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  A place for working class Whites to discuss the op thoughtfully.   Black Friday in the U.S. is gloomy, consumers don’t open their wallets…”I need to discount more”. Story by sedaily  •  5h According to Bloomberg and Reuters on the 24th (local time), it is expected that retailers’ performance will be weaker than the last two years following the COVID-19 pandemic, as more consumers are waiting for bigger discounts during this year’s Black Friday in the U.S. In the U.S., the period from ‘Black Friday’ (the Friday following the fourth Thursday in November, Thanksgiving Day) to Christmas and the end of the year is the biggest sale season of the year. It was a common sight for consumers to line up at offline stores from the early morning of Black Friday, as retailers offered substantial discounts for stock clearance. However, this year’s sales are expected to be weaker than usual. Salesforce, a customer relationship management (CRM) software company, predicted that ...

  A place for working class Whites to discuss the op thoughtfully.   ‘Unconscionable’: American baby boomers are now becoming homeless at a rate ‘not seen since the Great Depression’ — here’s what's fueling this terrible trend Story by Serah Louis  •  1d Many baby boomers across the country are now coming to terms with the hard reality that working for your entire adult life is no longer enough to guarantee you’ll have a roof over your head in your later years. Thanks in part to a series of recessions, high housing costs and a shortage of affordable housing, older adults are now the fastest-growing segment of America’s homeless population, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal, based on data from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. “The fact that we are seeing elderly homelessness is something that we have not seen since the Great Depression,” University of Pennsylvania social policy professor Dennis Culhane  told the Journal . Here’...

  A place for working class Whites to discuss the op thoughtfully.   Iowa school district forced to apologise after using Nazi speech as its 'quote of the day' Story by Clive Hammond  •  2d A school district has apologized after it used passages from Nazi Holocaust architect Heinrich Himmler as its "quote of the day". As part of its morning ritual, the Indianola Community School District in  Iowa  featured quotes that are expected to enrich the students' day. But it did the opposite when the speech from the high-ranking Nazi was used in an email to children and parents on Monday morning. Within the note, the  German's speech  included the quote "my honor is my loyalty". The school was later forced to apologize for the incident, noting that "a staff member did not realize that the quote was from a highly inappropriate source". It was originally used as a motto within Nazi Germany, which would later be at was with nations like the UK and US b...

     A place for working class Whites to discuss the op thoughtfully. One in ten young people too sick to work full-time Story by Michael Searles     O ne in ten young people are too sick to work full-time, a new report has revealed, with mental health conditions the most common cause. More than  1.1 million of Britain’s 16- to 34-year-olds  say they have a long-term health condition that “limits” how much they can work, with two in five citing a mental health is sue. This is double the number of young workers claiming to have a  long-term illness compared to 10 years ago , when the figure was around 550,000, according to analysis of Office for National Statistic (ONS) data by the Health Foundation think tank. It means there are now as many workers aged under 35 with a “work-limiting condition” as there were for those aged 45-54 a decade ago. The Health Foundation says a work-limiting health condition is a chronic condition lasting longer than 12 ...

     A place for working class Whites to discuss the op thoughtfully. Red Cup Rebellion: Starbucks workers at hundreds of locations stage strike, walkout Members of the Starbucks Workers United are demanding improved staffing and fair labor practices By  JOY SAHA Staff Writer Thousands of workers at more than 200 Starbucks locations nationwide went on strike Thursday in what organizers describe is the largest-ever strike in Starbucks history. Dubbed the  “Red Cup Rebellion,”  the day-long walkout took place on the company’s “Red Cup Day” promotion, which is one of the most infamously understaffed days for Starbucks baristas.   Starbucks Workers United said workers at the multinational coffee chain are demanding improved staffing and fair labor practices. The union added that it was expecting more than 5,000 workers to participate in the strike, according to the  Associated Press . Around 30 stores also staged walkouts on Wednesday. Nearly two...

  A place for working class Whites to discuss the OP thoughfully. Good looking little link. Filled with pics and a paragraph description. Capitalism vs. Socialism – 12 Wealthiest Countries in the World (msn.com)