November 21, 2013
Hayley Peterson
A second Wal-Mart location in Ohio (click here) is holding an employee food drive for workers who are unable to afford Thanksgiving dinner.
The Wal-Mart in Franklin confirmed to Business Insider that it is asking employees to donate to other workers in need. The local Fox affiliate first reported on the drive.
"A lot of associates can't even afford to buy a small turkey," Ricki Hahn, a seven-year employee of Wal-Mart, told the station.
News of a similar food drive for a Wal-Mart located 200 miles away in Canton sparked outrage earlier this week. Activists say the drive proves that the retailer's wages are too low to provide for basic needs.
Wal-Mart says the food drive has been taken out of context and that the company is proud of the wages it pays....
This is Ohio's 8th District where the House Speaker resides and represents.
Greg Kaufman
April 11, 2011
For forty years, (click here) Tina Osso has worked on food and poverty issues serving nearly all of speaker John Boehner’s 8th Congressional District of Ohio. She came to that work in 1973, when the oil embargo resulted in her losing her job, and she unexpectedly found herself in line at a food pantry, where she began volunteering.
“It changed the course of my life,” says Osso.
Ten years later, she founded the Shared Harvest Foodbank where she still serves as executive director today....
“She has her finger to the pulse of those in need in the 8th District as much as anyone, and that need is greater now than it has been in decades,” says Hamler-Fugitt.
Indeed in 2009, childhood poverty rose over six points in the Boehner district to reach 19.1 percent, or 29,173 kids. Overall, 14 percent of Boehner’s constituents live below the federal poverty line of $22,400 per year for a family of four. Shared Harvest’s work has more than doubled—it distributed approximately 7 million pounds of food in 2007, and 16 million pounds in 2010....
As of July 31, 2013 173 stores
Supercenters 135
Discount Stores 9
Sam's Club 29
By Collin Binkley and Jessica Wehrman
Washington — The 27 eighth-graders (click here) St. Agatha Catholic School who made the long journey from Columbus to Washington, D.C., this week had hoped for a memorable trip, but it’s safe to say this wasn’t what they had in mind.
A government shutdown meant the Upper Arlington school’s class had to scrap its original itinerary, which was carefully planned while the students raised $14,000 through yard sales, baby-sitting, selling an impressive amount of chocolate and other fundraisers.
Out went the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — a shame, because the students had spent much of their time researching the Holocaust in the days leading up to their trip....
Nationalize the portion of profits from these Big Box Stores that would cover the food stamps and Medicaid their employees are provided by the American people. If more than 50% of Walmart and McDonald's employees are on food stamps and Medicaid, then nationalize 50% of the profits from these companies to reimburse the USA Treasury. I mean it.
Nationalize the portion of profits from these Big Box Stores that would cover the food stamps and Medicaid their employees are provided by the American people. If more than 50% of Walmart and McDonald's employees are on food stamps and Medicaid, then nationalize 50% of the profits from these companies to reimburse the USA Treasury. I mean it.
