{"id":664952,"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.com\/index\/664952","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Schools Offer Class in How to Work at Wal-Mart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 20px;margin-bottom: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disinfo-drop.s3.amazonaws.com\/WalMartGestapo.jpg?resize=212%2C158\" 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":1608,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-664952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2MZ2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}