moving so smoothly for us at the moment

@stonemason, look and see what your beloved Walmart is doing.

Walmart hopes a pay raise will solve its trucking problem.

Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business

Updated 1:23 PM ET, Fri January 25, 2019
The company announced this week that its more than 8,000 truck drivers will get around a $1,500-a-year raise. Walmart, the world's largest retailer, hopes higher pay will help it retain those drivers and hire 900 new ones this year.
A shortage of truck drivers nationwide and high turnover rates in the industry have hit Walmart at a bad time. The company faces pressure to deliver goods on time to its 4,700 stores and online distribution centers to compete with rivals like Amazon.
Last quarter, higher transportation costs dragged down Walmart's (WMT) profit margin.

Although many companies outsource trucking to third-party carriers, Walmart has its own private fleet of 65,000 trailers, one of the largest in the country. Last year, Walmart brought on more than 1,400 new drivers.

Walmart’s supply chain division introduced the events in August to step up its hiring efforts. Last year, Walmart saw same-store comp sales hit 3 percent, which is leading to increased demands on the transportation network.
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I've also included this link

https://news.walmart.com/2019/01/23/reinvented-truck-driver-orientation-helps-add-new-hires-to-walmarts-fleet

In addition to the onboarding events, Walmart is raising driver pay beginning in February. A one cent per mile increase and additional pay for every arrival means that Walmart drivers will now earn on average $87,500 a year and with an all-in rate close to 89 cents per mile.