Number of the Day

1,975: The number of charges filed with the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging that Walmart discriminated in pay and promotion decisions on the basis of gender.

In related news: "Walmart's outsourcing of jobs is driving down wages at American factories, according to a report from the National Employment Law Project." Walmart's garbage employment policies underscore the speciousness of waxing rhapsodic about "job creators" without any kind of qualifications about what kind of jobs are being created.

Walmart's increasingly expansive presence across the nation creates retail jobs—but does so at the expense of US factory jobs. (Not to mention the jobs lost at the smaller and/or independent retailers Walmart drives out of business.) Meanwhile, the jobs Walmart creates lack protections, benefits, and equal pay.

[Encinitas] needs fewer jobs like the ones Walmart is creating, and more like the ones Walmart endeavors to destroy to maximize profits. Source