{"id":323780,"date":"2010-02-13T16:39:25","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T21:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=22104"},"modified":"2010-02-13T16:39:25","modified_gmt":"2010-02-13T21:39:25","slug":"detroit-schools-offer-class-in-how-to-work-at-wal-mart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/323780","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Schools Offer Class in How to Work at Wal-Mart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 20px;margin-bottom: 10px\" src=\"http:\/\/disinfo-drop.s3.amazonaws.com\/WalMartGestapo.jpg\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"212\" height=\"158\" \/>Muriel Kane writes on <a href=\"http:\/\/rawstory.com\/2010\/02\/detroit-schools-offer-class-work-walmart\/\">RAW Story<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Wal-Mart has been widely condemned for offering its employees only low-paying, dead end jobs. Even President Obama criticized Hillary Clinton during the 2008 presidential campaign for having served on Wal-Mart&#8217;s board and stated that the firm ought to pay &#8220;a living wage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In inner-city Detroit, however, where the unemployment rate is estimated at an astonishing 50%, the prospect of a Wal-Mart job may appear far more attractive.<\/p>\n<p>Four inner-city Detroit high schools have decided that employment with Wal-Mart is an opportunity worth training their students to pursue. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/article\/20100211\/NEWS01\/100211049\/1319\/-Walmart-offers-job-training-via-DPS\">schools have teamed up with the giant merchandiser<\/a> to offer a for-credit class in job-readiness training that also includes entry-level after-school jobs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"http:\/\/rawstory.com\/2010\/02\/detroit-schools-offer-class-work-walmart\/\">RAW Story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muriel Kane writes on RAW Story: Wal-Mart has been widely condemned for offering its employees only low-paying, dead end jobs. Even President Obama criticized Hillary Clinton during the 2008 presidential campaign for having served on Wal-Mart&#8217;s board and stated that the firm ought to pay &#8220;a living wage.&#8221; In inner-city Detroit, however, where the unemployment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}